The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-10-27
Reported for THE RECORD.
ADDRESS.
1.-The Farmer and His Calling
The Patrons Of Husbandry
and Their Ritual
Delivered at Locktown, Hunterdon
County, N. J., Oct. IS, 1886.
BY FRANKLIN DYE.

Man is social being. His wants are
as varied as are his capacities for enjoy
ment To satisfy these is the chief end
of his earthly life. The variety and
number of his wants increase or de-
crease, or are cultivated or neglected
with that plane of human civilization he
occupies. So, also, are the means used
to their qualification @sthetical and re-
fined, or vulgar and beastly. In an
isolated condition, far removed from his
fellow-beings or having but little inter-
course with them and knowing but little
of what may be known, his wants are
primitive and are met in a primitive
way A glance at the nomadic tribes
of the old world, or the aborigines of
the new, will justify the assertions made.
But as population increases and becomes
settled, if Christian education and re-
finement increase with it, the higher and
nobler elements Of his nature assert
their existence and claim higher and
nobler qualification than do the mere
animal functions and appetites of his
being. More than this, the wants Of
the family are the wants of the indi-
vidual aggregated. The wants Of the
family are repeated and extended in the
wants of the community. The wants of
the community in its enlarged condition
are met only in the State and Nation.
Every form of human organization is
made to meet some real or supposed
want Of the individual, the older and
most needful Of which are the family,
the Church, the school and the State.
Every individual has right to the full
enjoyment Of all his powers in right
and temperate way, subject to the lin
itation, "The rights of the individual
cease where community rights begin"
There are other wants, however, differ
ent from those mentioned, growing out
of the diversity Of occupations or trades
followed, which call for other forms Of
organization. Persons engaged in the
same calling and obtaining their living
from the same pursuits find it to be to
their advantage to organize themselves
into company or association to adj
vance their common interests, and every
stream that can be made to assist in
floating their enterprise is turned on 1t
is not worth while, nor IS it my purpose,
to enumerate the various forms of human
organization that are constituted for real
good, for innocent enjoyment, or for
vulgar nonsense Well would it be for
society in general il organizations seek
ing the interest Of single class would
confine their operations within the limits
Of the Divine law, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself" IF this were the
rule Of their operations corners in grain
and other necessaries Of life would not
be pressed SO far as to defraud the pro-
ducer by giving 4 very low price for his
hard-earned harvest and then holding
until the consumer must pay far more
than reasonable advance, much
greater price than he would have to pay
the producer. Nor would Immense
syndicates be formed for the purchase
of coal regions in order to control mining
to a certain output, profitable only to
the stockholders. Nor would railroad,
manufacturing, mining and other stocks