The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-24
THREW DOWN GAUNTLET TO
VICE PRESIDENT IN LAT
TER's OWN COUNTY.
SHERMAN OUT OF TOWN
Roosevelt Spoke to Faremrs Urging
Scientific 5Methods-N'leads
For Formers Wives
Goes West Today.

Roosevelt wound up the first day OF
his pilgrimage into the west by plac-
ing himself directly in opposition to
Vice President Sherman Speaking
today in the vice presidents own
county, he warmly endorsed State
Senator Frederick Davenport, who IS
a staunch progressive and waom
Sherman said he would not support.
Sherman was out Of town today and
dbl not see Roosevelt.
1t was late In the afternoon Wnen
Roosevelt reached Summit Park, ten
miles west Of here AT every stop
ping place along the way from New
York to Utica the colonel was cheer
ed but a roar OF applause which
went up from the throng at the park
shook the pavilion. t
AS soon as he finished mis- speech
he hurried to the Henderson House at
Jordanville, Herkimer, where his
brother in-law. Douglas Robinson, OF
New York, resides, and viii remain
here until tomorrow night when he
will start for Cheyenne. Wyo
Senator Davenport made a speech
after Roosevelt concluded. He said
the colonel had been his ideal and
that he considered him to represent
the heart and conscience OF the great
body OF the people.
The colonel fold the farmers they
ought to avail themselves of the ex-
pert advice from technical emn and
pert advice from technical men and
proving their methods of farming He
said they ought to learn to combiae
effectively in tneir business what mas
been done in industries, He thought
that farm life would be made more
attractive and that farmers wives
ought to have an easier time.
MIR. Roosevelt's Speech.
There are no two public questions
of more vital Importance to the future
of this country than the problem or
conservation and the problem of the
betterment of public life. Moreover,
these two problems are really inter
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be successfully solved save on con-
dition that there is at least mea-
surable success in the effort to solve
the other. In any great country the
prime physical asset-the aftysical as
set more valuable than any other--is
the fertility of the SOIL All our in
dustrial and commercial welfare, all
our material development of every
kind. depends in the last resort up
on our preserving and increasing the
fertility OF the soil. This, of course,
means TIE conservation of the soil
as the great natural resource; and,
equally, OF course, 1t furthermore i'm
plies the development OF country life
for there cannot be a permanent I'M.
prOyement of the soil il the life of
these who live On IL and make their
Iiying out of 1t is suffered to starve
ard languish to become stunted, and
weakened and inferior to the type
Of life lived elsewhere. We are now
tying to preserve, not for exploit
alton by individuals, but for the per-
laanent benefit of the whole people,
the waters and the forests, and we
are doing this primarily as means of
ADDING to the fertility Of the soil; al
though In each case there is great
secondary use both of the water and
the forests for commercial and inr
dustrial purposes. In the same way
Il is essential for the farmers them
selves to try to broaden the life oil
the man who lives In the open coun.
try; to make it more attractive, to
give it every adjunct and aid to de-
velopment whicn has been given to
the life OF the man OF the cities
Therefore, friends. the conservation
and rural life policies are really two
sides to the same policy; and down
at the bottom this policy rests upon
the fundamental law that neither
man nor nation can prosper unless
In dealing with the present, he stead
lily take thought for the future.
"The problem does not consist
merely in the growth of the city
Such a growth in itself is goot
thing and not bar thing for this
country. The problem consists o.
the growth Of the city at the expense
of the country; and, even where this
is not the case, in so great an equal
ity Of growth in power and interes
as to- make the city more attractive
than the country. and therefore apt te
drain the country Of the people whe
ought to live therein.
The main side of the rural lifs
probiem is to make the career OF thu
farmer and the career OF the farm lab
orer as attractive and as remunera
tive as corresponding careers in TIM