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trouble at all to get them out any day in the Aveek or any time, but I 

 believe there are places where we should hold the Saturday evening 

 session and under these conditions I am still willing to do a little 

 work if it must be, for the good of the cause, on Saturday night. But 

 1 want every county chairman to use every influence in his power to 

 eliminate that Saturday evening session and to do it, please, so that 

 the lecturers can find a place that will correspond with the descrip- 

 tion that Colonel WoodAvard gave a few minutes ago. When I am 

 at my own home, when T do a good day's Avork, I usually take a hot 

 bath in the evening before I try to rest. If I go out into some parts 

 of the State of Pennsylvania I do not find in that hotel even that one 

 bath room that Dr. Hunt spoke about that they had over there at the 

 hotel in Germany. Don't find even the one, so I have to wait until 

 Saturday night and I tell you I go pretty soon for the bath on Satur- 

 day night and if I cannot have that bath on Saturday night I cannot 

 keep the Sabbath day holy. 



MR. BLYHOLHER: We have heard considerable about the Sat- 

 urday evening meeting now and I think it is a matter that resolves it- 

 self entirely into the hands of the county managers. I do not believe 

 that it would be wise for us to pass a resolution here to eliminate the 

 Saturday evening meetings. As the last speaker has said, there are 

 localities and places where I think it is just as necessary to hold the 

 Satui'day evening meeting as there is in any place, but I do think that 

 if the county chairmen use the proper discretion and judgment that 

 they can provide and so arrange the meetings in their counties so that 

 these men will have comfortable places to rest after the Saturday 

 meeting, over the following Sunday, without violating the Sabbath 

 so very much if they don't want to. Now I have done this on one or 

 two occasions: T conferred by Avriting to our Director of the meet- 

 ings. T found that as the dates were set in the book I would be com- 

 ])elled to travel a greater distance and have my men out in the county 

 on a Saturday evening Avhere we could not secure that entertainment 

 and bath that they deserved, so with his permission just changed the 

 dates of meetings and therefore found places so that they could rest 

 over the Sabbath day and go to church, too. I hope they did. T al- 

 ways advised them to do so. So that I think it is a matter that we 

 ought to refer, and I am glad this discussion came up and T am sure 

 eyevy county chairman here will take this home with them and ar- 

 range accordingly ; so I would not have the managers adopt any strong 

 rule on this matter not to have a Saturday evening meeting because 

 there are localities where we can reach the people on Saturday eve- 

 ning where we could not reach them at other times. 



There are other things to talk about. It is all Avell and good to in- 

 struct the farmers in the matter of ])roducing more and making two 

 blades of grass grow where but one grew before, but it is just as im- 

 ])ortant to Instruct him in other matters affecting his welfare, and one 

 of the live questions that 1 think he should be instructed in is on the 

 taxation question, to show the people of the State just exactly where 

 the farmers of the State stand in the matter of taxation, and I want 

 to say before this institute that this is one of th.e live (piestinns for us 

 and for the instructors and lecturers to show to the farmers just ex- 

 actly what position they occupy on the taxation question and I think 



