The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-09-10
Timely Views and News


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dedication of a home for the aged addressed +. y
his remarks to the great crowd Of farmers 49, 3
that will bear repeating.
Mr.. Bryan said; My friends, we are no,. i: |
in making the appropriations for the farmer NJ. M
any other classes of Our people. Why, it was /, {.
fury after our government was organized Or ],
that before we succeeded in getting departm., IS
agriculture established. We are the greatest ag. i
tural country in the world and agriculture W
greatest industry in our country and yet almoa rs
hundred years elapsed before the farmer got /. b
around the presidents council chamber How n, #
ward we have been in recognizing the farmers h.
in our government and among Our institutions X
the time that has elapsed since the creation & 4,
department Of agriculture great deal has been d,
and yet that department Is in its infancy What
you think when tell you that for every dollar
spend on that department we spend more than 81, ,
the army and navy. More than SIS spent in eet,|
ready for wars we ought never to have than we SD
on agriculture.
Take up the other large appropriations aud Va
the exception of pensions, ! do not know Of auya,
appropriation in which the farmer has anything
his share in proportion to his number. These I'd
been some of the methods of discrimination Iblxu
that with more farmers in the councils o-the nsia
more farmers prepared to exert an influence ID,
public thought through the pen and pencil aud
the tongue, that we shall have change, and
that change will help to retard, If not to stop
tendency now from the town. But what, my friend
is the danger of the concentration of Our popual
in the great cities. do not mean to say thai
causes that have given are the only ones that b
tended to build up the cities Nearly everything n
contributed but these influences have all, when
trace back to the cause been operating, and the
| that the fsxmes g<sauenec IN the itgiSatios has
been what it ought to have been is one Of these
fiueuces.
DOES NOT PARTICIPATE.
Take the rebates that have built up great ceuad
and destroyed the small towns Why have they ~
givenl Because the farmer has not had vote \
the regulation of the railroads.
i believe that the farm is the great training sch'
and know that the people from the farm AZ
strengthened every branch Of business; but, n
friends, believe as we get away from the counlA
as we get farther from the soil, we ATE less ana g
impressed by those great laws of nature that ougi
have a controlling influence in our lives. Man
lives close to the soil lives close to God. Is It easy
teach religion to one who sees the miracles peonc
every day. 1t is easy onspire regard for the cea
in one who sees every day the handiwork OF tne
mighty, and labores constantly amid the myseno'
natural life And on these farms we have been "a
ing the men and women whose influences have hdF
to keep this country great and to promote the moo
ments which have for their objects the welfare o =
world.
4 The guava season is about over Prices went do'
to one dollar per BIZ. and every body could af'
enough to perfume the house, at least.
4 $50
Mr.. T. Ed Child, publisher of the DeSoto Ccua
CHAMPION Of Arcadia, was in this city Tuesday
called pleasantly on the CT. -Barfow Courier
Jormanf.
You certainly do have to go away from home
learn the news. We Arcadians have been think
that T. Ed Child was one Of the publishers Of !
CHAMPION, but the Polk County Record tells Us
T. Ed Child, publisher Of the DcSoto County Hs'
Of Arcadia, is in our city for few days"
sss
! In talking with leading Arcadia socialist the Oh
day with regard 10 the proposition made by the me-
tee socialists and published ia THE CHAMPION
week, be said The Manatee socialists wrote Q,
some time ago about this thing, and told them !.
as most ali of fhc neSofo ,sofv socialists had u