The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-04

the farmers themselves
Several factors must cooperate IN the
Improvement of the farmers condition. he
must have the chance to be educated AZ
the widest possible sense-in the sense
which KEEPS ever in view the intimate
relationship between the theory OF edu-
"a Hon and the facts OF life In all edu-
cation we should widen our aims Il IS
good thing to produce certain nu.hose
Of trained scholars and students; put tRs
education superintendent by the state
must seek rather to produce hunoIe4
good citizens than merely one scnolaI, anu
1t must be turned now and then rom
the class book to the study Of the gre4al
book of nature itself. This is especla.lly
out again and again by all observers
most competent to pass practical Juns
All students now realize that education
must seek to train the executive powers
of young people and to confer more feei
Significance upon the phrase ,sla ~, %
labor and to prepare the pupAs 50 e nS
highest degree his individual capacity LOT
work. they may together nelp create q
ways social and cooperative spirit. Ut Ut
ganization has become necessary N tnSS
much for good in the world OF laDoEs. T.
Is no less necessary for farmers SuS -.
a movement as the grange movement ~
good in itself and is eapaDle OF w.
nigh infinite further extension TOT 6oVo
so long it is kept to its own legltlInat tie
business. The benefits to be derived py
the association of farmers for mutual al
vantage are partly economic and partly
sociologicaI
Moreover, while in TIE long run volun-
tary effort will prove more efncacaous
than government assistance, while the
farmers must primarily do mpst FOR
themselves, yet the government can Slso
do much. The department of agriculture
has broken new ground in many direc-
can jronrove its methods and develop
fresh usefulness. Its constant effort is TO
give the governmental assistance IN the
most effective way; that IS, through as as
through individual farmers It is also
striving to coordinate its work with the
IL nf
states, and so far as it's own Work IS
educational, to coordinate 1t with the
work of other educational authoritles
Agricultural education is necessarily based
upon general education, put our AR
specializing themselves, making tne aS
courses relate to the actual teaching OF
the agricultural and kindred sciences 10
young country people or young city peo-
pie who wish to live in the country
Great progress has already been mace
ers' Institutes. OF dairy associations, of
breeders associations, horticultural asso-
Citations, and the like. A striking exam
Die of now the government and the farm
ers can cooperate is shown IN conneC-
ton with the menace offered to the cot
ton growers of the southern states by the
advance OF the boil Weevil The depart
ment is doing all It can to organize the
as it has been doing all 1t can 10 organ
lie them in aid of its work to eraolcaIte
department can and will cooperate with
ali such associations, and it must have
In the most efficient style
Irrigation and Forest Preservation.
Much is now being done for the states
of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
policy of irrigation and forest pTeserVa-
ton; no government pollcy Ior the pei
terment of our internal conditions has
been more fruitful good than this. The
forests of the White Mountains and |
be preserved; and they can n4t ps , VI |
less the people of the states IN Whlch
they lie, through their representatives in
the congress, secure vigorous action Dy
the national government =
invite the attention of the congress to |
the estimate of the secretary OF war i,.r
an appropriation to enable him TO Degln |
the preliminary work for the construction
ton The Grand Army of the Republic |
in Its national encampment has urged the |
erection of such an amphttheater as nee nee
essary for the proper observance Of Mem /
orial day and as a fitting monument 70 |
the soldier and sailor dead buried there;
In this I heartily concur and commend /
the matter to the favorable consideration |
I am well aware of how difficult it is
to pass a constitutional amendment New
ertheless in my judgment the whole cues
relocated TO the authority of the national
congress At present the woe dlIleI ,s
subject result in scandals and abuses;
and, surely there is nothing SO yltally es-
Ing around which the ration should so
bend itself to throw every safeguard, as
change would be good from every stand
point. In particular it would be good pc
cause it would confer on the cG11nsresS tlt F
GENTLY with polygamy; and TINS snould
vorce are dealt with 1t is neither saIe
nor proper to leave the question OF polyg-
arrv to be dealt with by the several states.
Power to deal with it should be conferred
on the national government.
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease to regard a worthy
family life with all its duties fully per-
formed and all its responsibilities lived
up to, as the life best worth living; then
hand There are regions in our land, and
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 the stand
point of the human race, the one sin Tor |
which the penalty is national death. race
death; sin for which there is no atone
ment; n sin which is the more dreadful e1c-
acfiv in proportion as the men and wo-
Tssn s-lIilfv thereof are in other respects
in character, and bodily and mental pow
ers. those whom for the sake Of the
and mothers of many healthy children
we'll brought up in homes made happy by
shirk the primary duties of life, whether
for love of ease and pleasure, or for any
other cause. and retain his or her self
Iet me once again call the attention OF
which have frequently before communi-
Gated with them One is the ques+ on of
developing American SnupplnB- trust
that a law embodying in substance the
views, or q major part of the views, ex-
pressed in the report on this subject laid
before the house at its last session will
be passed I am well aware that in for
mer years objectionable measures have
been proposed in reference to the encour-
agement Of A nerican shipping: but it
seems to me that the proposed measure
is as nearly unobjectionable as any can
be. It viii OF course benefit primarily
our seaboard states. such as Maine.
Louisiana. and Washington; but what
benefits part of people in the end
benefits all; just government aid to
irrigation and forestry in the west is real
Nv of benefit. not only to the Rocky
Mountain states but to all our country.