The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-14

bIv amended for the worse
~ - crows familiar with the re-
a4r;c+ion of land owning in that cum
try. 100, his task
:, moet b~orbidding of environments
Ne had to do in the first place VIZ
/. neople that had lost some u .no
most vital elements or It's popalo'
n other countries. 1t was d PeoPis
discouraged by the long, u ald
often hopeless battle with nuusti
and political circumstances.
We in America have almost infinite
~resonrces in the range of soil ana
climate. But within the narrow poun-
.darias of the Emerald Isle the aSfl-
cultural gamut is necessarily Imlled'
and then limited again by the ti3hteh-
ing Gordon Of landlordism
II was in the face Of his unpromls-
ing condition and with the formdaple
Job of combating the customs ana
traditions of centuries that Sir Horace
commenced his first campaign TO
arouse concentrate and organize the
Irish farmer.
He has succeeded in a degree ina
challenges admiration. We do not
meant to say. nor would he claim
himself. to have been the savior OF
ireland. Mounta incus reforms, ag-
riculturaI and industrial, remain yet
to be accomplished. But he has sOWn
scientific agriculture, business agrlcuI-
ture, cooperation, coordination and
the gospel of hope and work and edu-
cation, SO indefatigably as to mltl-
gate the lot of the Irish peasant ana
turn has face once more towards the
East.
l knew these things when | met
him in WASHINGTON 2. few weeks Ike
and it was. therefore, with a lively in
terest that i listened to his ~ccnVersa-
ton with me and with other mem
bers of your legislative committee.
The most striking feature OF his
statements was this: That he had
experienced very largely the same dit
fculties in working for the uplift of
the Irish farmer hat We have expert
enced in working for the uplift of the
American farmer. He told US that
even where inherited submission play
ed a controlling part in the national
temperament, it was a matter OF ire
mendous difficulty to secure ~co-opera-
ton. The Irish farmer vas 10th to
give up even the measure Of fancied
independence he possessed and pool
his efforts for the m good. AS
in America, he was given to critics.
ing his leaders. He was prone to dis
sension. He lent his ear to de1nagogic
whisperings. He was slow to see the
absolute necessity Of pa%tronizing his
" enterprises and Of securing the
right kind of men to run them in
order to work his way out to genuine
independence.
The most casual thinker among our
members will at once recognize the
same obstacles in the pathway of or
ganizlng American farmers. Check
off the items one by one and you will
n very similar conditions prevail
ing In both cases. The situation is
by the fact that the
farmer is even more inde-
pendent than the Irish farmer and
his greater isolation has operated to
make him more suspicious than the
other. / cite this parallel and these
facts that we may fully realize the
size Of the task ahead of US if we
are to achieve ultimate triumph. /
nave SAID again and again that in
order to readjus the balance in this
country and to win for the farmer
what is his due. the individual must
De to forfeit a half OF what |
he regards as his rights TO the COM |
mon welfare 1t is only as he pays |
this price that We shall realize the
purposes Of the organization.
n task in America is. of course
incomparably larger than that in Ire
by reason of the size Of orr
country, the diversity Of interests and
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES population
by unrestricted American
immigration.
We have made vast and
Will win III the long run. IT IS inc,
well not to underestimate the size
OF the Undertaking and to realize what
each man must contribute
CHAS. 5. "a p
Union City, Ga, Feb. :, 1911.
Death of Roy w L E.lc