Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-25
The Farmers Picnic AZ Washington

The railroad trains, trolley cars. steam
boats and public highways leading t.
/ Washington Park, fairly groaned under ths
| load of humanity bound there on Wednes
day. The West Jersey railroad had beer
urged by the committee to make provision
for carrying big crowds, and they did, but
there were only half enough cars from
South Jersey points, at that. At least one
hundred trolley car loads passed through
Woodbury., and the cars from Camden and
Philadelphia at five minute intervals ran
loaded all day. 1t was estimated that
there were $4,000 people on the grounds at
noon.
Last year pick pockets piled profitable
| business during the rush at Cooper street
corner, in Woodbury., but two detectives
guarded that point all day, and there are
no reports of their nefarious work.
The people were welcomed at the Park
BY c-mmittees of farmers numbering over
two hundred who acted as q bureau OF
information All amusements were free
until o'clock, and these afforded great fun
for the children.
a pyramid of fruit and vegetables, ten
feet high, as one of the attractions, and
there was quite display of sgr cultural
implements.
At 2 o'clock large body of the farmers
assembled at the lower pavilion. ExSena-
tor Nichols. of CnmbeI land presided and
after brief add ess, introduced Mortimer
Whitehead, who spoke for an hour on the
subject, Brains and Muscles on the
Farm" He aroused the farmers by his ref
ences to politics, but, for The most part,
chung to his subject. He said, among other
Ihi gs:
"Brains aud muscles and labor and capt.
tai are inseparable. They are com bina-
ton which must be found together if sue
cess be accomplished. The farmer must
use his own brain to work out the prob
lens on the farm. Too many farmers to-
day depend on some other fellows brains
to carry him up, and, as rule, gets thrown
down
You farmers complain of being hum
bugged and swindIed, and you deserve to
be, sometimes, for allowing somebody else
to make you think that he has all the
brains necessary to conduct your business
It's idnolence with you in almost every
instance when you are cheated and yicti-
mized. You swallow a political issue
without studying how it is going to benefit
you. You don't dig deep enough into the
great problems of the financial and COM
mercia and agricultural world and you
cry hard times simply because you don't
put to the best use the intellect which God
has given you. When the farmer is bene-
fitted the universe is benefited, and SO you
see what great responsibilities are before
us Some of you would much rather
fatigue your muscles than solve problem
"The farmer holds the balance of power,
and he should exercise it in the right d.
rection. The average farmer is too lazy to
tax his brain with anything that means
dollars and cents to him.
The speaker here illustrated his thought
on brains by reviewing the achievements
of Dewey and Schley.
ut was not muscle" said the speaker,
"but brains from the Admiral on the bridge
to the jackes behind the guns" He spoke
of the great questions confronting the coun-
try growing out of the war, and said it was
a dangerous thing for the United States to
try to initiate other Powers in territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT He did not wish to be
understood as opposing progress, but he
counselled the farmers not to Jump at
theories and plunge into mistakes, but to
see that the ''old flag represents the same
equality as it did in the time of our fore
fathers" He concluded by telling the
farmer to apply brains on the farm in his
work. brains in selling crops. brains in
spending money, and brains when casting
his ballot.
The only incidents to mar the occasion
were the intense heat and the shower
which came up shortly after 8 o'clock.
The Fourth annual picnic was great sue
cess.