Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-01
BEST CROP CHILDREN
So Says President Roosevelt to.
Farmers al Lansing, hlsh.
!. WORD Of ADVICE FOR WIVES.
sPrssldent urscs tho Producers of
Farm Products to Combine for Pro
sestlon Of Their industry From Or.
sanized interests -alvea Plain
Talk.

LANSING, NffCH., Muy SI.-"Tho
pest crop Is tho cropio children; the
best products Of the farm arc the mon
4 anu women raised thereon; and the
most istructiye anu practical treptiscs
son farming, necessary though they he.
= are no moro necessary than tho books
which teach lis our duty to our neigh
ebor, and above MI to the neighbor who
I is OF orr own household.
have MS hearty n contempt for
the woman who slirlts her duty of
hearing and rearing the children. of
doing her full housewives work. as
eSI have for tho MIN who Is an idler,
who shirlts his duty of earning Il
living for himself aud for his house.
n hold, or who Is selfish or brutal to-
i ward his wife md childrcnn
Said President Roosevelt, here today
in an address delivered upon the nc.
casion of tho semi-ccntennial cclebra.
ton of the founding of agricultural
COLLEGES In the United States. Con.
tinuing the President spoke n word
IN behalf of the farmers wife, WHOM,
ne DESIGNATED the very hardest worked
slaborcr on the farm.
Industry of the Home.
SReio'm, said THE President like
talf'''f'''St WtbIta III 5'SillItlu nOt nlltl nj
home, should certainly begin there.
and tho man. whether ho lives IN n
sarm or In town, who Is anyions
to see better social and economic con
}dtttons prevail through tho country nj
large. should he exceedingly cnrerul
that they prevail first ms regards his
y own Womnnkind. l emphatlcaily he.
5 liaye that for the great majority of
I, ,Walnen tho renlly Indispensable indus.
4 Try III which they should engage IS
tho industry OF the home. There are
I executions, of course; but cXnctly as
Inc first duty Of the normal man Ia
i the duty OF being the homc-mukcr,
80 tho first duty OF the normal WON.
s an Is be the homelSeeper: and exactly
( aH no other learning Is MS important
fiof TIE average man MS the learning
which will teach him how TO make
Ills livelihood, so no othor learning "a
Z ms important for the average woman
sas the learning which Will make her a.
GOOD housewife or mother.
Farmers Should Combine,
The peonle af. our, rlriuing regions
m,lsts he able to combine among thcm-
aelyos, as tho most efficient means
1 ot protecting their industry from the
{ Ill GIL orgnniaed interests which now
surround them onpcvery side. A vast
field Is open FOR work liy co.npemtive
association Of farmers in dealing with
tho relation az the fnrin to iranspor.
staiton and to the distribution and
mnnufacturc Of raw materials. 1t lis
! only through such combination that
American farmers can develop to the
full their economic anu social power.
Ms n people there is nothing in
which we take II juster pride than n,lr
educational system. 1t is our boast
That every hoy or girl has tho chance
10 getp school training; and we feel
Al Ism mine national duty to furnish
this training free, because only there
slby San we secure tho proper typo OF:
citizenship In the average American
Our public schools and our, colleges
have done their work we'll and there
ia no clnss of our citizens deserving
Of henftiar praise than the men and
women who teach in them.
Defense of Grover cleveiand.k
Hurry Wattcrson and other promi-
sanent Democrats have always claimed