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know you do that. You have shown your apjweciation of this great 

 work in that way, hut never yield the point that because your farm 

 is ten miles from the railroad station that you are not entitled to 

 the best that the State can give you in this case. Tt is not necessary 

 to continue this discussion on this line further. There is just one 

 question I shall dwell upon. T am not a stickler for the Saturday 

 night session. I never have been. Gentlemen of the county, you have 

 fullest charge of that matter. It is in 3'our hands. If you believe the 

 best instruction, the best interests of the institutes in your county 

 will dispense with that session, act uynm it but take a little care. 

 Better study that matter over carefully. Do you know that some- 

 times it is not always just exactly the old farmer that may not go 

 out on Saturday night. It may not be him; but his daughters and 

 his sons, and some of the young people that will be on these farms a 

 little later will be there and take u]) the home questions, educational 

 questions and social questions and present them to these young i)eoi)]e 

 in the manner that will lighten up home and farm life. We are in 

 this business for work, good etfective work that will lift the standard 

 of agriculture and hold it up before the world. Thank you. 



MR. PEACHEY: I am not here to retract anything that T have 

 said, but I am glad for this (me thing if nothing more, and that is that 

 I have gotten you stirred up to think with me ahmg the line that 

 concerns the farmers' institute lecturer, and I believe he has a i)orfecf 

 right in this meeting, as in all other meetings, to stand u]) for what 

 he believes is right and if he don't care for that [)ersonal ]»ro])erty 

 no one else is going to and that personal pro]»erty is himself. No i-e- 

 flections whatever. I only stated the case as 1 found it, honestly and 

 conscientiously, and if good can grow out of this matter I am satis- 

 fied. I know it is the unpopular side, but I want to say to you this, 

 that it has not alwa3's been the man on the popular side that was on 

 the right side. There may be exceptions and, of course, we have the 

 rule and you have the exceptions, but whenever the exceptions become 

 more than the rule, greater than the rule, then the exceptions become 

 the rule, and so I hope sometime j^ou will agree with me and will do 

 just like is being done in other states, that Saturday night is left 

 to the speaker and he can either go home or go to the hotel and do 

 the best thing he can, and goes to work again on ^fonday moi'uing. T 

 have talked with some men from other states and they say this: 

 "Peachey, I am surprised that you peo])le work all wiuter and are 

 compelled to work Saturday night and travel on Sunday." And one 

 man said this: "That is the only thing that is not a credit to your 

 Pennsylvania institute work." Now T hope 1 am not reflecting upon 

 any of my friends, and Brother Kerrick, I did not mean him any 

 more than anybody else. T stop])ed twenty-nine days in Bi'adford 

 county, that county of magnificent distances. They travel from Dan 

 to Beorsheba to get to the institute. I travelled twenty-seven miles — 

 they claimed it was thirty but it was about twenty-seven miles, to get 

 from a farmers' institute and one of the fellows said it almost froze 

 the marrow in his bones. So T only speak of these things. If I said 

 anything that will add to the betterment of the farmers' institute why 

 I am glad for it even though I have taken that unpopular side, and 

 somebody you know must occasionally get on that side that stirs them 

 out and possibly that stirred them up. 



