The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-08-21
THOSE FARMERS DAY RESOLU-
TIONS

The so-caled Farmers Day at Port
Deposit is evidently only Well-engl-
neered attempt TO annually manufac-
ture pubic sentiment tor the Mary
land Agricultural College, and for Dr..
H. J. Patterson, its very las we think
inefficient President. Last Saturdays
meeting at The Tome Institute was a
pleasant occasion, social success,
clover for the politicians ard just a
farce so far as the real farmer and his
interests are concerned. All of which
We can afford to let pass with a pleas
ant word and smile.
But what one cannot afford to let
pass is the evident attempt to make
the people of this State believe that
a great gathering OF Cecil county far
mers gave their unanimous ard en-
thusiastic endorsement to the resoIu-
tons with which the meeting closed.
You will find them published in this
issue OF the Wing. In reading them
you viii pass over, with a kindly gri-
mace the somewhat astonishing bun
combe of the opening paragraphs.
Get down to the first Whereas" and
you will be getting down to the milk
IN the cocoanut Whereas, We have
from time to tine observed the great
work the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege is doing in our behalf, ETC." Stop
there. Who is the "Our". If the gen.
tlemen who drafted and adopted that
statement mean to say that the Mary
land Agricultural College is doing a
great work in THEIR behalf, we of
course, cannot dispute it. They may
have received benefits-'great" bene-
tits-of which We are entirely ignor-
ant. But if they mean to say that the
Maryland Agricultural College has
done, and is doing, great work in
behalf of the farmers of this State.
then We dispute the statement and
dispute it because We know the facts.
We will bet red apple to raw pea
nut that the gentlemen who offered
and adopted that resolution don't
know the facts. They simply permit
DR.. Patterson or his followers to
put that sort of thing over on them
and over on the farmers of this State
if they can. We propose to fight it
and fight it because it is an internal
shame to have the farmers of this
State gold bricked" by few clever
schemers, aided and abetted by lot
VI SlllNSlS Dul ullllllOl H-eu lO.lONel =.
The Editor of the WING is farmer.
Well-nigh all he has in the world is
invested in farming. Above all, his
own boys. his very flesh and blood, are
giving their lives to the actual work
of farming-rot prating about it on
platforms, but doing it with their two
hands and their whole soul. He comes
pretty near to being deeply interest
ed in farming" So deeply in fact,
that he proposes to spend and be
spent in defending the people of this
State-farmers and al the rest
against the schemes of designing men
who are attempting to mislead them
in the name of friends and leaders.
The Editor of the WING spent many
days ard weeks digging into the his
tory and work of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College before the last Legis-
lature. In the light of what he learn
ed, he battled long and hard to defeat
the attempt to wiring two millions of
dollars from the already overburdened
taxpayer for the use of that College
The battle was won. That two mil
lion dollar appropriation was not Sc
cured. The battle will be renewed
next winter We shall fight the APP
preparation again, unless We see clear
and convincing evidence that the APP
preparation, when made, will he used
for real service to the agricultural in
terests of this State. 1t may be a
losing fight; and one of the things
that helps make it a hard, if not a
losing fight, is the fact that amiable
and uniformed gentlemen will pass
resolutions like those of last Satur-
day at Port Deposit: on the strength
of which resolutions the men striving
to secure this great appropriation
claim that the farmers of the State
are back of them. Well. we will have
to try that out We will, maybe, in
the final stages carry the matter to
farmers themselves and find whether
they want to be gold -bricked, or pro-
tected
Until that final test comes we claim
to he representing the real feelings
of the real farmers good deal more
thar they were represented by the
resolutions of last Saturday in the Me
mortal Hall of The Tome Institute