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Show The Yankee Way. It used to be said that the people of the south were lazy. Now it is coming to be recognized that we have been troubled more with lazy brains than lazy muscles. The farmers of the north don't work anv harder than we do. In, fact, thev don't work so hard as anv- I i - 1 bod v knows who has seen them cuhi- vating their corn in Julv. Away they no, fining on riding eu.tivators, while, the southern farmer, having only one i horse, and therefore going twice a- often to Cno row, walks twice as far as the ; northern farmer ridrs. i The whole ea-e is pretty well stated as follows bv Kion Butler, who lived in Pennsylvania before he came to a southern south-ern farm: "It haa been preached so long that some folks believe it, that the Yankee is an ind iiatrious, hustling fellow, and the southern man is inclined to be lazy and indifferent. That is all wrong. The Yankee is the laziest man on earth, and you know I know the whole tribe. You never see a Massachusetts man do anything that he-can get machinery to do for him. He will work patiently and ! persistently to build a machine "to do anything that he finds needs to be done. He must have a riding plow, a potato digger, a wood saw, a churn that runs with a gasoline engine, a machine to milk the cow-, a machine to write with, a machine to figure with, a machine to do every tiling with. " I That is why the nort h made faster progress than the south. When the civil war came it was not the negro the abolitionist enianicipated. It was tho white men and women of the south. The northern man was quicker to see that slave labor was an incubus and he dodged it long before the soutli awakened awak-ened to that fact. The northern man was lucky enough to see that a machine is a better slave than a man ever can be, so tho northern man invented machinery ma-chinery and sold his slaves to tho people south "of the Pennsylvania boundary. Mr. Butler's statement is worth remembering. re-membering. It stands to reason that it is cheaper to get work done by machines ma-chines than bv folks, because folks a e to bo fed and clothed and housed, and machines only need housing and only enough of that to keep the rain off.. We must copy the Massachusetts idea and "make, machinery do the work." From tho Progressive' Farmer. |