The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-10
In His Sioux Falls Address He SAYS
Better Results Will Come When
There Is Better Understanding
Between Employed and Employer

this week:
Fellow Citizens There are many
many lesser problems which go t.
make up in their entirety the hug,
and complex problems of our mod
ern industrial life. Each of these
problems is, moreover, connected
with many of the others. Few, n
deed, are simple or stand only by
themselves. The most important
are those connected with the rela
ton of the farmers, the stockgrow
ers and soil tillers to the community
al large, and those affecting the re
lations between employer and EN-
ployed In a country like ours, it is
fundamentally true that the we'll be-
ing Of the tiler of the soil and and
the wage worker is the we'll being
OF the state. If they are we'll off
then we need concern ourselves but
little as to how other classes stand
for they will inevitably be we'll off
too, and, on the other hand, there
can be no real general prosperity I'M
less based on the foundation of the
prosperity OF the wage worker and
the tiller of the SOIL
But the needs of these two classes
are often not the same. The tillar
of the soil has been of all our citi-
zens the one on the whole that is least
affected in his ways of life and meth
DDS OF industry by the giant indus
trial changes OF the last half CEN
fury. There has been change with
him, too, of course. He also can
work to best advantage if he keeps
III close touch with his fellows, and
the success of the national depart
ment Of agriculture has shown how
much can be done for him by ra-
tional action of the government Nor
is it only through the department
that the government can act One
OF the greatest and most beneficent
measures passed by the last con-
gress. or, indeed by any congress in
recent years, is the, irrigation act
which will do for the states of the
great plains and the Rocky noun
tain region at least as much as ever
been done for the states Of the humid
region by river and harbor improve.
ments. Few measures that have
been put upon statute books of the
nation have done more for the people
than this law will, | firmly believe,
directly or indirectly accomplish for
the states in question.
The department. of agriculture de-
for the welfare of the farmers and
stockgrowers. In every section of
cur country it aids them in their
constantly increasing search for
better agricultural education. 1t helps
not only them, but all the nation, in
have clean bills of health, and that
there is rigid inspection of all meats
that enter into interstate commerce.
Thirty-eight million caTcasses We're
inspected during the last fiscal year
Our stockgrowers sell $4,000, 600
worth of live stock annually, and
these animals must be kept healthy
or else our people will lose their
trade. Our export of plant products
to foreign countries amount to over
$600,OOO,OOO year, and there is no
branch of its work to which the de-
partment of agriculture devotes more
care. Thus the department has been
successfully introducing a maccaroni
wheat from the headwaters of the
Volga. which grows succe ssfully in
10 inches of rainfall. and by this
means wheat growing has been ex-
tended westward into the semi-arid
region. Two million bushels of this
wheat were grown last year; and be-
ing suited to dry conditions, it can
be used for forage as we'll as for
food for man.
The department of agriculture has
been helping our fruit growers to es-
tablsh markets abroad by studying
through refrigeration and through
methods of handling and packing On
the gulf coasts of Louisiana and
Texas, thanks to the department of
agriculture, rice suitable to the re-
gion was imported from the Orient
and the rice crop is now practically
equal to our needs in this country
whereas few years ago it supplied
but one-fourth Of them. The most
important of our farm products is
the grass crop; and to show what
has been done with grasses, I need
only to allude to the striking change
in the entire west by the extended
use of alfalfa.
Moreover, the department has tax
en- the lead in the effort to prevent
the deforestation of the country
Where there are forests We seek to
preserve them: and on the once tree
less plains and the prairies we are
doing our best. to foster the habit OF
tree planting among our people. In
my own life time l have seen won
derful changes brought about by this