Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-05-30
HE LAUDS THE Old SOLDIERS
SAYS THEY SHOWED vALoR IN
WAR AND COMMON SENSE
IN PEACE.
TALKS TO RAILROAD MEN
BROTHERHOOD OF ENGINEERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS AP-
PEARANcE. TODAY.

gettysburg, Pa, May Standing
ar the spot where Abraham Lincoln
delivered his famous address 4s
years ago, Colonel Theodore Roose-
velt today spoke of the encounter be-
tween the north and the south which
reached its crisis here and found in
the deeds Of the past themes which
he applied to the present day.
The former president turned aside
for the day from the stress of politi-
cal campaign to the serenity of this
spot of memories. About him massed
on every side were thousands of per
sons, among them hundreds Of civil
war veterans. Colonel Roosevelt
spoke earnestly, but as a preacher
rather than a political leader. The
throng which heard him listened in
grave attention with occasional out
breaks Of applause.
Colonel Roosevelt came down from
Oyster Bay to fulfill a promise which
he made several months ago to the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS who have been holding conven-
tion at Harrisburg and VINO came
here to observe Memorial Day. He first
spoke briefly at luncheon attended
by 1900 engineers.
The luncheon was given in a tent.
To bring the crowds, 22 special
trains steamed into Gettysburg. Rail-
road men said that these trains
brought nearly 10000 persons. Col
onel Roosevelt went over the battle
field with Warren s. Stone, grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers.
"The veterans of the civil war,
said Colonel Roosevelt in HIS ad-
dress at the national cemetery. not
only left us united country, united
forever and not only left us the price
less heritage of the memories of val
orous self-sacrifice shown in the
civil war, but also by their careers
and their whole attitude in the war
and after the war, have taught US
lessons which we should apply 10
ourselves in civil life. During the war
they showed that mixture of intense
and lofty idea1ism with sound, practl-
cal common sense, which is as essen
tial to the nations success in peace
as in war.
$50 in civil life at this moment, the
prime necessities of this national are
that our people shall show both a
lofty idealism in insisting on the rule
of Justice and hard-headed practical
common sense in recognizing that we
must secure material prosperity and
that, so far from there being any nee
essary antagonism between justice
and material prosperity, neither can
be given its full development unless
the development of both goes hand in
hand.
@Our protest must be against ut
ter inequality of rewasd, against re-
ward that comes to privilege instead
of to service, and of course especially
against all reward that comes to any
man because of conduct that amounts
to wrong-doing in violation of the
eternal laws that sunder right from
wrong.
"If we refuse to face the fact that
there are great existing evils and
that we must work with all our heart
and soul and mind to solve them,
then we shall prepare disaster to our
selves in the future. We shall no
less prepare disaster for ourselves If
we fail to work with Lincoln's broad
kindliness of spirit toward all our fel-
low citizens, with malice toward
none, with charity to all, striving res
olutely to accomplish our ends, but
frowning on all vindictiveness and do