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nence to mind over matter — to exercise more intellectual effort, 

 and thus lighten physical labor. 



We must study and reflect more to discover what we need for 

 onr greatest happiness — to discover how to lighten our toil, and 

 elevate our standard of character. When we have found out 

 what we want and need to elevate our sphere, we must exercise 

 more profound thought and investigation to discover the legiti- 

 mate causes to produce these desired results. It is by thinking 

 that the grand improvements in implements which we see here 

 to-day have been invented. It is by study and earnest mental 

 effort, that the present day exhibits such superiority in the facil- 

 ities with which labor is done, over that of half a century ago. 

 Then, in short, let me say, we must think, read, and reflect ; we 

 must impress the imperative importance of this interesting truth 

 upon the young people of our day. 



Another matter I will refer to with brief suggestions ; it is the 

 currency question. No class of the community is more deeply 

 and closely interested in having a sound, reliable circulating 

 medium than the farmer. His wheat is an article of intrinsic 

 value — it possesses a real and not representative value — it will 

 sustain life independent of bank issues, or scales from the mint 

 — and by wheat I mean all the articles of food the farmer raises, 

 it being the general representative of agricultural staples. The 

 miser, even by the side of a cool brook, with bags of money 

 around him, would starve if he could reach no bread ; but the 

 farmer could live and grow strong amid the bags of his produce, 

 though the world should never know the article money. By 

 this we see that the producer of bread is entitled to the very best 

 and safest article of money that can be provided — he has a right 

 to demand it — he can insist upon and receive it — he can and 

 should imperatively demand a currency which is at all times and 

 places, worth and convertible into that which it purports to be, 

 and he should firmly insist on nothing less — he can command 

 such a currency if he will — he can keep and live healthfully on 

 his own products, year in and year out, without the worthless 

 rags that are too prevalent now-a-days, while the banker cannot 

 live without his products. Let us, then, positively and uniformly 

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