Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-01

IHat 10 SOuuj anu WITCH you hnu SoOu
thing keep it and nurse it and build it
up. 1t is better to be a build-upper
than pull>downer. Some men go
about hunting for all the bad they can
find and look with an eye of suspicion,
and are disappointed if they don't find
something wrong. Some men are al
ways on the lookout for insults to get
mad about. Some men are jealous of
their wives and watch around for the
very thing they don't want to find.
Some men wont work in harness unless
they work in the lead and they are
trying to make character by pulling
down what others build up. All
that sort of thing is wrong, but still it
is right to prove things when it is done
in proper spirit.
I see that some of our law makers
are moving to investigate the Agricul>
tural Department. That is all right.
hope they will do it carefully and
thoughtfully and see if they can't do
something more for the farming inter.
ests of the State than has been done.
If there ever was patient, long suf.
fering people it is the farmers of
Georgia. Every reasonable man knows
that on prosperous agriculture de-
ponds the wealth, the vigor and the
virtue of a people. The farmers are in
the main the bulkwarks of liberty and
good government. Simple in habits,
industrious, humble, dependent more
upon God than man their sons grow
up manly and vigorous and their daugh-
tiers modest and virtuous and are not
carried away with the fashions and
temptations of life. A dollar made
upon the farm by a farmers boy is
very different sort of dollar from
one made in speculation or clerking in
store or travelling as drummer or
from five dollar fee in justice court.
It lasts longer and has more solid
ring. One Sunday suit is enough for
a farmers boy year or two and one
hat and one parasol and one pair of
gloves will keep his sister or his coun-
try sweetheart happy just as long.
There is a freedom about farming that
no other occupation can boast. His
time is his own. He has no employees,
and belongs to no man and can come
and go when he pleasas. The pure air
and water are his, and the sweet south
wind and the creeks and the branches
and flowers that perfume the meadows
and fields. IT'S
I read the other day that Jay
Gould's son said the old man was going
to take a little trip around the world
to look at it and if he liked it he inten.
ded to buy it. Well, Of course, that
was a kind of joke, but Jay Gould
with all his money can't buy content.
ment nor create one gushing springli
mine. But still the farmer is a long
suffering man. He gets less protection
and less consideration than any Other
class. He makes a scanty living by
sweat and toll and gets power of ad'
vice. He tries cotton and wheat and
truck of all kinds and the editors keep
telling him exactly how to get rich,
and he keeps pegging away, but can't.
The editors know exactly how to do il
and / wish some of 'em would come
out and show US. Farming beats q
saw mill on paper, but somehow il
don't pan out in the pocket. Every
year the State gets up boom for high
schools and colleges, which is all right
l reckon, and the town boys go there
and get an education and then &c
back to the town again and settle down
at something, something that keeps
their pretty hands white and clean and
wears out the seat of their britches.
1t amt one college boy in twenty that
settles down on a farm and goes tc
work. If farmers boy is sent to town
to school he soon learns town habits
and goes to shows and joins a brass
band and the first thing anybody
knows he wants to study law or medi
cine or clerk in store and speak ofhii
father as "the old man."
Now what we want is to make