The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-04-10
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
AT SIOUX FALLS
Early Morning Address on 1.-THE
and Tiller Of
the Soil"
SPENT a QUIET SUNDAY
Arrived in Sioux Falls at 8 O'Clock Yes
fterday Morning and Left at e:10
This Morning His South
Dakota Itinerary.

Sioux Falls, S. D., April President
Roosevelt was the guest Of Sioux Falls
all day Sunday and until $40 Monday
morning. His special train ar
rived here about s o'clock in the
morning, and he was met by a delega-
ton headed by Mayor G. w. Burnside
and State Senator A. H. Sites. Sena-
COR kittredge also greeted him. The
president was escorted to the Cataract
house by attachments Of the two
militia companies here, and enjoyed a
day OF comparative rest, the first he has
had since his trip began. He attended
church both in the morning and in the
evening, and in the afternoon Went for
a horseback ride, accompanied by Seth
Bullock, superintendent Of the Plack
Hills forest reserves.
The tact that President Roosevelt at
tended divine service twice was due to
a mistake on the part Of the local COM
mittee. The committee had the impress
sion that the president was a embe
OF the German Lutheran church, and
accordingly arranged to have him at
tend that church in the morning. Later,
when it 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 e
ing, he consented TO make an excep-
ton to the rule when the facts were
presented "a him.
The services yesterday morning We're
conducted ry Rev. Herman Sell, presi-
dent of the German-IInglish college at
Welton, Ia, who came here for that
purpose. The German language was
used throughout.
Owing to the fact that both in Mil
Waukee and Minneapolis the length of
h program did not permit the presi-
dent to reach his car until after mid
night, he has been obliged to
that hereafter he will in the evening
rot begin speaking later than $50
O'Clock and always will be back in his
car by 10 O'Clock. lie will adhere strict
y TO this rule.
The Presidents Address.
The presidents address on 9TH
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:
Many lesser problems SO to make up the huge
and complex problems OF modern industrial
lie. t.icn Is connected with many others.
lew 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 weli-being
OF the tiller and w~ase-worker is the well-being
of the state.
But the needs of these two classes are often
not the same The tilier has been least al
fected in his lie and Industry by Industrial
changes. There has been change with him,
too. of course. The success of the department
OF agriculture has shown how much can be
done by action OF government. And one Of the
most benefcent measures OF the last congress
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 hastor improve
1uents.
The department Of agriculture devotes works
for the welfare Of farmers and stock growers.
1T aids their search for a better agricultural
education. 1t helps see that our meats have
clean bills of health. Thirty-eight million car
cases were inspected last year. Our export
OF plant products amounts to over $500. 900, 900
Q Year, and there is no branch to which the
department devotes more care. Thus it has
introduced n macaroni wheat from the head
waters of the voiga 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
Hnien establish markets abroad by STUDYING
preservation. For the gulf coasts d rice was
imported from the orient, and the rice crop
is now practically equal to our needs in this
country, whereas Il few years ago 1t supplied
but one-fourth OF them. The most Important
farm product Is grass; l need only allude to
the change made in tho west by use of alfalfa,
The department has taken the lead TO prevent
tdeforestaticn. Where there are forests we
seek to preserve them; and on plains and prai-
rieS we foster tree planting. In nv own life
time l have seen wonderful changes brought
about by tree planting, in your own and the
states around it.
There are important questions, such as good
roads. with which tho states alone can deal.
and the government can only co-operate. Tho
same is true of the education OF the American
farmer. A number OF states have stnrtnd ~
help in this work.
1t is clearly true that y great advance has
been made in finding ways by which the gov
eminent 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-eminent
degree the qualities which we think of as dis
tinctly American. The man who tills his own
farm, who grows what We eat and the raw
material which is worked up into what we
wear, still exists more nearly under the con-
ditions which obtained when the ..embattled
farmers" OF &c made this country a nation.
than any others of our people.
But w~age-wotkers in cities face totally
changed conditions. Machinery ana changed
business conditions have rendered large asgre-
cations not merely profitable but often neces-
siiry. specialized labor, and brought aggrega-
tions OF workers together. Men cannot live
Independently of one another as in the old
days.
Duty Of the Individual.
OF course. each mans CHIEF factor in deter
mining success or failure Is the sum of his
Individual qualities. He cannot afford to lose
his individual Initiative. but he can best use
that If for certain objects he unites with his
fellows. Much can be done by organization,
combination, union; something can be done by
the state.
The line of demarcation between overinter-
ference and lack OF recognition shifts with
change in industrial needs. We should never
Interfere unless it is necessary; but 1t is eounl-
" true that when confident OF its necessity
we should not on academic grounds refuge it.
Wise factory laws. laws to forbid child labor
and safeguard employees, are necessary In the
interest of the honest and humane employer,
who should not be exposed to unchecked COM
petition with an INSCRIPTIONS rival. 1t Is far
more difficult to deal with greed that works