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give us all of llic cltlcr we rt)\ih\ di'iiik. Now. ynu can see rricinls. lliat 1 

 have liiKl Jiinhitioiis in my days. We lmnit'»lly pickvtl up tin- apidcs and 

 put them in the hopper, and worked like Tinks to get Ihem in, then began 

 to driid< some eider. The old fellow came around the corner, and said, 

 "Boys, you can have the cider. Imt you must not go inside ilic slied to get 

 it." There might have been boys in Indiaiia that would have given up and 

 gone away, but we kept our courage. We went into the rye field and got 

 a straw, and one of us boys crawled thi-ough the fence next to the cider 

 barrel, and stuck the straw into the bung liolc The old man thought 

 he would fix us by building this fence, but we were equal to the occasion. 

 But alas, the sti-aws were not quite long enough, so we poked the one 

 straw into the barrel, and the lioy over the fence took botii straws in his 

 mouth, and this was the only Avay by which the boys on the outside 

 could get the cider. This was my first experience with a middleman. It 

 seemed that the highest amln'tion of our middleman was to fill himself ui) 

 with cider. AVe could not get a l)it until the middleman was satisfied. 

 And the trouble was that when he Avas satisfied himself he lost interest. 

 Now, I fear that that is the way with every middleman. But if you will 

 write out yom- questions we will have the President to act as middleman, 

 and he will pass the questions along to me as the boy passed the cider. 

 I believe that we can have a better meeting in this way. Now, these 

 questions are to relate to any matter. 



I have rough land on which to plant my orchard; I know nothing 

 about Indiana, how rough Indiana is, or how man-y hillsides you have. 

 The reason why my work is done on this kind of land is easy to eive. We 

 have within fifty miles of New York City a great many pieces of land that 

 have been abandoned. This land has supported five or six generations of 

 people. The Eastern people have made a mistake. Many years ago they 

 made money, and they made lots of money for the times and for the 

 occasions, but when a man made a hundred dollars he didn't invest il in 

 his farm. He invested this money in the South or the West. There have 

 been millions of dollars of money dug out of the hills of New England. 

 If I had a few per cent, of the money that lias been made here I could 

 make a big hole in the national debt. The fathers have been investing the 

 money in other places until the boys and girls do not feel the respect they 

 should feel for the farm, and have come to the conclusion that the farm 

 is a good place to make the dollars but a poor place to invest them. If 

 you make ten dollars and send it away for investment, if you have a boy 

 to get up and say. '"If fatlier hasn't faith enou.gh in liis farm as a place 

 to put his dollars in I will go Avhere the dollars can be invested," you 

 have no right to object. That is the way the New England people did. 

 These places have supported and cared for six generations, and I call my- 

 .self the sixth and one-half, because I Avas not born there. 



As I have previously said, the people made money on these hills, but 

 there came a tinn' when the boys were no longer satisfied to live on 



