The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-21
CHI AP TIERS OF A POSSIBLE
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Through
TWENTY-SECOND INSTALLMENT
A STEWARDSHIP FOR THE PEOPLE
TwENTY-SECOND INSTALLMENT
A STEWARDSHIP FOR The PEOPLE

question. rs the supply OF farm labor
IN your neighborhOOd satisfactory 90
the answer Is: NO, because the peo-
PIE nave gone out OF the baby bust
ness and when asked as to the rem
edy he answers. Give a pension TO
every mother who gives birth to sew
en- living boys on American soil" To
the question. Are the conditions sur
rounding hired labor on the farm in
your netghborhOod satisfactory TO the
hired men?' he answers: Yes. un-
less ne Is drunken cuss." adding
tnat he would like TO blow up the
stlllhOuses and root out whiskey and
beer. To the question. Are the san
liary conditions on the farms in your
nelghborhOod satisfactory" he ans
Wers: NO. too careless about chick
en- yards. and the like, and poorly Gov
cred wells. I'm one well on neighbor s
farm ! counted seven snakes in the
wall OF the well, and they used the
water daily: his wife dead now and
he Is looking for another" He ends
by stating that the most important
single thing TO be done for the better.
ment OF country life is good roads .
but in his answers he shows very
clearly that most important Of all Is
the individual equation OF the man or
woman.
cost-Not q Cent.
Like the rest OF the commissions de-
scribed In this chapter. the Country
Life Commission cost the government
not one cent. but laid before the pres
ident and the country % mass OF in
formation so accurate and so vitality
important as 10 disturb the serenity
OF The advocates OF things as they are.
and therefore 10 incurred the bitter
opposition of the reaCtionarics The
report or the Country Life Commits
sion was transmitted 10 congress by
me on February @. 1909 On the ac-
company ing MESSAGE ] asked for So.
900 TO print and circulate the report
and 10 prepare for publication the inn.
mense amount of valuable material
collected by the commission bur still
unpubli he'd. The reply made hv con.
Eress was not only a refusal 20 auuro.
Iriato the money. but e. positive pro.
hlhllon against continuing the work
h' ldvnoy amendment 10 the sun
uIl CIVIC Bill forbade tho president to-
appoint any furiher commissions nm
Tess specifically authorized hv con.
gross fo do so. Had This prohibition
nrrn enacted caller and complied
Nitf. Or would have prevented tine au.
roiniwnnt nI flp -iN Roosevelt conn
mission. lut ] would not have com.
ph'd WIN DO Mr TaWucy. one OF tho
most efficient representative of tho
tiu-" OF special privilege as AGAINST
public interest to- De- found in inc
House Was later. in conjunction win
senator Hale and others. able to in.
'I'' my successor Ca accept their
Wow Af what was almost INV last
OFFICIAL act I replied 90 Congress that
DIT did not believe the Tawurv amend.
meni 20 Do unconstitutional . would
veto Che Sundry civic 1914 which con.
ilined DO. and that if were remain.
lnf .n ohico ! would refuse to obov
d. Do memorandum fHn boo unrf-
li' 'hi'I object OI this provision.
however D. fl prevent tha fvfgufItr
repeating what BE- has done within tho
lieI year in connection With the cor.
.ti 'allon commission aud the country
liI' commission Do Or for tho neou.e'
OF iuo country to decide whether or
nor they believe in the work done hvI
IlN conservation commission and bv
iho country life commission
ll they believe in improving our
WIinrwafs. in preventing fho waste az.
COLL in preserving tho forests ln Uhr.f
y use OF the mineral resources of tho