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greatness of any State must ultimately depend more upon the 

 character of its country population than upon anything else. 

 No growth of cities, no growth of wealth, can make up for a 

 loss in either the number or the character of the farming popula- 

 tion. In the United States more than in almost any other coun- 

 try we should realize this and should prize our country popula- 

 tion. When this Nation began its independent existence it was 

 as a Nation of farmers. The towns were small and were for the 

 most part mere sea-coast trading and fishing ports. The chief 

 industry of the country was agriculture, and the ordinary citizen 

 was in some way connected with it. In every great crisis of the 

 past a peculiar dependence has had to be placed upon the farm- 

 ing population ; and this dependence has hitherto been justified. 

 But it can not be justified in the future if agriculture is per- 

 mitted to sink in the scale as compared with other employments. 

 We can not afford to lose that preeminently typical American, 

 the farmer who owns his own farm. 



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