New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-20

the farming class ct least that It dscrmnates IN aVor
OF other classes. which to the thag nor
can II be said that the policy OF the country has been
managed az least directly with a much 70 inc
farmers interest as u that OF other classes am aware
that this is mueh-mooted question but do not believe
thai any one VINO has taken pains study taiS WI"
claim that the farmers have such Immediate
influence In liking given rates OF duty as the manu-
heturer, for example,
II Is no wonder them that the American farmer Is in
bad way and likely to be one Along what line
does Improvement ef In the first place. OF course. IN INC
direction OF altering tha influences above referred Rail
way locy must be altered many pontsat some Of them
fundamentally The system OF be reaijusted
and the farmer relieved unjust burdens The tariff must
be improved tie banking ana general monetary policy Of
the country changed in many resrects
but all these after all mere paiatons They do not
go to the root oil the matter The which crowd
tug the American farmer the wall are worldwide
merely National forces He is wall because
he is trying to compete with farmers OF low grade OF IN
cgcnce aod civilization in production Of crops
intelligence and civilization count for conparativey little
Tho Russian peasant the Indian ryot the South
oor can raise wheat a. such rates VIII surely crush the
American farmer who relies on competing London
market EverT year stretches OF territory opened
up and brought to London which are quite good
Dakota Montana The whole Southern Hemisphere
will shortly be made accessible and every territory that
is rushing into the field wheat and corn raising
The American farmer must seek new crops where in
telieence and skin count for than fertility Of
soil juXaposition market and where having once
established himself he may bid defiance to the ignorance
and neniciency Of foreign peasant, ryot or boer This
calls for broad and liberal policy toward agriculture
oil its relations. IL involves Government private
operation Ia the announcement OF forestry and farming
two branches which though long divorced country
hand in hend II both flourish 1t demands
active aid agricultural schools agricultural experiment
stations agricultural and expostons-in word for
all those various by which agricultural science and
may be extended and made efficient. il our
farmers Alliances Grangers Associations Horny Handed
sons OF Toll Conventions, etc. would with their getting
get understanding would, after securing better while
securing. needed reforms in the railway tax tariff and
monetary policy of the country, the very
matter, viz remedy the Incidence, ignorance
81 tn farming classes themselves pertains
agriculture could cause to regret even
widest lucubratons of the fiat money antcorporato
demagogue
Z. W. HYDE Of Cincinnati, addressed the section Of
Mathematics and Astronomy The Evolution OF
Algebra" Professor j. A. E. Npher. of ST. Louis.
Of the Ether of Space Professor X. c. McKCdze,
the Agricultural college Of Michigan, the Chemical
section ~Alchemy' Professor Thomas Gray IF
Terre Haute, Ind, the Mechanical section Prob
lens in Mathematical Science Professor Joseph JAS
trOw, of Madison. Wis, the AnthrOpJOgc section OH
The Natural History of Analogy and Professor John
NJ. Coulter, President OF Indiana University, the Bio
logical section on The Future of systematic Botany
The eV6Ti-g was devoted in part 10. the annual al
dress Of the retiring president Professor George L.
CrOOdale OF Harvard, Some of the Possibilities OF
Economic Botany At the conclusion Of the address
a reception to the members of the association was
given by the Board Of Trade at the Arlington Hotel