The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-08-14
FARMERS DAY.
Large Gathering At Port Speakers Address
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Passed


The program was interspersed with ex-
cellent music. rendered by the Valley
Grange choir.
The following resolutions were present.
ed and unanimously adopted:
We, the farmers of Cecil county, in meeting
assembled, actuated by the natural desire to
better our conditions by promoting the inter-
ests Of agriculture in Maryland, submit for
the consideration Of the citizens of the State,
the following expressions of opinion, together
with resolutions based thereon:
l. Maryland is primarily an agricultural
state with wonderful natural advantages and
unlimited resources.
2. These advantages have never been fully
developed, and these resources have never
been properly utilized, to the end of enriching
the state and promoting the prosperity OF our
citizens
g. 1t is the duty of the farmers, as earnest
and intelligent men engaged in the great bus
mess of agriculture, to take an interest In all
questions and all movements In which the
welfare of the farmers business is involved.
T. The vital Importance of agriculture, and
the fact that SO many Of our citizens depend
on 1t for livelihood, should remove entirely
from the sphere of politics all questions .rela-
tive to grearter agricultural development; and
all the farmers of Maryland. irrespective Of
class, condition or political creed, should unite
their efforts to advance any movement which
has for its purpose the betterment Of agricul-
tural conditions and the promotion Of the
material welfare of our citizens.
5. Other states of the Union. now exceeding
~ prosperous from an agricultural stand
point, were at one time in exactly the same
position as Maryland today; that is. with their
agricultural resources undeveloped.
In practically every instance, their great
agricultural awakening and development
came as the direct result Of appropriations by
the Legislature to the state Agricultural Col
lege, by means of which appropriations the
College was developed, equipped and vitalized
as to make 1t the leader in the movement for
greater agriculture. and the most potent fac
tor in enriching the state and its citizens
through q new era OF agricultural prosperity.
The Legislature of Maj yland should ap-
propriate adequate funds to develop the Ag-
ricultural resources of the state. It is un-
questionably true that the farmers and bus
mess men generally believe that such appro-
priations would be splendid business invest
mont, not only for the Commonwealth itself,
SS-S-~- P@-SSoASesAAJ oNOAy OAtAAou WAbu1u u0E
borders engaged in any profession. industry.
or trade.
That the farmers of Cecil county in meeting
assembled. express themselves as being earn
estly desirous of promoting the agricultural
interests of Maryland through the upbuilding
and developing of the Agricultural College
and Experiment Station, of which the State
of Maryland is to be the sole owner.
That they pledge themselves to use every
effort during the time intervening before the
next session Of the Legislature to further the
movement for ample legislative appropria-
tion, and to impress upon the candidates for
the General Assembly the necessity of ade-
quate state aid for the College and Station.
and
ResOiOed: That we request that the Chairman
of this meeting confer with the Presidents of
the various state agricultural organizations
and with their counsel and aid select iegis-
lative committee to prepare and propose such
legislation to the next legislature as in their
Judgment will best promote the purposes of
this meeting and enlarge and develop said
Agricultural College and Experiment Station
to meet the needs of our agricultural interests
with view to placing Maryland among the
great agricultural States of the Nation, where
her natural advantages and resources entitle
her to be.
(Signed) HENRY M. McCULLouGH,
CHAs. r. BILEs,
T. B. MILLER.