The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-06-06

THURSDAY. JUNE s, 1907
STICK TO THE FARM.

"The President never gave a better
piece Of advice than when he told the
students Of the Michigan Agricultural
4 College to stick to the farm. This Is an
age when the people are crowding to the
cities. Almost every young man who
has been reared In the country Is beset
with q longing for the throbbing life Of
the metropolis. Every year they come
BY the thousands to seek their fortunes In
the city. Some Of them win and rise to
prominence or earn for themselves fame
and honor. But the vast majority are
swallowed up by the great throngs Of the
city and are never seen Or heard Of again.
Many Of them, being unaccustOmed to
the allurements Of the dens Of vice, fall
an easy prey to the vultures that prey up
on the ignorant and unsophisticated. No
class Of men are so easily enticed by the
seductive charms Of gilded sin as the
bows who come fresh from the country,
eager to see and to learn the ways Of the
city and all ignorant Of the shame and
the ruin that await those who play with
the fire of the tenderl0in. Others from
the farms who are wise enough to avoid
the haunts Of folly soon find themselves
condemned to years Of unremitting toll
amid the smoke and din Of factory or ma
chine shop or shut up in some sitting
office, bending all day over desk They
earn wages barely sufficient to provide
the necessities Of life without laying any
thing up for the rainy day that is sure to
come sooner or later, and In their old age
are compelled to face the stern vlsage of
want.
SIT is great mistake for the man Of
ordinary talent to leave the farm for the
city. The country has just as much to
offer him In the way Of remuneration,
and q thousand times more In the way OF
real enjoyment.
"In the place Of the crowded streets
and gloomy shops Of the city be has the
freedom Of the open fields, the beauty OF
the simbered hills, and the fragrance OF
the flower. bedecked meadows; Instead OF
a choking atmosphere Of smoke and
crime he has the fresh air and the warm
sunshine, and instead Of the din OF the
streets and the ceaseless whir OF ma
chinery, be hears the murmuring Of the
breezes through the elms and the naples,
the songs Of the birds and the gurgling
laughter Of the brooks. And more than
all, he has the feeling Of freedom that is
born Of large surroundings, and the In
spiration that comes from the great heart
OF nature.
"If a man wants to get the most out Of
life let him stick to the farm. Not In the
old fashioned way that makes one a
.mossback' and an old fogie,' but In the
modern way that makes man 10 the
broadcast sense. To stick to the farm to-
day does not mean that one must give up
an education. nor that be must see MOTH
ing Of the life Of the city. There 10 moth
ing to hinder the farmer boy from going
to college and securing every advantage
in that line that Is enjoyed By the most
fortunate 10 the cities. Neither Is there
anything to hinder him from visiting the
city when business will permit, and en-
joying there the benefits and worthy
pleasures that the city has to offer with
out subjecting himself to lie allurmsnts
and temptations, or combining himself In
its narrow streets and dingy surround
ings. By all means stick 70 the farm"
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