366 Presidential Addresses 



inconsiderable number who were in whole or in part 

 of Indian blood. There was in the regiment but 

 one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one 

 would have been tolerated. - That was the rivalry 

 of each man to see if he could not do his duty a 

 little better than any one else. Short would have 

 been the shrift of any man who tried to introduce 

 division along lines of section, or creed, or class. 

 We had serving in the ranks men of inherited wealth 

 and men who all their lives had earned each day's 

 bread by that day's labor, and they stood on a foot 

 ing of exact equality. It would not have been any 

 more possible for a feeling of arrogance to exist 

 on one side than for a feeling of rancor and envy 

 to exist on the other. 



I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under 

 which you labor, and I think that your progress has 

 been astonishing. I congratulate you upon all that 

 has been done, and I am certain that the future will 

 far more than make good the past. I believe that we 

 have come upon an era of fuller development for 

 New Mexico. That development must of course take 

 place principally through the average of foresight, 

 thrift, industry, energy and will of the citizens of 

 New Mexico ; but the government can and will help 

 somewhat. This is a great grazing State. Because 

 of the importance of the grazing industry I wish to 

 bespeak your support for the preservation in proper 

 shape of the forest reserves of the State. These 

 forest reserves are created and are kept up in the 

 interest of the home-maker. In many of them there 



