, 1878-03-01
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the cities and towns for business,
have only their own mistakes 20
blame. Children born to the older
generation now living came into the
world with a desire to read, to learn
and improve. The spirit of Ameri.
can prorress and culture found more
genial !odgment in the hearts OF the
mother. than the minds OF the
fathers. The boys were restless and
Ionred for something better than the
life he fore them as sees in the e1'
perience Of boyhood. Soon as age
gave freedom to follow their own IN
clination, they sought that something
out in the world. Opportunities
were great and many made great sue
cess. Some failed, and others made
medium men OF business. Another
generation, lured by the grand sue.
cess Of statesmen like Lincoln and
Douglas, manufacturers like McCor-
mick and Studebaker, railroad build
er, like Sanford and Crocker, made
haste to leave the farm and seek the
city TO do, they cared not what, so
that it was out of the drudgerv from
four O'Clock in the morning till eight
at night. Opportunities lessened
and seekers increased till we have
the overcrowded cities throwing up
by the sheer weight of responsibility,
the dregs Of the mass, the failures in
life led by demagogues seeking their
own ends. We have the cry for
work at any price. We have the
tramp and the criminal class.
Though these are led and taught
by inbred crime from the old world.
Nearly all of American pauperism
and criminality may be traced to mis-.
takes on the farm. 1t is the farmers
boys that swell the ranks of foreign
clamorers for bread from the State.
Who can blame them! or speak
harshly to one who left home with
high hopes and pure intentions, if,
after battling with successive fail
ures. he has lost courage, hope and
strength, and turns to rail at capital?
The remedy lies deeper than tell
ing these to 60 back at work on the
farm, scolding them as adventures,
or, il one turns book agent or peddler,
calling him "bilk" and tramp"
We must go back to our farm houses
and make them homes, the seat of
culture, refinement, JOY and peace.
We must fill them with books and
papers, with pictures and music.
Improved machinery gives US power,
aud we must shorten the hours of Ia.
Dor. We must stop making the
boys wear boots two or three sizes
too large, stop calling them dand.
les" If they use the backing brush
and like to wear a good coat. We
must do away with shoddy, ill-6tting
garments, and patronize the tailor.
In fact, make our boys the peers in
of their interiors in
thought. Il will cost too much!
What IL it does lessen the amount of
money we annually "put ou. at in.
lsrest ?" 1t will keep the boys at
home, make them happy and con.
tented. The ownership OF land is
kingly estate. The farmer and the
farmers son are the most independ-
ent men on earth. Then why should
the farmers son be made to feel that |
he is of an inferior race, doomed to
an inferior calling, when he comes in
contact with the followers of other
professions? There is no reason.
The bricklayer, the moulder, the mer.
chant, all professions in the towns,
throw of their working clothes and
mingle with any assembly unmarked;
but it is reserved for the farmers
boy to show his calling at every Ger
ner by the cut of bis cloth.
As said before, the remedy for the
overcrowded condition of our cities
is in radical change in treatment Of
the farmers boys. They must be
made to feel proud of themselves
and their homes. They must have
hours for recreation as well as labor.
The old saying of the farmers wife
who wished it would rain nights and
$50 the boys could rest" is
too near real on many farms. Many
boys have left home who would not
have thought of it, if there had been
a time for recreation except when it
rained to hard to work "out doors or
set fence postS-"Land Register"
STocK RAISING AND WooL.-Two-
thirds of the area OF Eastern Wash
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