Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-12-05


Der of trained scholars and studentss
but the education superintendent by the
state must seek rather to produce hun
dred good citizens than merely one
scholar. and it must be turned now and
then from the class book to the study
is especially true of the farmer. as has
been pointed out again and again by all
observers Obs, ,S most competent to pass prae
country life. All students now realize
that education must seek to train the
phrase dignity of labor" and to pre-
fhs Ru1s so that s b III sS snrs
his individual capacity for work. they
may together help create u right public
and cooperative spirit. Organization has
become necessary in the business world:
| in the world of labor. 1t is no less neces-
| sary for farmers. Such a movement as
| the grange movement is good in itself
| Their extension for good so long as it is
kept to its own legitimate business. The
! benefits to be derived by the association
! of farmers for mutual advantage are
| partly economic and partly sociological.
Moreover, while in the long run volun-
tary effort will prove more efticacious
than government assistance. while the
! farmers must primarily do most for
themselves yet the government M can also
has broken new ground in many direc-
! tons, and year by year it finds how it
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fresh usefulness. Its constant effort is
| to give the governmental assistance in
the most effective way; that is. thru as
| thru individual farmers. 1t is also striv-
| ing to coordinate it's work with the agri-
sSates. and so far as its own work is
| educational, to coordinate it with the
work of other educational authorities
| Agricultural education is necessarily
based upon general education. but our
/ agricultural educational institutions are
| wisely specializing themselves, making
| their course relate to the actual teaching
| of the agricultural and kindred sciences
to young country people or young city
| people who wish to live in the country
| Great progress has already been made
among farmers by the creation of
| farmers institutes. of dairy associa-
tions. of breeders associations. horti-
| cultural associations, and the like. A
striking example of how the govern
shown in connection with the menace
offered to the cotton growers of the
boil weevil. The department is doing
all it can to organize the farmers in
I the threatened districts. just it has
been doing all it can to organize them
in aid of it's work to eradicate the cat
tie fever tick in the south. The depart
ment can and will cooperate with all
| such associations. and it must have
| their help If its own work is to be
done in the most efficient style"
td me urges for the extension OF The rriga
asks for an appropriation for building a
| memorial theater at Arlington.
Marriage and Divorce.
AS a means of bringing about national
regulation of marriage and divorce he
says 1T is not safe to leave these ques-
tons to be dealt with by the various
states. Continuing this subject he
says:
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease to regard a
worthy family life. with all its duties
fully performed and IFS =
bilities lived up to. as the life best
worth living; then evil days for the
regions in our land. and classes of our
population. whore the birth rate. has
sunk below, the death rate. Surely it
should need no demonstration to show
that wilful sterility is. from the
standpoint of the nation. from me
standpoint of the human race the one
sin for which the penalty is national
death. race death; sin for which
there is no. atonement; a sin which is
thereof are in other respects, in char
acter, and bodily and mental powers,
those whom for the sake of the state
it would be well to see the fathers
and mothers of many healthy children.
| well brought up in homes made happy
by their presence No man. no woman,
can shirk the primary duties of life.
whether for love of ease and pleasure.
or her self-respect.
The president asks for the enactment
into law of shipping bin that will place
American interests on the seas on par
with those of other countries, and urges
especially that something be done that
will establish direct steamship commu-
| nicatiOn with South American ports.
Currency Reform.
Amendments to the present currency
laws are asked for and after showing
that present laws are inadequate because
of the wide fiuctuation of interest
The mere statement of these facts
shows that our present system is seri-
ously defective. There is need of a
change. Unfortunately, however, .nany
of the proposed changes must be ruled
from consideration because they are
hensien. and tend to disturb existing
rights and interests. We must also
rule out any plan which would ma
terially impair the value of the United
States two per cent. bonds now pledged
to secure circulation. the issue OF
which was made under conditions ne.
culiarly creditab,e to the trea
do not press any special plan. Various
plans have recently been proposed by
the, plans which are possibly feasible
and which certainly should receive
your consideration is that repeatedly
brought osyour attention by the pres
ent secretary of the trea sury the es.
sential features of which have beer
approved by many prominent bankers
plan national banks should be per.
mitted to issue specified proportion
a
kind the issue to be taxed at SO hieI
asrate as to drive the notes hack wher
not wanted in legitimate trade. This
plan would not permit the issue ot
currency to give banks additional
| profits. but to meet the emergency pre-.
scented by times of stringency.
Need of Automatic System.
Il II do not say that this is the RICH,
system l only advance it to ernnba
size my belief that there is need for
the adoption of some system which
shall be automatic and open to ali
sound banks, SO as to avoid ali pos
ism. Such a plan would tend to pre-
vent the spasms of high. money and
speculation which now obtain in the
New York market; for at present
there is too much currency at certain
seasons of the year. and its accumu
lation at New York tempts banIxers
TO lend it at low rates for specuia tive
purposes, whereas at other times when
the crops are bling moved there is
urgent need for a large but temp rary
increase in the currency supply. II
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