The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-20


frauds that take pace daily in our country
The frauds OF our financial legislation from
iSos until now Is appalling. The Sentinel, in
In favoTOf the repeal of the resumption aci is
right. am in favor OF both. Let US have the
banking business of this country upon a basis
that shall make us independent of panic and
financial distress in all the money markets of
the world. The gold basis was never adequate
anywhere TO the business of any country in a
time of emergency Let us emancipate
ourselves from England and throw
fathers did heir tea. Let US do business upon
a basis that Will enable them across the Allan
tic to tight If they choose, that will enable
to give them gold we do grain and cheese
and butter. without disaster, but with profit
ana prosperity. They say IL we remGnetiZe
silver the bonds will come back. 1 wish had
all my heart, and know you will re-ecno the
sentiment, let hem come. Better that they
sho Id be held here than held abroad. Deyef-
production of the best that mother earth will
give for the asking; then landhOlders,
not y, iore ign bond holders, viii dictate the
irlenos at the west like my friend Colonel
Maynard, OF your own city, who syInl athize
with this view, and know another in public
nie.and wish he Were president OF this
republlc-Be nJamin +. Butler, who, although
hitherto ma1isned and misunderstood. stanus
to-day foremost am ngst statesmen, qualified
by hls ex raordinary business knowledge and
experience to hold the n I'm that will guiue US
TO greater consideration amongst the nations
dreamed of.
The great northwest has compelled atten-
ton TO many important questions, but to none
more grave than those which affect the agri-
cultural development of the country. The In
teTests that you in this convention represent,
while they affect you personally, are OF more
than Individual concern, FIR The full knowl-
edge requisite 10 the dairy interests of this
section is absolutely necessary TO The wei are
OF all. Conventions such as yours are doing
more towards suggestions and knowledge for
the benefit of mankind than any Others |
know of, because their influence is tending
towards cheap food and liberal education. The
questions which you discuss ale discussed be-
yond party lines or individual interests, and
the benefactlon which Is the gift
crosses the Threshold of every home.
You not only plough the land, and plant the
seed, and reap the harvest In the held, but you
turn the burrows of the mind AID soul, enrich
ing the one with intelligence and ennobling
the other with the fruits of higher civIliza-
ton, When you have given to the farmers of
the land the knowledge of STOCK breeding and
the Intelligence that Is involved in feeding
and raising cattle; when you have impaired
the wisdom that gives flavor TO the grasses,
and have indicated how, with the utmost
economy the greatest results in money value
may be gotten, you have furnished the means
by which the mental labors and drudgery of
the household may be lightened The Income
from which school houses can be built and
the circumstance, under which children can
be better born. When we make the plea in
behalf of the dissemination of knowledge
for agriculture, we make a plea for home.
There is no moral quality essential to the
welfare OF mankind Jnat Is not cOlsonant and
mainly dependent upon this knowledge. The
plowman, after God. Is the first civilizer. The
first tree felled reverberated the psalm that
warmed and gladdened his home, and the
harvests that he has gathered since have
helped to feed mankind. Before your great
cities of the west were built or your prairies
peopled the father Of waters waited, and for
wha ? Ii fore civilization dawned here two
rivers only broke the silence that covered the
metropolis OF the new world, and for what?
".
for what? To-day the whole land is r bbed
with iron, and5or whist? In silence the mes
sages of state to state and empire to empire 60
over the wires, because of what? Coincidence
waited for the bowman and science and civil
rattan have only been the executors of His
viii, and yet, in the light of present intelli-
gence, how inadequate his Knowledge OF the
results he mighL achieve.
have Travelled widely through this country,
from boyhood until now, ana although he
mas been stimuiatedS by my intercourse with
your people. 1t has been plant OF slow but
steady growth. My heart has ached many "A
time on account OF the privatlons that nave
seen suffered in the country. inherit "A SYM
pathy with want and ignorance from a mother
who must hear me now NV first knowledge
of the FARMER was received through visits made
with her for the alievlation o. suffering
through penury, and feel there is q heaven
(and believe there iS) lJ smiles through her
on me Tor this my plea in beha OF knowledge
ior those who need 1t. 1t is for you vino have
in charge the development OF the agricultural
resources of the country to say how short or
how long shall be the time for the establish
ment of a higher civilization through the
farm.
The stability o. re country to-day through
its agricultural resources, furnishes the only
sound financial basis on which the money
necessary for circulation can be founded, and
il can be continued indefinitely if they are fos-
tered through essential knowledge. Call the
nom producers from Wall street aud from
rooms to the farms, and the country
will not be CONFUSED with mercantile dlsas-
tiers. Fertillze the fields and the ring OF silver
will q ~ q - q
with your development aud the humble six
pence will outvie and outbuy the sluggish
Fortunately the issues we are considering
are not sectional. Men may have differed as
methods and systems, but Intelligent men
have always recognized their importance, and
the necessity of their true and practical sOlu-
ton. Virginia furnished a jefferson, devoted
to agriculture; Massachusetts, a Webster, who
ranked the plough above the forum; New
York a Clinton, who, guided by the sugges ion
OF nature Itself, b ptlZed commerce with the
waters of your lakes. His naxIe will be re-
by the poor 10 the last generation,
and they will break cheap bread as "a memorial
of him forever. Let me state 10 you one prac-
teal fact, the product of bis consideration OF
the necessities of agriculture. The canal sys-
tenn of the state of New York, even when
cursed with management that oppressed the
west and injured the east, saved 10 producers
and consumers as between the sworn cost of
by rail and the expense OF
by canal, when the toLs'were
six cents on wheat and four celts on com,
So, 00O,UV0 per anuum. The west has given the
world Il man, stalwart above all in our history,
who dared $40 front a lie ia arms and not TO
yield"-Abraham Linco n-who gave the south
freedmen for the tillers of It's soil, and the
warm south wind brings Us their voice in graf
itude for the gilt:
"For him her old world moulds aside she
threw,
And choosing sweet clay from the breast
OF the unexhausted west,
With stuff unta1nted shaped a hero new,
Wise, s,eadfast in the strength OF God. and
true;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
Not iured by any cheat OF birth,
But by his Clear grained humsn worth,
And brave old wisdom OF sincerity"
The dairy interests are attracting a wider at
tentlon to-day than ever before, and justly.
The product exceeds 500, OUO,JUO annually, and
L am glad to know that Its quality at the west
is as good as the best produced anywhere. 1t
can be improved for The benefit AID enrich
ment of ali by impas ting to all the knowledge
and eXperience given here. rhe imprOvement