The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-12-07

| relationship between the theory OF edu:
education We should widen our aims It
is a good thing to produce certain NUM-
Der Of trained scholars and students;
| state must seek rather to produce q hum
bred good citizens than merely one
tSen from nd the class book to the S~ study
1 is especially true Of the farmer, as has
Observers oese n most competent to pass prac-
| teal Judgment on the problems OF our
country nfe All students now realize
| executive powers of young people and to
| confer more real significance upon the
| phrase dignity Of labor" and to pre-
each developing in the highest degree
his Individual capacity for work, they
may together help create right public public
/ and cooperative spirit. Organization has
| become necessary in the business world;
| in the world of labor. It is no less neces-
! sary for farmers. Such movement as
| the grange movement is good IN itself
| and is capable of a well-nigh infinite fur
| Their extension for good so long as it is
| kept to it's own legitimate business. The
| benefits to be derived by the association
! partly economic and partly sociological.
| Moreover, while in the long run volun-
tary effort will prove more eft1cacious
than government assistance, while the
/ farmers must primarily do most for
| themselves, yet the government can also
| do much. The department of agriculture
| has broken new ground in many direc-
| lions, and year by year it finds how it
can improve its methods and develop
fresh usefulness Its constant effort is
| to give the governmental assistance in
| the most effective way; that Is, thru as
| sociations of farmers rather than to or
ing to coordinate its work with the agri-
states, and 50 far as its own work is
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
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-
| TONS 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
southern states by, the advance of the
| boil weevil. The department is doing
all 1t can to organize the farmers in
the threatened districts, just as it has
been doing all 1t can to organize them
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"
| He urges the extension of the irriga-
ton and forest preservation system and
| asks for an appropriation for building
memorial theater at Arlington.
Marriage and Divorce.
As means of bringing about national
regulation Of marriage and divorce he
suggests q constitutional amendment, and
says it is not safe to leave these ques-
fDv,o b hA xrvlkI he -f<Hr,a
states. Continuing on this Subject he
When home ties are loosened; when
worthy family life. with all it's duties
fully performed, and all its response
bilities lived UP to, as the life best
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, from the
sin for which the penalty is national
death. race death; sin for which
there Is no atonement; q. sin which is
the more dreadful exactly in proper
ton as the men and women guilty
thereof are in other respects, in char
aSstsr. and bodily and mental s th powers tat
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 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
AS those Of other On aDd
| especially that something be done that
will establish direct steamship commu-
nication with South American ports.
Currency Reform.
Amendments to the present currency
that present laws are inadequate because
| of the wide fuctuation of interest
| charges, he says:
| 1.-The mere statement of these facts
shows that our present system is seri-
| ously defective. There is need of a
change. Unfortunately, however, many
from consideration because they are
complicated. are not easy of compre-
hension, and tend to disturb existing
rights and interests. We must also
terialIy impair the value of the United
States two per cent bonds now pledged
which was made under conditions pc
culiarly creditable to the treasury I
| 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 cOnSlOeratlOn Is tnat repeatedly
| brought to your attention by the pres
| emit secretary of the treasury, the es-
| 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 a specified proportion
| kind. the issue to be taxed at so high
| a 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-
scented by times of stringency.
Need of Automatic System.
| "I do not say that this is the right
! system. I only advance 1t to empha-
| size my belief that there is need for
1 the adoption of some system which
| shall be automatic and open to ali
| sound banks, so as to avoid all pos
| sibility of discrimination and fayorit-
| 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 its accumu-
/ lation at New York tempts bankers
! to lend 1t at low rates for speculative
| purposes; whereas at other times when
| the crops are bling moved there is
! urgent need for large but temporary
| increase in the currency supply It
must never be forgotten that this
| question concerns business men gem
| orally quite as much as bankers; es-
| pecially is this true of stockmen,