The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-27

ingredients that will supply what was
lost You have to treat it like a man and
keepit up to its work by good foods and
tonics. 1t requires brains and study to
do this, and in fact l know of no place or
profession where brains pays so well in
modest way as in farming"
"How about our farmers boys? Will
they continue to leave the farms for the
city,"
II think not" replied Uncle Jerry.
THE boys of the country will soon see
that they can make more by staying at
home than by running Off to town.
The farm is far better place than
the city and the farm of the future will be
coveted by the people of the cities. As it
is, our farmers boys, if they will use the
same study, brains and energy which en-
able them to live from hand to mouth. as it
were, IN the cIty,o farm, they can make
success of it and can grow up into life of
independent manhood that they can have
nowhere else. The farmer of today has
most OF the advantages of the city. He
lives better than his city brother and
with his books and his papers he has the
leisure to live an intellectual life which
his city brother cannot have.
The new organizations among the
farmers, continued Secretary Rusk, "are
an indication of the growth of the INTEL
lectual life. They are thinking for them
serves ana their ideas show that they
are awake and that they are
glad to see it. think the
country is to be congratulated
upon the awakening interest which they
have IN political affairs, and believe that
they are by their numbers and their ne
ouliar position especially well fitted to
serve as a baiance-wheel in political mat
tiers. Extremists may be found in their
ranks as IN the ranks of all other
classes, but IN our future the CAPITALIST
Will learn to trust the farmer as a man
who owns property and can never be n
communist; and on the other hand. the
Iahorer Will have a confidence in him as a
workingman who will never become
q monopolist. l do not apprehend
that the farmers will ever be q
political party of themselves in the United
states. Their interests are wrapped ND in
those of the rest of the country and their
success forms the foundation of the sue
cess OF all classes and all industries They
VIII continue to support such great
Ideas and public questions as come
before the country and the ditferen ces
OF opinion will be as great among them rs
among the members of the other classes.
They are the most conservative element of
the United States. They do more honest
thinking than the people of the town.
They generate public sentiment. and the
majority of them are seldom wrong"
How about our foreign markets, Secre-
tary Rusk2 Are they growing, and will
they coutinue?"
Our foreign markets are one of nv
hohhies.n said General Rusk. II don 4
know that | can say anything about them
that have not already said | believe
that the agricultural department;
should study the markets of
all the countries Of the world
and that it should show just what each
country raises ana what it is OBLIGED n
import. II should let the farmers know
lust what prices they can get Tor the things
they send abroad. and 1t should keep then,
posted as 10 how to ship them. | he.
Geye we should study the wants of foreign
countries. and We are experimenting al
the time 10 increase the variety OF QUA
products, not only with the view TO the
foreign markets hut 20 the supplying uul
home markets with everything that car
be raised on our soil. As to the foreign
trade this wear. the market for grain Is
You know, excellent, and our shipments
will steadily increase. don't thinl
We export by any means as much as W,
should 10 other countries, We have unit
lately not paid sufficient attention 10 GU
foreign trade Our home demand ha
been 50 large that we have not needed i
and asst Is We waste enough right aion
81 feed one OF the other good-sized nations
Look NJ Il. Our 6b,oOo,eo eat NOR
than any 100000 in any other par
OF the globe aud you could. l venture, fee
the whole HN,UNW0 of India on what ou
farms produce in single year. II ye
could take the products Of last year an
pile them up mountain high anu gathe
all the men, women and childre
in the United States around ther
and have grand division, every mar
woman and child would get Hfsy-thFe