The Portland daily press., 1892-11-19
Uncle Jerry's Envoy Says Farmers
Should BE Bright Men.
A SOUTHERNER'S TALK ABOUT
THE NEGRO QUESTI0la
The Grange Had an Interesting Session
Yesterday-They Heard of the Berefiss
of the Department of Agriculture and
the Agricultural Colleges, and De-
manded Southern Mans Views on
the Southern Question-The Reply
Made a Breeze in the Meeting.

CONCORD, N. H., November 1s.--In
the National Grange today. Alpha Mes
ser of Vermont, reported for the COM
mittee on colleges. The report shows
that the 13 agricultural colleges that are
departments of classical institutions,
now have 773 students. The whole
number of graduates from these colssges
since they were established is 3O4 The
independent agricultural colleges ia 12
states now have 4,251 students and have
to their credit 1915 graduates, Mott of
the independent agricultural collsges
were recently established. Quotations
were given from emineLt authorities in
favor of independent agricultural col
legs as a means for imparting agr5cul-
tural education. The report closed with
the suggestion that Congress pass O law
requiring the states that have combined
agricultural colleges with classical in
stitutions to provide for separate bcards
of trustees to have charge Of all govern
ment appropriations for agricultural col
leges and have control of the same. The
National Grange unanimously
Endorsed the Report.
Hon. J. D. Dodge, representing the
Department of Agriculture, was intro
duced. He stated that tue Secretary of
Agriculture is in sympathy with the
work and aims of the grange, and ex-
planned how he is extending the activi-
ties and enlarging the usefulness of the
farmers branch of the government,
seeking further outlet for tue surplus
products of agriculture and the cheapen-
ing OF the cost of production while facil-
itating distribution, that rural labor may
find full and profitable employment at
fair remuneration.
He referred to the regret of farmers
that their sons should prefer q career
outside OF agriculture andiinsisted that it
would be blessing if they could in
duce their brightest boys to remain on
the farms and encourage the dullards to
60 into other business. There were too
many dullards in agriculture.
The number OF consumers of food
stuffs should be enlarged, and that OF the
producers diminished. Yet there was a
provisO in the occupation of CONSUMERS.
The swarming thousands of spectators,
the multitudes who live by their wits,
who produce nothing and distribute
nothing are burden to honest produc
ton, and like the dependent and crimi-
uai classes live upon the wealth created
the producing classes in agriculture,
--.anutacture, mining and construction.
1t is time that sharp discrimination
should be made between the useful and
injurious, the productive and destructive
classes, and that helping hand and a
warm welcome be extended to useful
dexterity, and a
Gold Shoulder" and Stern Repression
to laziness and piracy.
Cooperation was recommended in va
rious forms, including the establishment
of savings and loan associations, or peo-
ples banks, to encourage economy and
self help among the rural classes.
The address was ordered spread npon
the minutes.
At this evenings meeting, Congress-
man Long of Texas raised stiff breeze
when he spoke of the conditions of the
races in the South, as he was asked to do
by several of his hearers. He said the
negro question was not solved, but if
let alone, the South would solve it. We
educate him, and give him political
rights, but as to social equality we say
no. Mixed schools would be disadvan-
tageous to the negroes, as well as to the
whites. He claimed that harm was done
the negro in the South by sensational
articles in northern political papers.