Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-31

Michigan Agricultural college was the
climax of the semi-centenniai celebra-
ton of the founding of that famous
institution arrived In Lansing at ~
O'Clock this morning over the Lako
shore railroad.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The fftleth anniversary of the found
Ing of This college Is an event of nation
al Significance, for Michigan was the
first state in the Union to found TINS,
the FIRST agricultural college IN Amer
ica. The nation is To be congratulated
ON the fact that the Congress ut WASH
ington has repeatedly euacted, laws de-
signed TO aid the several states In es-
tablishing and maintaining agricultural
and mechanical colleges | greet an
such colleges through their representa-
lives who have gathered here today,
and bid them Godspeed i'll their work
/ no less heartily invoke success FOR
the mechanical and agricuilurai
schools una ] wish to say that | have
heard particularly good reports OF the
Minnesota agricultural high school for
the way ia which 1t sends its graduates
back to the farm work as practical
farmers
Asa people there IL nothing in which
we take juster pride than our edu-
cational system II is our boast that
every boy on girl has the chance TO get
II ENltOUl lINHllHbs Aht w i'~SA ~ -. -
prime national duty TO furnish this
training free, because only thereby can
we secure the proper type of citizenship
in the average American. our puplc
schools and our colleges nave
done their work well aud there
is no class of our citizens deserving of
hearticr praise than the men aud wo-
men who teach In them.
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION.
T,,. "A
Wa have boon walking to the knowledge
that there must be additional education
beyond that provided IN thepubic school
as II is managed today, our school
system has hitherto been well-nigh
wholly lacking on the side OF industrial
training, OF tho training which FITS Il
IMAM for the shop and the farm
PAUPER COMPETITION.
We hear a great deal of the need of
protecting out wnrkingmen from CONF
petition with pauper labor / have very
little fear ot the competition of pauper
lahor The nations with pauper labor
are not the formidable industrial CONF
petitiors OF this country. What the Aln~
erican workingmsn has to fear is the
competition of the highly skilled work
ingnan of the countries of greatest
Industrial efficiency. BY the tariff and
by our immigration laws we can always
protect ourselves against the cOmpeu-
ton of pauper labor here at home but
when we contend for the markets Of the
world we can get no protection, and we
shall then find that our most forrnid-
able competitors are the nations IN
which there is the most highly deVel-
oped industrial skill; and these are the
qualities which we must ourselves dc-
yelop.
The problem OF furnishing we'll
trained craftsmen, or rather Journey
g,,f 4, IL tfNl
not simple-few problems ere simple IN
the actual process of their solution
If there is one lesson taught by history
1; is that the permanent greatness OF
any state must ultimately depend more
upon the character of its country popu-
lation than upon anything else no
growth of cities. no growth OF wealth.
can make up for loss In either the
number OF the character Of the farming
population. In the United states more
than in almost any other country we
should realize this and should prize our
country population
ANTI-FARM TENDENCIES.
The CHIEF offset 70 the various tenden-
cies which have told against the farm
has hitherto come III the rise OF me
physical sciences ana their application
10 agricultural practises or to the rem
dering OF country conditions more easy
and pleasant. But these Countervail'
ing forces are AS yet In their infancy.
Ambitious native-born young men and
women who now tend away from tho
farm must be brought back 10 1t. and
therefore they must have social as well
as economic opportunities. Everything
should be done 10 encourage the growth
in the open farming country of such
institutional and social movements as
will meet the demand OF the best type
of farmers. There should be libraries.
a.s.s oils al .aftgl III "a
all kinds The school building and the
teacher in the school building should,
throughout the country districts, be OF
the very highest type, able to fit the
boys and girls not merely to live In, but
thoroughly TO enjoy and 10 make the
most of the country. The coumsy
church must be revived.
Farmers must learn the vital need Of
cooperation with one another Next
10 this comes cooperation with the
government. and the government can
best give its aid through associations
of farmers rather than through the
Individual farmer, for there Is no great
er agricultural problem than that OF de-
liVering 10 the farmer the large body
OF agricultural knowledge which has
been accumulated by the national and
state governments and by the agrcul-
tuIaal colleges aud schools.
FARMERS COMBINE.
The people OF our farming regions
must he able 20 combine among them
selves. as the most efficient means of
protecting their industry from the
highly organized interests which now
surround them on every side = vast
field Is open for work by cooperative
associations of farmers in dealing with
the relation of the farm to transporta-
ton and to the distribution and man
ufacture Of raw materials. II is only
through such combination that Ameri-
car farmers can develop TO the fun
their economic and social power.
THE BEST CROP.
The best crop Is the crop of chill
drcn the best products of the farm
are the men and women raised there
on: and the most instructive and prac-
tica treatisas ON farming, necessary
though they be, are no more neces-
saty than the books which teach us
our duty 10 our neighbor, and above
all 10 the neighbor who Is of our
own household. You young men and
women OF the agricultural and indus
trial collegs rs and hools--aud for
that matter. YOU who 20 10 any coll
lege on school-must have some time
for light reading; and there Is some
light reading quite ~ useful as heavy
reading. provided OF course that you
do not read in a spirit of mere yacuty
Aside from the great classics, and
thinking only of the many healthy
and stimulating books of the day, II
Is easy 10 pick out many which can
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