The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-07
President Given Warm, Wei
come. but Cold Weather..
ASBlG CROW 4 ASSEMBLED
Despite Dreary Condition Six Thous-
aud People Listened to His Discuss
sion Of the Wage Garner and Tx
a3S the Tler Of the Soil.
tBy As ocia ted Press

SIOUX FALLS, s. q. April s.-Presi-
III dent Roosevelt began the second week
II OF this tour feeling much refreshed from,
,88E yesterdays rest and at 1850 started OH
!. drive over the city with Secretary
y; Loeb, Senator Klttrldge and Mayor Br,in-
n Side. Desplt the carly hour and the
b dreary weather, the streets were lined
VI tn people, who greeted the President
n vi Ia cheers and the waving flags and
s. ct lie 20 the President arrived at the big
d audi forum, where he addressed 100 chill
II dren. 81 Ill 5 e (, 4 3! 4 &.
5S8 AZ the President loft tho auditorium he
3 was greeted with tremendous applause
7. no was driven rapidly to the stand which
X Street and Phillips Avenue. whe(e a
II crowd Of 6 900 people had mblcd.
y The President was introduced by Senator
* ISittridgo and spoke IA on 1.-The Wage
II Worker and the Tiller Of the Soil. I" Dur
Il Ing his speech snow began to fall, but
IL the President was clad In heavy over
VI coat and was well protected. He said
" he was glad to BIO again in ''the banana
d belt which remark created laughter.
ssi95 PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Fellow tixens: 81 A b # f 81
N # here are many lesser problems which
s3 20 to make up in their entirety the huge
y and complex problems Of our modern In
NJ dustrinl 1lfo Eaol Of these problems Is.
u M ofeover, connected with many of the
others. Few indeed are simple or stand
l3only by themselve The most important
& are those connected with the relation Of
the farmers, tho stock growers and soil
stillers, to the community at large. and
those affecting tho relations between en-
4 ployer5 and employed. In a country like
& ours 1t lis fundamentally true that the
we'll bclng OF the tiller Of the soil and the
is the well-being Of the
n State. II they nre we'll of, then we need
concern ourselves but little as to how
& bly, be well OH, too, and, on the other
y hand, there can be no real general pros
sperity unless based on the foundation Of
the prosperity OF the wnge-Worker and
The tiller of tho soil NJ sV$t @
One OF the greatest and most oene-
4 gress, or indeed by any Congress in re-
I cent years, 81 is the Irrigati ton Act. which
will do for the States OF the Great Plains
and tho Rocky Mountain region at least
as much as ever has been done for the
States gof the humid region by river and
rbor{improvements IS. f.HstS4 4. I'd +
AGRICULTUrHAL 3DBPARTIENT.4 W.
The Department Of Agriculture devotes
Its whole enegry to working for the well
4 fare Of farmers and stock growers. Thus
9the Department has been successfully In
Il PRODUCING a. 1nncaroni wheat from the
.Sheadwatcrs OF the Volgn, which grows
successfully In ten inches of rainfall, and
BY this means wheat-growlng has been.
# successfully extended westward into the
y semiarld reg ion. Two million bushels
; or this wheat were grown last year; and
being suited to dry conditions 1t can be
used for forage rs well as for food for
INA NJ
N il The Department Of Agriculture has been
helping our fruit mon to establish mar
$kets abroad by studying methods Of fruit
preservation through refrigeration and
through methods of handling and packing.
X There are number of very important
Questions, such as that of good roads.
with which tho States alone can doal, and
where all that the National Government