New-York tribune., 1903-04-07
INDTSTRI4L PROBLEMS.
President Speaks to the Udge
H0rker and the Farmer.

Sioux Falls 5 D.. April G.-Presldent Eo0se-
veIt spoke here this morning on The Wage
Worker and the Tilier Of the SOIL He said
Fellow Citizens. There are many. many ies-
ser problems which 20 10 make up in their en-
tirety the huge and complex problems nt our
modern Industrial life. Each 81 these problems
Is. moreover connected with many ~ the oth-
ers- Few indeed are simple or stand only ~
themselves. The most importanf are those
connected with the relation 20 the farmers.
the stock growers and soil tilicrs to the COM
munity at large. and those ahecting the re-a-
tfons between employer and efupioyet
In country like ours q - tuuda0le taiiF
true that the we'll being of the tlller ~ ne SOL
and the WageWOrkeT is the vel being nf the
state II they are we'll OF. then We need con-
Germ ourselves but little as To how other classes
stand for they viii inevitably BE- vel or. TOO.
and on the other hand. there can re no real
general prosperity unless based on flr fourta-
tion OF the prosperity OF the waEeVorSrr and
the tiIler OF the soil
THE NEEDS OF THE FARMER
r2ut tbe needs Of these two classes are often
not the SANE The till@r or rhe soil has beer -
all our citizens the one on the VrD.e t1e .-tat
affected in his ways ~ life and methods - m
dustry by the giant industrial changes oi -
last half century. There has been change Win
him too OF course lie also can work 20 best
advantage IL he keeps in close touch vitn rs
Fellows, ana the SUES ~ ,- -
partment cf Agriculture has shown 20" much
can be done for him BY rational action or ne
government Nor Is = only through the a.
partment that the government can act bif "l
the greatest and most beueuCcnt measures
passed by the last Congress. or indeed ~ any
Congress in recent years. is the Irrigation act
which will do for the States Of the great plains
and the Rocky Mountain region az least -
much as ever has been done for the states of
the humid region By river and harbOr improve
nents Few measures thar have been put
,1n0n the statute books Of the nation have done
more for the people than this law wil nrmly
believe directly and indirectly accomplish for
the states in question
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT WORK
The Department OF Agriculture dsvotss Is
whole energy 70 working for the welfare or
farmers and stock growers In every section
OF our country IL aids them IN their constantly
Increasing search for better agricultural edu-
ton In seeing that exports OF meats have
clean bills OF health. and that there II a r1gft
inspection OF all meats that enter into inter-
state commerce. Thirty-eighr million carcasses
were inspected during the last fiscal year our
stock growers sell S45G-Dot1 worth OF livestock
annually and these animals must pe kept
healthy or else our people viii lose their trade
our export OF plant products 70 foreign coun-
tries amounts 10 over <tf-r1OtD year. and
there "a no branch CT its work 20 which the
Tanartueut OF Agriculture devotes more care.
Thus the department has been successfully IN
PRODUCING a rnacaroni wheat from the head
waters OF the yolga. which grows successfully
in ten inches OF rainfall. and BY this means
wheat growing has been successfully extended
westward into the semi-arid region Two mill
ion bushels OF this wheat were grown last year.
and being suited 10 dry conditions. IL can e
The Department Of Agriculture has been help