The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-07
Roosevelt Delivers Speech on Wage Workers and IT.
 Iers of the Soil
SAYS MUCH IS GAINED
 BY STRONG ORGANIZATION
Takes Occasion to Tell of the Work of the Department of Agriculture, Saying 1t Has Done Much
 for the Farmer.

Aberdeen, 5. D., Aprll o.-ffesiuehe Roosevelt today traversed South Dakota and made more speeches than on any other day during his present trip. He began with two speeches at Sioux Falls this morning, and ended his twelfth speech this afternoon at Aberdeen. The speeches were confined for the most part to the tariff and to the mineral prosperity of the country. The President was ae- corded cordial welcome at the different stopping places, and at many stations where the train did not stop the crowds gathered and cheered as the special train sped by. One feature of the day was the large number of children in the var ious audiences, and the President re- ferred to them several times, saying that he was glad to see that the stock was not dying out
 The President had as his guests during the day Senators Kittredge and Gamble, and Representatives Martin and Burke. the South Dakota delegation in congress. At Tulare the President departed from his usual custom, and descending from his car shook hands with the people gath cred at the station.
 Yankton was the first stop after the train left Sioux Falls. To the multitude at Yankton the President spoke on the tariff and the qualities of good citizen ship.
 Another Long Speech.
 At Mitchell the President made the longest address of the day. His audience was large and his speech was frequently interrupted by applause Here he dis cussed the work of individuals and the important part they play in the up-build- ing of the nation.
 "You can lift up man if he stumbles; if he lies down you cannot carry him. If you try to 1t will not help him and It will not help you. So, fundamentally, 1t must rest upon yourself to win success.
 '.As I said law can do something, wise legislation, wise administration of the government can do something. If you have bad laws, badly administered, they will spoil any prosperity. It Is easy enough to get a bad law that will stop the whole business, but to get good law 1t is not so easy. It Is easy to sit outside and say how the man inside should run the machine, but it is not so easy to go inside and run the machine yourself.
 This prosperity to which we have att tained has been reached under series of economic moves included in a system through carrying out certain ideas in the currency and in the tariff. We cannot afford to reverse the system. Improve ment can be made in 1t. In the tariff for instance, schedules are not sacred, and as the needs of the nation change and shift, 1t will be necessary to change certain schedules to meet those shifting needs"
 The other stops of the day were made at Woonsocket, Scotland Tripp. Parks ton, Redfeld and Alpena.
 There Is a possibility of the President 1oxr f,a n
 The President is scheduled to arrive at Fargo, N. D., at 4:4O o'clock tomorrow morning, but he will not leave his car until S:30 clock At Fargo the President will deliver one of the longest speeches of his tour. He will spend tomorrow in North Dakota and will enter the Yellow stone park Wednesday afternoon.
 Presidents Set Speech.
 The presidents set speech was deiv- cred at Sioux Falls and was as follows:
 Fellow Citizens: There are many many lesser problems which go to make up in their entirety the huge and complex prob lems of modern industrial life. Each of these problems Is. moreover connect ed with many of the others Few, in- deed are simple or stand only by them selves. The most important are those connected with the relation of the farm CTS, the stock growers and soil tillers, to the community at large and those affect ing the relations between employer and employed. In country like ours 1t is fundamentally true that the well-being of the tiller Of the soil and the wage-earner IS the well-being of the state. If they are well off, then we need concern our selves but little as to how other classes stand, Tor they will inevitably be well off too; and, on the other hand there can be no real general prosperity unless based on the foundation of the prosper ity of the wage-earner and the tiller of the soil.
 Needs of the Two Glasses.
 But the needs of these two classes are often not the same. The tiller of the soil has been, of all our citizens the ona o the whole the least affected in his wave of life and methods of industry 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 tbt national department of agriculture has shown how much can be done for him bv rational action of the government Nor is 1t only through the department that the government can act. One of the greatest and most beneficent measures passed by the last congress or indeed by any congress in recent years is the irri- gation act which will do for the states of the great plains and the Rocky moun- tain region at least much as ever has been done for the states of the humid region by river and harbor improve ments. Few measures that have been put upon the statute books of the nation have done more for the people than this law will, I firmly believe, directly and Indirectly, accomplish for the states In question.
 Works for the Farmers.
 The department of agriculture devotes It's whole energy to working for the well fare of farmers and stock growers. In ev- cry section of our country it aids them In their constantly increasing search for better agricultural education. It helps not only them, but all the nation, in