The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-16
BURKETT IS
AT SCRIBNER
TALKS TO FARMERS ATTENDING
STOCK SHOW THERE.
SPEAKS OF SCIENTIFIC FARMING
Government Recognizes Importance
Of Economic and Scientific Farm
ing, He Says, and is Taking Steps
to Help the Farmer

Scrbner, Neb., Sept 15.-Special to
The News: For several years the
people of Scribner have been holding
annually a stock and agricultural
show, and this is the second time that
they have asked Senator Burkett to
address them. The people here like
Burkett and Burkett evidently likes
the people, for he seemed very much
at home. This section of the state
claims to have given the senator his
first start in Nebraska, for it was
only few miles from here where the
senator came fresh from college as
a young school teacher twenty years
ago. AS the senator recalls it, his
first meal in Nebraska was taken at
this place. Anyway he knows the
people and marched into the hotel
with all the familiarity of an old set
, tier. Il always did like you north
Platte people" said the senator, as
he grabbed j. NJ. Beaver by the hand.
and never shall forget how kind you
were to me up here when | did not
! have an acquaintance in the state nor
dollar in money. Financially | have
| held my own and have improved my
condition so far as friends go, but
never will find better friends than
found as a boy up in this country"
The senator made a speech to the
! farmers entirely devoid of partisan
! politics. He told them that good farm
ers sometimes developed into first
class politicians, but that he never
knew of a politician who was worth
I his salt as farmer. He said that
farmer-politicians We're usually farm
ers of the second degree; that they
were in the business not so much for
cultivating the soil as cultivating the
cultivatOr of the Soil-that they farm
ed the farmers while the farmer farm
ed the farm.
| However, he said that the farmer
who would not take time to listen to
the politicians a reasonable length of
time once in a while would find him
self voting for the wrong man and in
the end would become very useless
sort of a citizen. Every man in this
eminent to spend a little time in
studying politics. He said that the
farmers were the safest men on pub.
lie questions for they were likely to
be the least prejudiced and on ac
count of their surroundings and OPP
portunities for information the best
informed men upon public questions,
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all the improved instrumentalities OF
intercourse between them and the
world, such as the rural free delivery
cheap postage, automobiles, and the
telephone. The telephone he charac
terized as the most far-reaChing in
vention of good and gossip that the
world had ever seen, for by it mer
could transact business with Lincoln
in five minutes, while the women
could visit the entire neighborhood
twice in every twenty-four hours"
The senator spoke of farming as
always having been eminently respect
able, but not always scientific anC
profitable. He spoke of the man who
stayed on the farm because he die
not know what else to do as not like
ly to make much of success in farm
, ing and probably nowhere else. Farm
ing is becoming more and more scien
/ tific," said the senator. 1T Is be
{ coming more and more necessary tt
! make study of it. The government
$ both state and national, has recog
=. nized the importance of economic ant
y scientific farming. The agriculture
= department sent men clear around tn
f world to get seed of plants that grew
i luxuriantly in the arid lands of Asia
| and within a dozen years | sent on
n the first alfalfa seed into parts O
}. Nebraska, that has now multiplied b.
the million and has pushed comfort
n able and successful habitation 20
+ miles further west. Within that doZe
years the department has introduce
!. the Macaroni wheat and made farm
, ing profitable and certain a hundre
q miles further west than it was bt
q fore" He said that the great govern
# ment was now studying upon a rem'
g dy for the greatest of all horrors t
n the farmer-hog cholera, and thu
upon his request an expert from tn
q department had but recently bee
a. making experiments at Omaha.
ic The Need of Parties.
n Blair, Neb., Sept. 15.-Special
The News: Senator Burkett, in h
s. address here last night at the ba
N quet given in his honor by the repu
IS lican organization of Washingtc
ID county, laid particular stress upC
i'd the value of organization and the n
cessity of political parties in tn
country. He also paid his respects
those persons who were inclined
es criticise progressive legislation al
IT. the Roosevelt policies. He dwelt
k. considerable length upon the va
as amount of progressive legislation tn
be had been enacted in the last ten yeal
l. and characterized it as the create
er- decade of reform that the world h
W. ever seen,
as He characterized Roosevelt as I