The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-09-19

OURS TOO

A farmer, possibly having more
interest in politics than his farming
recently asked the editor of a South
ern Agricultural paper to come Out
in the open and mako known his
politics, and the editor forthwith
announced the following plat
from, which, looked at from a farm
or's standpoint end, therefore, Ger
tainly not to the detriment of any
part of the country. is about as
good as either of tho four or five
great political parties have put forth
this year. Our farming instinct for
ces us to endorse 1t too:
l. To make three bales of cotton
grow where one grows now.
2. To make forage crops, grasses
and pasture five times as good and
10 times as profitable as at present.
3. To make fruits, vegetables and
ether crops better in quantity, quail
ty and profit
4. To enable tho South to make
moro and bettor corn, wheat, oats
and other grain.
5. To promote improved live stocF
until the South exports to the rest of
the United States and to foreign
countries a vast surplus of meats,
butter, cheese, eggs and manufac-
lures thcrefrom.
6. To reform distribution, bank
ing and currency, Sc as TO make uni
versal more economic methods Of
marketing the products of Southern
farms and factories, forests and
mines, and in supplying our peoples
consuming needs.
z. To wisely utilize the Souths
natural resources so that they yield
handsome profits a, present and yet
be conserved for future generations.
s. To improve tho South's high
ways and railroads, rivers and har-
bors, until they arc adequate to the
needs of mighty people.
8. To improve our schools until
every young pcrEon in country or
town may be trained in efficiency,
health and character, and imbued
with that wisd,m which is knowledge
and the capacity to use it.
10. To link moro closely school
and home, farm and factory, SO that
the one may more benefit the other.
IL. To aid, in these and other ways,
the South to have fourfold its present
population, each of whom shall en-
joy life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness"
IL. Thus to make for a Greater
Nation through a Greater South.
How hard it is to do the thing that
needs most to be done. How easy
to fritter away our time on useless
and nonesential things. And just 50
with our thought also-it runs In
the channels OF least resistance. 1t is
easy to think about politics; 1t is
easy to talk politics; it is easy TO
become excited, to become dogmatic.
And it is easy, meanwhile, to neg
lect the essential thing-matters of |
the farm and the home.
The sooner we can bring our
politics down TO the plane of the
home, and the farm, and the store,
and religion as well, and make them
Of some real concern to life, the
better.
Politics and politicians are now
disturbing forces. They
should be far otherwise. Both the
politicians and the preachers should
be confined TO subjects of real in
Lerest-nothing visionary but practi-
cal, every day topics Politics should
make life better. not worse, and
should make tho country better Re
Iigion should do the same. 1t should
zeal more with matters OF this life
about which we do know something,
Or can know, and lees about tho flu
ure life about which. TO say the least,
We know very littlo and can never
rope. this side the grave, 10 know
much moro.