Cheyenne record., 1914-11-19
THE CALL Of
THE COUNTRY

Rural life offers to young men days
Of toll and nights OF study. 1t offers.
frugal fare and plain clothes. 1t Of
fers lean bodies. hard muscles, horny
hands and furrowed brows. 1t Of,
fers wholesale recreation to the ex-,
tent necessary to maintain the high
est efficiency. 1t offers the burden Of
bringing up large families and train
ing them in the productive life. It
offers the obligations OF using all
wealth as tools and not as means Of
disqualification. 1t does not offer
the insult of life Of ease, or aes-
thetic enjoyment. or graceful con-
sumption or emotional ecstasy. n
offers. instead. the Joy OF productive
achievement. Of participating in the
building up Of q higher rural cviliza--
ton.
To young women also it offers toll.
study, frugal fare and plain clothes
such as befit those who are honored
with great and difficult task. It
offers n.so the pains. the burdens and
responsibilities Of sacred motherhood.
1t offers the obligation and perpetun-.
tion in succeeding generations the
principles of the productive life made
manifest in themselves. 1t does not
offer the insult Of a life OF pride and
vanity, 1t offers the joys OF achieve
ment. of self-eXpressfon not alone .
in dead marble and canvas. but also
in the plastic lives CT children to be
shaped and moulded into those ideal
forms OF mind and heart which their
dreams have pictured.
The Problem Of the Laymen.
There never was a time when
preachers and politicians formed an
unholy alliance that civilization DID
not shrek out and christianity cry
aloud. Since the beginning OF gov-
ernment. politicians have sought to
decoy the ministry into the meshes OF
politics and make them carry banners
in political professions, They have-
taken the ministry to the mountain
top of power and offered to make thenr
monarch Of all they surveyed, and
while most of them have said. get
thee behind me Satan" a few have.
fallen with O crash that has shaken
every pulpit In chriStendom.
The ministry. unsophisticated and
confiding, is no match for the poll
clan versed in artful persuasion and
skilled in deceit. and it is the duty OF
the laymen to protect the ministry
against the onslaught OF these wolves
in sleeps clothing and drive the poll
ticians from the pulpit with the lash
OF public scorn. 1t is the laymen's
problem to keep the ministry free
from unholy alliances. for 1t is said
on divine authority that we are our
brothers keeper
Political Prayer Meetings.
1t is n sad day for christianity when
the church bells call the communicates
together for political prayer meet
ing. Such gatherings mark the high
tide OF religious political fanaticism.
put bitterness into the lives Of men:
fan the fame OF class hatred and de.
stroy christian influence in the COM
munity. The spirit actuating such
meetings ia anarchic. n-Christliko
and dangerous to both church and
state.
1t must be said to the credit OF thu
church that the political preacher Is
fast disappearing and may his in
f1uence ever wane and his shadow ever
grow less is the prayer Of the farmers
OF this nation,
Large onIpPcrs I11uence Mates.
In railroad rates the Inequalities
are equally as glarina. Rate making
in its primitive stages was largely
influenced by demands and arguments
OF large shippers. but the farmers
were unorganized and seldom ap.
peared before rate-making bodies. and
the burden OF expense in transporta-
tion lies largely against the raw
products OF the farm.
In banking. our securities are dis
crimiaated against. rs compared with
the products OF the factories andi
mines. The farmer Is entitled to q
square deal. The farmer is more in
crested in guod prices and efficient
service than he IS IN rates.
Tho Philadelphia Society for tn,
p~omot.on OF agriculture Is the oldest
association OF Its kind in America.
This was organized by George Wash
ington ard Benjamin Franklin in 1885