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

1t, and | want you 10 understand |
tnat L STAND absolutely in favor
OF 1t. 1t will do more to better
the conditions of the farmers
IMAM anything along this line that
know OF. [ believe that the
parcels post, being new thing
IN TINS country, ough. to be es-
tabllshed upon the rural routes
OF the country. To start with, |
make the initial point of the par !
cells post the beginning of the
rural route, and establish the
parcels post on the rural routes,
just as the rural routes are es-
tabllshed. | am in favor of re-
strlctlng immigration, securing
the defeat of the proposed cen
trail bank, and more liberality in
national appropriation toward
agricultural products. Now, my
friends, that is one of the most
important questions that cor
fronts us today. We are in fav-
or, and every farmer should be
IN favor, Of the national govern
ment cutting down these great
appropriations for pomp and glo-
ry, cutting down these millions
and millions Of appropriations
that are made every year for bat
tleshlps that 60 out of use in ten
years and are cast aside and 9TH
er millions appropriated cut of
the peoples money to built new
battleships that are never used.
| The people need appropriations
TO build great highways over the
country, to build up the country
and to help out the men in the
country who are struggling for
their existence, and need help.
The people in the country need
appropr alions to assist in ag-
! ricultural education, and you
: know that the Agricultural De-
! partment in the past few years
: has done a great deal along the
. line of educating the farmers in
, many ways, in drainage and in
s, rotation IF crops on demonstra-
. ton farms, in seed selection, and
J ! many other things; in growing
! ! these winter clover crops, anc
{ these crops that take nitrogen
out of the air and redeposit it ir
the soil. It has done a grea
! deal along that line, and ough
to do more.
-. One of the most importan
Il things that confronts the peopl
i of this country is a better system
IL of education. | mean this. Ev
y cry man loves his children, ever
- man loves that little girl and DO
= in the home, and we believe tina
=, it behooves us to give them a
le education. We are living in tn
y, country, we are doing the be>
, we can, and feel like that so
~ and daughter ought to have a
y education. We feel right abou
- - it. We pay taxes to keep up tn
~ ~ schools. We build magnificer
IL school houses almost on ever
- hill top, and the sound of tt
u school bell is in the hearing {
H. almost everybody in Robese
", county and throughout the Stat
eo In some sections in this State
IL have noticed that the scho
n x, house is a better house than tt
oil church. | was impressed vel
p forcibly with this fact in OF
y, county in this district. 1t sho1
We We ed that the spirit IF educate
III III had taken hold of these peoE
III and carried them further tn;
TO- their devotional duties. No
-, what do you mean by a bett
tal system OF education? | me
that nine times out of ten y
lal educate your boy and girl in t
ms country along literary lines, a
On you render him absolutely,
az many things, unfit to come ba
es- home and take up the agric
w we tural duties where you will SOC
ne er or later be forced to leave Q
uo- That is true. We have not ST.
me led out these questions suffice
OUT ly. You take a boy and Sc
ign him off to school. You tea
~ him languages and mathemati
1iiis and he comes back home fr
n ~! college, he has been used to
Ia. beautiful buildings, elect
tn9 lights, green lawns and fo
WIN tains, and paved streets, to t.
lohs phones and telegraph, and ev
ol convenience that college
VIZ could afford. He gradual
tenn comes back home, and is l
at IS at the depot by his old fatf
IngSS who showers blessings upon h
and The son has graduated. the
ltea has spent the money that