Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-09-18
ADVICE TO FARMERS,
Roosevelt's Talk on Opening
Robinson Library.

Robinson Library.
TELLS HOW TO BE HAPPY. !.
The Mother and the Grand Army--Ex-
eeutive Declares He viii Co 10 tho
Limit 10 Fighting All Kinds Of
Triekery. @s Sa
Speaking to an audience Of over a
thousand people who gathered to wit
ness the. opening of the Jordanville
IN. y. Public library, President Roose.
velt gave advice concerning the duties
of farmers to their wives. Of the wives
to their husbands and OF both to their
children. t:s '..0,' ! - .'a ~. Z
/ The president said IN part: ~ 1.'''a a's
'The value Of q gift depends abso-
'llutely upon what use you 70 make of it.
You have got to 1se ii tightly. That is
all HAT any h,nlnah Being can do for
any one Oh. eise@astfo1 81 give them a chance
and It rests with himself or herself to
take advantage of it. " 's;'a Il
sA'I believe that more mneo n and more build
ings like this Could Be used IT, adVaha,
ftage not only because Of the books,
but Because Ht cahdBe aused as a place,
for sdciaf meeting. and. while you boys
and gtrlsccRn meet here for social Inn
provement- 1t Will be A place, hope,
where mothers will meet also. If I
have got to choose any whom / would
put ahead of the Grand Army men
even, 1t would be the mothers" 20
|" The president switched abruptly to
telling about the man who does not
shifk This work. al %l.> ty%t,t,y 1S}k IL.
Fs{ II never preach the doctrine of shirk-
Ing he said land l never put play
ahead Of work, The happiest persons
are those who do well the work before
them. r" -" "',t'''F '.'s'->' f. "' 2
+ Il do not envy the idler, neither the
idle son Of a multimillionaire Or the,
hobo. have for both intense pity of
the kind that. is akin not to love, but to
contempt, The. hardest worked indi-
vidual on the farm is apt to be the
mother or wife of the farmer.
II believe in the farmer economic
ing. but on himself, not his wife. I
am dead right on that. II you have got
to drop some one. drop one hired man
rather than the hired girl. I want to
see buildings like this. one used for
mothers meetings. 1t gives the women
chance to meet each other socially,
and 1t puts them in better trim for
work '-'' ~ IT,
my ideal of a boy is one who will
grow up and be able to support him
self and wife and children. = To be
fit to be an American citizen he has
got to preserve his self, respect and
conduct himself SO as to wrong no one
else. Now and then you will hear the
wise father or one who thinks he is
wise dwell upon the fact that his boy
Is smart. =,
IF he means to be able, quick and
to be trusted, then all right, but If by
smartness Is meant, as is too often the
case, the kind of adroitness that sheers
OFF into trickery OF the kind Of ability
that is just off the line of honesty,
then you should teach him that he Is
growing up to be an enemy of the re-
public. Trickery is trickery If it takes
the form of doing man out Of his
days work or cheating in grocery
stores or swindling on great scale by
stock gambling or the manipulation of
railway securities. 8. 49,.
''Tm with you to the limit in trying
to put stop to the rascality of the big
man. I'll go to any length to do it. and
the big man knows it, but there never
will be an end until the big man Is
made to know that what you object to
Is rascality itself and not rascality in
the big men alone. Rascality in the
great and the small Is to be frowned
upon In this republic. Distrust equally
the man who never sees dishonesty in
the big man and the one who sees it
only in the big man.
"Fathers need the most preaching,
yet frequently the mothers who have
had hard lives take the 5unwise course
Of attempting to benefit their daugh-
tiers and sons by bringing them up
free, from hard knocks. Next to hard.
ness Of heart the next least desirable
quality is softness Of heart, and the
mother and father should not try to
bring up their children in that way.
You don't get the right stuff out Of
those children for the next war or, you
donittget decent citizens when there
isn't any war; Bring them up to work,
SO that they shall recognize that an
obstacle is not something to be shirked,
but to. be overcome. '''.1 T'o
"If there Is one thing the farmer has
the advantage of it is in the matter Of
fresh air. If you have your bedroom
too stuffy yoHI then get rid of that ad-
vantage. If your rooms are hermetical-
ly sealed and then, If any air gets In
and you catch cold you are no better
of than If you were a dweller In a
tenement. Such homely problems as
these II cannot discuss, but T can sug4
gest them to you FOR your discussion"
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