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upon the program proper, we deem it best at this time to appoint 

 a committee on resolutions, and we will name as that committee, 

 the Hon. Win. Brosius, of Lancaster county, Mr. D. A. Knuppen- 

 burg, of Wyoming county, and Mr. L. W. Lighty, of Adams county, to 

 serve as a committee on resolutions. 



Our Institute is especially favored at this session by the presence 

 of a number of visitors from other states and organizations. We see 

 with us this morning Dr. Franklin Dye, of New Jersey, Secretary of 

 the Board of Agriculture and in charge of the Farmers' Institute of 

 that neighboring state. I know you will all be pleased to meet 

 Mr. Dye this morning if he will just come forward and make a few 

 remarks for our benefit. 



ADDRESS. 



Br Hon - . Franklin Dye. Secretary, Board of Agriculture, N. J. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: As the young lady 

 said, this is altogether unexpected, and I do not think, Mr. Chair- 

 man, that it is the best thing, because, as you have just in- 

 timated, you have a very busy day before you and a large program 

 to work off. 1 am not an official doctor in any form by name, nor 

 professor, I am simply Franklin Dye. I am glad to be with you, my 

 friends. I was here last evening and could have said something then 

 perhaps more appropriately than now. 



You will recall the expression of one of the speakers who made 

 an- address last evening and touched somewhat upon matters politi- 

 cal. I am so glad there are indications of an arising light in Phila- 

 delphia and Pennsylvania, the light of purification. We set you an 

 example in that direction several years ago in New Jersey when 

 we had to rid ourselves of the race-track business. We are trying 

 to behave ourselves over there now. 



I endorse the sentiment that the farmers are the foundation of 

 national stability as well as of wealth, and I think, my friends, 

 there is nothing egotistical in saying that. We can admit that fact 

 as farmers, and admit it seriously and feel that upon us is laid a very 

 great obligation. We represent more property, more wealth than 

 any other class in the country. Its running capacity is greater, so 

 great indeed, that we can run a Presidential election without re- 

 gard to Wall Street, and the farmers, if they are prosperous, if they 

 are doing well, can control matters with perfect safety. We want to 

 keep our farmers right, morally, intellectually, if you please, right 

 on these great questions, so that when they are sprung upon us, 



