The Cairo bulletin., 1907-10-02

ur type OF farm home Is one OF o
ur strongest political and social bl
lst warks. Such farm worked BY h
ou owner has proved by experience Il
re best place in which to breed yigorol
an leaders alike for country and city.
pr ~ q matter of prime economic an
civic Importance to encourage III
or type Of Homecoming farmer.
:, Agricultural education.
Il Therefore, we should strive in ever
4. way to ala In the education cf III
/. farmer for the farm, and should shap
! our school system with this end 1
q view; and so yitally important is thi
4 ftfat, n ihsioptfiohl the Federal g6A
|. fernmefit"shcaiid- cooperate with tn
i state governments to secure the need
h Tea change and improvement in on
/, schools, II is significant that bctl
/ from Minnesota and Georgia there
! nave come proposals in this direction
\ ~ the appearance Of bills introduced
into the national congress The con
gressioual land grant act Of 1852 &C
complished much In establishing the
agricultural colleges III the several
states, and therefore in preparing to
turn the system Of educational train.
ing for the young into chanenls al
\ once broader and more practical and
what am saving about agricultural
training really applies to al indus
trial training Brt the colleges can
not reach the masses, and it Is es
isential that the masses should be
reached. Such agricultural high
schools as those in Minnesota and Ne
braska for farm boys and girls, such
technical schools as are to be found
for instance. In both ST Louis ANA
Washington, have by their success
shown that 1t is entirely feasible to
carry in practical fashion the funda-
mentals OF industrial training into the
realms Of cur secondary schools AT
present there is gap between cur
primary schools in country and city /
and the industrial collegiate courses. |
which must be closed and ii neces- 4
sary the nation must help the state to (
close II. Too often our present schools
tend to put altogether too great a
premium upon mere literary educa-
ton and therefore to train away from
the farm and the shop.
We should reverse this process.
Specific training of a practical kind
should be given 10 the boys and girls
who when men and women are to
make up the backbone of this nation
~ working in agriculture, in the ma
ehanical industries, in arts aud
.rades; In short, who areto 10 the
luty that should always come first
With all of us, the duty of home
making and home keeping. Too mar
CIV a literary education is. for most
aen and women, not a real education
4 all, fer a real education should 4
it people primarily for the indus !
rial and home-making employments
y which they must employ the bulk
i their activities. Our country offers
opportunitic. for domes- =
Ie and social advancement, for social G
nd economic leadership In the world. =
'ur greatest national asset is to be y
)und in the children They need to ?
e trained to high ideals OF everyday u
wing, and to high efficiency In their r
aspectiye yocations; we can not al a
'rd to have them trained otherwise. 2
nd the nation should help the states !.
, achieve this end i
Land Laws For Home-Makers. :
Now, men of Iowa, want to say !,
lst word on matter that con I,
arns not the states OF the Mississip- n
Valley itself but the states west H.
them the states Of the great plains .,
Id the Rocky Mountains. Unfortu- !,
itely, | am not able on this present j,
ip to visit those states. or / should j.
leak to their own people on the point AZ
which now intend to allude: bnt a
ter all anything that affects a con II
ierable number of Americans who 4.
re under one set Of conditions, must =,
of moment to all other Americans. M
r never forget friends. that in the ne
ng run We shall all go up or go M
wn together. h.
The states Of the high plains AMI 60
the mountains have peculiar or
Tim upon me, because for number 70
years | lived and worked in them. AZ
d have that intimate knowledge CT no
FIR people that comes under such 60
In those states there is -,
ed Of a modification of the land In,
VS. that have worked so we'll in tho m,
II watered fertile regions to the su
stward such as those in which you 10
re dwell. The one object in all no
r land laws should always be to ca
'or the actual settler. the actual of
me maker. who comes to dwell on IN,
; land and there to bring up his Ia,
ldren to inherit it after him The err
Sernment should part with its title ~
the land only to the actual home. "a
ker-not to the profit maker. who Lea
IS not care to make a home. The 90,
d should be sold outright only IN ros
antilles sufficient for decent homes ont
lot in huge areas 10 be held for vjl
purposes or used as ranch IN.