" Thus we see the farmer--free,
ingenuous, independent. Thus we see the city merchant--smooth, prudent,
sycophantic. Thank God for Agriculture! And now
CANNOT WE INSPIRE YOUNG MEN
with a little truer idea of life? Cannot we teach them that money in
itself is not what they want above all things? How little wealth the
really wise find necessary! On the farm is health, independence, high
standing--all within the reach of any young man. He certainly sacrifices
one or two of these objects when he enters a city. He can get money but
he will lose his health. If he get true independence he will be
ONE OUT OF TEN THOUSAND,
all the rest of whom are slaves. With the new combinations forming in
the business of the world, new experiences are constant. The man
employing three hundred fortunate workers to-day, may be himself
searching for work next year. The man getting $5,000 a year to-day may
next week be trying to find labor at a dollar a day, and may absolutely
fail. The financial panic has no such thing in store for the farmer. He
will live on, just as his brook runs on, and when the sleek magnates in
the hotel-parlor decree that he must lose his farm, as they need it for
a "colony," he will rise up and smite them, and thereafter the sleek
magnate will be an affair of the past.
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