The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-09

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they are hard down every day,
in tne thing that con-
Germs thsIn.
Take the retail merchant, the
retail grocer, wholesale grocer,
hardware dealer, and the whole !
sale and retail trade throughout
the country, and you will find
that they are meeting every year
in their annual conventions,
studying their business. You
take the lawyers of the country,
and they meet In their bar asso-
Citations. You will find the law
yer back in his Office studying
the cases he handles at the bar.
He is not going around asking
you whether or not he has the
privilege to do that, and whether
or not he may do that. You take
the physicians, they are meeting
in their county societies, medical
societies, every year, and oftener.
They are studying how to carry
on and conduct the business to
the best interest of the physl-
clans of the country and State;
they are studying how to become
better equipped and better pre-
pared to carry on the business
that they are engaged in, and
they are studying and fixing uni
form prices to be charged for
every visit, according to the dis
lance. And so it is with the
teachers in your county meet
ing yearly in their Institutes, I'M
| der the law required to spend
two weeks in every year study
ing how to become more prof.
Gent and better prepared to bring
up the little boys and girls in the
way they should, preparing them
for better service in manhood
and government. They are en-
gagged at their business, prepar-
ing themselves to become better
teachers, and they have the State
behind them, they have the ma
ton behind them. and they are
doing a great work building up
the State and making people in
telligent and happy. But, my
farmer friends, they could not
do that, they could not accom-.
plish anything, unless they stud
| led their business.
i l have spoken of but few OF
the different vocations in life.
There are many others, but
have singled out a few that you
: are concerned with as the days
60 by. But there is another
class of people following the
: great and honorable calling il
} life that has heretofore, accord
ing to past experience, a fac
Staring US in the face, that We
} cannot deny, who have support
ed all these other classes, AM
this great class have neglected
, more than any other class, thei
| own business, and that is tn
great farming element Of tn
country.
Now, my friends, there ar
about 80 per cent Of the peopl
: in the United States who till tn
: |; soil, and make their living by tn
sweat Of their faces, and | wan
> to tell you that according to his
Il tory they have had heretofor
T less done for them, in a publ
y way, than any other class or cal
= ing in the country. They hav
'. been more neglected in the hoU
W of need, in the hour when the
u needed more than any other elias
u of people. There have been be
~ ter facilities prepared for til
: other classes and callings. Thel
~ has been more money appropr
- :: ated for the other classes by tn
IL State and the national govern
ment, than has been appropr
n ated for this farming class, tho:
e e that needed more help and r
Is ceived less, and the reason is
~, ~ am going to get to the point
l le say here today, fellow-citizen
Sc that the reason is because W
e e have not made more deman,
~ ~ than you have made, becau
~ you have not made known yo
~ wishes, because you have n
wv communicated your desires to Il
a. az people who represented you al
~ ~ had the ability, or the privilep
' OF requiring more for you.
~ just simply means because v
ne have not studied the questio
~ that concern you as the 9th
lie classes have studied the que
ny tons that concern them. Y
,ne go to the towns, you see 20
iel streets, they cost somethir
ny You see a good court house