The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-24

Ill ALTER, Acting Section Director,
ing with all great public questions. In
other words, country folks should de-
mand that the work on equal terms
with city folks in all such matters.
They should have their share in the
memberships of commissions and coun
! clls: IN short of all the organized
bodies for laying plans for great en-
terprises affecting all the people. I am
glad to see on such bodies the names
that represent financial interests. but
those interests should not have the
right of way, and IN all enterprises and
movements in which the social condi.
tion of the country is involved, the
| agricultural country-the open country
should be as well represented as the
| city. The man in the open country is
apt to have certain qualities which the
city man has lost. These qualities off
set those which the city man has and
he himself has not, The two should be
put on equal terms, and the country
| talent be gwen the same opportunity
as the city talent to express itself and
TO contribute to the welfare Of the
world In which we live.
"The country church should be made
true social center, alive to every need
of the community, standing for broad
individual outlook and development,
taking the lead IN work and in recrea-
tion, caring more for conduct than for
dogma, moro for ethical, spiritual, prac-
teal betterment than for merely for
! NAL piety. The country fair offers far
greater possibilities for continuous and
healthy usefulness than it at present
affords. The country school should be
made vital center for economic. so
cial and educational cooperation; it is
naturally fitted to be such center. for
hnS rod S,l f,r
for those who live on and by the small
farms they themselves own. The prob
lem of the farm is really the problem
of the family that lives on the farm
On all these questions there is need of
intelligent study. such as marks the
books Of Professor Bailey of Cornell
and of Horace Plunkett s book on the
Rural Life Problems of the United
States.
The Farm Laborer.
cone feature of the problem should
he recognized by the farmer at once
and An effort made to deal with it, 1t
rs 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 work
ing their farms; and moreover, 1T can
not be really satisfactory when the la
Dor system is so managed that there is
for part of the year q demand for labor
which cannot be met, and during au
other part of the year no demand for
labor at all, so that the farmers tend
10 rely on migratory laborers who come
out to work In the country with nc per
manent interest in it and with no pros
poet of steady employment, 1T is ex.
| ,EG Inn n,r1t IL ,,t1t 20 o,
zen out of Il man who can't count
upon some steadiness and continuity IN
the work which means to him his llveli.
hood Economic conditions on the farm
in variety and kind Of crop growing.
especially as distributed in time, and in
housing for the men-must be so shaped
as to render ii possible for the man
who labors for the farmer tc be steadily
employed under conditions which fos-
ter his selfrcspect and tend for his
development,
The Farmers Family.
FAbovc all, the conditions of farm
life must always be shaped with view
TO the welfare OF the farmer s wife and
the farm laborer's wife. quite as much
as to the welfare of the farmer and
farm laborer. To have the woman Il
mere drudge is at least as bad as to
have the man mere drudge. 1t is
9very whit as important to introduce
new machines to cconomize her labor
within the house; as il is To introduce
machinery to increase the effectiveness
of his labor outside the house. i
haven T the slightest sympathy with
any movement which looks TO cXcusing
men and women for the non perform
aDce of duty and fixes attention only
on rights and not on duties. The wo
man who shirks her duty as housewife,
as mother is a contemplate creature;
Just as the corresponding man is a !
contemplate creature, But the vel |
fare of the woman is even more inn
portant than the welfare of the man 4;
for the mother is the real atlas, who |
bears aloft in her strong and tender
arms the destiny Of the world. She
deserves honor and consideration such |
as no mSn should receive. She forfeits
all clalMs to this honor and considera
tion if she shirks FER duties. But the |
average American woman does not |
sbirk them; and it is a matter Of the
highest obligation for us to see that |
they are performed under conditions
which make for her welfare and happi-
ness and for the welfare md happiness !
of the children she brings into the |
world. -
Colonel Roosevelt expects 10 rest all |
day tomorrow. About midnight tonight |
he boarded his car to resume has, trip.