The welfare of the great Western country, and that means in its essence the welfare of the United States as a whole, depends upon the encouragement given to the homemaker.

I want to congratulate you on the enterprise and forethought you have shown in your irrigation scheme here.

The cause of free government throughout this land would be shaken to its foundation if we fail here.

We are trying here in America on the largest and most complete scale that it has been tried, the experiment of having a free people govern itself by itself and for itself.

When I became President, one of the first things to which I devoted my attention was to try to bring about a fuller plan of irrigation, for the reclamation of agricultural lands in the semi-arid regions.

What you have done is not only of very great importance to this community, but it is of the utmost importance by way of example to all of our Western people.

We are bound to make a success of it, not for our sakes, but for the sake of mankind.

We can succeed only by seeing to it that the children, the boys and the girls, who in ten or fifteen or twenty years will be the men and women who will then control affairs, are so trained that they can do their part well in the work of…

The worthy life for the nation for the individual, for the man and for the woman, is the life of effort for the things worth striving for.

Now, apply that in civil life.

My fellow-citizens, infinitely more important than any President, infinitely more important even than the reception to any President, is what is symbolized by seeing the men who fought in the Union army and the men who fought in the…

Infinitely more important than any President, infinitely more important even than the reception to any President, is what is symbolized by seeing the men who fought in the Union army and the men who fought in the Confederate army standing…

I am going to tell you just one anecdote of Gen. Young.

It has always seemed to me that one of the greatest lessons taught by the Civil War was the lesson of brotherhood.

You can hardly imagine how much it means to me to come back to San Antonio in this way and to be received as you have received me.

I wish to express my acknowledgments for the greeting which I have received here in San Antonio, and which I have received throughout the length and breadth of Texas.

We all believe in the Monroe Doctrine.

All right; I will have a cavalry brigade and if you come with me I will guarantee that you shall see the fighting.