Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-07
THE PRESIDENT
Talks to Two Immense Crowds
at Sioux alIs, S. D.
One Consists Of 1000 Children.
Other 5000 People.
Proceeds to Yankton, Where He Ad-
dresses Large Crowd.

Roosevelt began the second week of his
tour, feeling much refreshed from yes
terday's rest and at 7.3O started on a
drive over the city with Secretary
Loeb, Senator Kittredge and Mayor
| Burnside. Despite the early hour and
| the dreary weather the streets We're
lined with people who greeted the
President with cheers and the waving
of flags. At $40 the President arrived
at the big Auditorium ana addressed
| 1000 children.
Il believe in work and I believe in
play" he said. 81 would be sorry not
| to see you enjoy yourselves, but do not
let play interfere with work. Do things
quickly and carefully. Boys, remem-
Der, the manlier you wish TO be the
nicer you can afford to be at home. I
would be ashamed of a boy who was a
bully to the weak When you play, be
fair but play hard and then work hard
at your studies. If you get hurt keep
on playing. Work with your whole
heart in all things"
AS the President left the Auditorium
he was greeted with tremendous APP
plause. He was driven rapidly to the
stand at Ninth street and Phillips
avenue, where a crowd of 5000 people
had assembled. The President was in
troduced by Senator Kittredge and
spoke on ".rhe Wage Worker and the
Tiller of the Soil" During his speech
snow began to fall, but the President
was clad in a heavy overcoat and was
well protected.
The President spoke as follows:
many lesser problems which go to
make up in their entirety the huge
and complex 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 connected with the
relation of the farmers, the stock grow
ers and soil tiliers, to the community
at large, and those affecting the rela-
tons between employer and employed
In a country like ours it is fundamen-
tally true that the well-being of the
tiller of the soil and the wage
worker is the well-being of the
state if they are well off, then we need
concern ourselves but little as to how
other classes stand, for they will in
evitably be well off too: and, on the
other hand, there can be no real gen.
eral prosperity unless based on the
foundation Of the 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 Oil the whole the least affected
IA, T.,
dustry by the giant industrial changes
of the last half century. There has been
change with him, too, of course. He
also can work to best advantage if he
keeps in close touch with his fellows;
and the success of the national DEPART
ment of agriculture has shown how
much can be done for him by rational
action of the government Nor is it
only through the department that the
government can act. One of the great
est and most beneficent measures
passed by the last Congress, or indeed
by any Congress in recent years, is the
Irrigation Act, which will do 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 for the
people than this law will, 4 firmly be-
lieve, directly and indirectly accom-
nlish for the states in question,
The department of agriculture de-
votes it's whole energy to working for
the welfare of farmers and stock grow
ers. In every section of our country
it aids them in their constantly in
creasing search for a better agricultur-
al 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 inspec-
ton of all meats that enter into inter
state commerce. Thirty-eight million |
carcaSseS We're inspected during the |
last fiscal year. Our stock growers |
sell forty-fiye million dollars worth of |
live stock annually, and these animals |
must be kept healthy or else our peo-
pie will lose their trade. Our export |
Of plant products to foreign countries |
to over six hundred million
dollars year. and there is no branch
Of its work to which the department
the department has been successfully
macaroni wheat from the
headwaters of the Volga, which grows
successfully in ten inches of rainfall II
and by this means wheat growing l.
has been successfully extended west i
ward into the semiarid region. Two
million bushels of this wheat were /!
grown last year: and being suited to
Try conditions it can be used for forage
is well as for food for man. III
The department of agriculture has |
been helping our fruit men to establish ii
markets abroad by studying methods
If fruit preservation through refriger-
ttion and through methods of handling
ind packing. On the coasts of Louisiana
Ind Texas, thanks to the department
If agriculture, a rice suitable to the
egion was imported from the Orient
md the rice crop is now practically I
quail to our needs in this country, |
whereas a few years ago it supplied
mt one fourth of them. The most i'm
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