The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-09-30

yearling heifer 2nd-heifer calf End.
DAIRY AND MILK BREEDS.
Frank Kimm-cow yrs old, 1st.
Norman Beebe, Vernon-cow yrs
old, End.
GRADES, PURE BRED CATTLE BARRED.
n. E. Coud-cow yrs old, End.
James Church, Garden City-heifer
calf 1st
Lester Flemming, Garden City-cow
yrs old, lst--heifer 2 yrs old 1st-
yearling heifer 1st-same Ist
SHEEP.
n. E. Cond-buck lamb, 1st.
lockwood & Chapman-buck sheep,
1st-3 ewes 1st-2 lambs End.
G. e. Nelson, Garden City-3 ewes
1st-fine wool buck, 1St.
T. J. Travers, Garden city-Lie-
CHESTER buck, 1st.
j. Woodruff, Ceresco-Cotswold
ewes 1st-Cotswold buck, 2nd-same
1St.
Frank Nickerson, Garden CitY-3
coarse wool sheep, 2nd-pen of lambs
1st.
POULTRY.
VIM. T. Thomas. Garden City trio
Brown Leghorns, 1st-trio Sponge
horns, 1st.
G. WendlandG-3 wild Missouri
turkeys, 1st.
A. J. Gilman-3 Holland turkeys
| 1St.
Miss Lilly Osgood, Garden City
Plymouth Rock chickens.
THE SPEECHES.
The Vernon Center band supplied
the music and escorted the speakers
of the day. Hon. John Lind, and J. E.
Brown, to the speakers stand. At 2
O'Clock. Maj. Evans introduced the
former speaker, who gave the follow
ing excellent address, which is it's own
commentator:
MR.. PRESIDENT AND LADIES AND
GENTS: When your President advised
me of the time that | was to speak,
he suggested that | would be expect
ed to address you on the subject of
agriculture. [ have construed this
literally as you will see. 1t seemed
too much like presumption for me,
having spent nearly One-half of my
life away from The farm to undertake
to instruct the farmers of Blue Earth
county as to the best methods Of rails
ing grain or rearing stock | shall
therefore devote my time TO the dis
cuSSiOn OF the question that we have
heard asked SO often of late: Why do
farmers sons and daughters flock to
the cities?
This topic seems the more Oppor-
tune as both the recent census and
our own observation show that in the
last quarter of a century city growth,
in Importance and population, has
been relatively much more rapid than
the progress of the rural sections.
Some regard this as an evil sign OF the
times, and as certain evidence that
our civilization is fastening to it's
own destruction. So far as / am con-
cerned | do not view it in that light.
l cannot say that l regard it with favor
or even omplacencyfor Think that the
appreciate the fact that large cities
are frequently the causeof the polite
al and moral destruction of a people.
While for these reasons / look upon
this inordinate city growth with
some forebodings for the future, I new
ertheless feel that within certain
limits, at least, it is proper and in
evitable change-a change made
no cNrxr Inv hn OIL
in civilization and the remarkable de-
velOpment of industrial activity in
recent years.
This phenomenal growth of cities
while great in the U. s. is quite as
marked in Europe. Berlin, Liver
pool, and Vienna have increased in
population quite as rapidly as New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia. 1t
will thus be seen that it is not due to
any local causes or legislation, as is
claimed by some, but that it is rather
a great movement Of population COM
mon alike to the countries of the CIV
iliZed world.
In my limited time l can but hint
at what l believe to be the causes.
But causes there are underlying these
great movements Of population, just
as certainly as there were causes inn
polling the Goths and Vandals of the
North to descend upon and destroy
or appropriate the civilization of
Southern Europe, and as there are
causes today impelling immigration
from Europe to our shores. The lead
ing factor which actuates men in
these movements, both collectively
and as individuals, when they are not
for cOnqueSt,is desire to better their
condition. The immigrant comes
here to obtain better food, better
shelter and occasionally to escape
either persecution or prosecution in
the country which he left. We have
a right to assume therefore that the
young men and women who leave the
farm today to seek their fortunes in
the city, do so with the object Of bet
tering their condition. Hence it be-
comes very pertinent inquiry
whether realization of their hopes is
in store for them or disappointment.
That the conditions for success have
been better in the city than in the
country, during the last twenty years,
when judged solely from the stand
point of economical success, l am
forced to believe, both by reason of
the fact that so many have gone there
from the farm and because our city
pOnI11ation until within the St fouU