Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-15
STATE TAKES GOOD
CARE OF HER FARMER.

Continued From First Pagel
"invincible" and is the man to take
over the management of the State
and show the people how to run it,
Greasy, playing the same old dema
gogic role, pats Mccormick on the
back and insists that he is the grand
est little thing that ever broke into
pont1cs, and then tries to make the
people believe. and the farmers who
know better, that the Republican
party through its administration of
the State has done nothing for the
rural communities. He forgets that
the farmers are reading nowadays and
that they are more familiar with what
is going on for their benefit under
state supervision than Greasy him
self.
Nor have the people forgotten how
Mccormick and Palmer met at Wash
lngton and selected themselves as the
Democratic candidates for Governor
and United States Senator. Yet in
speech yesterday Mccormick said 1T
is no longer possible for a few bosses
to meet in a back room and decide
what men shall be the candidates for
State office" It is this sort of political
gall that is disgusting the voters of all
parties inasmuch as they are resenting
the reflection upon their intelligence
by these political mountebanks.
Farmers all over Pennsylvania are
familiar through intelligent contact
with the various departments of the
state Government under Republican
ministration with what is being
done for their benefit and the inn
proVement of the farming conditions
in Pennsylvania Nor are they un-
mindful of the great work which is
going forward for the conservation of
human inn nf
the living conditions of the people.
Leading all is the splendid work of
DR.. Samuel G. Dixon and his asso-
ciates in the Department of Health,
which has an international reputation
for its work in subduing the white
plague of tuberculosis and conserving
i'm every way the health of the people.
Nor has it been forgotten that our
great Department of Agriculture
through its several bureaus is doing
remarkable work for that element
of the population which Mccormick
and Greasy are now trying their ut
most to deceive. Either they don't
know what they are talking about or
are deliberately misrepresentin~ the
facts.
Not word have they to say of the
Dairy and Food Division, which has
accomplished so much in the way of
suppressing the adulteration of the
drinks and securing a pure milk sup
ply for the babies of Pennsylvania.
Nor do these demagogues refer to the
splendid progress which is being made
in the revival of the fruit growing
and horticultural interests through
the efforts of Dr. Surface, the persist
ent and energetic Zoologist, who has
been the means of enriching the fruit
growers to the amount of hundreds
of thousands of dollars through scien-
tifiC instruction in the care of trees
and reviving scores and hundreds of
old orchards which were regarded as
of no further value. DR.. Surface has
given demonstrations throughout
Pennsylvania for the benefit of the
farming communities and these know
the value of his work.
Nor has anything been said by
these Democratic assailants of a fair
Commonwealth of the practical work
of the Farmers Institutes, which have
done so much to enlighten the tillers
of the soil upon subjects so vital to
their prosperity and success. Last year
this division under Mr.. Martin and
his associates reached more than a
quarter of a million people in their
farm discussions and demonstrations.
Instead of sessions of a day or two
in each of the counties, these confer
enceS with the farmers have become
so important as to continue practically
throughout the year. Nor is this all
Farm counsellors, on the request of
the Department of Agriculture, re-
spond to the needs of farmers for in
diVidual help in cases requiring expert
advice. Experts in all sorts of mat
ters affecting the prosperity and sue
| cess of the farmer go out from this
big departmenpand are in daily touch
with those who need their assistance.
Ten farm counsellors actually visited
| over 5000 farms last year in response
to individual appeals for advice in
specific cases Movable schools of
instruction are reaching all parts of
the State and the people know their
benefit. And township high schools
have also been provided.
Nor do Mccormick and Greasy say
anything of the great forestry move
ment of the State, which has placed
Pennsylvania at the head of this work,
even western States having sent COM
missions here to study our system of
timber growth and care. over a mil
lion acres are now in forest reserves
and Will soon net profit which will
go into the permanent school fund
of the Commonwealth Enlarged ac-
tivities on the part of State Fishery
Commissioner Butler and his depart
ment are also understood by the peo-
pie better than the demagogues who
are going up and down PENNSYLVANIA
denouncing it as a laggard in pro-
gressive conservation work.
These men either know nothing
about it or deliberately ignore the
work of the new department of Sealer
of Weights and Measures which pro-
vides protection for consumers and
the market people of the State and
they purposely avoid any reference to
the work of the Livestock Sanitary
Board and the capable work of DR..
Marshall and his staff, who under the
Tener administration have eradicated
and controlled diseases of livestock
and poultry. saving hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to the farming inter
ests.
1t is almost impossible within the
scope of an ordinary newspaper ar
ticle to show how these Democratic
self-chosen, boss-selected candidates
are striving with might and main and
cash to have themselves elected to
Offices which they have clearly dem
onstrated their unfitness to fill. AS
suming that the people know less
than they themselves the game of mis-
representation goes on, but their little
day is almost over and the time is
coming when the people must know
the truth. Even those who do not
already realize how empty and base
less are the attacks of these men who
seek to promote their own political
interests by assaults upon the splendid
work of able and devoted and