Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-10-31
But HE must have THE
RIGHT KIND OF GUN and
AMMUNITION SAYS COLONEL
But IN CIVIL LIFE IT IS The CHARACTER OF The man BEHIND The law ARMED WITH
RIGHT and AFRD TO BACK WITH HIS BALLOT Thereby SETTING ADE HATE
envy AND GREED
ROOSEVELT IS CKEERED FOR FORTY
five MINUTES AT MADISON SQUARE

! AS he came up on the high platform
/ through rear stairway, the garden
became bedlam of sound and mass
of waving color. With broad smile
the colonel stepped forward and way
/ ed his hand in salute. The cheers
grew in volume. His gestures for the
crowd to be seated intensified the
noise He insisted upon standing in
his effort to bring the crowd to order
The demonstration lasted forty-tWo
minutes. Colonel Roosevelt after a re-
quest to the police to keep order in
the hail. began speaking. He said in
part:
Friends, perhaps once in a genera
tion; perhaps not so often, there
comes chance for the people of a
country to play their part wisely and
fearlessly in some great battles of the
age-long warfare for human rights.
TO our fathers the chance came in the
mighty days of Abraham Lincoln, OF
the man who thought and toiled and
suffered for the people with sad pa
tience and kindly endeavor. To our
forefathers the chance came in the
troubled years that stretched from the
time when the first continental con
gress gathered to the time when
Washington was inaugurated as first
president of the republic. To us, in
our turn, the chance has now come to
stand for liberty and righteousness as
in their day these dead men stood for
liberty and righteousness. Our task
is not SO great as theirs. Yet it is
we'll night as important. Our task is
to profit by the lessons of the past
and to check in time the evils that
grow around us, lest our failure to do
so may cause dreadful disaster to the
people. We must not sit supine and
helpless We must not permit the
brutal selfishness of arrogance and the
brutal selfishness of envy each to run
unchecked in it's evil course. If We
do so then some day smodering
hatred will suddenly kindle into a
consuming flame, and either we or our
children will be called on to face a
crisis as grim as any which this re-
public has ever seen.
1t is our business TO show that nine
tenths of wisdom consists in being
wise in time. We owe to our nation
if we let matters drift; if in our in
dustrial and political life we let an
vidualistic materialism riot to its ap-
pointed end That end would be wide
spread disaster for it would mean
that our people would be sundered
by those dreadful lines of division
which are drawn when the selfish
greed of the ''haves' is set over
against the selfish greed of the have
nots." There is but one way to pre-
vent such a division and that is to
forestall it by the kind of move
ment in which we are now engaged.
Our movement is one of resolute in
sistence upon the rights, and full
acknowledgment of the duties of
every man and every woman within
this great land of ours. We war
against the forces of evil, and the
weapons we use are the weapons of
right. We do not set greed against
greed, or hatred against hatred. Our
creed is one that bids us be just to
aU. IN fno1 oil To
strive for an understanding of the
needs of all. Our purpose is to smite
down wrong. But toward those who
have done the wrong, we feel only the
kindliest charity that is compatible
with causing the wrong to cease.
We preach hatred to no man, and
the spirit in which we work is as far
removed from vindictiveness as from
weakness. We are resolute to do
away with the evil. and we intend to
proceed with such wise and cautious
sanity as will cause the very mini
mum of disturbance that is compatible
with achieving our purpose.
Do not forget, friends, that we are
not proposing to substitute law for
character. We are merely proposing
to buttress character by law. We
fully recognize that, as has been true
in the past, so it is true now, and ever
will be true, that the prime factor in
each man or woman's success must
normally be that man or woman's own
character-character, the sum of many
qualities, but above all, of the quail
ties of honesty, of courage and of
common sense. Nothing will avail a