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Show URGES AGRICULTURAL ,COt-LEGES. ,COt-LEGES. During his recent trip to the Paci: fie Coast terminals of the trans- con-'-linontal railroad lines, Hon.. J. J. Hill manifested his usual clearness of vision vis-ion when speaking of the things upon 'which the future" prosperity of the nation must rest. In his address he said: ' ' "I am glad you have an Agricultural Agricult-ural College down here and I want to urge you to encourage it. I want you to realize that there can be no such training, no training that will give to all the people of the state the same good results that a good agricultural training will give, En-', courage it beyond everything, for it 14? fh"!biuuhition ot your prosperity. Agriculture has .boon the .foundation of civilization throughout the world in all time. . . !tt iVIa'ybe 1 will be subjSot to nuliote rtient ns a common Soold, but I Want to raise my voice always on the side of what I conceive to be the foundation founda-tion of the wealth of our country. The crop of the last year amounted fiffnon dol'ffT'Tt'Tsncthafe'fe - entire trade of aH the continental EuVope. Thai isi tlic am)tiAt of Wc agricultural product of .theiland. Fjfhis year unquestionably if i ovcr - ,000,000-7.3 AQ3 II r 10 w when a mine is exhausted M have got a hole in the ground, 'hlnc is no nation that ever relied upon flic 1ird6tbusynieialsdp'r upon any of ftimr ,fpun(iajionthan the cultivation af life "soi and lived a life worth Hying. Spam, that once loaded her gallc6ns ft &t with the precious metal from Mexiep and South America and some 0? 1 ancotors drove a thriving busnfis in vvaylaying them and relieving thSni ' off' it -Spain, at one time the riht of the nations of Europe, relied niran if something besides the cultivation pf her soil, and wha't is she todaya polite people, and almost a natipnfdf beggars. p. Now to come back to the agriqul- tural, pcoplcl When the Bafings failed, Mhci Bnk of-'Francc, having Jiftcr thc Franco-German war f8$ror aipJ-yoSrs before paid a thousnndl'iftil- lions indemnity, sent her money o;ucr to London to relieve the situation. France has no great mineral., c- fourccs of coal, iron, gold or siwEr andtmbn&rofRhcr--colonics has. , K MTatfliis c6untry needs morctlian anything else is an adequate Sfetcjn of agricultural colleges'. The farmers ought to be taught how to farm. TlTc farmers of other countries know hiorc than wc do. The land of Euglafijl has been tilled for a thousand icais, but it 'is pr.odueing more wheat Jb the acre than mojt of ours is. nWis the same in France, Gcrmafoy, IqI-land IqI-land and Belgium, while the little Japanese till their few acres 'vulh an intelligence cquallrtl in no tftlpfr place in the world. General disjnji1 luitipiY St it)f5ruiatipi pertaining tj) sfciohtific agriculture Vould bnogf-.a SQiurtv Uidcvhieji all other sour of national 'revenui would sccni in-siiiiuncint. in-siiiiuncint. i .... ; ' When the forests arc cut down, in most parts of the country you have sand 'ridges, but with you you have a fertile soil that can be cultivated and will renew itself in the most kindly way and take care of -another earth will take care of her children forever and forever. And pay attention at-tention let me urge you to pay the closest attention let me urge you as citizens of the state to encourage your Agricultural College to the ex t tent that everything that can shall be done to enable the man on the. land to do to the best that the land . is capable of; because your city, your churches, your schools, your commerce, com-merce, your manufactures, everything goes back more to the cultivation o.f the soil than to all the other conditions condi-tions in the world, and it always has been so at all times, and it always will be so. You have the opportunity here and a great one, but make the most of it. Teach the young men and the youn i women that all their intelligence, all the knowledge that they may acquire can be well used in the intelligent cultivation of the land, and the fit- -J lure of the state of Washington and j of the -cities within its borders will be certain to the end of time, Farming calls for intelligence. I do not feel discouraged about our not being able to furnish our loaf of bread, (but it has got to be done through better cultivation of the soi' And to secure that,- let every one o. our Western states, our Eastern states, too, follow, if they will, but let those who have their hearts bound up in it, sec to it that their Agricultural Agricul-tural Colleges arc the centers of learning of scientific learning as to the treatment of the good, kindly old mother earth at whose breasts wc have all got to get Qur livng. See to it that your Agricultural Colleges, dp not shoot above the mark. Sec that they do not ape or try to ape the methods of great universities; uni-versities; if they do they will fail, 'ralyerthis boys .realize that the- man who has his feet in the soil, the man who grows up out of the soil, as the -tree grows up out of it, is tliQ man who' will succeed, and he ' is the man who will be the corner 1 stone of the fijurcT-' life social, 1 commercial and financial of our whole country 1 |