The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-16
fessions and mercantile pursultsarc prefer.


owner. 1t ought not to be so in America
and that it is so is the fault of the farmers
themselves. A change in popular opision
in this respect is greatly to be desired
1t is also duty that you Vermont farm
ers owe, not only to your children, but to
society and your country, TO give your
children all the education your circum-
stances will allow. Vermont is small
state, and while its valley farms can hardly
be eXcellcd, there is net enough of them
for all your children, and to put them upon
rocky, barren hill farms, is to entail upon
them a life struggle aganot nature for a
subsistence with very small chance of
acquiring a competency for old age. 1t is
therefore neither expected nor best that
your children should al remain here.
Many of them in the future, ~ they have
done in the past, will go to the new states
of the west, where the best of lands can
be bought Mt a very low price, and the
country is new and and society in lransi-
ton and formative state. Educated men
and women are very much needed there to
found religious and educational institutions
and to mould society and build up great
and prosperous states in which intelli-
gence, honor and integrity will be duly ap.
pfeciate1.
Let us build school houses, supply our
children with books, and RAISE men so as
to be able to say of our Vermont as Ulysses
of his native Ithaca:
"a rugged region It's, but nourshes
NOhy It's yOuths, nor have | ever seen
sWeeter spot on earth.'
Aud thus will Vermont not only be
good state 10 emigrate from, but a good
state to live in, where agriculture Will oc-
cupy its appropriate place in popular esti-
nation.
But if you feel that you have not hun
dred dollars or more to spare to invest in
books, and have no good friend like ex-
Mayor Hosford of Lowell to give your
hurch such a Sabbath school library a,
he gave the Baptist church in Char
lotto tie money to purchase, 20 t.
work and get up one yourselves by subscrip-
| ton. Ii will take but a few dollars from
| each one or you to start, and additions can
| be made to it from year to year. BY Sab
bath school library do not mean one com
posed wholly of Sunday school novels,
containing imaginary biographies of good
| title girls and boys or very naughty ones
who came to some bad end, bat such on
| one as the Baptist church Of Charlotte had
| the good sense to purchase with the money
given them by Mr.. Hosford-one contain
| ing the standard works of the best British
| and American authors, including the best
| historical works, and works upon aglicul-
ture and It's kindred sciences.
| BY reading these books your children
will better appreciate the beautiful in art
and nature, and this will alec have tend
| ency TO make them satisfied with the farm.
| As one of the most distinguished orators
| noe we'll eoi1 .Aso y,orl, oc az, -,
few things more nleasinr to The eve or
| moro canahle of offording econe and g,o,i
fcntion 70 toste Gov tho boo,,tif,,I -,
vii situated and c,,ItiyatoJ farn, II; Tho
man If refinement viii bo,o Nth ,avor
woar;ol oo1n nm q 1ordsoo,,o 10, f,Ia,,da ~
| salvador. the nricc of n section of tho Tho
| most fo,,io Iord in ,to VOC, ,,o,,is at
nnrcbn az Few sonare foot 90 ,t %o,o,u ,,o,
| an winch tLoso craat or,ist, ha,,a do,;lts ~
a ruraI scene mt nature bns forn r,t and
| nronor,iona hevond tho nair,or,s sl,iii hnr
| Irvine nenc;l iorcbes tha Iordscano ,,' IN
liv;nr ights and shodos v,o,,a,. ,,i,,od 80,
| tho ,s,i,,ar,s ,,olIo,to WV =; - va va
| earth which can moro en,irelv cbarr, tbn
eve or crafty the taste than noble faIn,go
Your farn1ers oro h, fa- iha NO. w.,
| merons cIasa and in this oc,,nt,r, ,rhoro
moiori,ies rnle with i,tol,iTonoa o,d i,
| ,ppyifv to rnide Won yo,, CON no,,rnI ,ho
,fTairs IF the state and iho nStion a1d NV INV
| legislation and o,hnrw;eo nlevo,c anJ ;,H
prove vonr profession
| 10 men IF ,ntnlIige,ce cr,t,ro honor
and integrity know m s,,rar road 10 40
| highest ponii,ai honors thIn bv wny Of the
tarm. Did time permit, could cite you
70 numerous instances where men have
| been elevated from the farm t. places of
the highest trust and honor to Cincin-
natus, who went from the plough to the
| dictatorship of Rome, when the Imperial
| city was threatened with destruction, and
as the story goes, in sixteen DAYS. after
having conquered her enemies, surrendered
| the dictatorship aud returned nr,in to his
little farm across the Tiber to our own
| beloved Washington, who was taken from
| his Virginia farm and made commauder-in-
| chief of our revolutionary forces and went
| from there to the presidency. the highest
| place in the gift of the American people.
and back again to the farm and ic Put
| nam and Others, but | must hasten to a
| close.
| Make your homes pleasant and attract.
| i've supply them with the means of men
| tai culture; give your children the hest ed
ucalion you can and one that is adsped To-
| your profession, and do not allow the in
mates of your homes to be permanently
| worn out with drudgery and toll. Honor
your calling and give to it, in your own es-
Sh iiaV a. a. tease, us uPprol,tiate piice'
est and broadest cnlmre and vonr sons
will not be lured into other pursuits. but
duly appreciate your profession and be-
oa,nV i,,e att;n anu prosperous i"rh'eIs
To use the language Of another rn,n q
| similar occasion, the man who makes az
ricullute not merely productive but honor
images Of the most attra a s MIN sn.
who dwells In cat abode. such as repub.
| lican wisdom might build, and republican
sinIp.loi,y ougn' 10 ues,Iei VINO, Ia aa9i-
mnsic Of contan,nnent Il ou, a,o,,,d he o,Ir,,
abode; can unite it with the intelligence of
a citizen who knows his rights and is de-