The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-01
PRES. ROOSEVELT
 ON EDUCATION Declares American System Lacking in Industrial
 Training.
PAUPER LABOR FEAR
Workingmen of This Coun- try Have No Need to
 Fear This.

Fear This.
 Lansing, Mich May S1-President Roosevelt and his party arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning. The party left Fort Wayne, Ind, at 5SO a. rrl aft CT night spent on a siding outside that city Perhaps nine stops were made In the run of something over two hours from Hillsdale to Lansing. The president each time appeared on the platform of his car and made his audi ters little speech. Some one in the crcwd once expressed the hope that he might remain at the head of the gov ernment for another term. The presi- dent smiled pleasantly in return,
 The presidents visit here is the cli- max of the semi-centennial celebration of the founding of the Michigan Agri- cultural college. He was met at the station by Governor Warner and committee from the legislature. Under escort. of a regiment of the Michigan National Guard, troop of cavalry, and two battalions of the Michigan naval reserves, he went first to the state capi- tol, where he spoke to the great crowd frcm the front balcony. It is estimated that 50,000 people came in from outside the city to see the president at the cap- itol The president then addressed the members of the legislature in the hall of the house.
 . After luncheon at the home of Presi- dent Snyder of the college, the presi- don't was driven to the college campus, three miles outside the town, to deliver the long address prepared for the day. The title of the address was "The Man Who Works With His Hands" It was plea for better industrial schools and better conditions for the tillers of the soil Tn the address he made the as- sertion that what the American work ingman has to fear is the competition of the highly skilled foreign working man in the markets of the world. Against this the American protective tariff and immigration law are without avail.
 President Roosevelt spoke in part as follows. After congratulating the state of Michigan upon having established the first agricultural college in Amer ica, the President plunged into his subject Our school system has hith- erto been well-nigh wholly lacking on the side of industrial training, of the aastraining which fits man for the shop and the farm.
 No Fear of Pauper Labor.
 We hear a great deal of the need of protecting our workingmen from com petition with pauper labor. have very little fear of the competition of pauper labor. The nations with pauper labor are not the formidable industrial com petitors of this country. What the American workingman has to fear is the competition of the highly skilled workingman of the countries of great est industrial efficiency. By the tariff and by our immigration laws we can always protect ourselves against the competition of pauper labor here at home; but when we contend for the markets of the world we can get no protection, and we shall then find that our most formidable competitors are fIe nations in which there is the most highly developed business ability, the most highly developed industrial skill; and these are the qualities which we must ourselves develop.
 We, have been fond as nation of speaking of the dignity of labor, mean ing thereby manual labor. Personally I don't think that we begin to under stand what high place manual labor should take; and it never can take this high place unless it offers scope for the best type of man, We have tended to regard education as a matter of the head only, and the result is that great many of our people, themselves the sons of men who worked with their hands, seem to think that they rise in the world if they get into a position where they do no hard manual work whatever; where their hands will grow soft, and their working clothes will be kept clean. Such a conception is both false and mischieyous. There are, of course, kinds of labor where the work must be purely mental, and there are other kinds of labor where, under eX- isting conditions, very little demand indeed is made upon the mind, though lam glad to say that I think the pro- portion of men engaged in this kind of
 
 healthy community, in any community with the great solid qualities which alone make a really great nation, the bulk of the people should do work which makes demands upon both the body and the mind. Progress cannot permanently consist in the abandon ment of physical labor but in the de- velopment of physical labor so that it shall represent more and more the work of the trained mind in the train ed body, To provide such training, to encourage in every way the production of the men whom it alone can pro- duee, is to show that as nation we have a true conception of the dignity and importance of labor The calling of the skilled tiller of the soil the calling of the skilled mechanic, should alike be recognized as professions, just .emphatically as the callings of law yer, of doctor, of banker, merchant, or clerk. The printer, the electrical work