Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-09
President Reviews What Has AL
ready Been Done, and Tells what
It Is Hoped May Yet BE Accom-
plished-Frequent Applause Indi-}
Gates sympathy OF His Audience.

and soil tillers, to the community at
large, and those affecting the rela-
lions between employer and employed.
In a country like ours it is fundamen-
tally true that the we'll being Of the
tiller of the soil and the wage-worker
is the well-being of the state. IL they
are well off, then we need concern
ourselves but little as to how other
classes stand, for they will inevitably
be well off, too; and, on the other
hand, there can be no real prosperity
unless based on the foundation Of the
prosperity of the wage-Worker and
the tiller of the soil. .sz
TilIers of the Soil.
But the needs Of these two classes
ere often not the same. The tiller Of
the soil has been of all our citizens
the one on the whole the least af-
fected in his ways of life and meth
cds of industry by the giant indus
trial changes Of the last half century.
There has been a change with him,
too, of course. He also can work to
best advantage if he keeps in close
touch with his fellows; and the sue
cess Of the national department. of
agriculture has shown how much can
be done for him by rational action of
the government.
There are a number of very impor-
tant questions such as that of good
roads,. with which the states alone
can deal, and where all that the ma
tional government can do is to coop
crate with them. The same is true
farmer A number of the states
have themselves started to help il
this work, and the depa rtments Of ag-
rfcll1t ure does an immense Il amount
which is in the proper sense Of the
word educat ional, and educational in
the most practical way.
Wage-Workers OF Cities.
But the wage-workers in our cities,
like the capitalists in our cities. face
totally changed conditions. The de-
velopment Of machinery and the ,ex-
traordinary change in business condi-
lions have rendered the employment
of capital and Of persons in large ,ag-
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often necessary for success, and have
specialized the labor of the wage
worker at the same time that they
have brought great aggregations Of
wage-workers together. More and
more in our great industrial centers
men have come to realize that they
cannot live as independently Of one
another as in the old days was the
case everywhere, and as is now the
case in the country districts.
Very much of our effort in refer
ence to labor matters should be by
every device and expedient to try to
secure a constantly better under
standing between employer and EN-
ploye. If met with sincere desire to
act fairly by one another, and if there
is, furthermore, power by each to
appreciate the others standpoint, the
chance for trouble is minimized. "A
Cancellation committee can do best
work when the trouble is in its be-
ginning, or at least has not como
to q head.
Arbitration.
When we deal with such subject
we are fortunate in having before
us an admirable object lesson in the
work that has just been closed by the
anthracite coal strike commission.
This was the commission which was
appointed last fall at the time when
the coal strike in the anthracite re-
zgions threatened our nation with q
disaster second to none which has
befallen us since the days of the civil
war Their reportwas made just.
before the senate adjourned at the
special session; and no governm 4 rent n
document OF recent Years marks q
more important piece Of work bet