The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-09-27
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 2719o7
What the Farmers
Talk About.
Politics, Religion, Farm Hands,
Automobiles and Boys
and Girls.

Correspondence Of the Democratic Advocate
EDITOR ADyOcATE:-Judge Crother.
in his speech Of acceptance emphasizes
good roads This Is about the only point
he made that had direct bearing On the
farmer. 1t Is generally supposed that the
farmer Is the chief bowler for good roads.
OF course, they are good thing, but It
Is being discovered that the autGlsts are
the chief benefciaries Of good roads; that
the farmer pays the taxes for them and
that the aut0ists get the benefit chiefly,
with farmer bearing all the expense Of the
wrecks the automobile, cause. In dls-
eussion Of the mattor hereabouts the farm
err were very decided in their opinions.
4 new county bridge has been built
near the north end Of the farm Of Mr..
Prank Merceron and Immediately after IT.
completion the sign condemned was put
up. The farmers are wanting to know
what the trouble Is
A great dearth Of farm hand hereabout-
has given rise to the question. Are not
the whites and negroes educated away
from work On the farms By too embracive
educational system, and should not COLI
pulsory education and child labor laws be
opposed in the next Legislature
An old farmer, one Of the sturdy
yeomen Of by-gone age, sat gazing at
some Of our young people, when he said:
What the matter with these young fel-
lows now-a-days: They all look a. if they
spent all the night running around. And
the babies look ike poor little pinched up
things, with none Of the broad face. and
rosy cheeks that they used to have. We
used to see them that way in the cities,
but now they are that way out here in the
county where fresh air fresh food and
exercise ought 70 make them bouncerS
| felt like telling this old yeomen that We
were introducing all the social and educa-
tiOnal features Of city life into the country
and We were, consequently, reaping the
consequences.
Some Democrats and Republicans were
discussing the questions Of the day when
one Of the former said: How Is it that
the Prohibitionists 20 generally repudiate
their own ticket and vote ardeutly the Re
publican ticket? thrust The Times will
allow some Of these brethern - answer
this question through it. widely read
columns. One Republican is unkind
enough to say that the Prohibitionists
mean nothing Of what they say, as he
caught one Of them imHbing freely in
saloon far away from home and he stood
EN- up with the sacred promise that
he would not be told IN around his own
burg.
Senator Beasmsn. discoursing at the
Freedom primary, aid the proper way TO
elect Senators was by the direct vote Of
the people. Good for hun
Considerable approval has been express
ed following sermon delivered by rising
young minister Of the Methodist Church
South in this county. He Is reported to
to have shown that civilization has grown
with the spread Of Protestan;sm and that
counties like Italy and Spain have gone to
decay under Catholicism This Is to be
doubted. Nations rise and fall from other
than religion imitation. Greece. once the
proud seat Of an art and learning that has
never been equalled, both rose and fell
more under heathenism than religion At
the present time it is impossible to draw
the line of demarkation in this country be-
tween Protestanism and Catholicism. The
latter seeks just as heartily as the former
the maintenance Of our institutions and
our civilization. and if Socialism, the dis
rupter, is TO be reckoned with the Catholics
can be said to be the only sect that has
stood forth in some marked opposition to it.
Whenever the farmers talk about train
ing boys to the farm, the average educator
st once hastens to the legislator with
proposal for still more agricultural schools
This has been the case with Hon. Charles
H. Davis, of St. Peter, MINI. He is a
Republican Congressman and he proposes
to renew at the next Congress his attempts
to have passed bill that calls for an i'm
mense sum from the Federal Treasury to
install agricultural schools in the counties
and industrial schools in the cities. We
have already seen what both these classes
of schools amount to. Workers in both
lines have grown steadily scarcer since
their Inauguration. What is needed is the
putting of boys to work in direct communi-
cation with the farm and trade. Nothing
less will do.
FREEDOM DISTRICT.