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accord, and that is wrong. Now I want to ask you one or 

 two questions. You heard Mr. ColHng-wood talk about the 

 parcels post department. Now, how long do you suppose it 

 would be before congress -^^ould give you the parcels post, if 

 congress knew every man was going to vote for it at the next 

 election ? You ought not to stop there, you ought not to 

 wait until the politicians on one side nominate a bad man, 

 and the politicians on the other side nominate a worse man, 

 and give you your choice of either, because you are going to 

 get left either way it goes. You want to go and help make 

 those nominations. I was wondering when you were talking 

 about your appropriation from the Connecticut legislature, 

 I was wondering how many members of this society would 

 vote for a man because he was a member of the Connecticut 

 Pomological Society, and because he was going to stand by 

 you, and I was wondering how many of you democrats would 

 refuse to vote for your democratic candidate because he w-as 

 not a member of your society ; and because he refused to do 

 what you wanted him to do. That is the sort of politics I am 

 pleadnig for ; it is the sort of politics you ought to have in 

 your community ; it is a part of your business to do that thing. 

 I have made this plea for organization among the farmers, 

 because I believe, as I believe in my existence, that if you 

 don't do it, that the young farmer is going to the wall. I 

 don't see an}- young men in this gathering to-day ; what has 

 become of them? xA.re they on th.e farms, or have they gone 

 to the cities? They ought to be on the farms, and when the 

 resolution was up that you adopted here just a little while 

 ago about refusing to make your exhibits at your state fairs 

 unless these gambling propositions were done away with, I 

 noticed every man who had anything to say on that subject 

 was an old man. 



Mr. Hale: Hold on, you rascal; I am not an old man. 



Mr. Lupton : I mean to say that nearly every man who 

 favored that proposition w-as an old man. Now Hale has 

 just bothered me and he has put another idea in my head. 

 Somewhere, not long ago, I read that the proper definition 

 of good advice was that which an old man gives to a young 

 man when he can no longer give him a bad example. Per- 



