River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-06

in the widest possible sense-in the sense
relationship between the theory of edu-
cation and the facts of life. In all
education we should widen our aims. II
is a good thing to produce certain NUM-
Der Of trained scholars and students;
but the education superintendent by the
state must seek rather to produce hum
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 most competent to pass prac-
country life. All students now realize
that education must seek to train the
executive powers of young people and to
phrase dignity of labor, and to pre-
pare the pupils so 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
become necessary in the business world;
and it has accomplished much for good
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 50 long as Il It's Is
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 efficacious
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 dlrec.
lions, and year by year 1t finds how 1t
can improve its methods and develop
fresh usefulness. It's constant effort is
the most effective way; that is, thru as
sociations of farmers rather than to or
thru individual farmers. 1t is also Strlv-
I 10 xrrNr@t Txrff frs1-
| cultural departments of the several
states, and so far as its own work is
educational, to coorainaaIe, ' WIN the
| 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-
| lions. 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 it 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 a constitutional amendment, and
says it is not safe to leave these cues
| lions to be dealt with by the various
states Continuing on this subject he
says; 49,. ,oa. ,,,,,o,
| men and women cease to regard
| worthy family life, with all its duties
| fully performed, and all it's response
bilities lived up to. as the life best .,s
| commonwealth are at hand. There are
regions in our land, and classes of our
nda T bs dea the brth rely
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; sin when is
/ ton as the men and women guilty
| thereof are in other respects in char
acter, and bodily and mental IL. powers WEI s
| 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
1 can shirk the primary duties of life
whether for love of ease and pleasure
| or for any other cause and retain his
The president asks for the enactment
/ into law of shipping bill that will place
/ 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
| that present laws are inadequate because
| of the wide fuctuation of interest
sSTRe mere statement of these facts
1 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-
rights and interests. We must also
| rule out any plan which would ma
| teria1ly impair the value of the United
States two per cent t;d nonq is now piedgeda
| which was made under conditions Pc
| culiarly creditab1e to the treasury.
1 do not press any, special plan. Various
plans have recently been. proposed by
i 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
ent 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 specified proportion
i of their capital in notes of given
/ kind, the issue to be taxed at so high
4 a rate as to drive the notes back when
i 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 at do not say that this is the right
system. / only advance 1T to empha-
/ size my belief that there is need for
the adoption of some system which
| shall be automatic and open to all
/ sound banks, so as to avoid all pos
| sibility of discrimination and favorit-
/ vent the spasms of high money and
| speculation which now obtain in the
j New York market; for at present
! there is too much currency at certain
i easons of the year. and it's accumu-
i lation at New York tempts bankers
| purposes; whereas at other times when
1 the crops are bling moved there is
/ urgent need for a large but temporary
/ increase in the currency supply 1t
/ must never be forgotten that this
! question concerns business men gem
/ orally quite as much as bankers; es-
i pecially is this true of stOckmen,
i farmers and business men In the west:
for at present at certain seasons of
/ the year the difference in interest