Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-02


whose deeds are peculiarly repre-
hensible because they are not com
mitted under the stress of want.
If a man does well, if he acts hon-5i
estly, he has nothing to fear from
this administration. But so far as In
me lies the corrupt politician, great
or small, the private citizen who
transgresses the law--be he rich or
poor shall be brought before the i'm
partial Justice Of a court.
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: Perhaps i am most anxious =
= to get at the politician who is :.
!. corrupt, because he betrays a :
= great trust; but assuredly O."
= shall not spare his brother cor 1.
: ruptionist who shows himself I.
= swindler in business life; and. :
: according to our power, crimes :.
= of fraud and cunning shall be !.
: prosecuted as relentlessly as 9
~ crimes of brutality and physi- !.
- cal violence.
$500 = !. ::
Since. / have been president have
travelled in every state of this un-
ion, but my travelling has been al
most entirely on railroads. save now
and then by wagon or on horseback.
| Now I have the chance to try travel
ing by river; to go down the great
est Of our rivers, the Father of Wat
fers. a good many years ago when
lived in the northwest travelled
| occasionally on the upper Missouri
and its tributaries; but then we went
in a fiatboat and did our own rowing
and padding and polling. Now am
to try a steamboat. am great be-
lever In our railway system; and
| the fact that am very firm in my be-
/ lief as to the necessity of the gov
eminent exercising proper super
vision and control over the railroads
does not in the least interfere with
the other fact that I greatly admire
the large majority Of the men in all
positions, from the top to the bot
tom, who. build and run them. Yet.
while Of course, am anxious to see
these men, and therefore the cor
porations they represent or serve.
achieve the fullest measure Of legiti-
mate prosperity, nevertheless as this
country grows I feel that we cannot
have too many highways, and that
in addition to the iron highroads OF
our railway sytem we should also
utilize the great river highways
which have been given to us by ma
ture. From a variety Of causes these
highways have in many parts of the
country been almost abandoned. This
| is not healthy. Our people. and es.
pecially the representatives of the
i people in the national congress,
should give their most careful at
| tention to this s,Eieri. Z,
T Waterways are peculiarly fitted
for the transportation Of the bulky
commodities which come from the
soil or under the soil; !. and no other
part Of -four country is as fruitful as
is this III such commodities.
i AT present the ordinary farmer
4 holds his own in. the land as against
| any possible representative of the
i landlord class of farmer that is
i of the men who would own vast es-
tates-because the ordinary farmer
unites his capital, his labor, and his
brains with the making Of a perma.
. nent family home, and thus can af
4 for to hold his land at a value al
a which it cannot be held by the CAPT
talist, who would have to run it by
leasing 1t or by cultiyating it al
B arms length with hired labor. II
other words, the typical American
. farmer of today gets his remunera
tion In part in the shape of an indie
. pendent home for his family and
this gives him an advantage over an
absentee landlord. Now, from thu
standpoint of the nation as whole il
is prominently desirable to keep a!
one our chief American types the
farmer, the farm home maker, Of the
. medium-sized farm
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q = This type Of farm home is !:
= one of orr strongest political and I
q cosial bulwarks. Such a farm 4
q worked by the owner has prov !:
q ed by experience the best place !:
!. = In which to breed vigorous lead !:
u q ers alike for country and city. .
I, It is matter OF prime economi,
and civic Importance to encourage
J. this type Of homecoming farmer.
Therefore, we should strive In ep
]. cry way to aid In the education d
!, 1.-The farmer for the farm, and shoult
!. | shape our school system with tfi