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culture, etc., my observation is that there is a work going on, 

 of improving the conditions. You know that in every com- 

 munity, in every little locality, there are two or three, or more, 

 people who are working along advanced lines, and when you 

 find a man who is using those improved methods, the spirit of 

 the community towards that man is not always what it should 

 be. I tell you that you and I, as American farmers, want to 

 get over the idea of pulling down and finding fault with the 

 other man who is doing different from what we are and suc- 

 ceeding better. All hail to the man who is a success in a 

 community as a business man! We ought to take him by the 

 hand and bid him God-speed and help him along. If you have 

 five such men in a community, pretty soon you will have ten, 

 and pretty soon you will have more. There is a feeling in the 

 community that is an uplift to every young man. I was out in 

 Nebraska a while ago, and something was wrong with the 

 engine so the train was held up for a while. We pulled into a 

 town with about twenty shacks, and I would not give $40 for 

 all the buildings. It was August, and everything was very dry ; 

 the ground fairly burned one's feet. We staid there about three 

 hours and I, with a lot of other men, was walking up and down 

 the place, when I asked one of the inhabitants how long he had 

 lived in that God-forsaken place. He looked at me sharply and 

 said, "You are a downeaster, aren't you?" Then he began to 

 talk about the place and I never saw a man in my life stand up 

 for his town and his business as that man did. I never got 

 such a rebuke in my life. And from that time on you would 

 never find me running down my town or my locality. 



