Show 13 PRESIDENT RESIDENT AND ANID THE in a country like ours it is fundamentally true that the well being r 0 of the tiller of the tho soil and the wage worker is the well being of the state if they are well off then we need concern concerti ourselves but little as to how other classes stand for they will inevitably be well off too and on the other hand there can be no real general prosperity unless based on oil the foundation of the prosperity of the tiller of the soil but the needs of these two classes are not often the same the tiller of the 6 soil oil has been of all our citizens the tile one on the whole the least affected in his layf way of life and methods of industry by tile giant industrial changes of the last half century there has been change D with him too of course he ile also can work to best advantage if lie keeps in close touch with his fellows fell and we believe much can call be done for him by rational action of the government one of the greatest and most beneficial measures passed by the late congress 0 or indeed 1 by y any congress in recent years is the irrigation ir act which will do for the states of the great plains and the rocky J mountain region region at lewit as much as ever has been done for the states of the humid region by river and harbor improvements prove ments few measures that have been put upon the statute books of the nation have done more for the people than this law will I 1 firmly believe bo lieve directly and indirectly accomplish for the states in question there are a number of very important questions such as that of good roads with which thu tho states alone can deal and where all that the national government can do is to co operate with them thein the tile same is true of the education of the farmer far nier A num ber of the states have themselves started in to help in tb this is work and they are accomplishing ng n a al good deal in the most practical way it is is therefore ore fore clearly true that a great advance lias has been made in the direction direct im of find ing ways by which the government can help the farmer to help himself the tile only kind of help which a self respecting V man will ace accept t I 1 or I 1 may add which NV will III in III the end do him 1 I F n any good much has been done in these ways and farm life and farm processes continually ellanore el change lanfre for tile bettor the farmer still r retains obtains ot ains because of his surroundings nature of his work to a preem pre pro em om anent degree the qualities which we like to dwell upon as distinctly american in consid ering ering our early history the tile nan man who tills his 0 own wn farm farin whether ot the prairie or in in the woodland the man inan who grows aws what we oat cat and the tho raw material which is worked up into viliam we wear still exists more inore nearly under tile conditions which obtained when the embattled farmers of 76 made this country a nation naton than is true of any others of our people eo le theodore roosevelt boose veil inter vil mountain farmer riner 4 |