Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-17
STICK TO THE FARM,

The. constantly recurring instances
of dissatisfaction among farmers leading
to change to some other avocation in.
the vain hope Of lessening the burdens of
life aud reaching that goal of content
ment Which 50 many strive for but very
few attain, are the stumbling blocks to
the practical development and mainte-
nance of remnnerative farming in this
country. With all the exactions and
hardships incident to the trials of the
tillers Of the soil, there is no calling
which rewards untiring effort with the
same measure of success which comes of
a life spent in the practical development
of that branch of human industry to
which the Georges of Virgil have lent
such a charm and an undying fame, as
that of the tiller of the soil. 1t is true, a
competence IS not acquired so rapidly in
this field as in some of the more inviting,
but at the same time mere hazardous
professions. But for its trials and exac-
lions full compensation is generally made
in the blessings of vigorous health and a
clear and undisturbed conscience. With
all the reputed trials and hardship of
farm life, it unquestionably approaches
nearer to that state which gives content
ment, and eliminates from life those ele-
ments of care and anxiety which at once
are the unwelcome intrnders in every.
professional calculation and the skeleton
in every counting room.
There is no station in life so free from
the chickering's, asperities, victories and
never ending competitions and antago-
nisms that mark the struggles of man for
competence and fixed place of abode,
as that of a husbandman.. From the
e time Cincinnatus was called from the
pillow to the highest civic honors within
the gift of the Roman people to the pres
ent day, husbandry has numbered among
its followers and disciples, the leading
minds in statecraft and scientific re-
search in every country and age. The
American farm, like the feudaI castles of
the old world, gives protection in the as
sertien of individual rights and convic-
.
but certain rewards which these homely
castles offer to honest effort and conv1c-
ton, can, from these fortresses of free
men, sally forth day after day to assert
her authority and power over the trucu.
lent and dangerous aggressions of capt.
tai and the privileged classes. Depend
ence begets individual servility and the
conditions favorable to it, lead, in the
end, to the extinction Of the spirit of lib
.erty among the masses of the people, and
their final assent to conditions which
necessarily lead to their abasement and
national humiliation. The burning elo
quence with which Henry stirred the
Virginia house of delegates to resist the
Entertainments of George Ill. on the
rights of the colonies, and the immortal
p Indictment against the same tyrant,
penned by Jefferson and presented to
the world by the continental congress as
a declaration of their independence of
the mother country, were the first fruits:
OF the pure air and unpolluted surround
ings of Virginia farm life when brought
face to face with the alterna-
tives of liberty or abject submission to
the tyranny of2the English king. s
81 Young men. before commencing life,
should ponder well over both the exact
ions essential to success IN husbandry.
and the more enticing, but less certain
advantages which the professions and
mercantile interests hold out often times
with such disastrous results, to the youth
of the Country who are just taking the
initial step in the great battle Of life.
Where one now succeeds in mercantile
pursuits, or in the professions, there are
hundreds who fall by the way side, while
the exact reverse of this is true among
the farmers of the country.