Year: 1875

meeting. we give the addresses Hltue ny Mess
j. ". Taornburg and e.. W. Hickw0rtn at tn
Pic me sf the BlOOmingdlle Grange, SATURDAY
Sept 25th 1913


Fcilor Patrons, MatrOns and Hus
bandmen:-l assure you | appreciate
the respect shown me and the esti
mate, you by your action have put
upon me in requesting an address at
my hands. | would not venture to
rise before you at all II | could see
any way to get out OF it honorably.
While have no confidence in my
ability to entertain or interest you,
yet Is YOU have requested it, | have
concluded to make an effort, believ-
ing that YOU have too much charity
to impose duty upon and then up
braid me with failure when | have
made IN honest effort.


There are quite Il number of call
ings and pursuits that are beneficial
to man and honorable and creditable
to those who devote their time and
energy to them, and make their bust
ness or vocation whichever it may be
Il success.


Let man embark in whatever .bu-
siness he nav, he may not even hope
for success without patient study,
diligence and devotion to his business.
| am one Of those who believe there
should be no conflict between the
various important kinds Of business
and professions of lie We should
feel mutually dcpen lent upon each
other. What branch of business can
man engage in that he will not
need the help of men around him who
are engaged in other kinds Of bust
ness? The Merchant, the Mechanic,
the Physician, the Minister, the Law
yer are all necessary to society IN lis
present arrangement. We who meet
here to-day as farmers, meet not
with hostile feelings toward men OF
other emplovments or professions but
because farming is our occupation
and we are more directly interested
in our own pursuits than i'll those of
any other class of men. We meet to
cultivate friendly relations and in
tercourse with each other and to i'll
terchange ideas and form plans for
our prosperity and success. cannor
sce why men OF other pursuits should
oppose or make war against Us, tor
while we acknowledge our depen-
denre on them and are interested i'll
their prosperity and welfare, we con
cede to them the right and give them
credit for their efforts to make their
business prosperous and profitable.


While we concede all this to them,
we claim for ourselves that the busi>
ness of agriculture is the grandest,
greatest and most noble employment
OF man. it is the only one of Divine
origin. The laborS of the husband
man and his surrounding begct re-
fnement of feeling and kindly senti.
meut. In no occupation does mans
daily lal or bring him in such close
c c,mpanionship with the Great Crea-
tor as seen in his works. There
might be some way to get along
without any one or all Of the other
pursuits Of life but who can devise a
way to get along without the farmer.
Wno is not interested in the success
and prosperity of the husbandn.an
They who toll in summer heat and
winter cold to raise bread for the sus-
tcrance Of the nation. The bread
nouri>hes body of the President OF
the United States, Senator Con-
gresSmen and all oilers is provided
under the b!essi. 2 of God, by the
farmer. Ii the business Of agrlclI-
ture be neglected and discouraged,
if the farmer be opposed and dis
heartened, if he fail 10 plant or hav
ing planted, fail to cultivate or hay-
mg planted and cultivated, fail 10
cashier and store his truI,s and grain,
disaster and suffering must be the re-
suit. History proves that where
agriculture has been to>tered by q
people, that nation has reached a
hi n degree Of perfection, but where
it has been neglected degeneracy be-
gan; let US heed their warning aud
escage their doom" Men may talk
OF hard times, Of money panics. oi
failures in business, of bankruptcy
ard all these things; we have felt
them, teel them now, we know and
realize that money is scarce; We com
plain and cast about to know what
to do, and what quarter to look tC
for relief, and cannot see where 1t l:
to come fion.


But thank God we have bread, we