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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

But In many cases. whether they were
large men or small men. their object was
not to keep out actual settlers, but to pro-
tect themselves and their own industry
ny preventing overgrazing OF the range on
the part of reckless stock owners who had
no place In the permanent development of
the country and who were Indifferent TO
everything except the profits of the mo-
ment. To permit the continuance of this
illegal fencing inevitably tended to very
grave abuses. and the government he. !,
therefore forced the fencers to take down
their fences. In doing this we have not
only obeyed and enforced the law. but we
nave corr .ed many fasrant abuses.
ship. which. though Unavoidable. was
exceedingly unwilling TO cause. in come
way or other we must provide for the
which shall inure primarily to the beneft
of the actual settlers on or near 1t. and
which shall prevent its being wasted.
the fencing of pasture land must be per
mitted under restrictions which will safe
guard the rights of the actual settlers.
Real Representation.
desire to act as these actual settlers
wish to have me in this matter.
l wish to find out their needs and desires
and then to try to put them into effect.
But they must take trouble, must look
ahead to their own ultimate and real
scented by their public men. II we are to
have q good result.
A little while ago / received a very
manly and sensible letter from one OF the
prominent member of the Laramie Coun-
~. Wyo.. Cattle and Horse Growers as
ISOLATION. My correspondent remarked In
~cidentally in his letter, II am a small
ranchman. and a to pillow and pitch
hay myself" and then went on to say that
the grest majority of their people had
compiled with the governmental order. had
removed their fences and sold their cat
tie. but that they must get some kind Of
a lease law which would permit them 10
Craze their stock under proper conditions
or else 1t would be ruinous to them TO
continue in the business.
OF Permanent Benefit,
The thing j have most at heart as re-
CARDS this subject is to do whatever will
be of permanent benefit to just exactly
the people for whom this ~orresponden
of mine ~spoke-the small ranchmen who
have to pillow and pitch hay themselves.
All l want to do Is to find out what Will
te TO their real benefit. for that il GER
tain TO be to the benefit of the country az
a whole. 1t may he that We can secure
their interests best by permitting all
homesteaders in the dry country to In
close, individually or a certain number OF
them together. big tracts OF range for
summer use. the tracts being proportioned
TO the number of n%etghboring homestead
srs WIN wish to run their cattle upon II.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10
UNCLE SAM ENDS
TEDDY BEAR O K

Vcksburg. Miss. Oct. 1.-Govern-
ment detectives have succeeded in
smashing the plan of a Mississippi cap
~ltalist. Colonel T.. X. Palmer. to play a
practical joke on President Roosevelt
when he begins his bear hunt next
week. Several gross of Teddy bears
were shipped here to be distributed
over The area the president will tray
erse in search OF live Louisiana bruins.
bu. the secret service men heard of +.
and stopped the distribution.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

You know furthermore that i believe
that this supervision and control should be
exercised in a spirit of rigid Fairness to-
ward the corporations, exacting justice
from them on behalf of the people but
giving them justice in return.
Recently l 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. l am happy to say that the
differences between that civilization and
our own are more striking than the resem-
blances: and there is no warrant for our
being drawn into any pessimistic COM
parison between the two civilizations. But
there is every reason why W. should study
carefully the past in order to draw from it
lessons for use in the present.
Rich Versus Poor.
One of the most striking features of the
years which saw the downfall Of the
Roman republic was the fact that the
politica! life of Rome became split between
tvs camps. one containing the rich who
wished to exploit the poor, and the other
the poor who wished to plumber the rich.
Naturally. under such circumstances. the
public man who was for the moment sue
cessfrl tended to he either a violent re-
dictionary or a violent demagoSue. Any
such condition of political life il as hope
lessly unhealthy now as 1t was then.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10
IOWANS HEAR
ROOSEVELT DEFY
WALL STREET
feils Vast Audience in keokuk
He Stands Pat as to
Policies.
some INNOCENT SUFFER
With Real Offenders Whenever Evil,
Strongly E%ntrenehed, Is Com
batted, He Declares-River
Trip Begins.

KeoMuk. Ia, Oct. Submitting that
his intention to punish the
big moneyed interests which have VIC
lated the law may have been a contrib
utory cause to the recent unsettled con-
ditions on Wall street, but denying
that he or his Intentions were the main
cause, President Roosevelt today told
a dozen governors and thousands of
plain American citizens that there is
to be no change in the administrations
policy while he remains president and
reminded his vast audience that in any
great movement for righteousness.
where the forces OF evil are strongly
entrenched, some unoffending people
must suffer with the real offenders.
This was Mr.. R~oosevelt's answer to
the threats of Wall street and the fact
that he chose the great state of Iowa
in which to say 1t evoked cheer after
cheer from the throngs of hearers.
Typical Americans.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech follows.
1 am glad indeed to see you and to speak
and prosperous state. 1 believe with all
my heart in the people of Iowa. for i
think that you are good. typical Ameri-
cans. and that among you there has been
developed to a very high degree that body
of characteristics which we like to regarl
as dist:nct-veiy American.
During the last few years We of the
United States have been forced to consider
very seriously certain economic problems.
We have made a beginning in the attempt
to deal with the relations of the national
government-that is. with the relations of
the people of the country-to the hug and
wealthy corporations. controlled for the
most part by a few very rich men, which
ciallN the great railway corporations. You
know my views on this matter.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

Yet. while OF course I am anxious to see
these men. and therefore the corporations
they represent or serve. achieve the full
est measure OF legitimate prosperity, new
ertheless AS this country grows l feel that
We can not nave too many highroads. and
that in addition to the iron highroads OF
the great river highways which have been
given us by nature. From a variety Of
causes these highways have in many parts
OF the country been almost abandoned.
This Is not healthy.
Our people. and especially the represent
atives of the people in the national con-
tention to this subject. We should be pre-
pared to put the nation collectively back
OF the movement to improve them for the
nations use 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 assuredly our
great navIgable rivers are national assets
lust as much as our great seacoast har-
bors. Exactly as 1t Is for the interest OF
all the country that our great harbors
should be fitted to receive In safety Tho
the world. so by deepening 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-
slppi and it's tributaries, which drain the
immense and prosperous region which
makes in very fact the heart of our ma
tion: the basin OF the Great Lakes being
already united with the basin of the Mis-
sippi. and both regions being identical in
their products and interests. Waterways
are peculiarly fitted for the transportation
from the soil or under the soil. and no
other part OF our country is AS fruitful as
is this in such commodities.
Farm Citizenship.
You IN Iowa have many manufacturing
%centers. but you remain, and I nope you
will always remain. "A great agricultural
state. / hope that the means OF transport
steadily improved: but this will be of no
use unless you keep producing the com
modities. and in the long run this Will
largely depend upon your being able la
keep on the farm a high type of citizen
ship.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

Of us, the duty or nome making ana home
keeping. To- narrow a literary education
Ia. for most men and women. not a real
education at all; for a real education
should fit people primarily for the Indus
which they must employ the bulk OF their
activities. Our country offers unparal-
leled opportunities for domestic end social
advancement for social and economic
leadership in the world.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

The man or wornan VINO shirks his or
her duty occupies a contemplate position.
You here are the sons and daughters of
the pioneers.
preach to you no life of ease.
l preach to you the life of effort, the life
that finds its highest satisfaction in doing
we'll some work that is we'll worth doing.
So much for what concerns every man
and every woman In this country. Now.
a word or two az to matters which are OF
peculiar interest to this region of our
country.
On 4 Steamboat.
Since i have been president have trav-
eled i'll every state of this union, but my
travelling has been almost entirely on
railroads. save now and then by wagon
or on horseback. Now have the chance
to try travelling by river: to go down the
greatest of our rivers. the Father of Wa
ters. A good many years ago when l
lived in the northwest l ira veled OCCASION
ally on the upper Missouri and Its tribu.
tar!es: but then we went In a fiatboat and
did our own rowing and padding and pol
Ing. Now I am to try a steamboat.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

The custom has therefore grown
up of fencing great tracts Of
government land without warrant
of law. Then men who fenced
this land were sometimes rich
men. who. by fencing IT. kept out
actual settlers and thereby worked
evil to the country.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

THE BRIGHT
PARTICULAR THINGS
= aOOCENElT SAIn.

VOtUNS0
ROOSEVELT SAID:
W have no intention OF trying
: to work for the impossible and UNI
desirable end of giving to the lazy.
= the thriftless the e and the vi
= cious the reward that belongs to.
= and in the long II can only come
= to. the thrifty. the rcsolute n the
. honest"
= Ours is a government of liberty.
= but l. is a government OF that or
: DERBY liberty which comes by and
= through the onest enforcement OF
: and obedience to the law"
: '1f a nan does we'll, II he acts
= honestly. 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-he he
: rich or ~poor-shall he brought be-
: fore the impartial justice OF a
= court
= w canno as "A nation and
! we cannot as individuals afford to
= cultivate only the gentler. softer
: qualities. There must be g%entleness
: and tenderncss-the strongest men
: are gentle and tender-but there
: must be courage n strength"
! You in Iowa have many manu-
: featuring ccnters. but you remain
: and | hope you always will remain.
! a great agricultural state"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

through the laws OF the land. Ours ia a
government of liberty. but 1t is a govern
ment OF that orderly liberty which comes
by and through the honest enforcement OF
and obedience to the aw. AT intervals
during the last few months the appeal has
been made to me not to enforce the law
against certain wrongdoers of great
wealth because to do SO would interfere
with the business prosperity of the coun-
try.
A Contributory Cause.
Under the effects OF that kind of fright
which when sufficiently 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 strongly
advanced this view gave prominence to the
statement Of a certain man of great
wealth to the effect that the so-called fl
nanclal weakness was due entirely to the
admitted intention of President Roosevelt
to punish the large moneyed interests
which had transgressed the laws" l do
not admit that this has been the main
cause of any business trouble we have
had: but it is possible that 1t has been a
contributory cause.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

am a great believer in our rail
way system: and the fact that I
am very Arm In my belief as to the
necessity of the government exer-
cising a PROPER supervision and
control over the railroads does no.
in the least interfere with the 9TH
er fact that 1 greatly admire the
large majority OF the men In all po-
sitions. from the top to the bot
tom. who build and run them.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10


Where we are able to Introduce irr,ga-
ION. the homestead can be very much less
n size can, for instance be forty acres:
and there is nothing that congress has
lone during the past six years more i'm
donal irrigation law.
But where irrigation is not applica Bile
and the land can only be used for grazing.
i may be that YOU can not run more than
One steer to ten acres. and II is not neces-
sary to be much OF q mathema tician in
order to see that where such Is the case a
homestead Of 10 acres will not 10 far to-
ward the support OF a family. In con-
sequence of this fact. homesteaders do not
AXE up the lands In the tracts in cues
lion. They are left open for anybody to
that the men who use them moderately
and not with a view to exhansting their
resources are at the mercy of those who
care nothing for the future and simply
intend to skin the LAND in the present.
For instance. the small sheep farmer
@ho has a home and who wishes thai
home TO pass on to his children improved
IN value will naturally run his flock so
that the land will support 1t. not only to-
day, but ten years hence: but a big alb
sentee sheep owner. who has no home on
the land at all. but simply owns huge
migratory iocks of sheep. may we'll find
VI to his profit II drive them over the
small sheep farmers range and eat 1t all
out. He can then drive his fiocks ON,
whereas the small man can not.
or course. to permit such a state of
things is not only evil for the small man.
but 10 destructive of the best interests OF
the country Substantially the same con-
'itions obtain as regards cattle.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

Nothing is more important to his coun-
try than the p%erpetuatlon of our system
OF medium-sized farms worked by their
owners " sim we 90 not Want to see our farm
of the old world. barely able to live on
their small holdings. nor do we want 10
see their places taken by wealthy men
owning enormous estates which they work
purely by tenants and hired servants.
AT present the ordinary farmer holds
MS own In the land as against any posi-
farmer-that is. OF the men who would
own vast tates-because the ordinary
farmer. unites his capital. his labor, and
his brains with the making OF a permanent
family home. n thus can AFFORD to hold
his land at a value at which 1t can not be
ned mel py ~ the capitalist: who would have to
arms length with hired labor.
An Independent Home.
In other words. the typical American
farmer Of today gets his remuneration in
for his family. and this gives him an ad-
vantage over an absentee landlord. Now.
from the standpoint of the nation as a
whole 1t is pre-eminently desirable to keep
farmer. the farm home maker Of the me
dunn sized farm. This type Of farm home
Is one OF our strongest political and social
bulwarks. such a farm worked by the
place in which to breed vigorous leaders
alike for country and city. 1t is a matter
OF prime economic and civic Importance
to encourage his type Of home owning
farmer.
Therefore. we should strive in every
way to aid In the education of the farmer
for the farm. and should shape our schoo
system with this end in View: and no
vitality important In this that. in my opin-
ion. the federal government should CO.
operate with the state governments to
secure the needed change and improve
ment in our schools.
From North and South.
1t is significant that both from Mime
posals In this direction in the appearance
Of bills introduced into the national con-
gress. The congressional land grant act
OF 1852 accomplished much in esta blishing
the agricultural colleges in the several
states. and therefore in preparing to turn
the system of educational training for the
young into channels at once broader and
more practicable-and what l am saving
about agricultural training really appiies
to all industrial training. But the col.
legeS can not reach the masses, and II is
essential that the masses should b.
reached.
Such agricultural high schools az those
in Minnesota and Nebraska for farm bow.
and girls. such technical high schools a.
are to be found. for instance. In both St
Louis and Washington have by the4i
success shown that 1t is entirely feasible
to carry In practical fashion the funda-
mentals of Industrial training Into the
realms Of u secondary schools. At pres
ent there IL a gap between our primary
Schools In country and city and the in
dustrtA collegiate courses. which must be
closed. and II necessary the nation mus
help the state to close II.
Too often our present schools
tend to put altogether too great
: s e pssm!,nm an upon 'her msas i, i,'e ,raIS
away from the farm and the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

I believe so implicitly in the flu
ture of our people. because l be-
lievc that The average American
citizen will no more tolerate gov
eminent by Il mob than he will
tolerate government by a plutoc-
racy: that he desires to see JUS
tice done to and justice eXacted
from rich man and poor ma alike.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

You women have even higher
and more difficult duties: for 1
honor no man. not " the soldier
who fights for righteousness. quite
as much as l honor the good wom-
al who does her full duty as wife
and mother. But II she sh!rks
her duty as wife and mother then
she stands on a par with the man
who refuses I O work for himself
and his family.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

the expense of his fellows. We are trying
to shape things so that as far as possible
80 that he shall have. so far as by law this
can be accomplished. the chance to show
the stuff that there is in him. We have
impossible and undesirable end OF giving
TO the lazy, the thriftless. :he weak, and
The vicious. the reward that belongs to.
and in the long run can only come to. the
hard working. the thrifty. the resolute
and the honest. But we do wish to see
that the necessary struggle in life shall
conditions: that. 80 far as human action
can safely provide 1t, there shall be an
approximately fair start: that there shall
no man Shall be permitted to acquire or
10 use d vast fortune by methods or In
ways that are tortuous and dishonest.
Judging by Conduct.
Therefore we need wise laws. and we
We can get such laws and such adm.nis-
tration only IL the people are alive to their
interests. The other day l listened to an
admirable sermon by Bishop Johnston. of
western Texas. His theme was that the
vital element iii judging any man should
be his conduct. and neither his position
nor his pretensions: and. furthermore. that
freedom could only stay with a people
which has the habit OF self-mastery. AS
he said. the price OF liberty Is not only
eternal vigilance, but eternal virtue: and
man here knows that he himself has been
able to usc his freedom to advantage only
provided that he could master himself:
that he could control his own passions and
direct his own faculties.
Each os you fathers and mothers here
knows that II your sons are 10 do We'll
in the world they must know how TO mas
ter themselves
~
Every man must have 4 master:
2 1s. H. ~ htc nyFv yn1Sfos fh.n
somebody else viii lie.
This is jus, as true OF public life as of
private life. II W. can not master our
selves. control ourselves. then sooner or
later we shall ha e TO submit TO outside
control: for there must be control some
where.
One woy Of exercising such control is
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

You know that / believe that the
national government. in the in
terests of the people, should as
sumo much the same supervision
and control over the management
of the interstate common carriers
that it now exercises over the
national banks.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10
Our greatest national asset is TO
be found In the children.

Of everyday living. and TO high efficiency
In their respective vocations; we can not
AFFORD to have them trained otherwise.
and tho nation should help the states 10
achieve this end.
| Now. men OF Iowa. I want TO say Just
states OF tho Mississippi valley itself. but
the states west of them, the states OF the
great plains and the Rocky mountains.
unfortunately. am not able on this pres
emit trip to visit those states. or / should
SPEAK to their own people on the point
TO which ! now intend to allude: but after
an ANYTHING that affects a considerable
number OF Americans who live under one
set OF conditions. must be of moment to
az other Americans, for never forget.
friends. that In the long run We shall all
go UP or go down together.
In Need Of Modification.
The states OF the high plains and of the
mountains have u peculiar claim upon
me. because for IA number of years | lived
and worked In them; and 1 have that ind
lnder such conditions. In those states
there 10 need of a notification OF the land
avs that have worked so well in the we'll
such as those In which you here dwell.
The ono object in all our land laws should
always be to favor the actual settler. the
sn'u IA home maker who comes to dwell
children to inherit II after him. The gov
eminent should part with its title to the
and only to the actual home maker-not
% the profit maker, who does no, care to
make a home. The land should be sold
outright only In quantities sufficient for
decent homes-not In huge areas to be
held for speculative purposes or used as
ranches. where those who do the actual
york are merely tenants or hired hands.
NO temporary prosperity of any class OF
men could In the slightest degree atone
'or failure on our part TO shape the laws
20 that they may work for the permanent
good of the home maker.
This IL fundamental. gentlemen. and is
simply carrying out the ides. upon which
dwell In speaking to you OF your own
farms here In Iowa.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

We should reverse this process. spe
cific training OF a practical kim should b.
men and women are TO make up the back
bone of this nation BY working in agrfcul.
ture. in the mechanical industries. in art
and trades: in short. who are TO do thu
duty that should always come hrst with q
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

The effort must be to make farm
!: life not only remunerative but at
tracttve. so that the best young
men II girls will feel inclined to
stay on the farm and not go to the
city.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-10-10

Too often our present schools
tend to put altogether too great
a premium upon mere literary
education, and therefore to train
away from the farm and the
shop.