Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-07
Speaks to Children.

Speaks to Children.
At. $40 o'clock the President arriv-
ed at the big auditorium where he ad-
dressed 1000 children. 81 believe in
work and believe in play said the
President, but do not let play inter
fere with the work. Boys, remember
the manlier you wish to be the nicer
you can afford to be at home. When
you play be fair, but play hard and
then work hard at your studies. II
you get hurt keep right on playing.
Work with your whole heart in all
things
The President was afterwards driv-
en- to a stand at the corner OF Ninth
dstreet and Phillips avenue where a
crowd of hundreds OF people had
assembled. The President spoke on
"The Wage Worker and Tiller OF Soil.
During his speech the snow began to
fall and the President said that he was
glad to be again in the banana belt,
which created much laughter.
Americas Workers.
President Roosevelt in speaking on
the subject OF The Wage Worker and
the Tiler of the oSil,n said:
Fellow Citizens:-There are many
lesser problems which 90 to make UP
in their entirety the huge and complex
problems of our modern industrial life
Each of these problems is, moreover
connected with many oil the others
Few indeed are simple or stand only
l.. ia Mo ,,f, ,,,y
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 be
tween employer and employed. In q
country like ours it is fundamentally
true that the well-being of the tiller ol
the soil and the wage-worker is the
well-belng of the state. Ii they arc
well off then we need concern our
selves but little as to how other class
es stand, for they will inevitably be
we'll off too; and on the other hand
there can be no real general prosperi
unless based on the foundation of the
prosperity of the wage-worker and thu
tiller of the soil.
Needs Often Differ.
But the needs of these two classes
are often not the same. The tiller o
the soil has been of all our citizens
the one on the whole the least al
fected in his ways Of life and method
Of industry by the giant industria
changes of the last half century Their
has been change with him, too, 0
course. He also can work to best ad
vantage if he keeps in close touch witt
his fellows; and the success of the na
tioial department of agriculture ha
shown how much can be done for hin
by rational action of the government
Nor is it only through the department
that the government can act. One O
the greatest and most beneficien
measures passed by the last congress
or indeed by any congress in recen
years is the irrigation act, which Wi
do for the states of the great plain
and the rocky mountain region at leas
as much as ever has been done for tn
states of the humid region by the rive
and harbor Improvements. Few meas
ures that have been put upon the sta
ute books of the nation have don
more for the people than this law will
| firmly believe, directly or indirectl
accomplish for the states in question.
Immensity of Their Products.
The department of agriculture dt
votes it's whole energy to working fo
the welfare OF farmers and stock grow
ers. In every section of our country
aids them in their constantly increa'
ing search for a better agricultural et
ucation. 1t helps not only them, br
all the nation, in seeing that our e,
ports of meats have clean bills {
health, and that there is rigid inspe'
tion of all meats that enter into inte
+ state commerce. Thirty-eight millio
carcasses were inspected during til
last fiscal year. Our stock grower
sell $45,000,000 worth of livestock al
nually, and these animals must be kel
healthy or else our people will los
their trade. Our export of plant pr
ducts to foreign countries amounts
over -$600,000,000 year, and there
no branch of its work to which til
department of agriculture devote
more care. Thus the department ha
been successfully introducing mac
roni wheat from the headwaters of til
Volga, which grows successfully in te
inches of rainfall, and by this NEAR