The Newtown bee., 1896-05-15
Town TOplcs.
THE NEWTOWN FAIR.

REV O. Q. WRIGHT RELIEVES A GOOD
 TOWN FAIR WILL HELr TO IMPROVE
 THE CoM9tUNI1Y.
 i have an interest in this thing be- cause | believe that it tends to quicker and enlarge and purify the private ant public life of the community. take if for granted of course that it will be con tro}lcd and directed by intelligent and upright people, and not by pot-houst politicians, doad-b and gamblers. Now is the time for men of wealth and commanding influence in this and ip neighboring towns to make their power felt by putting enterprise and moral en, Jhusasm into this scheme for permn ncnt agricultural fair which shall be an ot ioct lesson and practical school of eX pcrienco to their children and chidren's children. It may not, immediately, pay a' dividend in dollars and cents, but it. success will, without any doubt, in the long run, prove to be a wise and bene- ticent investment for the whole commu- nity at large. l believe that in the course of time a well conducted fair will pay, as q financial investment, but there Hre other things that we all need more than the increase of the bank account. Money is a curse and not a blessing whenever it fails to minister to the so- tial, intellectual and moral welfare of .le people. 1t is means of power for good or evil in its uses. The man who piles up riches and never does anything f9s the common good by promoting en- Irrprisc, education, and all those divine lq human institutions which refine and giyills and happily the world, Is a hin- 3rraury to the progress of the kingdom ol heaven and disgrace to our Chris t:au era. More than that he is a stand ing menace to che peace and stability of ~oc,ty. What right has any man to seize upon the common stock of the good things of this world and keep them au to himself and force others to go m.thout* II anarcham ever breaks loose asd dcstroys the present order of thc world and reduces it to ruin and chqr7 it wiI be because the folly of the rich has driven the poor to desperation, vhou they should have made friends of in. uurightoous mammon and laid up for thamacIvra treasures in heaven.
 A well conducted fair is public beue- ii. in many ways. It serves as a stand .rd and measure of excellence. It en- .4rgns the ideal, which is the chief fac for uf progress. The average farmer lives in d sort of trcad-mill Of drudgery ulGch tends to degrade him. Not of 5.rueszity, hut through habit and for '..cl> If associations. Farm life tends to s,alatc people. and what they need is community of interests. Other classes ..I laborers and industries are associated G,r mutual protection and benefit, the 1xriculturist needs it most of all. h. ,r,.d of being competitors in the market, hudrrirg each other, the chief pro. durtrs of the world should by all means bt mutual helpers. The farmer must keep in step with the rest of the world l He must have the same intelligence and enterprise in his sphere that others have in theirs. Left to himself the country. man becomes sourcd and unsocial. He is suspicious of others and inclined to get along by himself. He gets but little money and thinks he must keep it. He stays at home and knows little of the world at large. He gets along with less and less and loses more and more of the best things of life. He wants few things and buys little. He has no need of the ucw things of the inventor and discover CT. He becomes gradually his own car pcnter and painter and blacksmith. He has no patronage for the butcher and baker and perhaps his wife cuts his hair twice 8 year. Medicine and religion be- come to him the devices of the doctor and minister to get his money. He lets his buildings go without paint or repairs and puts s.cash in an old stocking and hides it. And so the tendency ot i>olated life is to degradation and bar barsm until man digs hole in the ground, to stay in, and all there is left is for him to draw his last breath and be covered up in his own grave. On the other hand the intelligent progressive farmer is social and enterprising and alive to every associated community of interest.
 The farmer is the original God ap. pointed lord of this world. He has the best home and the best living the earth affords. He takes the good gifts of heaven at first hand. The rest of man. kind must look up to him. The more alive a man is the more he wants, and the more people want that is good and proper the more they will have; and that promotes all the industries and makes many divisions of labor, and so business of every kind is increased and all the people are happy. ''To him that hath shall be given" Whatever quick ems and enlarges the souls of men opens the way for greater good. The more in- telligent and really prosperous people are the more good you can do them and the more good they will seek. Good people want good roads, not only that they may get to market, but that they may go to church.
 One good thing promotes other good things. We need the spirit of emulation which is inspired by looking upon the excellent attainments of others. As some one has said: "Fighting and trad ing have been the main business of the human race" War and5commerce have often been the forerunners which have opened the prisons of heathenism to the civilization and salvation of the gospel. Good and intelligent people want many things and better things because they have more and better life, and that rneana nrnsneritu andAnrnorass