Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-08-22


assista1ee of the government And
! as long as you allow them to think
/ that, then every mothers son of us
is tied to the apron strings of the
old gradmother sitting in the Capt.
toll at Washington. Now, for my
part am free and twenty -one, and
/ don't want any assistance of the
| government to enable me to make a
living. You will say that / am not
I in protected industry suppose
| that public office and public oratory
/ are not protected industries, but
| they are great drain on the capital
of the people investing in them, and
! especially when you speak outdoors,
| a great drain on the physical consti-
| tuition. But | want at every turn of
every argument that | make of this
nature to say that the legitimate
| business enterprises of this country
have absolutely nothing to fear, pro-
vided they will stand on their on
bottoms; but that they have every
thing to fear if all they have under
them is the prop of tax which
everybody is obliged to pay in order
| that they may be able to conduct
their business and 7 believe that
that is the just principle of govern
ment.
There is another matter in which
| / am deeply interested. There are
only three lines devoted to it in the
Democratic platform, but here are
no lines devoted to it in the Repub-
lican platform; and there are SO
many lines in the Bull Moose plat
| form that | haven't found it yet. 1t
is a Sabbath days journey through
| that program. If there are such
| yet But in the Democratic plat
| form there are three lines in which
the party declares it to be its duty
to devote such funds of the national
government as it may constitution
ally devote to such purpose to the
protection of industrial agricultural
and vocational education.
| The specific meaning of that part
of, the platform is this: You know
that in our Universities there is
stored up no end of information,
which would be extremely useful to
/ the farmer, if the farmer could only
get at it. We can not let the farmer
leave the fields and come to the
University to. get the Information,
because we would starve in the mean
/ time But we can organize matters
in such a fashion that the Univer-
sity will carry the information to
| the farmers; and is our business
to see that chemistry of soils, all
| the investigation that has been going
\ s,, IF far q
/ generation and more, in the proper
rotation of crops, all the Informal
ton which has been gathered with
regard to the proper time and method
| of planting certain crops and the
adaptation of certain crops to GER
tain soils all questions which have
been extensively studied in the
iversities-should be carried to the
farms, and the men on the farms
gwen free use of these accumula-
lions of knowledge.
There is bill pending in the
House now for the purpose of be-
ginning this system of what may
properly be called University extern
sion to the farm Congressman
Hughes tells me that it is pending
and under consideration this very
day in the House of Representatives
showing that the men in the House
are not waiting until you elect nat
ional officers on their platform
They are going ahead with theil
duty now, because our platform is
not molasses to catch flies. 1t means
business 1t means what it says. Il
4 is the utterance of earnest and hon
| est men who intend to do business
along those lines and who are moi
waiting to see whether they car
catch votes with these promises be
fore they determined whether they
are going to act upon them or not
Because the American people are
i now taking notice in way in which
they never took notice before, an6
i gentlemen who talk one way anG
vote another are going to be retired
to a very quiet and private retire.
ment So that when we speak Of
vocational education, when we SPEAK
of assistance to those lads who wan
/ to learn how to do scientifically anG
carefully the things that they arr
4 attempting to do, we are speaking
/ of that whereof we know, and thai
WHICH we lulGllu W dO, III kslCt iAie
say-in this American audience il
can be said without embarrassment
that America is very much behind
some of her chief competitors in the
4 commercial world in the matters in
i which she prepares her people tc
earn their living BY skillful work.
There is one label that often see
on goods sold i'm our shops that
makes me blush little bit. That
label is Made in Germany" Why
should that be commentator ?
Why would you prefer to buy some
thing made in Germany rather than
something made in the United
Statse? The only conceivable reason
is that you believe that the hands
that made that in Germany were
better trained than the hands that
made the similar article in the Unit
ed States And what | don't like
to admit, but must admit, is that in
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