The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-24


ly Endorsed State Senator Frederick
Davenport. who Is a staunch progress
sive and whom Mr.. Sherman has said
he would not support. Mr.. Sherman
was out OF town.
IL was late in the afternoon when
Col. Roosevelt reached Summit Park.
sort overlooking the Mohawk river.
Ten thousand persons who attended
the grange picnic were waiting for
him and raised a cheer when the ex-
president appeared on the platform.
AT every stopping place along the
way from New York to Utica the col
onel was cheered, but the roar OF ap-
plause which went up from the throng
at the park shook the pavilion.
Col Roosevelt spied Senator Daven'
port at once and he greeted him with
great warmth. AS soon as he began
his speech he turned TO the senator
and said:
Il am glad to see you on the plat
form, Senator Davenport. The only
kind OF politics l care for is the kind
OF politics in which decency Ii com
bined with efficiency. l hold that the
only way In which a politician can
really serve his party Is by helping
That party efficiently TO serve the peo-
pls. Because the senator and the me n
who have acted with him have stood
for this principle. am glad to be TN
the platform with him."
There was more cheering, after
which Mr.. Roosevelt spoke on farm
life, as follows:
There are no two public questions
OF more vital Importance TO the future
OF this country than the problem of
conservation and the problem OF the
betterment OF public life. Moreover,
these two problems are really inter
dependent, 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.
1--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 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
IL Is essential for the farmers them
selves to try to broaden the life OF
the man who lives in the open coun-
try; to make II more attractive; to
give IL every adjunct and aid TO devel-
opment which has been given to the
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 la
borer as attractive and as remunera-
tive as corresponding careers In the
city.
"One reason why great business men
of today-the great industrial lead
ers-have gone ahead, while the farm
er 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
result OF the highest education. From
railways to factories no great indus
trial concern can nowadays be car
ried on save by the aid of a swarm
of men who have received a high
technical education in chemistry, In
engineering, In electricity, In one or
more of scores OF special subjects.
I'm 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 farmer
does.
During the last half-century We
have begun to develop a system OF
agricultural education at once practi-
cal and scientific, and we must go on
developing 1t.
Down in Long Island where
live. men connected with the Long
Island railroad have put practical
men In charge OF experimental FARMS
cultivating them extensively, and US
ing the best modern methods, not
only In raising crops, but In securing
the best market for the crops we
raised The growth has been as
founding, and land only fifty miles
from New York, which during our
entire national lifetime has been
treated worthless, has within the last
three or four years been proved 10
possess 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 whole
should realize the infinite possioill-
ties of life in the country; and every
effort should be made to make tnese
possibilities more possible"