Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-04

wealth because 10 10 50 wuulu inter-
fere with the business prosperity Of
the country. Under the effects of that
kind of fright, which when sufficient
ly acute we call panic, this appeal has
been made to me even by men who
ordinarily behave as decent citizens
One newspaper which has itself strong
ly advanced this view gave promi-
nence to the statement of certain
man of great wealth to the effect that
the so-called financial weakness was
due entirely to the admitted intention
of President Roosevelt to punish the
large moneyed interests which had
transgressed the laws
1--WE need good laws and we need
above all things the hearty aid of
good citizens in supporting and enforc-
ing the laws. You here are the sons
and daughters of the pioneers. 1
preach to you no life of ease. preach
to you the life of effort, the life that
finds it's highest satisfaction in doing
we'll some work that is we'll worth
doing.
Can't Have Too Many Highways.
"Since l have been president have
travelled in every state in this union,
but my travelling has been almost en-
tirely on railroads, save now and then
by wagon or on horseback. Now I
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 I lived in the
northwest l travelled occasionally on
the upper Missouri and it's tributaries;
but then we went in fiatboat and
did our own rowing and padding and
polling. Now am to try steamboat.
l am great believer in our railway
system, and the fact that 1 an very
firm in my belief as to the necessity
of the government exercising prop.
err supervision and control over the
railroads does not in the least inter.
fere with the other fact that greatly
admire the lar majority of the men
in all positic IS, from the top to the
bottom, who build and run them. Yet.
while, of course, am anxious to see
these men, and therefore the corpora
| lions they represent or serve, achieve
the fullest measure of legitimate pros
! perity, nevertheless as this country
| grows l feel that we cannot have too
/ many highroads, and that in ad-
.dition to the iron highroads Of our
railway system we should also utilize
| the great river highways which have
been given us by nature. From var
iety of causes these highways have
4 in many parts of the country been al
most abandoned. This is not healthy.
/. Our people, and especially the rep
resentatives 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
collectively back of the movement to
| improve them for the nations use.
Great Rivers National Assets.
/ Our knowledge at this time is not
such as to permit me to go into de.
tails or to say definitely just what
the nation should do; but most as
suredly our great nayigable rivers are
national assets just as much as our
4 great SeacOdSt harbOrS.
! Good Word for Farm Life.
Nothing is more important to this
country than the perpetuation of our
1 system of medium-sized farms worked
by their owners. We do not want to
see our farmers sink to the condition
of peasants of the old world, barely
able to live on their small holdings,
nor do we want to see their places
taken by wealthy men owning enor-
4 nous estates which they work purely
by tenants and hired servants.
Exactly as it is Tor the interest
of all the country that our great har-
bors should be fitted to receive in
safety the largest vessels of the mer-
chant fleets of the world, so by deep
ening and otherwise our rivers should
be fitted to bear their part in the
movement Of our merchandise; and
this is especially true of the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries, which drain
the immense and prosperous region
which makes in very fact the heart
of our nation; the basin of the great
lakes being already united with tho
hasin of the Mississippi. and both