Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-24
T.R. ON TRAIL OF
VICE PRESIDENT
Colonel IndorSes Political Enemy
of Sherman in Latter'S
Home County
MAKES SPEECH TO FARMERS
Taft'S Second in Command Is Alb
sent from Town When
T. R. Arrives
MAKES SPEECH TO FARMERS
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case there is a great secondary use
both of the water and of the forests
for commercial and industrial purposes.
In the same way 1t is essential for
the farmers themselves to try to
broaden the life of the man who lives
in the open country; to make 1t more
attractive, to give it every adjunct
and aid to development which has
been given TO the life of the man of
the cities. Therefore, friends. the con-
servation and rural life policies are
really two sides of the same policy;
and down at bottom this policy rests
upon the fundamental law that neither
man nor nation can prosper unless. In
dealing with the present, he steadily
take thought for the future.
PROBLEM is OLD
"In one sense this problem with
which we have to deal is very, very
old. Wherever civilizations have
hitherto sprung up they have always
tended to go through certain stages
and then to fall No nation can de-
velop a real civilization without cities.
JJp to a certain point the city move
ment is thoroughly healthy; yet 1t is
a strange and Iamentable fact that
always hitherto after this point has
been reached the city has tended TO
develop at the expense of the country
by draining the country OF What Is
best in it and making an insignificant
return for this best. In consequence,
in the past every civilization In Its
later stages has tended really to wit
ness those conditions under whish the
cities prosper and the men decay
There are ugly signs that those tenden-
cies are at work in this nation or ours
But verv fortunately we see now What
never before was seen in any clYillza-
tion-an aroused and alert public IN.
terest in the problem, recognition OF
its gravity and a desire to attempt It's
solution.
s@The problem does not consist mere
Iv in the growth of the city Such
a growth in itself is a good thing and
not a bad thing for the country Inc
problem consists in the growth of the
citv at the expense of the country;
and. even where this is not the case
in so great an equality of growth IN
power and interest as to make the city
more attractive than the country, anu
therefore apt to drain the country OF
the neople who ought to live therein.
TO MAKE LIFE ATTRACTIVE
"The human side of the rural life
problem is to make the career or the
farmer and the career of the taril
lahorer as attractive and as remuner-
qtiVn as corresponding Nehl SlS ~
city. Now l am well aware tnat tne
farmer must himself take the lead III
bringing this about. A century ana
nuarter ago the wise English farmer'
Arthur Young, wrote of the ettorts TO
in1nrove French wool: "A culttVator
at the head of a sheep farm of 3ooO
or 1000 acres would in feW years
do more for their wools than az tne
academicians and philosophers Will er-
think that any man who has STUDIED
tbe subject only theoretically is lit 10
direct those who practically work at
the matter: .... -
"RII+. friends. I wish to insist to
vo, hereto YOU practical men, VINO
own and work your farms-that II Is
a Dernicious absurdity for the prac-
tical man to refuse to beneflt py me
vvorl, of the student. The Engllsh
for1oer 7 have quoted, Young, was a
nractical farmer, but he was also a
scientific farmer. One reason Why the
Great business men of today-the great
industrial Ieaders-have gone ahead'
while the farmer has tended TO sag pc
hind the others, is that they are 1ar1n-
ers willing and indeed eager TO proIl'
bv expert and technical knowledge
the knowledge that can only come as a
rnsult of the highest education From
+riaI concern can nowadays be car
ria6 on save by the aid of a swarm
of men who have received a high teen
Dfcal education in chemistry, IN en-
ginearing. in electricity, in one or more
Of scores of special subjects. The DIG
business man, the big railway man
does not ask college trained eHpertS %
teu him how to run his business; put
he does ask numbers of them each to
aive him expert advice and aid on
sor1e one point Indispensable to his
bI1sinese He finds this man usually
is some graduate of a technical schooI
ar college in which he has been trained
for his life work.
SHOULD LEARN TECHNICALTTIEs
"Tn lust the same way the farmers
should benefit by the advice OF Ihe
technical men who have been trained
in nhases of the very work the laIlilei
docs am not now speaking OF Iht
man who has had an ordinary genera
training, whether in school or colleSe
While there should undoubtedly DC
such a training as foundation lthe
ovtent ALTERING according to the klIlo
oF work each boy intends to do as a
many II is never the less true that ouI
/ educational system should more ano
move he turned in the direction or eau
eating men toward and not away IRON
Tho farm and the shop. During tne
last half century We have begun &c
| 1avaIoD a system of agricultural edu-
! cation at once practical and scientltlc
| ard we must go on developing it. But
after developing it, it must be useu
/ The rich man who spends a lot tune
upon a. fancy farm, with entire man,
! fe,ence to cost, does not do much gooc
In farming; but, on the other hdhu
/ inst as little is done by the WORKING
! FARMER who stolidly refuses to profit
/ nv the knowledge Of the day, Whc
/ treats anv effort at Improvement as
absurd on its face, refuses to coun-
tanance what he regards as new
! tangled ideas and contrlVances, and
! teers at all book farming ! wish
| 7 could take representatives. OF TINS
| tvpe Of farmer down to Long island
Iybere 7 live: to have them see Wha'
! has heen done, not as philanthropy
! bu+ as n plain business proposition, by
men connected with the Long lslanc
! railroad, who believe it pays to en-
courage the development of farms
along the line of that railway, IheS
| have put practical men in charge OF
| governmental farms, cultlVating then
| intensiveIy, and using the best modern
methods. not only in raising crops
MT In securing the best market for the
crons when raised. The growth has
been astounding, and land only fittS
miles from New York, which during
our entire national lifetime has beer
| treated as worthless, has within the
| last three or four years been proVec
| to possess a really high value
"Iha farmer. however. must not only