Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-01
STICK 10 FARMING,
SAYS ROOSEVELT
President in His Address to
lowans Declares Agriculture
is the Thing
HAS TRANSPORTATION HOPES
Expresses Faith in Procuring Better
Shipping Facilities - Farmer Holds
His Own in the Land Against Men
Who Would Own Vast Estates
Talks Of Good Citizenship.

Talks Of Good Citizenship.
Special to es-Republican.
keokuk, Oct. President Roosevelt
brought message of hope and good
cheer to agricultural Iowa today, and
in his address at Keokuk advised the
people to stick to agriculture as the
greatest and most profitable industry
1t is possible to build and maintain.
The president directed his remarkal
largely to Iowa people, and in part
said:
Men and Women of Iowa: am
glad indeed to see you and to speak to
you in this thriving city of your great
and prosperous state. / believe with
all my heart in the people of Iowa, for,
think that you are good, typical Ans
ericans. and that among you there has
been developed to very high degrees
that body Of characteristics which we
AAhO W AC60A0 " 0S O46SAACS1J kaluSIlCAu
During the last few years we Of
the United States have been forced to
consider very seriously certain econo-
mic problems. We have made a be4
ginning in the attempt to deal with
the relations Of the national govern
ment-that Is, with the relations Of
the people Of the country-to the hugo
and wealthy corporations, controlled
for the most part by a few very rich
men, which are engaged in interstate
bustness-especially the great railway
corporations. You know my views on
this matter. You know that believe
that the national government in the
interests Of the people, should assume
much the same supervision and con
troll over the management Of the inter-
state common carriers that it now ex-s
ercises over the national banks. You
know furthermore that I believe that
this supervision and control should be-
exercised in a spirit of rigid fairness
toward the corporations. exacting JUS
tice from them on behalf of the people.
but giving them justice in return.
Recently have been reading the
work Of the eminent Italian scholar:
Ferrero on the history Of the Roman
Republic, when the life Of the roman
state had become that of a complex
and luxurious Industrial civilization. :
am happy to say that the differences
between that civilization and our own
are more striking than the resem-
and there is no warrant for
our being drawn into any pessimistic
between the two civilfza-
tfons. But there is every reason why
we should study carefully the past in
order to draw from it lessons for use
in the present. One of the most strfk
ing features of the years which saw the Il
downfall Of the Roman Republic was
the fact that the political life of Rome
became split between two camps, one
containing the rich who wished TO ex-
ploit the poor, and the other the poor
who wished to plunder the rich. Natur-
ally, under such circumstances. the
public man who was for the moment
successful tended to be either a violent
or a violent denaagogue.
Any such condition Of political life Is
as hopelessly unhealthy now as 1t was
then.
"a year or two ago certain repre-
sentatives of labor called upon me andt
In the course of very pleasant cons
told me that they regarded
me as the friend of labor answered
that I certainly was and that would
do everything in my power for the Ia
boring man except anything that was
wrong. have the same answer 90
make to the business man. will do
I can do to help business
conditions, except anything that IS
wrong And it would be not merely
wrong but Infamous to fail to do alt
that can be done to secure the punish|
rnent OF the wrongdoers whose deeds
are peculiarly reprehensible because
-hev are not committed under
The stress Of want. Whenever
) serious effort Is made to cut out
what is evil in our political hfet
whether the effort takes the shape OF
warning against the gross and sord1d
forms Of evil in some municipality. or
whether 1t takes the shape OF trying
to secure the honest enforcement or
The law as against very powerful ann
wealthy people, there are sure to %
certain individuals who demand thu
Tho movement stop because 1t may
b,rt business. In each case the ana
,yver rnu.t be that we earnestly hope
and believe that there will be no
damage to business from
the movement, but that II righteous
ness conflicts with the fancied needs
,f business, then the latter must go
10 the wall We can not afford to
substitute any other test for that Of
zuilt or innocence. of wrongdoing or
welldoing, in Judging any man. II .
nan does well, II he acts honestly, hd
has nothing to fear from this admins
strotion. But so far as In me lies the
corrupt politician, greet OF small. the
private citizen who trans9ress4s tho
aw-be he rich or poor--shall he
before the impartial justfee
II q court Perhaps / am most anx-
ous to get at the politician who 10
corrupt. because he betrays a great
rust: but assuredly shall not spare
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