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doned if we treat any part of our country as some 

 thing to be skinned for two or three years for the 

 use of the present generation, whether it is the for 

 est, the water, the scenery. Whatever it is, handle 

 it so that your children's children will get the benefit 

 of it. If you deal with irrigation, apply it under cir 

 cumstances that will make it of benefit, not to the 

 speculator who hopes to get profit out of it for two 

 or three years, but handle it so that it will be of 

 use to the home-maker, to the man who comes 

 to live here, and to have his children stay after 

 him. Keep the forests in the same way. Pre 

 serve the forests by use; preserve them for the 

 ranchman and the stockman, for the people of the 

 Territory, for the people of the region round about. 

 Preserve them for that use, but use them so that they 

 will not be squandered, that they will not be wasted, 

 so that they will be of benefit to the Arizona of 

 1953 as well as the Arizona of 1903. 



To the Indians here I want to say a word of wel 

 come. In my regiment I had a good many Indians. 

 They were good enough to fight and to die, and they 

 are good enough to have me treat them exactly as 

 squarely as any white man. There are many prob 

 lems in connection with them. We must save them 

 from corruption and from brutality; and I regret 

 to say that at times we must save them from unregu 

 lated Eastern philanthropy. All I ask is a square 

 deal for every man. Give him a fair chance. Do 

 not let him wrong any one, and do not let him be 

 wronged. 



