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sition as county commissioner. Long may he hold that office. 

 We of the seventh representative district, have a long Pike 

 whom we were proud to show in the House of Representatives 

 last winter, and the list might be prolonged for among us to-day, 

 merit is recognized and as Dr. Loring once put it, " the farmer's 

 boy need not take the Governor's dust if he has a horse that can 

 pass him." Though the farmer may not have so much ready 

 tact and promptness as the business man, he yet is wise. 



" In secrets Nature taught him 



The wisdom which the fields and brooks 



And toiling men have brought him." 



The man educated from these sources, sees the fallacy of 

 many of the proposed remedies for dull times, inequality of 

 wages and the discontent that would ' ' burn the barn to destroy 

 the hornet's nest." He has firm faith that the nation will hold 

 its equal way, notwithstanding the shock of anarchy at the 

 "West, or the theories of agitators at the East, who would im- 

 pose all taxation upon the land. The farmers of the country 

 are its great conservative force, not easily swayed by transient 

 movements, standing in their might as the powerful dispensers 

 of the rich bounty of Nature, drawing from the soil their sup- 

 port, constantly using skill to unlock some new store-house of 

 fertility. The increase of population but stimulates production 

 so the myriad toilers in all other occupations may look to them 

 to be fed. For 



" Honor waits o'er all the earth 

 Through endless generations, 

 The art that calls the harvest forth 

 And feeds expectant nations." 



