The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-04-10
He Gets Up Early and Makes a Long
Speech Be,oie Break
fast.
HAD A GOOD. SUNDAY REST

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Bcr,pps- -McRae Telegram.
Sioux Falls, s. D., April 6.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt was In 1ne shape this
morning, the rest he took, Sunday,
having put him in a condition that
was satisfactory both to himself and
Surgeon General Rixey He was up
early, much earlier than usual, be-
cause he had quite long address. TO
make before leaving on the special
which was scheduled to depart for
Yankton at $40.
Long before daylight hundreds OF
farm wagons came into the city and
when the president took UP his place
In the speakers stand, he was con-
fronted by an immense throng, as
throngs go in this great farming
President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Fellow Citizens:
There are many, many lesser prob
lens which go to make up IN their
entirety the huge and COM
pie problems of our modern
Industrial life. Each OF these
problems Is, moreover, connected with
many OF the others. Few indeed are
simple or stand only by themselves.
The most important are those connect
ed with the relation Of the farmers,
the stock growers and soil ullers, to
the community at large, and those af-
fecting the relations between employer
and employed. In country like ours
It is fundamentally true that the we'll
being OF the tilier Of the soil and the
wage worker is the well-bedng of the
state. II they are well of, then we
need concern ourselves but little as to
how other classes stand, for they will
inevitably be well of too; and, on tho
other hand, there can be no real gen.
eral prosperity unless based on the
foundation Of prosperity of the wage
worker and the tiller of the soil.
But the needs of these two classes
are often not the same. The tiller of
the soil has been of all our citizens the
one on the whole the least affected in
his ways of life and methods of indus
try by the giant Industrial changes
of the last half century. There has
been change with him, too, of coursel
He also can work to best advantage II
he keeps in close touch with his fell
ows; and the success of the national
Department of Agriculture has shown
how much can be done ilor him by ra-
: tional action OF the Government Nor
is 1t only through the Department that
the Government can act. One OF the
greatest and most benefcent measures
passed by the last Congress, or indeed
by any Congress In recent years, Is the
Irrigation Act, which will do for the
States Of the Great Plains and the
Rocky Mountain region at least as
much as ever has been done for the
States OF the humid region by river and
harbor, improvements. Few measures
that have been put upon the statute
books Of the nation have done more Dor
the people than this law will, firmly
believe. directly and indirectly accom-
plish for the states in question.
Tho department of agriculture de-
votes It's whole energy to working for
the welfare of farmers and stock grow
crs. In every section OF our
country 1t aids them in their con-
stantly Increasing search for better
agricultural education. 1t helps not
only them. but all the Nation, in seeing
that our exports of meats have clean
bills OF health, and that there is rigid
inspection OF all meats that enter into
interstate commerce. Thirty-eight mil
lion carcasses were inspected during
the last fiscal year. Our stock growers
sell forty-five million dollars worth OF
live stock annually, and these animals
must be kept healthy or else our people
will lose their trade. Ouu' export OF
plant products to foreign countries
amounts to over six hundred million
dollars year. ana there is no branch
OF Its work to which the Department
OF Agriculture deyotes more care. Thus
the Department has been successfully
introducing marcaroni wheat from tho
: headwaters Of the Volga, which grows
successfully In ten inches Of rainfall
and by this means wheat growing has
been successfully extended westward
into the semiarid region. Two mil
lion bushels OF this wheat were grown
last, year; and being suited to dry con-
ditions 1t can be used for forage as
we'll as for food for man.
The Department Of Agriculture has
been helping our fruit men to estab-
lish markets abroad by studying meth.
ads Of fruit preservation through re.
frigeration. and through methods O.
handling and packing. On the Gull
coasts Of Louisiana and Texas, thanks
u the Department of Agriculture. 0
rice suitable to the region was i'm.
DISTRESSING STOMACH DISEASE.
Permanently cured by the mastery POW
or OF "A SOUTH AMERICAN tNERvINI
TONIC" Invalids need suffer no long Or
because this great remedy can cure then
all 1t ~ n cure for tho whole work
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