The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-03-15
THE RANCH.

the home acres, until class afflicted with
mental myopy less acute form and are too
easily satisfied with a small part of the earth.
Because mechanical and scientific advancement have
doubled and many instances quadruped effective
ness we have satisfied and felt strictly to date
In this easily satisfied state is our m1stake Tor to be
up to date" is to unsatsfed and pressing for
ward and reaching upward; and the above mentioned
advance in mechanics and science has given the race
electrical and steam appliances which have SO con-
tracted the EARTH commercially at least that j. T. NOR
gan can reap harvest from the whole face of it, fig
uratvely in scarcely more time than the farmer re-
uuires to up his upodate binder; and Rockefeller
can fleece the populace while the boys bringing the
sheep from the back pasture which is only preliminary
to the shearing of the farm flock.
See the point? We not slow compared with the
eighteenth or even middle of the nineteenth century,
but much like guard in the beginning of this
century of inestimabe possibilities
While preparing my subject have had what some
might call day dream; call it an awakening from
sitting nightmare have permitted my mind to out
strip time reach the first quarter post in the cen
tury course The eyes of Rip Van Wrinkle beheld no
such changes The agricultural schools established DUR
ing the first five all over the land have lost all
appearance of newness but marked by an air OF ma
ture vgor and each has in connection with 1T farm
of sufficient size actually train the students in work
ing their agricultural salvation The co-opera
tive abors of these students, under the guidance OF
trained and mature minds has wrought miracles The
and workshops contribute in large measure
to the support the institution and not few OF them
have established savings banks Those persons who
have in the twenty odd since Dunn county, WIS
consn took the initiative spent few weeks months or
years. at these schools now an army OF ehc1ent
workers. as is shown by the beautiful homesteads on
every hand and the rich Of the cities have
been sending their sons daughters to the schools
that train for usefulness rather than ornament Inc
young agrcuturs learned to have fear of these
scions of capitalists and after learning something OF
the possibilities of effort school, they worked
it into community and national life, till now the
wealthy are dividing up not through fear of the assas
sins dagger shot bomb but because combination OF
Intelligent true men and women working for the good
of the race is stronger than combination OF capital
When the masses began to use their Faculties OF OBJ
servaton they beheld cooperative measures emancpat
ing from her dissensions and poverty and gnor
ance Sweden planting forests and harvesting there
from: in the average life of man. free schools libraries
electric lights street railways and harnesslng her
swift streams drive dynamos to her mills and rail-
roads and furnish their homes; looked up the
Nile valley and saw restraining dams could improve
s1ch sections The French scientists taught them how
to catch the SUMS rays and make "Od Sol bore wells
and pump water the desert to blossom as the
rose they learned lessons in government from the wee
nation among the Alps Even heather contributed to
their education The patient Chinaman spending months
and even years on a single coisonne gave useful
lesson: and the "unspeakable Turk, practicing total
abstinence contributed the most profitable of ALL
They had been trained to do what Bacon called think
ing through a thing" and the need of applying the
knowledge obtained the StNdy of all peoples and
e practical everyday results wonderful than
the most startling pictures from the mind of Jules Verne
A detailed account would fill volumes. | shall make an
outline sketch and leave the filling in to your imagi-
nations.
Tho season is winter so specific farming operations