Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-24
ROOSEVELT IN
OPEN WAR ON
MR.. SHERMAN
Fired First Gun in His
Speech Delivered in Utica
Last Night.
SUPPORTS DAVENPORT
sherman and His 0rQaniza-
ton Are Bitterly Opposed
to This Nomination.
DEMOCRATS GET BUSY
Will Try to Reap the Benefit
OF Discord in Repub-
lican Ranks.
DEMOCRATS GET BUSY

Utica, N. Y, Aug. 24:-ColoneI
roosevelt is taking holiday today
In Jordanyille at the old Robinson
homestead, occupied by his brother
1n-law, Douglas Robinson.
There Is no doubt here that Roose-
velt is prepared to fight against
Vlce-President Sherman His un-
qualified endorsement of State Sem
ator Davenport yesterday is reeog-
nized as the opening gun in the war.
Sherman and his organization had
declared their opposition to Daven-
ports nomination because of his sup
port of the direct primary bill.
Sherman still remains silent when
asked to discuss Taft's reputation
Of the deal in the state committee by
which Roosevelt was defeated.
Taking advantage of the tenseness
of the republican situation, Chair
man Dix of the democratic state
committee today is endeavoring to
promote harmony among the leaders
OF the party. He predicted that the
Sherman clash would
mean a democratic victory.
Col. Roosevelt, in his speech In
Utica last night, said In part:
There are no two public questions
Of more vital Importance to the fu-
ture of this country than the prob
lem of conservation and the problem
of the betterment of public life.
Moreover, these two problems are
really interdependent, for neither OF
them can be successfully solved save
on condition that there is at least
measurable success In the effort to
solve the other
We are now trying to preserve,
not for exploitation by individuals,
but for the permanent benefit of the
whole people, the waters and the
forests, and We are doing this pri-
marily as means of adding to ths
fertility of the soil; although in each
case there is q great secondary use
both OF the water and of the forests
for commercial and industrial pur-
poses. In the same way it is essen
tial for the farmers themselves to
try to broaden the life of the man
who lives in the open country; to
make 1t more attractive, to give 1t
every adjunct and aid to develop
ment which has been, given to tha
life of the man of the Cities
1.-THE human side of the rural life
problem is to make the career of the
farmer and the career of the farm
laborer as attractive and as remu-
nerative as corresponding careers In
the city.
One reason why great business
men of today-the great industrial
leaders-haye gone ahead, while the
farmer has tended to sag behind the
others, Is that they are far more
willing, and indeed eager to profit by
expert and technical knowledge-the
knowledge that can only come as a
result of the highest education.
From railways to factories no great
Industrial concern can nowadays
be carried on save by the aid OF a
swar mof men who have received a
high technical education in ehemis-
try, in engineering, in electricity, in
one or more of scores of special SUBJ
jects.
In just the same way the farmers
should benefit by the advice of the
technical men who have been trained
in phases of the very work the farm
er does.
During the last half-century we
have begun to develop system of
agricultural education at once pFdc-
tical and scientific and we must go
on developing 1t.
Down In long Island where I live
men connected with the Long ISL |
and railroad have put practical men
in charge Of experimental farms,
oultivating them extensively, and |
using the best modern methods, not |
only In raising crops, but in secur- /
ing the best market for the crops |
when raised. The growth has beensI
and land only fifty miles
from worthless, has within the last
three or four years been proved to
possess a really high value.
The farmer, however, must not
only make his land pay, but he must
make country life interesting for
himself and for his wife and his sons
and daughters. Our people as a
whole should realize the infinite pos
sibilities of life in the country, and
every effort should be made to make
these possibilities more possible,
Farmers should learn how to
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