The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-04
MUST ALL
TURN TO THE
FARM
SAYS HILL IN SPEECH IN WHICH
HE DEPLoREs THE RUSH
TO THE CITIES.
SERIOUS PROPOSITION
He Thinks Faces the Nation In the.
Way in Which the Tilling Of the
Land is Deserted For the
Mills and Factories.

St. Paul, Mimi. Sept. 3.-N.ncty
seven thousand people passed. thronga
| the gates on the opening day Of tue
Minnesota State fair, breaking all az
tendance records.
Dedica tory services at the Live
Stock amphtheatre took place today,
Il. f. Nelson, president Of the State
Fair association, making a brief al
dress in turning over the building To
the state.
Governor johnson accepted the
building and then introduced James
III. Hill. president of the Great North
ern railroad. as orator of the day.
Hill in part said:
Notwithstanding the addition o.
more than a million people a year
from abroad, nearly all of them men
and women who must work for is
ling, labor outside OF the cities wa
never as scarce or wages as high as
at the present time. Imgrat on liza
gers in the great centers and adds 70
the difficulties attending employment.
"The farms stretch out their hands
In vain Railroads in making extern
gions have to get help al the Il ghcst
market price, and find o large paFs
eentage of those whom they cmniov
Imere hoboes who desert as soon as
they have succeeded in getting trans,
portation from one part Of the country
to another Farmers bssiege the en-
ployment agencies in vain. and oifer
: the lazy tramp a sum for ssy
, work In the field unhsard pf N Aa1s
!, lother country In Els@ worll. This gitutE
Y ton grows mere embarrassing yeafly.
Hours Of labor are being reduced IN
i some Of the states for farm. aN'weil
!, as shop hands. Men are scarcer as
/. the movement of population to the
cities grows more pronounced A con
: siderable portion Of this years mag
, nificent crop will be either reduced
!, IN uuality or altogether lost by reason
of the impossibility of getting labor
to handle it properly. Discouraged
small farmers now are selling their
! land to larger proprietors who can
" proftably substitute machinery for
: men. The country needs more workers
on the soil Not TO turn the stranger
i, away. but to direct him to the farm
instead of the city; not TO watch vita
fear a possible increase of the hirta
rate. but to use every means to keep
the boys on the farm and TO send
Youths from the city TO swell the
depleted ranks of agricultural in
dustry Is the necessary task Of we'll
y advised political economy and an in
teligent patriotism.
Land Our Only Resource.
, within twenty years we must
- house and employ in some fashion
' fifty million of additional populstion
" and by the middle of this century
:. there will be approxima. ely two ami
!" a half times as many people In the
= United States as there are today NJ
nation in our history was ever con.
: fronted with stener qucrtiun than
this certain prospect sets before rs
~ Wha, are we to do with our brother.
whose keepers we are7 How are we TO
:, provide our children with shelter and
their daily bread2 Our arabic public
lands have almost disappeared.
:. our one resources. looking at hi
p manitv as somethn more than the
'' creature of a day. j. the productivity
of the soil. The reckless Distribution
of the public land lis division amons
=, all the greedy who choose 70 ask for
il: the appropriation of large areas
for grazing purposes. have abso5bei
much of the national her tage Oniy
!, lonehalf of the land in private owner
~ shin is now titled That tillase do ;
'' not produce one-half of what the Ian
u might be made TO yield wi hort Is
p" ing an atom of its fertility Vet she
waste Of our treasure has proceeied
So far that the actual value Of the
;" soil for productive purposes has At
ready deteriorated more than Z
: -hould have done in i've centuries q
use
Let MS he warned in time ON evcrT
side there l. menace if oHr natioral
activity be net reorgsniEed On the
basis Of the cid fashioned common
p sense. The safety valve for Older pee-
pies has been found iB lmmieraiios.
Their very relief has contributed 20
our danger The Ua'ted : ates eanEos
/" follow their example. u IS agaiHsf
the genius Of our people: and besi-es.
g. the circle Of the ~Ncrthern Henis-
p phere- Is cIosed. Al henc the prob
lem must be worried oui. and is
Terms have been clea'lv stated
= The conclusion reached points o'it
= land emphasizes q aati0nal da'y -
= imminent and 50 Imperative that J.
ie should take precedence % al else. Is
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