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And certainly of these three War, Drunken- 

 ness and Bread Bread is fundamentally most 

 important. 



The inertia which had to be overcome in earlier 

 days has been transformed into resistless energy 

 and the time has come in New York to lay aside 

 all jealousies, all bickerings as to men and locali- 

 ties, that these fragmentary efforts may be coordi- 

 nated; for if this is not speedily done, the attempt 

 to wrest support for all of them from the State 

 will create such antagonism as will destroy the 

 weaker ones and cause the stronger to spend their 

 energy chiefly in the political struggle for exist- 

 ence. In recent years at Albany there have been 

 signs that this destructive competition is only re- 

 strained by the wisdom of a few leaders. 



Commissioner Pearson further says : 



" The exceptional educational facilities (in New 

 York) including the common school system, are be- 

 lieved to be the best in the world." 



But these schools of which New Yorkers are 

 justly proud, are not left to go as they please but 

 are carefully coordinated into one logical, sym- 

 metrical whole by a small body of able men. Un- 

 til agricultural education is organized and directed 

 in a similar manner no one will be able to say that 



