The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-20

Declaring that the object of the
Wayne County Farmers Institute at
the Court House last Saturday was
for the advancement of the greatest
business in Pennsylvania, Chairman
r. P. Kester said that he and his
fellow lecturers were here in the
guise of teachers of Agriculture, and
that it was to the farmers advantage
to learn to produce more and to ELI
inmate the obnoxious middleman
who is responsible for the higher
cost of living.
Probably 100 farmers were present
Saturday morning, when County IN
stitute Chairman w. E. Perham,
rmally opened the convention,
shortly after 10 O'Clock, by calling
upon Mayor McCarty to deliver the
address of welcome. Responding Mr..
McCarty said:
Mayor McCarty's Address of Welcome
Ladies and Gentlemen: There are
many unpleasant things and many
unpleasant duties which the execu-
tive head of borough is obliged to
perform. There are, however, SO
many pleasant and agreeable things
to do that the unpleasantness is wip-
ed away. This is according to the
law of compensation. This occasion
is a compensation for all the un-
pleasant things that might occur dur
ing my administrative life.
you are the representative of the
greatest interests in the county. 1t
is conceded that the agricultural in
terests is the basis of all individual
and national wealth. If you read
the daily papers you will find quota
tionS of the government on the cot
ton crop in the south and on the
corn crop in the west. And the
quotations on Wall street are based
on the crop reports as given by the
Department of Agriculture. You
ladies and gentlemen represent this
great interest and you are here as
representatives of that great interest.
1--WE also ask you to be here. The
people of this town have always been
vain enough to assume they have
a certain hospitality which is un-
paralleled by any town in Pennsylva-
mia. l would like to extend you as
an individual, a welcome to our
town. My Office is to extend you a
welcome in the name of the people
and citizens of Honesdale whose
guests you are. While you are in
our town see our town more thor
oughly. See our schools, industries
and all the historic places which we
claim we have.
'"The first locomotive that ever
turned wheel on the continent has
immortalized Honesdale, as the
scene of that important and ever-to-
be remembered occasion. We also,
until few years ago, had the great
est coal-dumping station in America.
We have the great Cliff back here as
sociated with Irving whose writings
have delighted millions of English
speaking readers for hundred years.
There are other associations
which are not quite so historic. Our
streams are associated with memo
ries not so historic. Right back on
| the Brook Road one of the Presidents
of the United States wooed and won
his wife, and later selected another
wife from Wayne county who is still
living as the widow of Benjamin
Harrison.
"You also may receive inspiration
from the muses. of this place that has
inspired poetry that we believe will
be immortal. We trust you will
garner for yourselves store of use
full knowledge and WHEN YOU &C
BACK TO YOUR FARMS MAKE
TWO BLADES OF GRASS GROW
WHERE ONE GREW BEFORE and
thus become useful factors in our ma
tional life" [Applause.]
The Farmers Chiefest Business.
R. P. Kester, of Grampian, Clear
field county, whose lines of talk are
soil fertilization, horticulture ant
dairying, and who has made good IL
improving worn-out land, responded
briefly to Mayor McCarty's speech O
welcome, which he characterized IA
an earnest, interesting and heartfelt
address" In part he said:
eve are able to see in our imagin
alton what your beautiful tow
would be like when clothed in robe
of living green. This is one of thu
beautiful spots of Pennsylvania es
pecially during the summer season
We come to you in the name and il
the guise of teachers of Agriculture
We don't feel ourselves as knowing
all there is to know. We appreciat
: our limitations. We are here Il
converse with you for our mutua
benefit, to help in the advancement
of the greatest business in Pennsyl
vania. Agriculture is still the big
: gest thing in it. 1t gives employ
ment to more people, and its pro
ducts are worth more than any othe
three interests.
1.-THE FARMERS CHIEFES'
BUSINESS is TO LEARN TO PRO
DUCE MORE. We must appreciat
our duty to ourselves, our families
and the nation, to come into touc
with the commerce of the nation, I
, get all that belongs to us out of ou
! produce; that the high cost of livin
! may be reduced and at the same tim
you and / get more; that we get RI
of some of those fellows wh) are bt
tween us and the fellow who eats l
the city, and who are simply actin