Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-18
ROOSEVELT IN
 4 HAPPY MOOD
 AT sPASs CITY

Colonel Roosevelt made two speeches in Fl Paso Wednesday at the breakfast at the Toltee club and one in Cleveland square. He praised Fl Paso and the Southwest; expressed asyonishment at their rap id growth: said he was proud of what he had been able to do for irrigation and referred to the Mexl can situation. At the Toltec club, where he made his first speech. he .said:
 Owes Much to West
 Tt is a peculiar pleasure 10 me to be here in the Southwest. the country to which l have been so much attached and to which I owe so much As I explained at San An tonic the other day, l raised my regiment there. and if it had moi been for the regiment I never would have been president So you see. Texas has a good deal to account for. (Cheers.)
 MT McNary has been kind enough to allude to my share in bringing about the great national irrigation policy l think it was time to have one president from the short grass country. The policies of my admins ration. which feel were of most prominence, were conservation, which Iof course takes in much of the other policies conservation and then the irrigation policy of the government and then the building of the Panama canal Texas benefited as a Gulf state from the policy connected with the building of the Panama canal and the whole Southwest and the region of the Rocky mountains was, of course, the region to which the development of our irrigation policy was essential
 Country's Rapid Development.
 Tn going through the Southwest, ] am of course struck every time I go through, as every man must be struck, by the extraordinary growth The growth of the cities of Texas during the last couple os decades is something simply phenomenal. mad yesterday as l passed over the old buffalo range, which nobody ever i'm agiRed would amount to anything in the the way of cultivation and saw lit one of the great centers of cotton production, in addition to many other crops, I realized more than ever the almost limitless possibilities of de ivelopment of this great country of iours.
 The starting of the development iof the West. of the great plains re gions, of the rocky mountains, by l Irrigation, was a benefit to the country itself, of course, but it was also a benefit to every other part 4of our common land. More and more. I think our people are be ginning to realize that the way to elevate part of them is to take part | in tle general movement for ele- vating all of them. You cannot per lmanentiy rise in this country of ours tby tramping down someone else There may be an occasional individu- al success achieved that way. but it isn't the right kind of way to achieve permanent success, for it won't a shieve permanent success. That's true of the public collectively and ir dividually, between class and class. between section and section. A man may rise by doing injustice to his customers CT employees, but as a iclass that isn't so.
 The Mexican Situation.
 You here who do business along lthe border know-I don't have to tell you this. you know it yourselves bet lter than l do-that it is an interrup- ltion to your business, @ check to your prosperity. to have turmoil and trouble m the adJacent republic You
 know that the disaster 10 them re-
 fleets itself upon us, upon you along the border. I am particularly pleas ed to see here this morning the may Tor and collector of customs of the
 Mexican city which is your immedi- late neighbor. am sure l utter tht
 sentiment of every American when !
 say that all that the United States
 wishes to see .n Mexico is prosper
 ity, and that we wish to see it have the prosperity that means material
 well being. industrial success. coup
 led with order. justice and independ- fence. (Chee-s.)
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