Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-27

verdict will affirm that have drawn more
irom the imagination than from the naked
facts. There is certainly - more truth than
poetry" in it. | am convinced that we
have not yet come dnly to estimate the true
uses of wealth, while cherishing a very
commendable determination to secure a
competence. Let us then always be sure
anc remember, in the language of H. W.
Beecher in late popular lecture. that
while - he who loves God and man, that he
may worship the one and serve the other,
has right to pleasure, has right to every
thing that art and beauty can bring him,
and is bound literally to contribute to
build up schools, to build up churches and
to endow libraries and in all these ways to
strengthen society" | know | cannot fail
Of your most hearty endorsement when
say that the man who has a wife and
daughters and soEs, magnificent in their
strength, in their beauty, in their disin-
terested public spirit, the household he has
created and loved and served with fidelity,
and presented to the community, has pre-
sented 4 gift greater than which no man
can give.
In view then of all that has thus far been
adduced in this paper, it Is certainly not
jumping 30 a conclusion 10 say, that no
man more than the farmer needs the
derived only from a familiarity with the
thoughts and opinions of the best minds.
Those minds whose peculiar Opportuni
ties and advantages, whose peculiar Organi
zation perhaps may have given them an in
sight into one and another ofthe rich and un-
explored fields Of nature, of science and OF
philosophy and have been permeated with so
GOdlike a spirit as to desire and make effort
to communicate of what they have seen
and learned for the instruction and comfort
Of such a. shall come after them.
No man more than the farmer needs to
know 50 much of the laws of political
science, as to demand and secure such wi-e
legislation as will best subserye his true IN
tercst as farmer. while at the same time
Strengthening every other interest of the
State.
One Of the greatest and most important
questions. think. now before the world, Is
the tenure by which our lands are to be
held. The validity of the principle by
which it is allowed for one man TO cngross
and sequester to his own use an indefinite
area ot the soil. which many claim should
be held as free a the air, the water and the
sunlight. The farmer should be perfectly
familiar with the pros and cons Of the theo-
~ now boldly advanced by some Of the
the power and the right in here in the
State, and that too. without rev0lutl0niz-
ing our constitutional sanctions, to appro-
pirate Of the lands of any citizen, for the
purpose of furnishing land for the land
less and homes for the homeless. when it can
be made to appear that the public good de
mand> 1t. Just as much a. when it l. wanted
for n road. q park, a building lot or bury
ing ground.
There l., a. y0u all very well know, an
awakened feeling of interest in the churac-
ter and progress Of our agricultural col
lege. 1t has indeed become a grave problem.
how to use or how To modify It's present ar
rangcments.
Ii is too apparent to need remark. that,
at IL first inception, there was on the par;
of the masses of the agricultural popula-
tion. no, only no efficient organization. but
to our shame be II spoken. no sort Of ade-
luate intelligence 10 grasp and manage
and deyelopc the grand and hcneiicent
scheme. and if in the light of present or
future experience il shall come 20 appear.
that those who saw and felt our de>iitu'ion
and need. and sought - lend helping
hand, were not wise or fortunate enough to
select and adopt the best model 0r secure
the most successful results. il certainly be-
comes us, a We awake from our Rip Van
Ninkle sleep, in no muro>c and s0rcheaded
tone 70 complain Of the results OF the ex-
pertinent, and whine a. L We had been
oyerrcached in bargain, but with a spirit
Of noble and generous emulation. by a man
Is effort seek to gain for ourselves good
ioathold on the grand foundation 50 dreply
laid FOX u, remembering