Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05

cultural college. Why, for years il has
been deemed Il part of the duty OF the
state 10 train lawyers through law.
schools established by the government.
And we have trained doctors through
SCHOOLS connected with our state in
situations, but, my friends, we are just,
beginning to learn that the training
OF the farmer is just as important as
the training least benefited directly by
the expenditure of the money that is
| raised. Read the amount spent on ships
ana then figure. II you can, what por-
tlon or that gets to the farmer Take
UP the other large appropriations, and
with the exception of pensions, I do not
Know OF any large appropriation in
which the farmer has anything like his
share in proportion to his number.
These have been some OF the methods
of discrimination. l believe that with
more farmers in the councils of the ma
ton, more farmers prepared to exert an
influence upon public thought through
the pen and the pencil and by the
tongue, that we shall have a change,
and that that change will help to re-
tard, II not to stop the tendency now
from the farm to the town.
But what, my friends, is the danger
81 the concentration Of our population
in the great cities? l do not mean to
say that the causes that + have given
are the only ones that have tended to
build up the cities Nearly everything
has contributed but these influences
have always, when you trace them back
to the cause been operating, and the
fact that the farmers influence in leg
islation has not been what it ought to
have been in one of these influences.
Take the rebates that have built up,
great centers and destroyed the smaller
towns. Why have they been given?
Because the farmer has not had a
IFnirn In, no LOT <,Ff
And so might take up other questions.
And what Is the menace Of the central
ization of the population in our great
cities? believe the farm is the great
training school, and know that the
people from the farm have strengthened
every branch of business; but. my
friends, ! believe as we get away from
the country. as we get farther from the
soil, we are less and less impressed by
these great laws of nature that ought
to have q controlling influence in our
lives. Man, as he lives close to the soil,
lives close to God 1t is easy to teach
religion to one who sees the miracles
performed every day. 1t is easy to
inspire regard for the Creator in one
who sees every day the handiwork of
the Almighty and laborS constantly
amid the mysteries OF natural life. And
on these farms we have been rearing
the man and woman whose influences
ia " he'peu " hesp ILLS couliIiy sieat
and to promote the movements which
have for their objects the welfare of
the world. But there is another reason
why am anxious that the farmer shall
have a great influence. AS l have been
studying the causes of evil. as 1 have
been studying the abuses that need to
be rcmeded, 1 have found that the
fundamental trouble is a mistaken I'M
Outstanding of the law of rewards. The
farmer, more than any one else, Is
brought into close touch with the di
vine law of rewards. The farmer knows
that God has given him fruitful earth,
the showers that are necessary and the
warmth of the sun, and the farmer
knows that If he is to convert raw ma
terial into wealth, it must be by dill
gence and by intelligence; and the
farmer is impressed, day by day, year
by year, with the idea that his reward
Is to be in promotion TO his merit,