The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-12-03

sequence as compared to the vital aft
fairs of the government; and when
you ask me to make an address on
DAIRY Organization" you are coming
pretty near to asking me to talk to
you about legislation, because organi-
cation means, in the last analysis, ap-
propriate and sane laws. But they
have always said that the dairyman or
the farmer doesn't know anything
about legislation.
When you go to buy pair of over
shoes, the first and prime object, as l
take it, is that they shall be water
proof. And so with government, if
government fulfills the purpose for
which it is instituted, the protection
of the life and the liberty and the
property of it's citizens-if those are
the results-then all l have to say is
that that government is rounding out
it's aim, and the best government is
that which is best administered. don't
care what you call it, nor do l care
very much about the theory upon
which it is built; and we might give
UP few of our boosted liberties if we
could get a little more wisdom in
making laws and a good deal more
energy in enforcing them.
/ don't count it, my friends, a very
great privilege to talk politics and
discourse with my neighbors concern
ing the various political adventures
who are candidates; that they may
conduct our government, compared
with a real sense of security from vio-
lence and protection against dis
honest dealers in the necessaries of
life. You know, as well as l do, that
the real power of legislation lies not
in the Senate nor in the House of Rep
resentatives, but in third body
known as the lobby, nd as long as that
is true and our representatives are
representing something else besides
tn people, who in theory are sending
them to the legislature, we should do
well to boast a little less and try
little more to effect real democracy
in this country of ours.
Now, if you are going to have a
dairy organization, am going to ask
you first in New Jersey, what part
are you taking in the government o.
your State? What hand have you in
the enactment of law? How are you
represented? Speaking for the coun-
| try at large, think it is absolutely
| within the limits of strict truthfulness
to say that up to the present time, at
least within few years, the farmers
of this country have had absolutely
nothing to say about the making of the
laws of the country in which they live.
Why? Because they are not organ
lied. Every other business, every
other trade and occupation in this
country and others has been organized
for years, and our lawmakers listen
to body of men, but they don't listen
to a loose, disorgaized, disrupted mob
and that is what the farmers have
so far been.
1t has been an unending series of
drudgery on teoneh wthekbeditheu
drudgery on the one hand, and the
menace of biting poverty on the other
not for ALL but for many. Agricul-
| ture of late has been trying to walk
on one leg. Scientifically, we have
had the Department of Agriculture in
Washington sending out scientific
bulletins-some of them erudite and
profound and bristling with such tech
could find out what the shrdluhrdl
nicalities that nothing but experts
could find out what the real meaning
| was after a. week of study. They are
| getting down now so that the ordinary
man who runs may read and perhaps
understand some few things. But
even if they have been absolutely plain
| TO Uu9 ulloO1 ~ ''N~S
only the teaching of the application OF
science to the development of the farm
that was the business side of it; and
when agriculture can possess itself
on two legs, one of scientific knowl-
edge and the other of business appll-
cation, then agriculture will march for
ward in line with the other sciences
and occupation of our country.
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I note in your program here today
and yesterday and the day before,
that you have innumerable addresses
and papers on everything that per
tains to scientific cultivation of the
farms in the development of special
ties along expert lines, and not one
single word as to how you are going
to market these products after you
have doubled the fertility of your soil