The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-04-10

Falls the president salu. l
| believe in work and | believe I'm play.
would be sorry not TO So YOU ENJOY
Yourselves. but do not let play interiors
with work. Do things quickly ana cheer
fully Boys. remember the msniier YOU
wish to be the nicer sou can arOrr 10 De
~ home would be ashaned Of a boy
who was a bully 10 the weak, When you
play. be fair. but play hard. and then
hurt keep on playing. Work with your
whole heart in all things.
The presidents most important adj
dress was delivered at Sioux Falls.
where he discussed problems which
affect the farmer and wage worker.
During his speech snow began TO fall.
but the president was clad in a heavy
o,ercoat and was well protected. He
said he was glad to be again in the
.hanana belt" which created laugh
ter. The president said. in part:
The Presidents Address.
.~rhere are many. many lesser problems
which 20 to make up IN their entirety ne
huge and complex problems OF our mod
ern industrial life. Each OF these PROB
lens Is. moreover. connected with many
OF the Others Few indeed are simple y.
stand only by them selves. The most
important are those connected Win th=
relation 81 the farmers, the stock growers
and soil tlilcrs. 70 the mmu AZ iais
anu AlR-E 80
employer and employed. Ia a country
like ours II - fundamentally true tnst me
weli-being 81 me uller q Inc ssn an. rne
III they are well or. then We need concern
| ourselves but little as 70 how otner
classes stand. for they vii ineNltao!S %
well on too. and. on the other hand, there
can be no real general prosperity uhitsS
| based on the foundation u The prospsrty
OF the wage-worker and the uller OF the
"Rt,t he needs OF these two classes a-e
often not thu same. The iiiler Of the s9il
has been OF all our citizens the one On inc
whole Tho least affected in hts ways OF
Lire and methods az industry ~ inc Eitht
! industrial changes % the last nai century,
I There has been change with him, too. OF
I course. He also can work 70 best adteh-
ta-e III he keeps in close touch Win nAs
4 fellows and the success 81 the nAti9na.
department OF agriculture has shown nov.
much can be done for him ~ ratlonal
action Of the government
The department OF agriculture deNoies
it, whole energy 20 working for the well
fare OF farmers and stock " IN ev-
erv section Of orr country II aids tnem IN
their constantly increasing search ior a
better agricultural education. ~ helps
not only them. hut all the nation. in see
ing that our exports or meats nave tteah
bills ~ health. and that there u rigid m
spectfpn of ali meats that enter into m
terzrate m Thirty-eight million
oarcasses Mere inspected DURING the last
fiscal year. our stock gr<Ners sell inrty-
five million dollars worth OF I've stock
annually. and these animals must be
kent healthy or else our peop.e VIII lose
their trade. cur export OF plant products
- fo~alrn roantrles amounts 10 over six
hundred million dollars a year, and there
IS no branch Of its work 70 which the
departmenf Of agriculture devotes more
care. Thus the department has been sue
ceSsfully introducing a m1caroni Nneat
from the headwatcTs OF the Noiga- Whicn
grows successfully in ten inches u ram
faWf .ndby this means wheat growing has
been successfully extended westward IN
TO the semiarid region. TWO milton
bushels OF his wheat were grown ia-i
wear. and being suited tn dry conditions
ID can be used for forage as Wen as io'
food for man.
The department OF agriculture has
been helping our fruit men 10 establish
markets abroad by studying methods o.
fruit preservation. through refrtgerauoI
and through methods OF handling and
nackiur. on the gulf Goa sts Of Louisiana
and Texas. thanks 10 the department ol
agriculture. a rice suitable 70 tne r.slo,
was Imported from the orient and the ric.s
crop Is now practically qua 10 our need.
in this country. whereas a few years age
II supplied but one-fourth OF inen- 49,
whether on the prairie or in. the wood
land. The man who grows what We ga
and the raw material wni,h - Norkr.
nearly under the conditions which Oh
tanned when the -'embattlcd farmers q
= made this o, fogn'6 n our n psople. IMAM =
But the wage-worker= In our cities
like the ca pitalists In our cities. face 10
L tally changed COn0lllpUA4 lHf h"NFAtk
mont Of machinery and the ex%traordinar,
change In business conditions have rem
dered the employment OF capital and 9
persons in large axgregatons rot merely
profitable but often necessary Tor sue
cess, and have specialized the labor. Q
the wagc-worker at the same time y
they have brought great s~ggregations o
waxe-workers together. More and nor
in our great industrial center~ men hay
come to realize that they can not hv
as independently Of one another ~ In IN
ali DAYS was the case everywhere. an
As Is now the case In the country dis
tricts.
..Of course. Fundamentally each ma
will yet find that the cfSef factor Ia ~
termfning his success or failure In ~
il the sum OF his own individual qnaiitie.
He can not AFFORD to lose his tndividus
initiative. his individual viii and powef
but he can best use rnat power III g.
certain objects he unites with his ic
ton. combination. union among ~
wage-workerx finally something car :
done by tire direct action of The s.~s'
II D. not possible empiricnlly to deciaI
when the Interference OF the stat
should be deemed legitimate and whe
HE Ultimate.
..The line OF demarcation between -
healthy oyerinterferencc and unhenith
lack 81 regulation H. not always well a.
inau.,riai needs. Nos, certainly v
should never invoke the interference
the state or nation unless IL y abs
lutefy necessary, nut IL Ia equally tt
that when confident OF Its necessity y
should not on academic grounds refuse
Very much OF our effort IN referen'
20 labor matters should be by every q
Vice and expedicnt TO try to secure 4 CO.
stantiy better understanding between er
| ploy~v and employ -. Everything possn