Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-05-01
LABOR ON THE FARM.
1T 10 ploNlFlED AND REQUIRES
MUCH INTELLIGENCE.
Nothing IL Farther from the Truth
than the Belief that Culture of the
Soil Does Not Require as Much Ex-
peuditure OF Brain as Most Trades.

| DGuutturc OF Brain NAohh
The Bishop of Shrewsbury, preach
! Ing at harvest festival In his diocese
made some interesting remarks con
corning labor on the land. He said II
was impossible to be unaware or the
fact that there was a growing distaste
for this; that the lot Of the agricultural
labOrer was III thought Of, even looked
down upon; that there was an unwill'
ingness on the part of the lads VINO
had stayed longest at school and prof
tied by the good education that was
now given to go to farm work, as
though it was a calling beneath them,
and they were fitted for something bet
terror employment In towns, in some
of the arts and crafts, the manufac-
lures and business which found their
home In them.
He desired, in opposition to this
view, to uphold what he did not hesi-
tate to call the dignity of the work of
the cultivation Of the soil. Certainly
1t was the oldest of all industries, APP
pointed by God Himself for man. Be
fore man fell, In the days of his limo
cence, they read that God took the
man whom He had made" and put
him In the Garden of Eden ito dress
1t and to keep it." And after the fall
the necessity was still laid upon man
to cultivate the soil as the condition
of obtaining from 1t his daily bread;
though, as part of the penalty of sin, 1t
should be with difficulty and with effort
and In the sweat of his brow, such as
he did not experience before, for the
earth shared the curse which mans dis
obedience brought upon him, and, left
untitled, 1t would bring forth thorns
and thistles and worthless weeds. But
as husbandry and labor in the fields
were the oldest industry, SO it was the
most necessary and universal, for man
and beast alike were dependent upon
1t for existence. And though all that
the earth produced was Gods gracious
gift, He gave it Is the result of mans
careful, toilsome labor. And so it fol-
lowed that there was no industry to be
compared to 1t for the number it en-
ployed, nor was failure in any branch
Of industry, or in all put together, to
be compared for a moment to the loss
which would be inflicted on the world
", through the Abandonment of labor
on the land, 1t was permitted to go out
of cultivation and the supply of food
were to cease.
Those who did not know, continued
the Bishop, because they did not think,
were apt to imagine that there was no
skill in agricultural labor, whereas the
fact was that an experienced laborer
who was ready for any and every kind
Of work that farm demanded, need
ed, and indeed possessed, an intelli.
gence more keen and varied than
many classes of mechanics, who
through the subdivision OF the work
which prevailed in every kind of man.
ufacture, were engaged day after day
Oh single piece of production or con.
struction only and were not required
to go beyond IL. He asked them to
take that thought with them, that they
might recognize the dignity of labor
In the fields, that they were preparing
the way for God himself to work
Therefore, he would say to the lads
ana younger men, do not think meanly
OF farm labor, rs though they were too
good for 1t; but believe that ii offered
to them an employment in which their
powers of body, and mind, too. might
be healthily developed and they might
help to perpetuate for their fatherland
vigorous, brave and Independent
race.-Mork Lane Express.