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laa ayrfa stslHeE 81 s4sA ksr, have 50 far
fprodtel >, oFe by the 4st improvements
IN science. in mechanics. in transporta-
tiOna and in business facilities than the
farmer: Simply because the farmer has
I'd as "a tdeSune into touch with the
active. eager. V-rel ' economic spirf; of
the times. Our young men who are TO
DC the farmers Of the future must have
some knowledge ofthese laws and forces
that are making modern industry what
it if. over and beyond the scientific
| knowledge which advanced agriculture
requires for its successful practice mus;
Re the ability 10 make this knowledge
bear its full fruits. for it is precisely at
the point where he comes into contact
with the rest OF the business world that
the farmer fails
"Rut what shall say Of the farmer in
/ POiiNcs by what IEaeanfn his efforts
and strenuous efforts they have been
Of late-to secure such legislation and
7 such Just recognition is he is entitled to
from the body polite If the truth be
said, the farmer in politics has failed
not pleasant reflection, but it Is true.
He has failed TO make himself really
felt in the acts Of our legislature and
Congress-failed TO gain that recogni-
tomas Political entity, to which his
noble calling and his inestimable SER
vices to the nation justly entitle him.
The fault has not been his. He has been,
more sinHed against than SHINING. The
farm life is always more or less an iso-
lated one. He has but scant opportunity
and little time to study the questions of
the day and to broaden his political ideas
| by contact with the business world. He
feels the need of direction and guidance
and comes TO regard party and party
leadership as the only means to accom-
plish his desired ends. believe that
the average farmer has higher and
purer idea of what party really means
than his city brother. To him party is
but means and not an end, and the
ends he has in view are lofty and true.
The farmers of this country want
new leadership, and leadership that is
pure, disinterested an6 honorable. They
want'men who, coming from their own
ranks, can appreciate their needs and
difficulty and can truly represent them.
Such men there should be in every COM
munity-men well educated, versed in
farmcraft and statecraft,, familiar with
the great laws of the business and the
economic world, to whom the farmers
may go for advice and leadership in all
political questions affecting their own
and the nation : sMeifare.. The infiaersce
of such men would do much to counter.
act the evils wrought by the political
demagogue and the unserupulous local
politicians.