The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-25
Address OF Secretary Rusk at the
State Fair.

The Cleveland Leader gives the follow.
ing report Of Secretary Rusks address {:
The Secretary proposes, as one means
of illustrating too rapid growth in the
proportion of our population devoted to
farming, that homestead laws be limited
in their operation to actual citizens of
the United States. No man not a citi-
zen, he says, should be permitted to
own or cultivate farm, and concludes
this recommendation with one of his
chare cteristic outbursts. He says:
''There is room for but one flag and but
one people in this country-none for
those whose allegiance is elsewhere
We have room for those who seek our
country for its heaven. born liberties
none for those who come to breed dis
cord and discomfort, and to preach their
internal doctrine of disorder and of an.
archy, which are as un.American as
monarchy, and as reasonable as seces.
sion." He congratulates the farmers
upon the development of agricultural
organizations, justifies their determine
| tion to no longer be satisfied with com.
parisons OF the advantages they now en-
joy with the few privileges enjoyed by
their sires, bnt to insist upon their full
share with their city brothers in the
general prosperity to which they con.
tribute 80 much. He warnes them,
however not to expect impossible results
from legislative action, advises such con-
servatism in the formulation of their
plans of action, ais will surely enlist pub.
lie opinion on their side and essential to
success in country where the majority
most always rule. He cautions the
farmer, while firmly maintaining his
own rights, to respect those OF all other
classes OF workers, and to seek the &C.
complishment of his plan rather with
than by antagonizing existing political
parties. Lastly, he pledges to the farm
ers the hearty cooperation and aid of
the Department of Agricultural, whose
work he refers to briefly, laying especial
stress, however, upon the pure food
question, the control and extirpaticn of
animal diseases, taking occasion in this
connection to declare his personal con.
viction that pleuro. pneumonia is prac.
tically eradicated from American soil,
and to what he calls the aggressive work
OF the department in its efforts to (l)
free American stock interests and meat
production from the unjust stigma cast
upon its wholesomeness by foreign gov.
| ernsnents. This course adopted by the
department in this respect, he believed
destined to succeed in either, securing
the withdrawal Of these unjust accuse
tions, or furnishing good grounds for re-
taliatory measures. (2) 10 the extern
sion of facilities for gathering and distrib-
uting reliable statistical Information,
which he points out, will be keeping
the American farmer posted as to the
foreign supply and demand, and the
condition Of our crops and markets will
prevent his being imposed upon by the
Spectators and dealers, who do not hes
itate to resort to exaggeration and even
Misrepresentation, in order that they
may thrive ON his losses. He concludes
by declaring the struggle for agricultur.
al victory to-day to be no less arducus
or vital than the struggle for national
supremacy in the past, and invoking
upon the farmers OF Ohio tthe bless.
ings of wisely conducted government,
economically administered, Of bene-
ficient laws which insure your prosperity,
and the blessings of kindly Providence
upon all your aspirations. /" &