The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-09-27
,. ,. HILLS SPEECH.
Keep the boys on the Farm l. his
Advice.

Advice.
We reprint from the New York
Daily Tribune. the address given by
T. hill. president OF the Great
Northern Railroad, az the opening of
the Minnesota State Fair, September
| .. 1906. Every boy and man. interest
I'd In his own and his countrys good.
should carefully read Il and think
about Il. The way to keep the boys
on the farm" is not 20 refuse to let
them 20 any where else, but, first, TO
make the farm place where they
are conteDted and happy and can do
better than any where else. and sec
ondly 10 give them a good common
school education, aud then send them
to a college like Berea. where they
can learn the things they need to
know to improve the farm and make
Il pay. In Germany and England and
In the United States too. Schools OF
Agriculture are being started by the
government, 80 that young men may
learn IN year or two, things they
ought TO know about farming which
Il has taken hundreds OF years for
others TO learn. Have your boy read
this speech Of Hills and tell him you
want him To be the best farmer In
Kentucky. and will send him to school
and help him on the farm II he will
start out to make "A success. Here is
Mr.. Hill's speech:
Notwithstanding the addition OF
more than million people a year
from abroad, nearly all OF them men
aud women who must work for a liy-
Ing, labor outside the cities was new
err as scarce or wages as high as at
the present time. immigration iinger
In the great centers and adds TO the
difficulties attending employment. Tn
farmers stretch out their hands In vain
Railroads In making extensions have
to get help at the highest market
price, and find a large percentage OF
those whom they employ mere hoboes
who desert as soon as they have sue
oeeded IN getting transportation from
one pratt of the country to another.
Farmers besiege the employment agen
cies In vain, and offer the lazy
tramp a sum for a days work in
the field unheard of in any other
country In the world. The situation
grows more embarrassing yearly. Hours
of labor are being reduced in some
OF the states for farm as well as shop
hands. Men are scarcer, as the
movement of population to the cities
grows more pronounced. A consider
able portion of this years magnifi-
cent crop will be either reduced I'm
quality or altogether lost by reason
OF the impossibility of getting labor
to handle Il properly. Discouraged
small farmers are now selling their
land TO larger proprietors, who can
profitably substitute machinery for
men. The country needs more work
ers on the soil. Not to turn the
stranger away but 20 direct him TO tn
farm, instead of the city; not to watch
with fear a possible increase In the
birth 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 a we'll |
advised political economy and an in
telligent patriotism.
Within twenty years we must house
and employ In some fashion fifty mill |
lion OF additional population, and by
the middle of the century there will
be approximately two and a half
times as many people in the United
states as there are today No nation |
In history was ever confronted with
sterner problem than this certain
prospect sets before us. What are
We to do with our brother, whose
keeper we are? How are we TO pro-
vide cur children with shelter and
their daily bread? Our arabic pub