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after the business because Sunday is mine. It belongs to me and if 

 you want to hold me and have me to work on Sunday I want 3'ou to 

 pay me, and when you pay me I want double pay just as they do in 

 many other instances where they require a man to work on Sunday. I 

 hope I have made myself understood. (Applause). 



MR. BOND: I just want to say that I have never been affected 

 with fear of accommodations or sickness. If I was I would carry my 

 medicine chest along or quit the business. 



MR. WOODWARD: I have a very warm and sincere sympathy 

 with the criticism that Mr. Peachey has made. I believe he is abso- 

 lutely right. It has been a long time since I have been on the institute 

 roster. I concluded that the audiejices of Pennsylvania had enough 

 of me and I dropped out. Since then I have not given it attention ex- 

 cept in my own county and I appreciate very much what he said. I 

 had the same experience when I was in the work and I appreciate it 

 so much that in my annual conventions I take pains to avoid the con- 

 ditions that he objects to in my own county. There are two methods 

 by which it can be avoided. I have practiced them both at some places 

 and at other times separately. The speakers need relief. It is a hard 

 burden upon their physical constitution, six days and six nights in 

 the work and they do Avork six nights, and the average institute 

 workers, the better ones of them at least, make an average of fourteen 

 or fifteen speeches a week. They are worn and weary and they need 

 comfortable places where they can get a bath and hot and cold water 

 and a warm room to sleep and retire, a warm room to write home and 

 bring up reports. I do not critcize the Department for making the pro- 

 gram out, but sometimes I think it would have been better if it could 

 have been placed otherwise, but I am not acquainted with the condi- 

 tions that the Department has to contend with. I may name the places 

 four our own county and the Department takes up sixty-seven counties 

 divided into sections and in establishing the itinerary for each section 

 has to make an economic use of the funds as can be and I have no 

 criticisms of that. But when I find that the speakers are to be in 

 my county in places that are out of the way and where inconvenient 

 or impractical for them to spend the Sabbath, where there are no good 

 hotel accommodations — you may say yes but there are farmers will 

 take them in and treat them to the best they have and as one of family, 

 but he is not at home, not at liberty. He wants to go to the best hotel 

 where he can write and rest and be comfortable. I know from a long 

 experience. I provide for it by arranging to liave three sessions on 

 Friday and two on Saturday, eliminating the Saturday night meeting 

 entirely in order to give them a chance to get away if I can or if neces- 

 sary, I arrange that the State speakers be relieved from the Saturday 

 night meeting and that the local speakers take up the work. One of 

 them may be compelled to remain, but I take every means in my power 

 to relieve them of what I know from personal experience of long years 

 absolutely unfits them to do justice to institute work. It is hard work 

 and no man can be exxjected to work six days and travel the seventh 

 and be fit to go in for another week. And I say, without reference to 

 the Department, that it lies in the hands of the county institute mana- 

 gers to relieve them to a large degrea I have not succeeded in doing 

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