Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-27

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some are impressed with it and find en-.
ployment in the city, thus one after an
other leave the farm. adding new cells to
the village. and you are interested in
them and by that interest you become
socially interested in the whole village,
you begin to admire the push Of business,
their schools. their churches, and the vii
lage becomes, through the advance Of
civilization. a social, merchanti]e and me.
chanical necessity of the farm.
Let us carry this social part a little
farther. You probably have earned a
competency, leave the farm and go to the
village to live. You at once become a
part of the village and enjoy the compa-
ny Of your fellow men. In the city there
is always an accumulation OF people with
whom it is q pleasure to exchange views,
so you pass your time in a pleasany way
rarely obtained on the farm. You may
have the time but your neighbor is busy,
next day you are busy and have no time
to spend with your neighbor, but in the
city there is always some leisure. Iwould
not have you think they do not work in
the city, because the business man works
more hours than the man on the farm,
but they are near together and are not
all busy at once. That is one of the adj
yantages OF social accumulation to the
farmer and wife who have raised their
families and are able and wish to retire
from work, | would say, come to the city
the larger the better, since there you will
find attractions to make your time pass
pleasantly and protitably, especially in a
social way. But to the man of moderate
means who has a family to bring up, /
would stay On the farm a while longer.
Perhaps they reason. Il will go to town
and give my children the best education
| can afford" There is where he makes
the mistake of his life. Admitting that
many of our best men and women we're
reared on the farm. you will find that
they stayed there till they were men and
women; the mistake is in bringing them
to the city while they are yet girls and
boys. The common school will give them
a start notice among the teachers in
the common schools some very intelli.
went minds that compare very favorably
with those in the city-and if your
school is not good enough, do just as
they do in the city, raise the tax and
make it SO. Many a good man and wo.
men who have risen high IN life, had on
ly a common school education and a very
short term of it at that. But I am get.
ting rway from my text. | said the man
on the farm with moderate means was
making a mistake when he brought his
family into town. They are apt to lose
first essential necessary in life, industry,
without which all the social and educa-
tional standing a man of limited means
can get, will not compensate for this al.
most invariable loss. When they have
learned the indolent habit, which they
will IN town. you will find it hard to get
them to return to the induetry they were
taught on the farm.
Again, when you come to the city to
live, you, of couese, expect your children
to associate in the best society, and in
moving in the best they learn to be ex-
travagant, and the important economic
lessons of the farm are lost never again
to return Tits different, however, with
your son or daughter who arrived at ma.
turity before leaving the farm, they have
a fixed purpose in life and their habits
are formed on correct lines. Woe to
your child who takes the other side of
city life, because there is more tempta-
tons to do wrong than right, and while
we think our children good-and they
we're while they were on the farm-those,
who have been corrupted may lead them
astray. The social good in a city is the
highest type of civilization while the So
cial bad is the worst.
Tie social life on the farm has many
attractions aud could have many more if
neighbors would only strive to better it.
Children should be taught that they are
just as bright and intelligent, just as nice
with their farm training, as are the city
people with theirs; but for some reason
perhaps the way they are trained, they
prefer the social features of the city,
something that draws in America-Eu-
rope could be excused for want OF land
where there are millions of acres of land
and where q comfortable home can be
made, draws them toward the city where
they prefer to live in poverty and want,
fed by the hand of charity, their chlldrenn
yillainsand d%runkards, a disgrace to their
parents and a nuisance to the world at
large, rather than the purer atmosphere
and greater independence of the farm.
Now ladies and gentleman let me thank
you for your attention, and as Mayor Of
the city extend to you, who represent the
greatest Of American industries, the
grandest calling on earth, you tillers Of
the soil, a cordial welcome to the city,
Hoping you will have a prosperous. pro.
titable and great social meeting, I again
welcome him to the city Of Cresco.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.