Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-18

Most of the men whom We are COM
PEELED to employ come from the coun-
try east of us and are native Amerl-,
cans.
The average American farm labor
er demands plenty to eat, a soft bed
and light work. He is independent
to the point of impudence, and is
constantly looking for an excuse to
quit his job and move on. When CIV
en- directions about his tasks, he must
be approached with humility and fear,
otherwise, he will demand his wages
and disappear down the road, and
some other farmer will be obliged to
hire him. The best men we get are
Scandinavians, but only a few OF
them, comparatively. are coming to
the United States. Labor conditions
throughout the west are serious econ
omically, and, besides, are actually
exasperating to the farmers"
'1How can young men be induced to
stay on the farms and help their faith
ers?"' l inquired.
Many suggestions have been made
but the only way to attach young
man to the soil is to educate him and
then to give him chance to make
a. practical. application of his knowl
edge. Fully '65 per cent of the boys
who graduate from our agricultural
colleges take up farming as their per-
manent occupation. They go away
:~%1 lor 1r n &c
NAL homes, where the long days are
filled with drudgery and where the
methods have remained unchanged
since the time of their great grand
fathers, into life, light, energy and
happiness.
."Ehey learn that agriculture is both
a business and a SCIENCE: They dis
cover that the modern farmer is the
most Independent man on earth; that
he has no superintendent to threaten
him with the loss of his place and
wages; that, no boss can bully him;
that customers come to him with the
money in their hands; that he has in
slant sale for everything de produces
and that wheat. corn, beef and COT
ton never go out Of fashion. So they
return to the home farms and are
competent and enthusiastic. They
work with their heads and hands
They get tangible and immediate re.
suits, and the intellectual interest
and exercise that is necessary if one
Is to take any joy in his work.
Furthermore, the young college
agriculturist soon has the old men in
the neighborhood running to him for
advice and instruction. He finds that
he has become leader and teach
err, and in the winter he arranges for
lectures on farming, fruit growing
and the care of live stock. Perhaps
he establishes question box. or edits
a column in the village, newspaper.
He discusses roadmaking> and dairy
ing, and walks away with most of
the premiums at the county fair. Thus
his father is content to hunt eggs,
weed the garden and chop and fam
ilv wood; also to brag about his son
whenever he goes to town.,
"The Anticipated farmer worked 1855
days in the year and carried lantern
that he might. work at night Ply
sically, he went to the limit; intell-
ectually, he was either sodden: or.
dead. I have heard a. story Of a.
man who carried: a pile Of stones.
from one side of lot to the other
month after month for good wages.
Finally he went cracy. The college
farmer is an enterprising and happy
man. He answers the questions you
asked OF n1e.'S,1Ia ,. a.; -.
What kind ofsat democrat are you?"
/ inquired. 80 +. =
II am an old fashioned man in. my
policies, having voted my. ticket
steadily and straight for more than
q generation. supported Bryan, al
though differed from him with re-
,spect to free silver" :,
How can the party be successful
at presidential election?" -
ut can't be successful with a long
platform from radical planks. The
voters in this country are sensible
and conservative men. We. have
tried to please all kinds of, radical
thinkers, and have weakened our ia:
.tional tickets. A lengthy declarations.
of numerous party principles is never
helpful before the people, because
men will pick the p1anks they don't
like and then condemn the rest !,
democrat as I am. Contrasting that;
! vote my ticket straight, yet I ams
bound to say that we would now be-
in the midst Of a terrible business
panic had Bryan been elected in 1908
and made serious attempts to put his
radical views into operation. The
democratic party must reduce and
modernlze its issues. It cannot carry
the country either with free trade orr
free silver. The people are too in
telligent to vote for free trade. Nor
will they support any such foolish
ness as the guaranteeing of national
bank deposits, a proposition that
opens wide the door to wildcat bank
ing"
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