The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-24
Foundation Of All Prosperity Is the
Farm: Ancients Lived Poorer
Than Tramps

FRANK StOCkQdl6 addressed al
interested audience AT Normal hal
Saturday night on THE Dawn OF
! .enty"
In presenting the story he
emphasized with colored views ana
motion pictures and made plain the
reason for the wonderful progress
during the Fast century. He
showed how agriculture is the
foundation of all progress and
civilization, how people must he
well-fed before they can be any
thing else, and how the wheateat
ing nations of the world are the
leaders of the world Mr.. Stock.
dale's lecture is told in the strong
sentences which follow:
! The Hungry World.
: Every morning the world wakes
up hungry
The history Of the world is the
record of mans struggle for food
The ancients died like flies a.
the result of famine.
getting bread.
The ancients sought empire, fame
ard genius, but failed to realize
the simple truth that the basis o
civilization is bread.
They lived on poorer rations thar
the average tramp who calls G
our Kitchen doors.
They were poor farmers, bount
to the soil by the land tools o
slaves.
Then and How.
\ few centuries ago it required
five days of drudgery to raise ;
bushel OF wheat, today it takes onl.
ten minutes labor to produce th'
same results.
I At tie beginning Of the nine
teenth century nine-tenths of tn,
people were still on the farm.
Today two-thirds CT these people
are doing other useful work-trans
porting and manufacturing the com
fcrts of life.
the farmer, and their children pait
the penalty OF starvation.
J We in America are what we ar,
because we have been doing wha
we have been doing.
Development in Eighty Years.
Only eighty years ago there was
no California, 10 Minnesota, M
Texas, no Kansas or Nebraska, M
newspaper in Wisconsin, and nj
house in Iowa.
In 1881 San Francisco was i;
little fort guarding the Golden Gate
and Chicago was village o
Twelve families in great prairie
swamp.
We live IN the greatest hour 0
the greatest day, and in the great
est country the world has evel
seen, made possible by the pro
gressive American farmer.
The most important business il
the world is farming.
No matter what man may wist
to do Tor the happiness of himself
or brother, his first necessity i:
food.
Every sunset sees the vide AMI
fertile fields of America bring fortl
harvests worth $24,O00,00O
Lincoln Never coGget Auto.
abraham Lincoln never sait
Hello central" never lodged al
automobile, never held a, strap in {
trolley car, never pushed a buttor
for light, never heard OF an aero
plane, never listened to phono
graph, never posed for motor
picture, and yet Abraham Lincolr
died only forty-seven years ago.
A trip around the world shows
that the tools of the farmer are
the sign posts of civilization.
When you see how people live
you know how they farm.
The Romans builded their temples
on the shoulders of the common
people, but they fell in ruins-mon
uments to misery rather than t
Llagnlncence.
Civilization is in exact proportion
to the number OF honest and in
dustrious men and women.
Map of Civilization.
The wheat map of the world is
also a map of the highest civiliza
tion in the world.
Plenty is mother not only to the
comforts, but also to the virtues o.
humanity.
This new world Of ours was born
OF faith and courage.
This spirit las given lis religious
freedom. political liberty, and made
this the garden spot of the world.
ST. Paul. October 99--Thirty fire
men narrowly escaped death and one
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