The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-04
wanted. More seIa-Respect.


selected as its secretary young |
sprig of a lawyer. Do farmers ex-
pect to get ahead in their business
by such a course of proceeding?
Rather how can they expect to sue !
coed by such ganagements The
office of secretary is the most inn
portant office in an agricultural as
ISOLATION, and requires man OF
varied intelligence and practical
knowledge of farming; man ia
miliar with agricultural societies,
the object for which they are insti-
tuted, what have they achieved,
wherein they have failed, fallen
short, and disappointed the hopes
of the earnest friends OF the cause,
Is any farmer innocent enough to
suppose these requirements can be
found in any young man, much less
in one whose entire training. effort
and ambition are devoted to bust
ness as far removed from aggricui-
ture as the east is from the west!
Was such a phenomenon ever heard
of as a bar association going out in
to the wheatfelds, or cornfields, in
search of a clerk or secretary! The
idea is so preposterous that even the
unsoph sticated farmer boy would
laugh at it. Is it any more ridicu-
lous than an association of grave
and venerable farmers selecting a
gXsnillss AXE charge Of tfhff ntthe legal
do their correspondence and virtu-
ally shape the proceedings Of their
association?
To witness such egregious blum
dering, SO much culpable folly COM
mitted by farmers, is discouraging,
disbeartening to every earnest
worker in their cause What are
our public schools worth if they
haven't afforded farmers and farm
ers' sons education sufficient to
write letters and keep books as well
as youthful attorneys? We should
suppose that an honorable, praise
worthy pride in their business, a
manly feeling of seIf-respect, would
protect farmers from the commits
sion of such ineXcusable blunders.
No agriculturaez association with
such management and appoint
ments as this indicates, will ever
amount to a row of pins. It's men,
bers lack spirit, self-esteem and
heart in their business to ever sue
coed in accomplishing anything
useful.
You will find young attorneys
and quill drivers" all over the land
Glowing their way to the front of
all kinds of societies and organiza-
tons. This shows an individual en-
terprise which we are not disposed
10 quarrel with, but rather commend
in the parties who do the pushing.
But what is the Interior object, the
chief inspiring motive? To bring
themselves prominently in the eye of
the public, a mere stepping stone to
political place and power Not one
of them cares rush for the farmer
and the great cause of agriculture;
not whit more than the curculio
cares for the plum, which is made
the medium for its future develop
at the cost of the plum.
The legal gentleman aims to fill
the public offices and direct public
affairs, which are easily shaped to
his own and his classes personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, by first filing the
public eye in getting at the head Of
small associations, becoming the
mouthpiece of such societies, at
tracing to himself public attention,
and by very natural succession of
steps he marchs up to the front and
claims to represent public opinion
which he rarely ever does.
Until farmers learn to act ration
ally and consort in a more business
like manner, depending upon them
selves, believing in themselves and
tackling every problem they pro-
pose to solve with agents selected
from their own class, they will
never be able to stand abreast with
those whose lives are devoted to
other pursuits. Farmers are lacking
in self-respect for agriculture, and
in self-reliance to shape and direct
their own affairs, as well as public;
Familiarity speaking, political affairs.
This is a chief stumbling block to
their advancement, which com
mands the earnest effort of every
worker in the cause toremove. No
great advance can be expected till
| this is accomplished.
We maintain that LAWYERS have
become well nigh a useless class,
that under their manipulations law
has degenerated into a system of
tricks, and that justice is little else
than myth of heather mythology.
BY their tergiversations crime is
UNPUBLISHED and hnneet industry is
laid under three fourths of the heavy
public expense it has to bear. AS
a community increases in wealth
the percentage of its public ex
pense increases, and its law practi-
TONERS increase, and are invariably
found riding the whirlwind and d.
recting the storm in society. If we
can bring the rural population to
contemplate these abuses and rouse
their self-respect a great step in
progress will have been accom-
plished. When you have honor to
bestow or possibilities to bear,
! farmers. place them upon the brow