Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-11
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
At SIOUX FALLS
early Morning Address OIL "The
Wage-Wo-ksr and Tiller Of
The Soil"
SPENT 4 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 Fall!
all day Sunday anu until 9:lO Monday
morning. His special train ar
rived here about 8 o'clock In tht
morning. and he was met by a delega-
ton headed by Mayor G.. w. Burnside
and State Senator A.. III. Sites. Sena-
tor Kittredge also greeted him. Tht
president was escorted to the Cataract
house by attachments of the two
militia companies here, and enjoyed q
day of comparative rest, the first he ha
had since his trip began. He attended
church both in the morning and In thu
evening, and in the afternoon went fol
q horseback ride, accompanied by Seth
Bullock, superintendent OF the Black
Hills forest reserves.
The fact that President Roosevelt at
tended divine service twice was due &c
a mistake on the part of the local com
mittee. The committee had the impress
sion that the president was q emit
of the German Lutheran church, and
accordingly arranged to have him at
ten that church in the morning. Later,
when II was learned that the president
worhslped at the Dutch Reformed
church, arrangements were made to
have services held in the evening at the
Livingstone Reformed church here
While 1t is not the custom OF the presl-
dent to attend services on Sunday even
Ing, he consented to make an excep-
ton to the rule when the facts were
presented to him.
The services yesterday morning were
conducted by Rev. Herman Sell. presi-
dent of the German-English college at
Welton, Ia, who came here for that
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 presi-
dent to reach his car until after mid
night, he has been obliged to announce
that hereafter he will In the evening
o 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" was delivered this morning prior
to train time. Notwithstanding the
unusual hour q great crowd gathered
and tremendous enthusiasm was mani
tested. The president spoke as fol-
lows:
Many lesser problems go to make up the huge
and complex problems OF modern Industrial
life. Each IL 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~aBe-worker Is the well-belnB
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. The success OF the department
OF agriculture has shown how much can be
done by action Of government. And one OF the
most beneicent 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 ard stock growers.
1t aids their search for n better agricultural
education. II 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, 900
a year, and there Is no branch to which the
department devotes more care. Thus II has
n macaroni wheat from the head
waters Of the Volga 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 a rice was
llnlbOTteu from lDG orient, ant II TlCe crop
is now practically equal to our needs in this
country, whereas a 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 the west by use OF alfalfa.
The department has taken the Jead to prevent
deforestatiun. Where there are forests we
seek to preserve them; and on plains and prai-
ries we foster tree planting. In my own life
time l have seen wonderful changes brought
about by tree planting, in your own and the
states around II.
There are important questions, such as good
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.
II Is clearly true that a 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
which is worked up into what we
ditions which obtained when the ''embattled
farmers of '76 made this country n 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, specialized labor, and brought aggrega-
tions Of workers together. Men cannot live
independently Of one another as in the old
days.
OF course, each man'g chief factor in deter
mining success or failure is the sum of his
Individual qualities. lie cannot afford to lose
that II for certain objects he unltes with his
fellows. Much can be done by organization,
combination. union; something can be done by
the state.
rho linz If den,arration betveeu overinter-
ference and lack of recognition shifts with
change in industrial needs. We should never
unless 1t Is necessary; but It is equal
~ true that when confident of It's necessity
should not on academic grounds refuse II.
Wise factory laws, laws to forbid child labor
and safeguard employees. are necessary In the
Of the honest and humane employer,
who should not be exposed TO unchecked COM
with an INSCRIPTIONS rival. 1t Is far
more difficult to deal with greed that works
through cunning than with the greed that
works through violence. But the effort must
be steadily made.
Effort In labor matters should be to Sc cure
better understanding between employer and
Everything should be done to in
crease fellow feeling and allow each to look
at all questions In dispute omewha through
the others eyes. | suppose every thinking
man rejoices when arbitration settles troubles
and averts the suffering and bitterness OF
strikes. A Cancellation committee can do best
work when the trouble is in It's beginning.
A Lesson in Arbitration.
We are fortunate In having before us an OBJ
lesson In the anthracite commission. APP
pointed when the strike threatened a disaster
second to none since the civil war. The
represented the bench, church.
army, professions, employers and employed.
The report they unanimously signed is a mas
of common sense and of sound doc
The immediate effect OF the commits
sion's appointment and action was of vast and
benefit: but the ultimate effect
Will be even better. 10 capitalist, wage-work-
or and lawmaker alike will act upon the les
sons In the report.
OF course the national! government has but a
small field in which II can work in labor mat
ters. | should like to see the District of CO.
lumbia receive a set of model labor laws.
Is not "a city of large industries.
but IL has some. Wise labor legislation for
Washington would be a standard for the