Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-24
BY Associated Press.

UTICA, N r., Aug. z3.-l neo-
dore Roosevelt this afternoon de-
livered the first address of his west
ern tour at Summit Park, this city.
He spoke as follows:
There are no two public ques-
tions of more vital importance to
the future of this country than the
problem of conservation and the
problem for the betterment of pub
lie life. Moreover, these two prob
lens are really nterdependent, 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 country the prime physical as
set-the physical asset more valu-
able than any other-is the fertility
of the soil. All our industrial and
commercial welfare, all our mater
| ial development of every kind, de-
pends in the last resort upon our
preserving and increasing the fer
| tility of the soil. This, of course,
means the conservation of the soil
as the great natural resource and
/ equally, of course, it furthermore
implies the development of country
! life, for there cannot be a perma-
nent Improvement of the soil II the
life of those who live upon it, and
make their living out of it, are suf-
lfered to starve and languish, to be-
! come stunted and weakened and in
feriar to the type of life lived else
where. We are now trying to pre-
serve, not for exploitation by indi
viduals. but for the permanent ben
eft Of the whole people, the waters
and the forests, and we are doint
: this primarily as a means OF adding
to the fertility of the soil; although
in each case there is great second
2 AIRY use both of water and of tn
| forests for commercial and indus
2 trial purposes In the same wa
l it is essential for the farmer
0 themselves to try to broaden tn
J life of the man who lives in tn
open country; to make it more al
tractive, to give it every adjunc
and aid to development which ha
: been given to the life of the ma
of the cities.
''In one sense this problem wit
which we have to deal is very, yer
old. Wherever civilizations hay
hitherto sprung up they have a
ways tended to go through certai
stages and then to fall. No natio
can develop a real civilization witt
out cities. Up to certain poll
the city movement is thorough
healthy; yet it is a strange and i
mentable fact that alway hither
after that point has been reacht
the city has tended to develop
the expense of the country by drai
20 ing the country of what is best
at it, and making an insignificant +
Of turn for this best.
"The human side of the rur
~ life problem is to make the care
of the farmer and the career of t
Nv farm laborer as attractive and
remunerative as corresponding {
vs. reers in the city. Now, I am W
aware that the farmer must hims
1; take the lead in bringing this sbc
A century and a quarter ago
wise English farmer, Arth
Young, wrote of the efforts to /
prove French wool: A cultiva
20. at the head of sheep farm
he 5000 or 1000 acres would in a {
ity years do more for their wools =
he all the academicians and Dhilo
an pliers will effect in ten centuri
hill 1t is absurd to think that any q
rn- who has studied the subject 0
po- theoretically is fit to direc- n
rro who practically work at the I
ter. But, friends. l wish to in