Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-28
ROOSEVELT At BANGOR
The President Pays a lrioule u
American Farmers.
INFLUENCES OF RURAL Llfh
In the Country. Says the
IL sure 10 lie Fouhd inc
spirit Typical OF true
Americnnism.


BANGOR Me-. Aug. %. - Presldeh
Roosevelt has now reached tllis Guy
IN the course of his tour through wv
No,v England states. During me "4'
ernoon he spoke at the far eFoni'us i
great crowd, taking as his 'eAl tA'
iu1,,4urt of rural life Oh the people %
tie country and paying a hlsl tfi"u't
10 the farmers Of America. III parl ~
said:
II am glad to greet the farmers Oh
Maine. During the century mat ia-
closed the growth of industrlailSm mas
necessarily meant that cities ana 'o"liS
have increased in population more rap
idly than the country districts, ana yet
if remains true now as it has always
been that in the last resort the coulllr!
districts are those in Wh!rA we are
surest to find the Old American spirit
the old American habits OF thought
and ways Of living.
"ConGltionS lave Changed in the
country far less than they HAY"
changed in the city. ANA III r"liSe
Queuce there has been little breaking
away from the methods of life when
have produced tie great majority OF
the leaders of the republic III the past
Almost all of uur great presidents
have been brought up in the country,
and most of them worked hard on the
farms in their youth and cot their
early mental training in the healthy
democracy of farm life.
"The forces which made these farm
bred boys leaders of men when they
had come to their full manhood are
still at work in our country districts.
Self help and individual initiative re-
main to peculiar degree typical Of
life in the country, life on farm, in
a numbering camp. on a ranch. Neither
the farmers nor their hired hands can
work through combinations as readily
as the capitalists or wage workers of
cities cen work.
Praise For Organizations
1T must not lie understood from this
that there has lpen no change in
farming and farm life. The contrary
IS the case. There has been much !
change. much progress The granger |
and similar organizations, the farm |
ars' institutes and all the alleyiancies |
Which promote intelligent corp ration
ma give opportunity tor social and |
mental, intellectual intercourse among
he farmers have played large rart
Ii raising the level of life and work
II the country districts In the do.
nam OF government the department of
-'lcultlre since its foundation has
cconpl Sized results as striking os
hose obtained under any other branch
I the national administration r.,
study of all matters CONNER. {
WAN 'he advancement of farm life.
y experimental stations. by the us4
trained agents sent to the uttor.
lost countries of the globe. by the {
ractlcai application of anythipo |
ilch III the ordinary has been dem. :
lstfated to he etticient-in these WAYS
ld IN many Others great good has
zen accom- lished in raising the stane
u OF prod1ctiveness ia farm work
rouGhout the country.
we live in an era when the host ~
nus can only be achieved if ia ina.
nual self hNlp we add tbn mr+ro,
II help which comes by comlinotin,
VI VI cl'lzens in their individual u,
CITY ana OF citizens working throu,r, &
state as an instrument Th. fon. I
;, Oh the country have grown more |
u more TO realize this and f,,mi,,'. "
: ''i'''po more and more to take ;t- r
. as an applied science. though ~ l
tn everything else the theory n,, -. /
y. .'N''u IN practical work and an.
~ way WHEN applied in practicaI =
l,'i'| "''ef all this has been said - l
II , Oh IL" farm. more than anv NV" n+' ''e =
tlnr,,,y ~ today is called unon p,
;oh "'.i 70 exercise the ouali t'l' II
'cn we like to think of as tr ,Ial'''s "
' tha states throughout f its {" ni "' "
~ = Tue qualities of rugged ina ~ niS'
10, lnas''rfnl Resolution and i i~H
"a, ,ai energy and resourcefn,na a ''l'-
As hard' for which M ma, Vss, ne Il
mot ot'u ho o'te ter, has lived hard. w N "p
ed not t. be pleasant, but his s. l Ma't n
EN- IN healthy surroundin s liie is -
type of cjtizn n 1ehd to develop a