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building up and relying upon banks with no more foundation 

 than castles in the air, and with about as much strength as ropes 

 of sand. But farmers want nothing to do with such transactions,, 

 and if they continue faithfully to act in their own proper sphere, 

 they will never be gored or torn by any of those malicious finan- 

 cial beasts. Their legitimate business is with that substantial, 

 never-failing Banh, whose Great President was never a de* 

 faulter, and never withheld the just deposits entrusted to its 

 vaults by the humblest customer ; the farmer operates in this 

 glorious Mother Earth bank, which always discounts freely, and 

 always pays ten, twenty, and sixty fold to all faithful depositors. 

 And never since the sun shone, did it fail to remunerate the in- 

 dustrious applicant, and never, while the rain falls, will it cease 

 to award rich dividends to all honest directors — for it is the Earth 

 Bank. 



And the only stocks which the true farmer deals in and ope- 

 rates with, is Zi'ye, and hhoded stock — which is always sound and 

 able to carry itself about — needing none of the frauds, and bribeei 

 and doubtful appliances which too many chartered stocks in 

 these times, require to keep them up or in any tolerable stand- 

 ing. And now, when so many shares are trafftcked and bandied 

 about from town to city, and paper to office, all the time depre- 

 ciating and growing the worse for wear, the farmers may con- 

 gratulate themselves that they operate with a more durable 

 commodity — with an article that grows better and brighter with 

 use, for their productive and legitimate share is the plow-share — 

 shares that have never failed to turn out ample dividends, when 

 honestly and faithfully operated with. Thus the true and indus- 

 trious farmer is safely fortified against financial earthquakes and 

 convulsions, by his never-failing bank of earth, his glittering 

 plow-shares, and healthy live stock. Let him faithfully continue 

 in his own legitimate business, and it will carry him safely 

 through, though AVall street tremble, and paper cities sink 

 before they have more than a faint existence. 



One more subject — a local matter — I will speak of briefly — 

 intimately connected with the occasion which now calls us 

 together so joyously. Our first Fair, the experiment of las* 



