Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-21

culture than it has yet done, and cs-
pecially in the prairie States; most of
all in those whose growing season is
short, and who need to make the most
Of every day between that in which the
soil is first ready fer the i,low in the
spring, md that wherein the last seed
is sown. You will all bear testimony
that a month more for blowing and
seeding would vastly increase the wheat
crop Of Minnesota and the steam pillow
will yet give you that month. Say
that it connot break up and pulverizc
your soil any Oh capcr than your teams
Though it can and willy, yet the simple
fact that steam pillow. worked by two
sets of hands, will soon be fitting TWEEN
ty acres per day Of wild praries for
sowing to wheat, and will within twenty
years increase the area to forty acres
and the depth of furrow to two feet,
will give you some idea of the tremen-
dous and bcncfcent possibilities that
lie embodied in the bosom of the giant
steam. Many Of you will learn to re-
alizc that you cannot afford to pillow
with horses, not merely because they
are too feeble and too slow, but lecause
it is far cheaper to use power which
need not be fed when idlc-that may
be piled up and set away when the
ground freezes, and will cost nothing
thcnccforth till brought out and set to
work again in Spring. In your stern
Winter climate, this consideration is
peculiarly Important.
Farmin" used to be very hard work.
He who ;'as nn knnwlcd &c, no skill,
no science. and must do whatever his
employer prefers not to do himself.
may still find it so. Still. the general
truth that it grows steadily lighter. as
human power gives place to animal or
to mechanical. cann.i be 4:,ins:,>rI. Ia
my boyho"d: moving "raSS and rca,,:ne
grain by hand required strength, i'll
voIyiny Il pcrsstant strain of the mus
Giles Of the arm and baud. Ia say moth
oi the aching back, the bent and
cr'uchiny body. ;Iocinv corn and
other planted Grey WIS nearly Is hard.
involving constant effort and ar-
expenditure OF strength. r" day. the
horse till<; the horse m"ws the h.'rsr
rcapS thu man :,nl V rides and guides.
Can you doubt that this silent rrv"-
luton is destined t., =" m. until tn"
farmer shall be- practically "a nnv;sn"r.
and growing or rs u inr,'',: irv'> 'H::
c,lc1int":r. err. -. ..,.,.. u .-.~i II
but trxin- t.,. i,,H - Tar =. I i,:,
the ryr AM, n.ind
close with hrcr >u.srrS' {. :
to the intellectual and moral uses ni' tax
unycnial sc'Son. You are making
great progress in Minnesota but you
IRE not overcom NJ your northern Win
ter judge that you will scarcely
modify it. The character of Jour sea.
son prcscrb TINT you shall be rcsolutc
persistent workers during the long days
Of your spring and summer, and that
you shall take the world easier through
out your long and constant winter
Your five months beginning with No.
vcmbcr aad ending with March ought
to yield to most of you the whole of
their long. cold evenings for study, for
reading, f l. thought; and not many
countries On earth afford to their tillcrs
Of the soil opportunities for mental i'm
provemcnt superior, in the avc:agc, to
this. May | not reasonably trust that.
while many will squandcr these oppor-
tunitics in slcth or frolic, idlcness or
dissipation, very many more will i'm
prove them in storing their minds with
knowledge and wisdom. and that there
shall here be developed around these
n'yri,ds OF lakes along this migh,y..river,
an agriculture based On science and
careful observation, certain of it's re-
suits because grounded in thorough
comprehension Of principles, and more
efficient, because wiser than any the
world has rvcr known
The right Of the land owner is not
then, absolute and indefcasiblc still
less is that Of the stakeholder The
railroad is chartered by the State
and enabled to take such land as it re-
Irircs ct valuation b. virtue Of the
Statc's right Of eminent domain, has
no legal power to exact from the COM
mun!ty rat IS Ct !rri Eht and fare lml-
ted only by it's fear Of driving away
b;r::ncsi aud th:us defeating its own
greed 1t is bound "a re satisfied with
moderate and reasonable charges; if
it is net. the State should interfere for
the protection ct its citizens and the
encouragement # productive labor
l have ,ravprScd. i'll ";her years, >
good many turnpik>':. Though now
generally GU, grown, they were useful
in their day-mor" advantageous. in
the average, to their p,:rons than t.
their ockholderS cannot rcr"l!crt
one which had not it's list Of author:
lied charges OF tolls plai"ly !ainf;1
and posted up beside c,sc', ;';! !:o'!5:,
where every customer could read chem
and be sure that he w',s uot subjected
to cxtortipn Those rates or tolls Were
fixc:l by Law. and were. Ike the laws
Of the Ncdvs aud Pcrslans. un"hanGe-
able. If company had ever pet'-
toned for IN act Of incorporation and
authorization. enabling them t" charge
whatever tolls they Should see fit. and
to raise and lower them at d'scr"tl"n.
that petition would have h~"'. Eri> II
out. as cyinrinr iutolerablr pr"<;'''np-
ton. Yet our railroad direct rs :: ne
rally claim anl exercise tn It yer,
power If fixing and Altering th"ir cl'F-
y,cs, which ~, turnpike c"n''"Nv eyer
presumed to ask tor
| have no patience with mere grumh-
ling and fault-fnding. | stand here
to advocate il practical, bencfcIe mt re-
form heartily wish tn: Federal E'v
acknowledgements it granted a right
Of way across the public land-much
more when it added generous subsidy
had expressly reserved and asserted
the right to limit and modify the char
gcs Of the railroad thus assisted |
wish that every State legislature had
dom substantially the same when con
ccdiny the right to take the public and
private property required in the con-
struction of railroad. But a right is
not surrendered and sacrificed merely
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