Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-10-06

seen the WuCie lueft II IN IL lutrt
Is higher mission than than in con
nection with the demonstration work
We begin with the increase of tbs
crop because that is the basis for al
possible future prosperity. The farm
er, must be made independent. You
must keep a mans nose away from
{, the grindstone, for II 1t is constantly
at the grindstone he can't see any
thing else. can't be elevated: and &c
We take up the question in the south
Of cotton and corn. We try to teach
the farmer greater thrift. to raise his
own provisions, to can his vegetables
SO that he may have them the year
round; that he must put his money
into better home. and so percolating
and drifting through his home there
viii be broadening element and
there will be a gradual uplift of con.
ditions. and as there Is an uplift and
improvement OF conditions the men
themselves will became little broad
er and little straighter and a little
firmer. till by and by this home so
eiety where he must live. this rural
society viii be a great dominating
force in the land, and we shall become
a pattern not to our own country,
but to all countries. showing how a
great and free people were able to
readjust their conditions.
! believe when the common people
come to their own they will be able to
hold their own. Every man should
be so stalwart that he is a model of
defense and defiance to the world. Our
project would have been sufficiently
ambitious II we had said: I'VE would
increase the wealth and give the peo-
pie greater earning power" But other
things we teach incidentally are that
we must improve the moral tone. the
condition. and the whole prosperity
of the people, 10 try to turn all av-
enues of the wealth that we create
into the proper channels so as to
create better people. But even this
Is not quite enough. We may have
wealth and social prosperity and home
comforts and not be a high-minded
stalwart. courageous. a.. brave peo-
pie. We must teach that. We have
nearly 500 agents travelling In the
United States. Take this same high
standard and begin at the bottom to
teach things that win be helpful to the
people. We go out and help people
and especially help the man on the
farm. The moment you begin to help
a man you get his confidence. You
begin to prove up and pretty soon he
becomes disciple and he breaches to
another man. and so the doctrine
spreads.
want you feel today that you have
held OF one of the greatest lines of
social uplift and development and
greatness that exists. You may have
that something else was
greater; that II you could use facile |
pen like Washington Irving or some of |
he great writer's of the age, that
would be the acme Of your ambition:
IT you may have thought that If you
we're able to speak with the wonderful |
Of Demosthenes, or Burke,
IT Henry, that would be the summit |
If your hopes. But you are beginning
It the bottom to influence the masses
If mankind. and ultimately those
masses always control the destinies of |
! country. II you allow their practice
o sink lower and lower the country
must ultimately drop to lower level
n its moral, political. and religious
one. and we go down to degradation
md infainy as a nation: but If we be-
in at the bottom and plant human
Iction upon the rock of high princi-
lies. with right cultivation Of the soil.
light living for the common people.
nd comforts everywhere, and make
1ealth and. prosperity all through
he rural diytricts, the people will lend
heir suppC; and all civilization will
Use higher and higher. and we shall
limb to the summit of human excel
snce and become beacon light to all
ations of the world. / do not glory
4 the wealth OF few. but rejoice In
be general distribution of wealth and
for the common people.
+, 1t win require a great deal of stern,
arrest effort when you are out alone
n your way. It Is going to require
good deal Of patience. but demon
ration win do 1t. II you prove up on
our own farm and on your neighbors'
arms they will accept it They can't
esist facts. Another thing, don't pub
sh what you are going to do. Simply
Ill what you have done. Achieve all
on can Always let your county
now It. Call attention to the crop
nd everything helpful And SO we
I'll march along under divine guild
nee and gradually we WIN change the
hole condition These southern
tates rightfully should be the rich
st states in the land. They have the
reatest crop producing power. They
ontrol the clothing Of the world al
lost absolutely. We have been rails
lg cotton and selling 1t and buying
else. That practice never
Iade a people rich. II we viii pro- .
uce everything that we consume, our
wn butter. cheese, poultry, as well az
orses. and let our cotton be q cash :,
Top, we viii own the factories. we
I'll own the banks, we win be fac.
II In the policy Of the country and IL
lie control of the world. r.
Dry Farming Congress.
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