The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-01
CITY IS THEIRS
Continued from Third Page.

OF the nineteenth century and the civilization
of today demands it.
Freight rates constitute very important
matter to the farmers as well as to the con-
sumers, and fortunately we have legislation in
most most states regulating these charges. Never
theless the fact remains that the railroad
freight rates continue high, and must OF
necessity be higher than the cost of transport
alton at by water; It, is the active competition
OF freighting by lakes, canals and rivers
which has cut them down. 1t is the duty
OF the farmers to advocate, nay, to urge,
the United States government to improve
It's waterways its harbors, rivers and canals,
to afford every facility for water transporta-
ton. 1t is wise investment and will bene-
nit not only the cities where the improve
ment takes place, but the entire country.
The Improvement of harbors is not only
a powerful argument for gain alone-and we
are all of us selfsh-but there is higher
and more powerful argument, the lessening Of
the hazard of the hardy and daring followers
of the sea, which should influence US.
i am not an Anglo-maniac, but an Amerf-
can; but as an American must give Eng,
land credit for the energy she has displayed
IN building up her merchant marine and i'm
proving her harbors. America pays $500, 0OO, GOO
annually to owners of English l., vessels for
lect their toll both ways. II this money, CT
even half of it. was paid to American ship
owners there would be no necessity for is
suing bonds to keep a gold reserve in the
treasury. There would be no depression
such as we have had the past three or four
years.
discussion. L. H. Weller. Of Iowa. thought
the American financial system was the cause
OF this state of affairs. E. V. Smalley
said that the railroad rates were now so low
that many roads had gone into bankruptcy,
but Endorsed the argument for river and har-
Dor improvements. He said he expected to
live to see a great canal connecting the North
west with the Atlantic seaboard. whereby
grain could be carried from the Northwest
to Euro2e without transfer: Remarks were
Ludes, of Pennsylvania.
William M. Liggett, dean of the Min
nesota State School of Agriculture,
then read a paper on ''The Best Meth
DDS to Still Further Increase the Use
fulness and Practical Value of Agri-
cultural Education" in which he out
lined briefly, the salient points of the
Minnesota State School of Agriculture.
Such a school to be successful must
command the respect and hearty sup
port of those to be benefited by it. In
the Minnesota school very large per
centage of the graduates follow agri-
cultural pursuits because their educa-
ton has taught them the beauties of a
pastoral life3 and they can look upon
it intelligently.
The school gives them practical in
struction in 7blacksmithing, carpentry,
horticulture, the dairy chemistry, bO-
tany, veterinary science, agriculture,
and the use of farm tools, the care of
live stock and how to judge of the
merits of an animal, and the cutting
and curing of meat. The student is
required to perform actual work in
these branches. 4
During the past year 5000 farmers
have visited the school. On some of
the railroads, notably the Great North
ern, trains were placed at the disposal
of these visitors, who were carried free
of charge. They saw the school in act
ual session andyall were pleased with it.
The question of educating the girls
is also equally important and now a
girls dormitory is being constructed,
and is nearly completed, an appropria-
ton of $4,000 having been made for it
last winter by the legislature.
THE end of our work is not merely
to teach methods" continued Mr.. Lig-
gett, ''but to make better men; if it
fails in that, then indeed, has the
money been spent in vain. The good
results of our school are shown by the
future of its students"
This paper was also discussed at some
length.
Mr.. McKerron, of Wisconsin, thought
that practical agriculture should be
taught in the schools from childhood
up. The children should be taught the
philosophy of nature as they grew up
and the faculty of observation of the
things around them should be develop
ed. Certainly the agricultural course
in the high schools should be made
general and no backward step taken
with the agricultural colleges. Mr..
Emery, of Montana, spoke along the
same line. Mr.. Phelps, of Minnesota,
asked Mr.. Liggett if it were true, as
some one had stated during the dis
cussion, that the agricultural colleges
were educating the young people away
from the farm. Mr.. Liggett said that
of 135 graduates of the Minnesota
school, only two had back slid, one be-
coming a lawyer and the other min
ister Oar F. Reese. of Minnesota,
said it was a good sign that farmers
were coming to so marked an appre-
citation of the value of a scientific agri-
cultural education for farmers boys,
Formerly they only educated the ones
who seemed to be designed by a po-
lemical disposition for the law. or by
a sickly religion for the cloth, while the
robust bright yQungster was kept on
the farm to shift for himself in com
parative ignorance The new era was
a good one and the farmers congress
was no unimportant factor therein.
Ex-Gov Ramsey was greeted with
an ovation when introduced as Mime
sofas war governor, and hale and
hearty as he is, he made a happy
speech, indorsing the welcome pre-
yiously extended by later officials.
Messrs. Savitz of the Ontario tx
pertinent station, and Bernardin, OF
Oklahoma, who were down for the
ether papers of the afternoon, not be-
ing present, the order of resolutions
was taken up and a number of reso-
lutions were sent to the desk, the rule
being that resolutions be not read in
tn
mittee on resolutions.
E. l.. Furness, of Furnessvile, Ind,
introduced one indorsing the postal
savings bank scheme.
T, Fl. Weller the Iowa silverite, had
two. One proposed that the govern
ment secure by purchase the trunk
lines of railroad and operate them at
cost for the public service, while the
other. with high flown preamble, de-
nounced the anti-silver legislation Of
1873 and demanded a restoration of the
previously existing system.
J. B. Rogers. of Newark, N. j., in
troduced one which embodied in it the
appointment of standing committee
of the congress to look after the CLASH
fcation, rates, and transportation OF
fruits. This met with signs of ap-
prevail.
A, B. Choate of Minneapolis, intro
duced his familiar good roads resolu-
tion. and Mr.. Seeley, of Pennsylvania.
one favoring the restriction of foreign
to prevent the degradation
of American citizenship.
Council Bluffs, To-, and Fort Worth,
Tex. filed applications for the next
John G. Avery, of New Jersey, intro
duced a resolution indorsing the cru
sade against sthe gypsy moth.
After adjournment the committee on
resolutions met Informally and ad-
journed until this, morning.