Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-28

have played large part In raising the
level OF lie and work In the country
districts. In the domain OF government,
the department of agriculture since It's
foundation has accomplished results ~
striking as those obtained under any
other branch Of the national admins-
trntion.
I'VE live in an era when the best re-.
suits can only be achieved, II TO lndlvi-
dual self-help we add the mutual self
help which comes by combination. both
Of citizens in their individual capacity
and Of citizens working through the
state as an instrument But after all
this has been done II remains true that
the country man, the man on the farm,
more than any other OF our citizens to-
day is called upon continually TO eXer.
else the qualities which we Ike to think
of as typical Of rugged independence.
masterful resolution and individual en-
ergy and resources. He works hard (for
which no man Is to be pitied). and Of
ten he lives hard (Which may not be
pleasantly, but his life Is spent In
healthy surroundings ~ surroundings
which tend to develop a fine type OF
citizenship
I'm the country, moreover the con1i-
lions are fortunately such as to allow a
closer touch between man and man
than, too often, We find 70 be the case
I'm the city. Men feel more wildly the
underlying sense OF brotherhood. OF
community Of interest. / do not mean
by this that there are not plenty on
problems connected with llfe on the
farm and our rural districts. There are
many problems and great wisdom,
and earnest disintercsted effort are
needed for their solution. The problem
Of how TO DO these duties Is acute
everywhere. II Is most acute in great
cities, but II exists In the country. too.
A man TO be a good citizen must first
be a good bread winner. a good hus-
band a good father: / hope the father
Of many healthy chlldren-just as q
woman's first duty Is to be good
housewife and mother"
1.-THE business duties, the home du-
ties the duties to ones family come
first The couple capable OF bringing
up plenty of healthy children who
leave behind them many sons and
daughters fitted IN their turn to be
good citizens-such a couple emphati
cally deserves well Of the state. Every
one Of us slips on some occasion and
shame to his fellow who then refuses
to stretch out the hand that should
always be ready to help the man who
stumbles 1t is our duty to lift him up,
but IL is also our duty 10 remember
that there Is no earthly use In trying
to carry him If man will submit to
being carried that is sufficient TO show
that he is not worth carrying. In the
ha nd Of
really avails is the help which teaches
man to help himself
1.-THE other day ! picked up little
book called The Simple Life, written
by an Alsatian, Charles Wagner, and
he preached such wholesome, sound
doctrine that | wish 1t could be used
as a tract throughout our country, To
him the whole problem OF our complex,
somewhat feverish modern life can be
solved only by getting men and wo-
men to lead better lives. He sees that
the permanence Of liberty and democ-
racy depends upon a majority of the
people being steadfast In that good
plain morality, which as national tri-
butte comes only as the result of the
slow and painful labor of centuries, and
which can be squandered In a genera
ton, by the thoughtless and vicious.
He breaches the doctrine OF the super
iorlty Of the moral to the material. He
does not underyalue the material but
he insists, as we Of this nation should
always insist, upon the infinite superi.
GRITTY of the moral and the sordid de-
structlon which comes upon either the
nation or the individual IL IT or II he
becomes absorbed only in the desire to
get wealth. The true line Of cleavage
lies between the good citizen and the
bad citizen, and the line Of cleavage
may, and often does, run at right an
giles to that which divides the rich
and the poor.
"The signs Of virtue lie in mans
capacity to care for what is outside