The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-15

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good fortune has happened to any man will,
somehow or other, come to them. They
never will think of the hundred that fail
where one has prospered, and too easily for
get the warning lessons they can so easily
learn from the blighted lives and early spent
energies Of numbers whom they have known
who have but found o hopeless grave for
every dream their fancy pictured. The
great army Of tramps that adorn eur door
steps begging for a crust of bread is made
up of country boys who dreamt dreams of
wealth and pleasure when they first felt i'll
at ease in their fathers humble but comfort
able and plenteous home. Could the broad
plains and wild mountain glens beyond the
Missouri give record ofthe disappointments
they have witnessed, of the sorrows they
have seen furrowing the cheek of many q
hopeful mothers boy, no farmer boy could
ever again be enticed away from the good old
farm by faucys fairest pictures. Every or
binary farm contains mines of wealth which
generations Of delivers cannot exhaust. The
soil on which we stand is richly laden with
wealth more certain than silver or glitter
ing gold. Let every young man who has
had the good fortune to inherit vigorous
health and energetic manhood from the farm
devote his energies to tillng the soil, and
certain and rich will be his gains. Boys,
remain on the farm. The farm-life has its
hardships, its dark and shadowy side, but it
brings safe returns. 1t is safe from the foul
contagion of both bodily and moral disease
that walks abroad in the streets of the city.
Unless wider field opens to you, where GER
tain, definite work awaits you, never leave
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folly than the bright healthy farmers boy
who goes away from home aimlessly, vaguely
in search Of tickle fortune, with no definite
prospect before him but the exceptional sue
cess of some other youth Turing him on.
The farm and home life are the best founda-
tons for q noble manhood. The welfare and
prosperity of our loved and favored land de-
ponds prominently on the manliness of our
people. We want race of men free, but
independent loving liberty, obedient to con-
stitutional law and order, but no mans pur-
chased slaves.
Our basis Of citizenship is neither wealth,
prosperity nor power, Dut manhood, full
grown. Our government is built on adult
man, not on property or family distinctions.
Hence we need for our permanent prosperity
the best and noblest type of men. We want
to see fully developed among our people
every element Of manliness and grandeur of
character. AS these elements are, or can be,
best developed on the farm, every friend of
our country's future casts a look of love up
on the farm, feels q sense Of reverence for
the tiller of the soil, and cannot fail to take
a deep and lively interest in every movement
that encourages agriculture, and gives the
patient farmer the credit that is his due. We
are all dependent on the farmer for our daily
food, and his prosperity is the best and
brightest beam of hope we ever see. When
benefcent Providence blesses the farmers
toll every branch of human industry feels
the impulse of life and vigor the benediction
brings.
tits, perhaps, a fortunate circumstance in
favor of our country's Development, for the
settlement of our broad acres and extensive
prairies, that notable element of our people
is of rowing disposition, and always ready
to move. | am persuaded, however, that
this characteristic is far from beneficial to
the Individual, either morally or financially.
This prompt readiness to sever social ties, to
desecrate the sanctity of the paternal home,
to smother the reverence Unborn wieh every
man for the scenes of his boyhood, is in dan
ger Of developing an Inconsistency Of charac-
ter fatal to any peoples greatness. Much
moving and changing is fatal, too, to the far
mer's worldly success, for patient waiting
and permanent settlement on the land are
! essential conditions that the farmer be duly
rewarded. The farmer can be but little of
theorist, his work is practical and his skill
becomes perfect in she hard school of expert
ence The peculiarities of Temperature, the
fertility of the soil and its adaptability for
producing the best possible crop from certain
kinds of seed, he becomes familiar with, not
in one season or two, but after several trials
and many disappointments. The farmer has
to wait SO long until nature reveals to him,
by processes he cannot hasten, the result of