The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-04-10
aSEvElT SPEAKS
AT SIOUX FALLS
Early Morning Address on"The
Wage-Worker and Tiller Of
the Soil"
SPENT a QUIET SUNDAY
ARRIVED in Sioux Falls at 8 O'clock Yes.
terday Morning and Left at 9:10
This Morning - His South
Dakota Itinerary.

Sioux Falls, s.. D., April 7.-Presiden'
Roosevelt was the guest Of Sioux Falls
all Sunday and until $40 Monday
morning. His special train ar
rived here about s O'Clock in the
morning, and he was me- by a delega-
ton headed by Mayor G. w. Burnside
State Senator A. H. Sites. Sena-
tor kittredge also greeted him. The
president was escorted to the Cataract
house by detachments Of the two
militia companies here, and enjoyed a
DAY of comparative rest, the first he has
mad since his trip began. He attended
church both in the morning and in the
evening, and in tt.e afternoon went for
q horseback ride, accompanied by Seth
Bullock, superintendent Of the Black
Ellis forest reserves.
The fact that President Roosevelt at
tended divine service twice vas due to
q mistake on the part of the local COM
mittee. The committee had the impress
sion that the president was a member
OF the German Lutheran church, and
accordingly arranged to have him at
end that church in the morning. Later,
when 1t was learned that the president
WorhSiped at the Dutch Reformed
church, arrangements were made to
have services held in the evening at the
Livingstone Reformed church here.
While it is not the custom of the presi-
dent to attend services on Sunday even
ing. he consented to make an eXcep-
ton to the rule when the facts were
presented 70 him.
The services yesterday morning were
conducted ty Rev. Herman Sell, presi-
dent of the German-English college at
Welton, Ia, who came here for that
purpose. The German language was
used throughout.
Owing to the fact that both in Mil
4waukee and Minneapolis the length of
the program did not permit the prcsi-
dent to reach his car until after mid
night, he has been obliged to
that hereafter he will in the evening
not begin speaking later than $3.50
o'clock and always will be back in his
a by 10 o'clock. He will adhere strict
ly to this rule.
The Presidents Address.
The presidents address on THE
Wage-Worker and the Tiller of the
Soil" was delivered this morning prior
to train time. Notwithstanding the
unusual hour a great crowd gathered
and tremendous enthusiasm was mani
Tested. The president spoke as fol-
lows:E
Many lesser problems go to make UP the huge
and complex problems OF modern Industrial
life. Each Is connected with many Others.
Few are simple. The most important are those
connected with the relation OF the farmers to
the community at large. and the relations be-
tween employer and employed. The well-being
OF the tiller and w~aSe-worker is the weli-being
OF the state.
But the needs of these two classes are often
not the same The tiller has been least af-
fected In his life and industry by Industrial
changes. There has been change with him,
too. of course. Tho success of the department
of agriculture has shown how much can be
done by action of government. And one of the
most hArHt5errt ,,ane ,,re ~ ,ln t~-t ----..
Is the irrigation act, which will do for the great
plains as much as ever has been done for the
humid region by river and harbor improve
nents.
The department Of agriculture devotes works
Tor the welfare of farmers and stock growers.
IL aids their search for a batter agricultural
education. 1t helps see that our meats have
clean bills OF health. Thirty-eight million car
casses We're inspected last year. Our export
OF plant products amounts TO over 5000, 600, 600
Il year, and there Is no branch to which the
department devotes more care, Thus IL has
introduced a macaroni wheat from the head
waters of the Nolga which grows successfully
IN ten inches OF rainfall. Two million bushels
OF this wheat were grown last. year.
Agricultural Departments Work.
The department has been helping our fruit
men establish markets abroad by studying
preservation. For the gulf coasts n rice was
imported from the orient, and the rice crop
Is now. practically equal to our needs In this
country, whereas a few years ago it supplied
but one-fourth OF them. The most important
tai ~ llouuSl ] grass, 1 leed only aIlQQe 10
the change made in the west by use of alfalfa.
The department has taken the lead to prevent
deforestation. Where there are forests we
seek to preserve them: and on plains and pra,-
ries we foster tree planting. In my own life
time have seen wonderful changes brought
about by tree planting, In your own and the
states around IL.
There are important questions. such ne ~o,d
roads, with which the states alone can deal.
ana the government can only cooperate. The
same is true OF the education of the American
FARMER. A nlnlhRr nf Z a ha,-a tn-,- -
help IN this work.
II Is clearly true that a great advance has
been made in finding ways by which the gov
ernInent can help the farmer to help himself
the only kind OF help which a self Respecting
man Will accept. or which will do him any
good. The farmer still retains. because of his
surroundings and his work, to a pre-einineut
degree the qualities which we think Of as dis
Iinctly American. The man who tills his own
1arin. VINO grows what we eat and the raw
material which Is worked up into what we
wear. stll exists more nearly under the CON
ditions which obtained when the ..emba,tled
farmers OF Te made this country a nation.
than any others OF our people.
But wage-~orkers in cities face totally
changed conditions, Machinery and changed
business conditions have rendered large agere-
Satiohs not merely profitable but often neces-
sary. specialized labor, and brought aggrepa-
lions OF workers together. Men cannot i've
independently of one another as in the old
days.
Duty Of the Individual.
OF course, each mans chief factor in detar-
mining success or failure Is the sum of his
individual qualities. He cannot afford to lose
ms Individual initiative, but he can best use
that II Tor certain objects he unitcs with his
ieiio%s. Much can be done by orsaniza, lion
combination. union; something can be done bv
the state.
Inc line OF demarcatiou between oyerintar-
ference and lack of recognition shifts win
change in Industrial needs. We should never
interfere unless 1t is necessary; but IL is equal
~ true titat when confident 'of its necessity
s"e S!lutlu not on academic grounds raf,,S. a.,
Mise factory laws. laws to forbid child lahar
ana safeguard employees. are necessary an the
iutetest or the honest and humane employer
"h' should not be exposed TO unchecked com.
Set'tion with an inscriptions rival. II is Tar
iiofe ditncult e deal with greed that works !