Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-06
NAG[ WORKER
AND Farmer
President Roosevelt Speaks For
Two Important Elements
at Sioux Falls
BEelNs THE WEEK REFRESHED


Started Out in Good Health To-day
Greeted BY a Splendid Crowd al
Sioux Falls-Text Of His Ad'
dress. .l4.- ..-s-.-
Asioux Falls, April s.-President
Roosevelt began the second week OF
his tour in strenuous way. He arose
early, feeling much refreshed from
yesterdays rest and at 1850 started on
- drive with Secretary Loeb, Senator
Kfttridge and Mayor Burnside. Despite
the early hour and dreary weather, the
streets were lined with people who
greeted the president enthusiastically
and at 1920 the president arrived at the
big auditorium. where he addressed
four thousand children Il believe in
work and believe In play. said the
president. Il would be sorry not to
see You enjoy yourselves. but do not
let play interfere with work. Do things
quickly and cheerfully. Boys, remem-
ber the manlier you wish to be the nicer
YOU can afford to be at home. Iwould
be ashamed of a boy who was q bully
to the weak When you play. be fair,
but play hard and then work hard at
your studies. IL 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 ap-
plause. He was driven rapidly to the
stand which had been occupied where
crowd OF several thousand people
had assembled. The president spoke OF
The Wage Worker and the Tilier of
the Soil" He was frequently inter-
fuptes by applause. During his speech
snow began to fall, but the president
was, clad In a heavy over coat and was
well protected. He said he was glad to
be again in the banana. belt. which
sceeilted laugs,ter. He spoke as fol-
lows:
Fellow Citizens: There are many.
many lesser problems which go to make
up In their entirety the huge and COM
piex problems Of our modern industrial.
life. Each OF these problems is. more
over connected with many Of the 9TH
ers. Few indeed are simple or stand
only by themselves. The most import
ant are those connected with the re-
slation Of the farmers, the stock grow
sers and soil tillers, to the community
at large, and those affecting the rela-
lions between employer and employed.
In d country like ours it is funda-
mentally true that the we'll being of the
tiiier of the soil and the wage e-worker
Is the well-being Of state. If they are
we'll of, then we need concern our
selves but little as to how other classes
! stand, for they will inevitably be well
on too; and, on the other hand there
can be no real general prosperity un-
less based on the foundation of the
prosperity OF the wage-worker and the
filer OF the soil.
Needs Of Farmer.
"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
ii his ways of life and methods of In
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 II
he keeps in close toiich with his fel-
lows: and the success of the national
department Of agriculture has shown
how much can be done for him by RAJ
{ tIonal action of the government. Nor
It is only thru 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 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 for
the people than this law will, firmly
believe, directly and indirectly ac-
complish 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 increas-
ing search for a better agricultural ed
ucation. 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 COM
merce. Thirty-eigh million carcasses
were Inspected during the last fiscal
year. Our stock growers sell forty
five million dollars worth of livestock
annually, and these animals must be
kept healthy or else our people viii
lose their trade. Our export of plant
products to foreign countries amounts
to over six hundred million dollars q
year, and there is no branch of Its
work to which the department of agri-
culture devotes more care. Thus the
department has been successfully intro
ducing a macaroni wheat from the
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 millior
bushels of this wheat were grown last
year; and being suited to dry con.
ditions 1t can be used for forage as vel
as for food for man.
Markets Abroad.
eThe department of agriculture has
been helping our fruit men to astab.
lish markets abroad by studying meth,
ods Of fruit preservation through re-