Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 17, 1907
THE FARM HOME MAKER The Importance of Good Citizenship on the Farm President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa You in Iowa have many mauutac taring centers but you remain aiul I hope you will always remain a great agricultural State I hope that the means of transporting your com modities to market will be steadily im proved but this will be of no use un less you keep producing the commodi ties and in the long run this will large ly depend upon your being able to keep on the farm a high type of citizenship The effort must be to make farm life not only remunerative but attractive so that the best young men and girls will feel inclined to stay on the farm and not to go to the city Nothing is more important to thiscountry than the perpetuation of our system of mediumsized farms worked by their owners We do not want to see our farmers sink to ttie condition of the peasants of the Old World harelv able to live on their small holdings lior do we want to see their places taken by wealthy men owning enormous estates which they work purely by tenants and hired