The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-07-21
Prophecy Of Henry W. Grady
Finding Grander FulfilImGnt
Than Even He Dreamed

did destiny of the New South finds
repeated fulfillment all over the south
ern states.
The evolution of farming in the
south means hundred farms for
every plantation; fifty homees for
every palace and diversified industry
to meet the complex needs of this
complex age just as the beloved
orator said. This observation by the
editor who as a boy came under the
spell of the matchless oratory of
Grady whom he heard deliver in a
great cotton warehouse in the city
of Atlanta one of the greatest tenn
perance orations that evere poured
forth from the soul of mortal man, is
called forth by the following from an
exchange:
"The state of Louisiana is to have
diversified farming as the result Of
the planters losing protection. One
of the largest sugar planters in the
state was in New York, the other dag
and stated that if everything depended
upon cotton; fruit and oats the state
would be prosperous, but it has de-
pended upon sugar. 1t will take time
to work readjustment, but in the
opinion of this planter, Louisiana will
be better off, because when they get
into diversified farming forty men
will each make as much money as
one man got off three thousand acres
of sugar land. A condition like that
will cure all the troubles in the old
state where they stuck to tariff on
sugar"
The trend Of twentieth century life
is all in the direction of the small
farm in every part of the nation for
in no other way will the problems of
our complex civilization be solved.
The roadways of all our great prob
lens for a broader, more abundant
and happier humanity come togeth-
er onto the great, broad permanent
thoroughfare of common interest,
through city, town, village and hamlet,
past thousands of little farms Of a
few acres, every one with a home
where all the comforts Of life are en-
joyed, where the children can be use
fully employed part of each day and
have abundant opportunity for whole
some recreation, rejecting in their
lives the beauties Of nature. My boy
and girl enjoy the farm so much es-
pecially in the summer that you can
scarcely get them to come to town
even for picture show.
The next few years will see a hun
dred market gardeners in Ohio where
now there is one. Some of these will
raise garden truck for the city mar
kets while others will be content to
raise merely for their own use, the
father of the household being en-
ployed in town or city, going to and
from his work over improved roads
that are good the year round, or by
trolley or storage battery car.
The thoroughfares of broader hui
manity will have no ruts of selfish
interest, no niggerheads of hatred,
no siding roads to throw their neigh
bors into the ditch but all will be
paved and over them will travel the
millions in whom are being developed
the instincts of the broadest humanity,
the humanity that the Nazarene
taught nineteen hundred years ago.
1t is only year ago since tax dodg-
ing in Ohio was considered by great
number of our most prominent citi-
zens a perfectly proper procedure, but
so rapidly have the ethical standards
been raised that we are coming to see
that a man who let's six hundred
working people bear his share of the
cost of the privileges and protection
he enjoys is unworthy of the respect
of his fellow citizens. The only way
morality can be advanced is by max
ing the individual life right for it is
not what man says but what he
does that counts Most of us aspire
to be leaders but most of lis haven't
the backbone to stand up and be rot
ten-egged through the misrepresenta
tions of well-meaning people, OF
people who have selfish interests al
stake. 1t is so easy to believe i'll of 6
man and the vision of the reformel
must be deep in his soul and his de
termination boundless before he car
hope to see the reforms wrought ant
hear the Kisses change to cheers.
But Ohio is leading the way to th'
grander humanity. Why even in thu
past year many thousands of homes
have been made happier by the bring
ing. to industrial victims, speedy com
pensation. And now with mothers