The Red Cloud chief., 1907-06-07
FARMER REAL THING
ROOSEVELT DISCUSSES NEED OF
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Tillers Of Soil Urged to Organize TO
Protect Their interests-Says Farm.
err and His Wife Should Raise Chill.
dren as Well as Crops.

Lansing, Mich, June AFTER a
strenuous six hours in the state cap.
ital, during which he made three ad.
dresses and held a reception at the
state capitol, President Roosevelt left
for Washington. No untoward Incl.
dent happened during the presidents
visit. and nothing occurred which in
any way excited the suspicious of the
scores Of police officers in the city.
At the agricultural college President
Roosevelt spoke to $4,000 people from
a strand erected on a little knoll at the
head of the campus. Seated on
benches Immediately before the stand
were students of the college and hun
dreds of alumni, who have been at.
tending the semi.centennial celebra.
ton Of the founding of the college,
Standing on the turf behind were
thousands of people from this and 9th.
er Michigan cities.
The presidnet was given the clos,
est attention throughout his address
and was frequently interrupted by APP
plause. He interjected informal re-
marks and advice at several places,
bringing a great round of laughter and
cheers when he turned toward a dozen
young women in the graduating class
and said: II believe that you young
ladies will make first class farmers
wives and l heartily congratulate the
farmers of the future on the uneXam-
pied prospects before them
The president also interjected a
plea for the paying of proper respect
for manual labor. II shall be very dis.
appointed in you boys here" he said,
TO the graduating class, "if you cannot
work with your hands and are afraid
TO have your working clothes look as
though you did work."
At the conclusion of the presidents
address the graduating class filed
across the platform and the president
presented them their diplomas. Hon
orary degrees were conferred upon
number of distinguished visitors. in
Guiding Clifford Pinchot, Secretary
Wilson and President Angel.
Address of the President.
President Roosevelt, in beginning
his address, paid a high compliment
TO agricultural schools. He spoke o
the lack Of industrial training hilbert,
existing M commended the eduCa
ton that fits a man for the farm.
Speaking of cooperation, he said:
Farmers must learn the vital neet
OF cooperation with one another
: Next to this IN cooperation Will
; the government, and the government
) can best give its aid through associa
: tions OF farmers rather than through
} the individual farmer; for there Is n
greater agricultural problem than tina
Of delivering to the farmer the larg
body of agricultural knowledge whicI
has been accumulated by the wnationa
I and state governments and by the al
Iicultural colleges and schools,
The people of our farming region
i must be able TO combine among then
I selves, as the most efficient means c
protecting their industry from tn
e highly organized interests which no'
l. surround them On every side. A vas
i field is open for work by co-operativ
l. associations OF farmers in dealing wit
e the relation of the farm to transport;
y ton and to the distribution and mani
= facture of raw materials. II is onl
o through such combination that Anne
J. lean farmers can develop to the flu
n their economic and social power.
, "All over the country there is a col
y slant complaint of paucity of farm Il
0 Dor. Without attempting to go int
all the features OF this question.