The Glenwood post., 1906-12-08

| CauOn ana tne IaCt1 OF lie. In all
education we should widen our aims It
is good thing to produce a certain num-
Der OF trained scholars and students:
but the education superintended by the
state must seek rather to produce a hum
dred good citizens than merely one
scholar, and II must be turned now and
then from the class book to the study
| of the great book OF nature Itself. This
is especially true of the farmer, as has
| been pointed out again and again by all
| observers most competent to pass prac-
teal Judgment on the problems of our
that education must seek to train the
executive powers of young people and to
real Of upon n the
pare the pupils that in addition to
each developing in the highest degree
HIS Individual capacity for work, they
may together help create right public
| opinion. and show in many ways social
and cooperative spirit. Organization has
| and 1t has accomplished much for good
in the world of labor, 1t is no less neces-
| the grange movement is good in itself
and is capable OF a weli-nigh infinite fur
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 efiicacious
| farmers must primarily do most for
| themselves, yet the government can also
| has broken new ground in many direc-
tions, and year by year it finds how it
can improve its methods and develop
to give the governmental assistance in
the most effective way: that is. thru
socintions OF farmers rather than to or
| thru individual farmers. 1t is also striv-
ing to coordinate its work with the agri-
cultural departments OF the several
| educational. to coordinate it with the
work of other educational authorities
| Agricultural education is necessarily
| ha SpI general education hlf
| agricultural educational institutions
| wisely specializing themselves, making
| their course relate to the actual teaching
| OF the agricultural and kindred sciences
to young country people or young city
Great progress has already been made
among farmers by the creation OF
farmers, institutes. of dairy associa-
| cultural associations. and the like.
striking example of how the govern
shown in connection with the menace
offered to the cotton growers of the
southern states by the advance of the
all It can to organize the farmers in
the threatened districts, just as it has
in aid of its 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
done In the most efficient style.
idn He urges 1ara the extension of the irrisa,
|
| asks for an appropriation for building a
memorial theater at Arlington.
Marriage and Divorce.
As means of bringing about national
| regulation OF marriage and divorce he
| suggests constitutional amendment, and
| says 1t is not safe to leave these ques-
| tions to be dealt with by the various
states. Continuing on this subject he
says:
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease to regard a
| fully performed. and all its RESPONSE
hilities lived up to, as the life best
worth living; then evil days for the
commonwealth are at hand. There are
| regions in our land. and classes OF our
population. where the birth rate has
should need no demonstration to show
that wilful sterility is. Prom the
standpoint of. the nation, from me
sin for which the penalty is national
| death. race death; n sin for which
the more dreadful exactly in proper
| ton as the men and women guilty
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 shlrk the primary duties of life.
| whether for love of ease and pleasure.
or for any other cause. and retain his
or her self-respect.
| The president asks for the enactment
| into law of a shipping bill 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
| shat present laws are inadequate because
of the wide huctuaton of interest
| charges. he says:
shows that our present system is ser-
ously defective. There is need of a
change. Unfortunately, however, many
| of the proposed changes must be ruled
| from consideration because they are
! complicated, are not easy of compre-
hension. and tend to disturb existing
| rule out any plan which would ma
terally impair the value of the United
States two per cent: bonds now pledged
to secure circulation. the issue OF
which was made under conditions pc
| culiarly creditable to the treasury l
| do not press any special plan, Various
| plans have recently been proposed by
| expert committees of bankers. Among
the plans which are possibly feasible
| and which certainly should receive
| your consideration is that repeatedly
brought to your attention by the pres
sential features of which have been
| approved by many prominent bankers
| and business men. According to this
| plan national banks should be per
| mitted to issue specified proportion
| OF their capital in notes of a given
| kind. the issue to be taxed at so high
| n rate as to drive the notes back when
| not wanted in legitimate trade. This
plan would not permit the issue of
currency to give banks additional
profits but to meet the emergency pre-
| sented by times Of stringency.
Need Of Automatic System.
| "I do not say that this is the right
system. | only advance it to empha-
| size my belief that there is need for
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| shall be automatic and open to ali
| sound banks. so as to avoid all pos
| sibility of discrimination and favorit-
| ism. Such 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 it's accumu-
| lation at New York tempts bankers
to lend 1t at low rates for speculative
purposes: whereas at other times when
the crops are bing moved there is