Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-24
WASHINGTON AND
TRENTON
ROOSEVELT IN OPEN
WAR ON MR.. SHERMAN
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combine effectively, as has been done
In industry. l am particularly glad
to speak to the Grange, for / hear
tily believe in farmers organiza-
lions; and We should all welcome
every step taken towards an incfeas-
ing cooperation among farmers.
The importance of such movements
cannot be overestimated; and
through such intelligent joint action
1t will be possible to improve the
market Just as much as the farm.
Country life should be as attrac-
tive as city life, and the country
people should insist upon having
their full representation when it
comes to dealing with all great pub
lie suestions. In other words, coun-
try folks should demand that they
work on equal terms with city folks
In all such matters. They should
have their share in the memberships
of commissions and councils; in
short, of all the organized bodies for
laying plans for great enterprises af-
fecting all the people.
The country church should be
made a true center. alive to every
need of the community, starting for
a broad individual outlook and de-
velopment, taking the lead in work
and in recreation, caring more for
conduct than for dogma, more for
ethical, spiritual, practical better
ment than for merely formal piety.
The country school should be made a
vital center for economic, social and
educational cooperation; 1t Is nat
urally fitted to be such a center for
those engaged in commercial farm
ing, and still more for those en-
gagged in domectic farming, for those
who live on and by the small farms
they themselves own.
One feature of the problem should
be recognized by the farmer at once,
and an effort made to deal with it. 1t
is our duty and our business to con-
slider the farm laborer exactly as we
consider the farmer. No country
life can be satisfactory when the
owners of farms tend, for whatever
reason, to go away to live in cities
instead of working their farms; and,
moreover. 1t cannot be really salts
factory when the labor system Is SO
managed that there is for part of
the year q demand for labor which
cannot be met, and during another
part of the year no demand for la
Dor at all, so that the farmers tend
to rely on migratory laborers who
come out to work in the country
with no permanent interest In it and
with no prospect of steady employ
ment.
Above all, the conditions of farm
life must always be shaped with a
view to the welfare Of the farmers
wife and the farm laborer's wife,
quite as much as to the welfare Of
the farmer and the farm laborer. To
have the woman a mere drudge is at
least as bad as to have the man a
mere dredge. 1t Is every whit as
important in introduce new machines
house, as 1t is to introduce ma
chinery to increase the effectiveness
Of his labor outside the house. I
haven't the slightest sympathy with
any movement which looks to excus-
ing men and women for the non-per-
Torrance Of duty and fixes attention
only on rights and not on duties.
The woman who shirks her duty as
housewife, as mother, is a contempt
ible creature; just as . the cores
ponding man Is a contemplate crea-
ture.
But the welfare of the woman Is
even more important than the well
fare of the man; for the mother Is
the real Atlas, who bears aloft in her
strong and tender arms the destiny
Of the world. She deserved honor
and consideration such as no nan
should receive. She forfeits all claim
to this honor and consideration If
she shirks her duties. But the
average American omar does not
shirk them; and 1t is a matter of the
highest obligation for US to see that
they are performed under condi-
tons which make for her welfare
and happiness and for the welfare
and happiness of the children she
brings into the world.