The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-06
President Roosevelt Tells South Da<otans
That as 1t IS With the Masses So
1t IS With the State.
Much Can Be Done" He
Says, by Organization,
Combination. and Union
Among Wage-Workers.'
Favors Set OF Model Labor
Laws for District of Co
Iumbia as Standard for
the Nation.

SIOUX FALLS, s. D. April 6.-This
welcomes the President OF the United
States. although he spent all day sun
day within its borders
The President drove through the town
this morning in a parade and addressed
great gathering in the public square
in front of the hotel. on the labor insti-
tutions OF the country His audienes
was varied IN character. Many OF the
faces turned up TO him we're the bronze
countenanees OF Indians. There we're
men representing South Dakota business
interests. and cowboys in rough fur
overcoats. Mrs. MoliBeux. of New York.
viewed the scene frem the window OF
her room in the Cataret Hotel
Complex Problems.
The President VAS introduced by
Senator Kittredge.
Each OF the huge and complex prob
lens Of our modern industrial life Is
made up of many lesser problems. said
the President. and each Is. moreover.
connected with many Of the others The
are those connected with the relation OF
the farmers. the stock growers and soil
tillers TO the community at large. and
those affecting the relations between
employer and employed
Prosperity Due TO Masses
IN a country like ours. said ths
President. II t. fundamentals true that
the weu-being OF the tiller Of the soil
and the wage worker is the we'll being
OF the state. II they are veil on. then
we need concern ourselves but little as
TO hoV otheF classes stand, for they viii
inevitably be well off 100: and. on the
other hand. there can De no real general
prosperity unless based on the founda-
tion of the prosperity OF The wage
worker and the tilIer of the soil
But The needs Of these two classes are
often rot the same. The tiller OF the soil
has been Of all our ciyizens the one on
the whole the least affected in his ways
OF life and methods Of Industry by the
gier 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 Department of Agricul-
ture has shown how much can be done
for him by rational action of the Govern
ment"
Good Word for Wilson.
The President referred in detail 10 the
work accomplished by this department
Referring 70 the irrigation act. he said:
1T 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 meas
ures that have been put upon the statute
books of the nation have done more for
the people than this Law viii I firmly
believe. directly and indirectly accom-
plish for the States IN question.
Commenting further on the work Of
the Department of Agriculture for the
welfare of the farmers. stock growers.
and fruit raisers, and in the matter
OF good roads. the President continued:
1T is therefore clearly true that a
great advance has been made in the
direction of finding ways by which the
help himself-the onIy Kind Of help
which a self-respecting man viii ac-
cept. OF. / may add. which viii in tbs
end do him any good. Much mas been
done in these ways. and farm life and
farm processes continually change for
the better. The farmer himself stili
retains, because of his surroundings
and the nature OF his work to a pre-
eminent degree. the qualities which ws
like to think Of as distinctly Amerieaa
in considering our early history.
The man who tiHs his own farm.
whether on the prairie or in the wood
land the man wno grows What NE eat
and the raw material which Is worked
I'D into what We wear. stiu exists more
nearly under the conditions which OBJ
tanned when the "embsttled "a mers"
OF IS made this country a ustien thaz
is true Of any others Of cur people.
Conditions in Cities,
Bat the wage-woriers in ou cities.
like the capitalists in our cities. facs
totally changed conditions The devel-
opment Of machinery and The extraordi-
nary change in business conditions have
rendered the employment of capital and
OF persons in large aggregations not
merely profitable but often necessary for
success. aud have specialized the labor
of the wage worker ct ihe same tiEns
that ;hey have brought great aggresa-
lions OF wage workers together More
and more in our great Industrial csnterz
men have come to realize that they can