Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-12
COMES FROMTHEFARM
MORE INTEGRITY AMONG TILL
Frs OF THE SOIL.
Agriculture Is tho Basis Of Everything
And to LeglSlRtO Against the
Farmer Is to Weaken the Foundation
of Government and Society.

Rev. DR.. Hawthorne, of Atlanta,
preached sermon to the National
Farmers Congress during its session in
that city.
"Text, PHILIPPIANS ii-vi 5: Look not
every man on his own things, but every
man also on the things Of others. Let
this mind be in you which was also In
Christ Jesus
Agriculture is ana ever will be, the
basis Of all other material interests.
To foster this industry is to befriend
every other industry, and to cripple II
is to impair every activity which con-
tributes to the welfare Of the people.
The race could possibly live without
manufacturers, merchants, or dentists
or physicians, or lawyers, or even with
out politicians, but without the farmer
it would soon become extinct. The alb
sOlute essential thing for every human
being is bread, and the production Oh
that Is the vocation Of the farmer. TO
legislate against him is
TO WEAKEN THE VERY FOUNDA-
TON
of every lawful and useful industry.
"Nine-tenths of the men who have
risen to enviable distinction were born
and reared outside Of the cities. The
majority Of them were born In farm
houses and had some actual experience
in cultivating the soil. Look into the
catalogues of our American colleges
and you will find nine-tenths OF the
medalists and first honor graduates
were from the country and country VII
lagos. without the new blood that Is
constantly coming in from the country
in less than fifty years the cities would
be
INTELLECTUALLY IMPOVER-
ISHED.
without q constant infusion OF men
and women from country churches re-
ligion would degenerate into the dead
est Journalism. Let agriculture flourish,
country school houses multiply and
country churches continue to be true to
the faith and worship Of our country
fathers and mothers and our
NATION WILL BE SAFE, PROSPER
GUS AND HAPPY.
I'm selecting a subject for this occa-
sion could think Of none that would
be more helpful to us than the one pre-
sented in the text-'An unsel6sh and
self-denying concern for the welfare OF
our fellOw-man, the only solvent Of our
social problems
Society will never get rid Of its
discord and strifes and enter upon
career Of abiding peace and prosperity
until 1t is permeated by the spirit and
controlled by the principle expressed In
this passage. AS communities and ma
lions drift away from the great law
Of benevolence which Christ taught and
illustrated in all He said and did and
suffered, their depravity increases and
their social conflicts and calamitles
multiply. Any legislation that contra
Venes the law Of Christ contained in
His great Sermon on the Mount will be
prolific Of
NOTHING BUT SOCIAL EVIL.
I'VE speak the words Of truth and
soberness when we say that the power
which propels the wheels Of our pres
emit civilization is not love, but greed.
In politics and commerce there is q
premium on shrewdness and deception.
answering honesty and true Christian
generosity are sneered at as virtues too
sublimated and ethereal to be practiced
by creatures who wear earth about
them, and who have to grapple with
such prosaic questions as What shall
1 eat, what shall drink, and where
withal shall be clothed?
"a civilization that Is based solely
upon self-interest, and that magnifes
and rewards men who
SUCCEED BY THEIR SUPERIOR
CUNNING,
hss no power whiting itself to secure