HOW our. PUBLIC MEN MISS THE WAY 119 



with the same insensate ideas as the unfortunate suicide. Sanity 

 among the rulers is of more importance and a greater necessity 

 tlian it is among the ruled, and before the former cast their 

 stones at the latter for drunkenness, thriftlessness, and the rest 

 of it, they should be sure that they themselves are free from 

 blame. 



The great agricultural industry of this country has been, 

 and is Ijeinir, left out of all th(( calculations of Governments and 

 politicians, and until they bring it into their calculations, and 

 make it the pivot upon which turn all national affairs, and then 

 regard it as the people's chiefest good and the nation's pabulum, 

 they will, as of necessity they must, fail to find a remedy for 

 the evils of unemployment and the curse of poverty. 



