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die out of here Avheu the last raft comes down. But with concert of action and 

 a hearty support from all, the welfare of the masses may be secured through 

 the in(lue:ice of such associations, and our children's children may be permit- 

 ted to sit beneath their own vines beside the lake wliose shimmer we see in the 

 distance, ■with none to molest or make them afraid. Immediate, constant and 

 steady efforts is required to bring about the hoped for results. This fair is 

 the beginning of splendid efforts to be liereafter crowned with splendid results. 



Manufactories by proper action can be established in our midst. Capital 

 from abroad will seek this point, possessing as it does so many facilities for 

 success, provided capitalists become satisfied that the masses here are not 

 oblivious to their own and their children's happiness. "Prompt action," 

 should become the rallying cry of the people. When the wealth of the nation, 

 so long locked in paper vaults by golden keys shall be released and turned 

 again into the legitimate channels of business — opening all of the old avenues 

 where prosperity used to move ; bending on canvas to spars nearly dozed with 

 age ; lighting fires in blast-furnaces and rolling-mills which have known no 

 warmth for years; cause wheels and spindles in factories to fairly laugh with 

 excessive motion; provoking the very mountains to groan as the rich ore is torn 

 from their bosoms ; when cheeks made hollow by long fasting shall again wear 

 the rose of health ; when strong men whose only crime is poverty, shall desert 

 the grand army of tramps for the forge and workshop; when those whose 

 hands are now weak for lack of food, but whose hearts are strong in bitterness 

 of grief, at seeing loved and helpless ones suffer, shall again join the anvil 

 chorus; construct mighty locomotives and launch palatial steamers; in short, 

 when follies and fallacies shall be swept away, as insects are said to have been 

 swept by the winds of enraged Jove, and the people shall have confidence in 

 each other and fraternal feeling shall take the place of corroding jealousies and 

 hatred, capital may be drawn to our home if capitalists are led to believe that 

 we desire to help ourselves. 



In what better way can we begin to help ourselves than by lending aid and 

 encouragement to our agricultural society? And how can the society be more 

 encouraged than by having the people take its remaining stock, thereby becom- 

 ing a part of the society and co-workers in its interests? 



The organization feels encouraged and thankful by and for the help it has 

 received, but much more can and should be done to help and strengthen it. 



Goon, then, in the course began, gentlemen of the Agricultural Association, 

 taking heart for future work from the success attained in this, your first great 

 effort; and when your noble task is accomplished, as far as you can aid in its 

 accomplishment, be sure that a grateful posterity will hold your names in 

 happy remembrance. 



Many of us are passing swiftly to the close of life, and soon, "The night 

 cometh wherein no man can work." If in the remaining time allotted us, 

 practical good can be secured for those who follow, by any course of action on 

 our part, the afternoon of our existence will not have been misspent ; and 

 when the sunset comes and we sink beneath the purple clouds, the conscious- 

 ness will be ours of having been "faithful in a few things" and our last glance 

 may fall on a path of splendor left behind, wherein loved ones of life shall be 

 seen, in attitudes of benediction, gazing with a calm hope toward the spot 

 where our light has faded forever. 



