Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-15
When he can seek in the miners life, by in
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when he can seek in the miners life, by in
dependent action, his livelihood.
Mines following the example of most
industries, are being concentrated in the
hands of capitalists, and can only be worked
by the large expenditure of capital. Surely
the miners daily life for wages is not an
inviting one, neither is it favorable for in
ellectual or moral culture. The very con-
ditions of the permanenCy of your homes is
not secure. There is always an unspoken
dread that the mines upon which the towns
and surrounding country depend may at
any time fail, and this unrest prevents pro-
grcss Ii drives men from your midst
Look at the list Of men who by mining ac-
cumulated fortunes in these counties, who
hsve departed to found homes in the cities
and valleys Of the State What they sought
was permanency, solidity, security. 1t IL
yours, then, while your children are grow
ing M around you, to create new vacations
and industries that shall enuce them 10
stay within the hallowing influences Of
| their natal homes. 1t is not alone the ma
| terial progress of the country which yCu
| will thus advance, but You viii be laying
| deep the foundations of good morals and
| true religion. The man whose mothers
| eye is upon him is not apt 10 60 wrong.
| conScryatOr OF virtue. \ home IS better
than a policeman, and grandmotherS are
| better than laws.
| Now the want in this State, and want
| that will in ten years be more forcibly felt,
| is i corps of intelligent men scientifically
trained in the culture of fruit. The man
who simply knows how to pillow must give
way before the educated farmer
| Fruit producing will soon be an art the
adept must be a student, and his vocation
| elevated to the dignity of profession. He
must be an entomologist, a chemist, a
naturalist, IA student Of vegetable ply
siology-in fine, an observing scholar.
Your boy, educated as he should be for
the vocation of horticulturist or viticult-
urist, will come back to you as a giant.
He will no longer be a plodder or find his
| highest ambition in being clerk, or law
yer or doctor. He will know that he has
| the forces of nature at his command, and
command them he will
These hills will glow with the fervor of
his energies He will find in these foot
| hills the richest field for his efforts. He
will not be tradesman. He Will have
smelt the clovcr'S bloom, and like the con-
tending men with the gods, when wearied
| he must embrace the earth He will build
| himself hOme-here he viii stay and set
/
, be close TO your eyes at Your latest day
and his children shall call him blessed.
| Choose therefore that your sons be edu
Gated to till the soil. do not mean TO
learn the manual labor of a farm but
educated i'll a higher sense. Brain is
manure nowadays. Learning lis a fertil
iZer. Send such as you can spare to the
University If yoUr public schools do not
afford at least the primary education to tit
your son for entry into the agricultural de-
partment Of the University, see 10 it that
the curriculum is enlarged.
The University now offers almost every
| facility for the education Of young men
| who intend to follow farming, and espec-
| work It's professors are analyzing soils,
classifying lands into sections suitable for
| special fruits, advising all inqulrers, expert
rlenting at their gardens with plants and
trees from all parts of the globe, distribut-
| Ing seed, and with marvellous zeal are slim
ulating genuine love for rural pursuits
In the past five years it has repaid to the
State by the aid it has extended to farmers.
orchardiStS and vineyardists more than its
whole cost. | bespeall for the University
your fostering care. This winter your rep
resentatiyeS will assemble at Sacramento in
| the Legislature. The University may need
! its agricultural department. | know that
! Professor Hilgard is already hampered by
want of means, and | hope your Senators
and AsSemblymen will stand ready to vote
| such an appropriation as is necessary 10
enable the University 70 enlarge it's field OF
| usefulness II will be good seed sOwn on
| good ground and will yield to you an hun
! bred fold.
Ny friends, long since dreamed dream
and still | dream. I am the son of a far
mer, proud Of his field lore and harvest
! craft, and my dream was and is of a farmer
mountain home For me now ! doubt if it
| is to be, but my vision Is Cfthose who shall
! come after me and people these mountain
! slopes.
For the young men, for your sons, who
are stirred by ambitions rage, the richest
possibilities lie within their reach.
! Here are the mountains to enlarge their
natures and quicken the Imagination; here
pure atmosphere, the very inspiration of
| energy; here a soil responsive to solicita-
! ton, and which will return of ministering
| love thousandfoid.
They will have inherited from you your
rugged virtues borr of pioneer struggles,
| your courage and endurance. and learning
and culture will add luster to their lives.
| They will be as Whittier says; Men to
! dwaried and abashed below them" The
| slopes will be gracious with festooning
vines bearing purple grapes, whose price
| Will make glad the heart OF man.
But the bravery of California will be the
| homes, the halIowed homes that shall be
set as gems in the Sierra, the coronet upon
| her brow.
! There will be no acres broad to separate
and chill the impulse of hospitality, nor
wide domains to nurse luxurious pride but
! brother linked 10 brother man by common
aims and equal lot, shall make religion
| of honest toll until Sierra shall blossom as
| a rose, and sced-time and harvest, and VII
| tue, and faith and love shall never fail.
! The Golden Age must come The eve
! that looks for it, the faith that endures for
! it, the heart that believes in it are already
at its threshold. Let each OF Us pray with
| Whittier
! o Golden Age, whose lights is of the dawn,
| And not of sunset, forward, not behind,
| Flood the new heavens and earth and with
| thee bring
| All the old virtues, Whatsoever things
/ Are pure and honest and Of good rcputc,
| But add thereto whatever bard has sung
! Or seer has told OF when in trance or dream
! They saw the Happy Isles of prophecy
| .sez.s----@3ss.s.s1aa,es.azs--s.
| MAKING CHILD A LIAR.-I remember
| the case of a clergyman, who by taking a
ease of ecclesiastical law into his own hands,
| laid himself open to a tremendous retort.
| When he asked the name of a child in
| baptism the godmothcr gave some extreme