The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-04-17
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
AT SIOUX FALLS
Early Morning Address on "The
Wage-Worker and TiIler Of
the Soil"
SPENT a QUIET SUNDAY
Arrived in Sioux Falls at 6 O'clock Yes
terday Morning and Left at 9:1O
This Morning His South
Dakota itinerary.


Sioux Falls, S. D., April I.-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 heade by Mayor G.. w. Burnside
and State Senator A. H. Sites. Sena
tor k~ittredge also greeted him. Inc
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
had since his trip began. He attended
church both In the morning and In the
evening, and in tL~e afternoon went Tor
a horseback ride. accompanied by Setn
Bullock. superintendent of the Black
Hills forest reserves.
The fact that President Roosevelt at
tended divine service twice was due to
q mistake on the part Of the local COM
mittee. The committee had the impress
sion that the president was q member
OF tie German Lutheran church, and
accordingly arranged to have him at
tend that church in the morning. Later,
when i vas 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 presl-
lent 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 Ly 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
waukee 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
car 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 vas 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 go to make up the huge
ard complex problems of modern industrial!
life. Each Is connected with many others.
Few are simple. The most Important are those
connecsSd 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 well-being
OF the state
But the neelA OF these two classes are often
not the same. The tiller has been least al
I feeted in his life 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 benedcent 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 harbor improve
| ments. @
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
casses were inspected last year. Our export
of plant products amounts to over $500, 900, OG0
a year. and there Is no branch to which the
department devotes more care. Thus it has
introduced a macaroni wheat froE che head
waters Of the Volga which grows successfully
J in ten inches of rainfall. Two million bushels
OF this wheat We're grown cast year.
Agricultural Departments Work.
The department has been helping our fruit
men establish markets abroad by studying
preservation. For the gulf coasts a rice was
imported from the orient. and the rice crop
4 Is now practically equal to our needs In this
4 country, whereas a few years ago 1t supplied
but one-fourth of them. The most important
farm product is grass; I need only allude to
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 pral-
ries we foster tree planting. In my own life
time I have seen wonderful changes brought
about by tree planting. in your own and the
states around 1t.
roads. with which the states alone can deal
and the government can only Cooperate. The
same Is true of the education OF the American
farmer. A number OF states have started to
help In this work.
1t is clearly true that a great advance has
been made in finding ways by which the gov
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
surroundtngs and his work. to a p~re-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 '76 made this country a nation,
than any others OF our people.
But wage workers in cities face totally
changed conditions. Machinery and changed
business conditions have rendered large aggre-
cations not merely profitable but often neces-
sary,2 specialized labor, and brought aggrega-
lions 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 or his
individual qualities. He cannot afford to lose
his individual initiative, but he can best use
that II 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 witt,
changein industrial needs. We should never
interfere unless 1t is necessary; but it Is equal
Il ~ true that when confident of its necessity
we should not OF academic grounds refuse il.
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 con,.
petition with an unscrupulous rival. It is far
more difacult to deal with greed that works
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