The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-29
LABOR ON THE FARM.
1T is DloNlFiED AND REQUIRES
MUCH INTELLIGENCE.
Nothing Is Farther from the Truth
than the Belief that Culture of the
Soil Does Not Require as Much TX
penditure of Brain as Most TRADES

The Bishop of Shrewsbury, preach
ing ut a harvest festival In his diocese
made some interesting remarks con
corning labor on the land, lie said IL
was impossible to be unaware OF the
fact that there was growing dlstasie
for this; that the lot of the agricultural
laborer was Ill thought Of, even looked
down upon; that there was an INV III
ingness ON the part of the lhds VINO
had stayed longest Mt school ana proi
tied by the good education that was
now given to go TO farm work, as
though 1t WAS IA calling beneath them'
and they were lifted for something bet
terror employment III towns, In sonle
Of the arts and crafts, the mannfae-
lures aud business which found Their
home In them.
He desired. In opposition to TINS
view, to uphold what he did not hest
tate TO call the dignity OF the work OF
the cultivation OF the soil. Certainly
II 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
Il 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, II
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 1t was the
most necessary aud universal, for man
and beast alike were dependent upon
II 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 II fol-
lowed that there was no Industry to be
compared to II for the number 1t EN-
ployed. nor WAS failure In any branch
OF industry. or In all put together. to
be compared for moment to the loss
which would be inflicted on the world
II, through the abandonment OF labor
on the land. II 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 a farm demanded, need.
ed and indeed possessed. an intelli
genee more keen and varied than
many classes OF mechanics, who
through the subdivision OF the work
which prevailed In every kind OF man
ufactnre. were engaged day after day
on a single piece OF production or con-
struetion only and were not required
to 90 beyond II. lie 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 10 work.
Therefore, he would say to the lads
aud younger men, do not think meanly
Of farm labor. as though they were too
good for It.; but believe that II offered
to them an employment in which their
powers OF body, and mind, too, might
10 heaIthlly developed and they might
help to perpetuate for their fatherland
a vigorous, brave and independent
race.-aIark Lane Express.