The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-02-01

policy" but beware of the man who is
honest simply as a matter of policy.
The man who is truthful and virtuous,
for fear he will be found out and pun
ished, only needs to feel that he will
not be detected in his wrongdoing, and
he will wallow in the cutters of filth.
Moreover, we cannot reform man by
furnishing him. 1.-The terrors of the
law" may stop a man in his wrong
doing and thereby society has protec-
tion but if we want to reform him we
must plant in his breast new set of
motives, aspirations and desires. This
is we'll understood by our best think
ers along the line of retaining the
criminal classes. The man who never
uses any influence in persuading his
boy to a better life than the "strap
in the wood shed" is a poor specimen
of a father, who is helping to raise
up a new generation upon whose
shoulders must rest the future of our
government and the welfare of society.
The minister who spends his time in
preaching the terrors in the way of
the wrong-doer, and does not also
bring to his hearers the soothing balm
of the gospel which comes not from
the broken law that knows no mercy
but from grace that is born of love,
would do well to vacate his pulpit and
take up the work of driving oxen
where "cussing" may possibly be more
potent than kindness.
Excuse this depression and let us
come back to the subject in hand and
apply these deductions as to the scope
of penal laws, to the laws we have
in regard to the scattering of insect
pests and other maladies with which
the fruit grower has to contend How
many of you, as intelligent fruit grow
ers, are willing to admit that you are
impelled to your work from the fear
of the laws with penalties attached to
them? | venture to say, not one. Ii
any up-to-date fruit-grower is willing
to say that he would not do what he
is doing but for the fear he has of the
enforcement of the law, we might we'll
cage him up as rGrG GUiS in terra Ca
rare bird in the earth) and show him
along with the woolly horse or the
two-headed calf! No, gentlemen, you
do not belong to that class that have
to be driven by the law but to that
class who are asking for information
as to how and what you should do to
control these pests and are only too
willing to carry out such instructions,
whether the law requires you to do
these things or not. The writer of this
paper has a large commercial orchard
and sprays, bands his trees, practices
clean culture and does any other thing
that promises to be of any help to him
in destroying or controlling the enc
mics that threaten the destruction of
his crop, but he is quite free to say
that he cannot call to mind that he
ever was conscious of doing these
things because they were demanded by
the horticultural law. He fully be-
lieves that he would have done all he
ever has done if we had no horticul-
tural law. Is not that true of all of
you who are engaged in commercial
orcharding? I believe that it is.
Some one may say, if that is true
then we do not need any horticultural
law That by no means follows. If
all who have fruit trees were inf1u-
enced by the motives that impel us in
such matters then we could let the
horticultural law "go glimmering with
the dream of things that WERE" But,
unfortunately for us, there is class
Of people who are not influenced by
such high and lofty motives but belong
to that class to whom the inspired
writer referred when he said "the law
is not made for the righteous man
but for the lawless and the disobed
lent" AS intelligent fruit growers we
do not belong to that class.
What We need is along the lines of
education and not to be driven by the
crack of the whip of the law. What
our State College under the wise di-
rection of IFS worthy president E A