Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-01

obtainable, and the Jamaicans have
as yet largely to be depended upon.
He is a lazy fellow, vet in numerous
places I heard of a few words here
and there dropped by the president
which had done wonderful amount
of good with the jamaican. If a fore
man today, in, trying to increase the
efficiency of his gang, makes the in
quiry, What would the president say
to see you work as you are doing p
there is a wonderful stimulus injected
into the muscular system and move
ment of every hearer.
THE Panama canal for twenty-five
years under French control was looked
upon by these black laborers as sort
of death trap, feared and stunned by
most of the world ecept themselves.
The sanitary condition as we all know,
was abominable The poet of Colon,
because it had nothing else to boast
of, lauds the region in verse for its
unhealthfulness He pictures man
at heavens gate answering Peters in
terrogations. He admits breaking
every commandment and sometimes
innumerably, to the establishment of
the assembled hosts of heaven. Finally
he whispers something to Peter, who
orders him admitted and escorted to a
front seat among the, martyrs, with
this response to the now astonished
witnesses. He comes from Colon
Benefits Of Presidents Visit.
In two years the death rate has
been reduced until it does not equal,
per thousand, that of New York These
laborers feel that under the admins.
tration Of Roosevelt, as carried out
by DR.. Gorgas, whom they look upon
as a wizard and fairly worship, yellow
fever has been eliminated, and that
other great evil, malaria, has been got
under control. And now the president
has been down to see the work. They
! feel they are entering into another
epoch, without fairly understanding it,
in which the dignity of their labor is
being appreciated. They feel a sense
I,of dignity in their work and per
sonal responsibility and interest in
what they are doing never experienced
before the, president showed his face
among them, which is worth a good
many spadefuls Of debris every day
from every one Of thousands Of these
people. q
| Il speak Of these people because, if
they have been affected, it must be
manifest that the influence of the
presidents visit upon the higher
grades of employees and the officers Of
the enterprise, all American citizens,
must be many times as important in
| the saving of money, increased work
and greater efficiency everywhere.
The fact that the president went
into these: steam shovels the same as
the men do, and handled the levers,
rode in the dirt trains and upon the
engines, as foremen and engineers
must do, studied with the workmen
/ the drills in earth and in rock for
blasting, and questioned, criticised or
complimented, ate in the same camps
with the men themselves, instead of
in private parties, as had sometimes
been planned !; saw their food before
it was cooked, as it was cooked and
when served, has made every man I
saw down there and spoke to hum
dreds in all stations Of life, feel that,
after all he is in Panama not so very
far away from home. If the president
Of the United States can leave the
seat OF government to come down to
see the men who are actually making
the canal, as SO many feel they are
doing, they feel that they are being
appreciated. Most Of us do better
whenever we feel that we are appre-
cited
The sanitary work is the greatest
the world has ever seen, but am
not speaking Of that. Going about as.
q medical man, studying this phase
of the work, i saw the industrial fea-
lures as they exist, without any one to
color them. No one could have bet
ter opportunity to see actual condi-
tons, because none were seeking. re-.
atiyely thereto, to prejudice me favor
ably or unfavorably
The great pity is that Roosevelt is
to pass out Of this work while it is,
still incomplete. So great a pity that
the American people should find a.
way to prevent such loss. Z,
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