No. 4.] KEMAIIKS OF BUKTON W. POTTER. 1(U 



success and permanent prosperity of the country. It has 

 always been so, and always will be so, and we have a good 

 example of that in the present day in Japan. Japan is only 

 about as large as New England, yet their agricultural oper- 

 ations are so intensive that they support a population of 

 40,000,000 people, and they export more agricultural prod- 

 ucts than they import. It is that influence in that country 

 wdiich has enabled them to tight with the great Russian 

 power and to come off victorious. 



I fail to see how the cities can take care of themselves. 

 In ancient Rome, when the social and political corruption 

 was at its height, when everything there was rotten to the 

 core, and society was ripe for destruction, it was the rural 

 people in Italy, the provinces, that maintained the empire 

 in its possession and power for hundreds of years. And the 

 same thing is true of France. Take Paris to-day. If it 

 were shut out from the rest of the agricultural provinces of 

 France, it would go to ruin in no time, and I think the same 

 thino; mioht as well l)e said of New York. It is nothins: but 

 the pure l)lood that comes in from the country to the cities 

 that enables those cities to maintain themselves at all. 



The speaker this afternoon also said something that I Avish 

 to call attention to. He was glad, he said, that the rich 

 people in the cities were going to the country to establish 

 homes. Now, I wish to say just a word in regard to that. 

 I think that that is a good thing, and I hope that many 

 more people in the city, who can aft'ord it, will go into the 

 country ; but I think that this should be said, — that when 

 these people go from the cities into the country they should 

 not try to build a Biltmore or some palace, and spend hun- 

 dreds of thousands of dollars for establishing some city 

 home in the country. If they would go into the country 

 and esta1)lish nice rural homes with ordinary l)uildings, with- 

 out such a lavish expenditure of money, it Avould be very 

 much better, and these establishments that they build could 

 then be used by somebody else besides millionaires. How 

 often we see somebody go into the country and build some 

 such establishment as that, spending hundreds of thousands 

 of dollars in fixing it up like a palace ; and when the pro- 



