Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-02

OF WrOngdoing or Welldoing, IN judging
any man. II man does we'll, IL he acts
honestly, he has nothing to fear from this
administration.
War on Corruption
But so far as In me lies the corrupt
politician, great or small the private cit
lien who transgresses the law-be he rich
or poor-shall be brought before the i'm
partial Justice of a court. Perhaps am
most anxious to get at the politician who
is corrupt because he betraye a great
trust; but assuredly 1 shall not spare
his brother corruptionist who shows him
self swindler in business life; and ac-
cording to our. power crimes of fraud
and cunning shall be prosecuted as re-
lentlessly as crimes of brutality and
physical violence
Now, a word or two as to matters
which are of peculiar interest to this re-
gion of our country.
"Since have been president / have
travelled In every state In this Union, but
my travelling has been almost entirely
on railroads save now and then by
wagon or on horseback. Now / have the
chance to try travelling by river; to go
down the greatest of our rivers, the
father of waters. A good many years
ago, when / lived In the northwest, 1
travelled occasionally on the upper Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries, but then we
went in fiatboat and did our own rowing
and padding and polling.
Now am to try a steamboat. l am
great believer in our railway system;
and the fact that am very firm in my |
belief as to the necessity of the govern |
ment exercising a proper supervision and |
control over the railroads does not In the |
least interfere with the other fact that
greatly admire the large majority Of |
the men in all positions, from the top to
the bottom, who build and run them.
To Improve Rivers
Eyes, while of course I am anxious to
see these men, and therefore the corpora
lions they represent or serve, achieve the
fullest measure of legitimate prosperity,
as this country grows feel
that we cannot have too many highroads,
and that In addition to the iron high
roads lof our railway system we should
also utilize the great river highways
which have been given us by nature.
From variety of causes these high
ways have In many parts of the coun-
try been almost abandoned. This Is not
healthy. Our people, and especially the
representatives OF the people in the ma
tional congress. should give their most
careful attention TO this subject We
should be prepared TO put the nation col
ectively back of the movement to i'm
prove them for the nations use.
''Our knowledge at this time is not such
as to permit me to go into details or to
say definitely just what the nation should
10; but most assuredly our great navl-
gable rivers are national assets just as
much as our great sea coast harbors.
Plea for Farmer
you in Iowa have many manufactur-
ng centers but you remain, and hope
you will always remain, a great agri-
cultural state. 1 hope that the means of
your commodities to market
Will be steadily improved; but this will
De of no use unless you keep producing
he commodities, and in the long run this
will largely depend upon your being able
o keep on the farm a high type of citi-
.enship.
1.-THE effort must be to make farm life
lot only remunerative but attractive, so
hat the best young men and girls will |
eel inclined to stay on the farm and not
% go to the city. Nothing is more i'm
oortant to this country than the perpet-
lation of our system of medium sized
farms worked by their owners We do .
not want to see our farmers sink to the
of the peasants Of the old world, +
barely able to live on their small hold
taken by the wealthy men owning enor-
nous estates which they work purely by
tenants and hired servants.
1--WE should strive in every. way to aid
in the education of the farmer for the
farm and should shape our school system
with this end in view; and so vitality i'm
portant Is this that in my opinion, the
federal government should cooperate
with the state governments to secure the
schools.
eat present there is gap between our
schols in this country and city
and the industrial collegiate courses
which must be closed and If necessary
the nation must help the state to close 1t.
Too often our present schools tend to
put altogether too great a premium upon
mere literary education, and therefore to
train away from the farm and the shop.
1--WE should reverse this process. Speci-
fc training of a practical kind should be
given to the boys and girls who when
they are men and women are to make up
the backbone of this nation by working
In agriculture in the mechanical indus
tries, in arts and trades; in short, who
are to do the duty that should always
come first with all of u.s. The duty of
and housekeeping
Education 100 marrow
''Too narrow literary education is, for
most men and women, not real educa-
ton at all; for real education should
fit peoplSsprimarily for the industrial and
home-maldng employments in which they
must employ the bulk of their activities.
Our country offers unparalleled oppor-
tunities for domestic and social advance
ment for social and economic leadership
in the world.
"Our greatest national asset is to be
found in the children. They need TO be
trained to high ideals of everyday living,
and to high efficiency in their respective
vocations. We canot afford to have them
trained otherwise. and the nation should
help the states to achieve this end.
Now, men of Iowa, want to say Just
4 word on a matter that concerns not
the states of the MISSISSIPPI valley itself,
but the states west of them, the states
Of the great plains and the Rocky
1.-THE one object in all our land laws
should always be to favor the actual
settler, the actual home maker. who
comes to dwell on the land and there to