Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-31
ROOSEVELT ELECTR|F|ES TEN THOUSAND
 IN UTICA
Opposes Sherman in His Own County By Warmly Endorsing State
 Senator Davenport

UTICA, N. r, Aug. 23.-Roose- welt wound up the first day of his pilgrimage by placing himself di- rectly in opposition to Sherman, and speaking in the Vice Presidents own county. He warmly endorsed State Senator Frederick Davenport, a Pro- gressive, whom Sherman did not sup port. Sherman was out of town and did not see the Colonel.
 Ten thousand people greeted the Colonel at Summit Park, late this afternoon. He espied Davenport on the platform, and greeted him warm ly, and said: fThe only kind of politics I cared for is the kind in which decency is combined with eff ficieney. I hold that the only way in which a politician can really serve the party is by helping party efficiency and serve the people. Be- cause the Senator and the men who acted with him have stood for this principle, I'm glad to be on the platform with him."
 He then proceeded with his talk to the farmers.
 Roosevelt is the guest of his borth- er-in-law, Douglas Robinson, until to- morrow morning, when he starts for Cheyenne, Wyo.
 Roosevelt's move, endorsing Dav- enport, is regarded as the first step in the state fight.
 On leaving New York he said there would be no comproimse, as far as he was concerned.
 He was introduced by ex-Governor N. NJ. Bachelder, who said: "He is known from the jungles of Africa to the North Pole, from sagamore Hill to the Orient"
 Roosevelt spoke as follows:
 Roosevelt's Address.
 "There are no two public questions of more vital importance to the fu- ture of this country than the problem of conservation and the problem to the betterment of rural life. More over. these two problems are really interdependent for neither of them can be successfully solved save on condition that there is at least a measurable success in the effort to solve the other. In any great coun- try the prime physical asset-the physical asset more valuable than any other-is the fertility of the soil. All our industrial and com mercial welfare, all our material de- velopment of every kind, depends in the last resort upon our preserving and increasing the fertility of the soil. This, of course, means the con servation of the soil as the great natural resource; and, equally, Of course, it furthermore implies the de- velopment of country life, for there cannot be a permanent improvement of the soil if the life of those who live on it. and make their living out of it, be suffered to starve and Ian puish, to become stunted, and weak ened and inferior to the tpye of life elsewhere. We are now trying to preserve. not for exploitation by in- dividuals, but for the permanent bene- fit of the whole people, the waters and the forests, and we are doing this primarily as a means of adding to the fertility of the soil; although in each case there is a great secondary use both of the water and of the forests for commercial and industrial purposes. In the same way it IS es- sential for the farmers themselves to try to broaden the life of the man who lives in the open country; to make it more attractive, to give it every adjunct and aid to development which has been given to the life of the man of the cities. Therefore, friends, the conservation and rural life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the funda- mental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, he steadily take thought for the future.
 "In one sense this problem with which we have to deal is very, very old. Wherever civilizations have hitherto sprung up they have always tended to go through certain stage. and then to fall. No nation can de velop a real civilization without cities. Up to a certain point the city movement is thoroughly healthy yet it is a strange and lamentable fact that always hitherto after this point has been reached the city has tended to develop at the expense of the country by draining the country of what is best in it, and making an insignificant return for this best. In consequence, in the past. every civili zation in it's later stages has tended really to witness those conditions under which the cities prosper and the men decay. There are ugly signs that these tendencies are at work in this nation of ours. But very for