New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-03
FARMERS HEAR WILSON
JERSEYS Governor Speaks at
Richmond County Fair.
GET TOGETHER HIS ADVICE
Is Introduced at Luncheon as
Presidential Candidate for
Democrats in 1912.

Governor Woodrow Wilson quit his sum
mer home. al Sea Girt, y. j.. yesterday
morning and ferried over from Perth Am
boy TO Tottenville. Staten Island. TO make
a speech at the Richmond County Fair. at
Dongan Hills. He found an escort Of forty
automobiles logged out in flags and hunt
ing waiting for him at Tottenyille. and re-
ceived more than one rousing welcome on
his way to the fair.
At the Richmond County Club Governor
Wilson was the guest Of ". 5. Van Chef'
president Of the fair association, and at
luncheon was introduced as the logiea'
and unavoidable Presidential candidate LOT
the Democratic party in 1917 After"aru
the Governor was escorted By trooD OF
New Yorks mounted police 10 the rostruin
facing the grandstand. where more lh"N
FIVE hundred men, women ana chi4oIeh ""N
paid 20 cents TO hear him.
II don't feel that l am very Tar from
New Jersey, and I don't intend to make
formal speech" he said. If Staten Island
is not a part Of New Jersey, it VIGOROUSLY
ought 70 be, and therefore l shan conslder
myself among friends and neighbors-'
Governor Wilson alluded TO statistics re-
Gently handed TO Mayor Gaynor oy the
farmers Of Pennsylvania, TO show mat the
farmer only gets somewhere from one-thlFa
10 one-sixth Of the value Of his crops III
the market. The implication Of these us
ures, he said, was that the government OF
the states ought TO do something for the
farmer He said that for his part. he
would be sorry to see the day come when
1t might be said that the American farmer,
unable TO take care Of himself was obliged
TO turn TO his government for protection.
How to Help the Farmer.
The remedy which he preferred to see ap-
piled was 10 bring about a rehabilitation of
the country church. and make Of it place
where farmers would gather to confer not
only upon matters Of religion, but also on
agriculture and everything else that is es-
senual to it. He continued:
There is a very interesting implication
in the Lords Prayer. II begins with this
petition. Give us this day our daily
bread and all of life Is based upon the
physical sustenance Of It, for a man can
not keep his mind or soul right II his
stomach Is empty. NY interest IN agrl-
culture therefore. is 10 nope that by the
get-together spirit the farmers may bring
about better market conditions and get
better railroad rates by reason OF econOm-
zeal shipments from combined stOrehouses.
The get-together proposition is the prob
lem OF all politics aad all life. Then
there comes upon the mind that great
Illuminating discovery that the common in
terest 8 also the interest Of the individ-
UaL Then there comes that most enllght-
ening Of all discoveries. that II you serve
your fellow man YOU serve your own in
terests vastly better than you could have
served them II YOU segregated them. Are
not fairs like these a waste Of time II
they are not made the means OF deep
and profound apprehension Of the COM
mon interest? This is the spirit OF Amer
lea This is the breath II inspiration
upon which we shall be hfted step by step
to greater. broader and more hopeful
things.
While the PAGERS were jockeying for a
start in the first race Of the afternoon, An
drew mckinley, eleven years old, Of No.
POP East 10Th street, Manhattan, tried 10
dart across the track. BE was struck by
a big black PAGER, owned by :. :. Post OF
Mneola. Long Island, and was Knocked
down and run over.
Patrolmen picked him up and hustled him
10 the :. Z. Smith Infirmary tent, near by,
expecting 20 hear his neck was broken, but
the boy came out Of his daze. and in few
moments was running around the grounds
again.