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Show Haie the Country, While from all the older parti of tht country comet tht story of abandoned farms, cf pleasant homesteads falling Into decay and ruin, there cornea from many pirti also the call for farm labor. Agriculturists offer anywhere from four tn totireuty-llre dollars a month for laborers, with board Included, yet In some'iortt of the country It will be illCknlt to ct harvesters tnoagh to tare tha crops. Thlt on the one liand. On the other, go about thlt time of ) ear to any of the Urge rltlsi and vrnlk In one of tho small (wiika Ixvklng at the benches In thru little pvrki you will rtnd a vfholohooklu cue glance. Thtbeuchei are lined with mm out of employment. ' The haggard, run to-seed, forlorn, discouraged dis-couraged look on the countenances of the men wlio haunt those benches takes away all tht pleasure the ordinary dtlirn ran derive from a morning In the fresh air. The men are poor fellows out of employment, em-ployment, looking for work, thus cangbt and ttranded, starving in the streets of thodty There are three-ttnartcn of A million of these noemployed men In the United btatct day In and day out 1,'ow I we want a nor crusade. We want a movement laaagarated from the dty lack to the country The abandoned farms muit t0 reclaimed and put to raiting rait-ing the things that diy people want New agricultural, dairy and lire itock lutthcdt mutt be found to take the place of the old wa) a that will no longer wotk. The fanner muit fight and f roo Mwtelf from the rings that fix the price of hit rrodocts. Us muit, moreover, study V make farm life more attractive to ths "hand who ileept up garret anil lunchea 1 off col 1 bacon and buttermilk. The old ' way will no longer do. l'lad the new and better one. |
