The Delta independent., 1909-11-12
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Jack Spratt.-It is easy to preach.
easier to preach than to practice and
also more fascinating, but not more
inspiring. The philosopher has his
point of view, but the average man is
not philosophical. He is too busy even
to search for the philosophers stone
He lives in the realm of the practical
and gets his inspiration from the man
who does things. What we hail as
hero worship is but the homage we pay
to successful achievement.
Joseph M. Chapple. le.-Farming today
is no pastoral fantasy. 1t is a COM
mercial and industrial exploitation of
soil products that pours eight billion
dollars this very year into the farmers
Golfers. The sowing, gathering and
marketing of grain is now a methodical
business proposition and there has been
sharp advance in recent years from
the methods of colonial days. In every
other line of the farming industry we
see the same material progression.
B. F. Yoakum Whether accom-
plished through existing organizations
or by other methods, an organized sys-
TEN upon business principles that will
promote the interests of the farmer is
Inevitable If those who are now CIV
ing the subject attention do not find
way, others will. Such a movement is
not impossible or impractical and the
progressive element of the farming in
terest of this country will take hold of
it in way TO accomplish good and sub
stantial results. No man or set of men
can prevent it for the principle is the
correct one and will prevail
Bishop Carroll. ll.-Agriculture is the
great mainstay of our whole CONNER
cial and social system. 1t is the fruit
full source of everything that is good for
use in material way. God gave the
land to US with an admonition that we
should bring forth its fruits. If mother
earth should fail of the great purpose
for which it was intended all other in
dustries and interests in this world
would be paral, zed. Stable prosperity
comes to a community in proportion as
its agricultural resources are developed
and fostered. Mines are likely to be-
come exhausted at any time and fac
tories closed down and men and their
/ families who depend upon them have
verv precarious existence
| H. w. Campbell. 1t will not be dis
puted by any one who knows that by
and through scientific soil tillage more
is being accomplished for the better
ment of crops in all seasons and under
all conditions than in any other way.
The one thing essential in scientific soil
culture is such condition of the soil
1 as will secure in available form the
greatest amount of fertility. This can
be brought about by mechanical pro-
cess. But we cannot lay down a fixed
rule for this; so the only thing to do is
to help the farmer educate himself in
the true principles of soil fertility so
he will understand just what he is aim
ing at in all field work. He must know
why things are done. He must ever be
alert to the changes taking place.
Senator Bob Taylor. national
liberty has become Rip Van Wrinkle
and has retired to the Catskills for a
long, long sleep. And like Rip Van
Wrinkle it may awaken later to find
only the rusty gun barrel of its former
power and the skeleton of its once great
constitution hanging high in a tree.
Hunger for gold and lust for power are
the greatest evils in this world. They
have ruined every nation that ever grew
great. And they are running our ma
tion today. pray God we may awake
to our danger before it is too late to
regain our lost ground. Else we will
surely fall as Babylon and Rome fell.
The conditions in this republic today
are startlingly similar to the conditions
that existed in ancient Babylon and in
Rome. In Babylon ninety-seven per
cent of the nations wealth fell into the
hands of one small group of men. In
America today ninety per cent of the
country's wealth is controlled by ten
men. The political power is equally
concentrated and is vested in virtually
this same ten leaders.
Lin, TIo,,s1~I De-