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ago it would have seemed impossible that a man 

 could live. It is a great national measure of benefit, 

 and while, as I say, it is primarily to benefit the 

 people of the mountain States and of the great 

 plains, yet it will ultimately benefit the whole com 

 munity. For, my fellow-countrymen, you can never 

 afford to forget for one moment that in the long 

 run anything that is of benefit to one part of our 

 Republic is of necessity of benefit to all the Repub 

 lic. The creation of new homes upon desert lands 

 means greater prosperity for Colorado and the 

 Rocky Mountain States, and inevitably their greater 

 prosperity means greater prosperity for Eastern 

 manufacturers, for Southern cotton growers, for all 

 our people throughout the Union. 



AT SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, MAY 5, 1903 



Mr. Governor, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 It is of course with a peculiar feeling of pleas 

 ure that I come here to New Mexico, from which 

 Territory half (and if my memory serves me cor 

 rectly a little over half) of the men of my regiment 

 came. The man is but a poor man wherever he 

 may be born to whom one part of this country is 

 not exactly as dear as any other part. And I should 

 count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold 

 if I did not strive to represent the people of the 

 mountains and the plains exactly as much as those 

 of the Mississippi Valley or of either coast, the At 

 lantic or the Pacific. I know your people, Mr. 



