SELECTED SAYINGS 



application. Who shall take this message? Our experience is in 

 favor of farmers of fair education and acknowledged success on the 

 farm. They may make mistakes, from a scientific standpoint in 

 delivering the message, but these are easily corrected. The main 

 thing is to induce the farmer to act, and no one can do that like a 

 fellow-farmer. Of what avail is it that the message be taken by a 

 man of science, if the farmer will not give heed? In general, it is 

 not the man who knows the most who is the most successful, but the 

 man who imparts an implicit belief with his message. The greatest 

 failure as a world force is the man who knows so much that he lives 

 in universal doubt, injecting a modifying clause into every assertion 

 and ending the problems of life with an interrogation point." 



"Agricultural banks should be established to assist in carrying 

 out the plan of colonizing the country with thrifty home owners. 

 Furthermore, it is equitable, because while millions produced by the 

 farms of the nations have, by the process of banking, been transferred 

 in commerce, no way has been provided, under the law, by which the 

 money of the people can be used by the people for time investments 

 in providing for ownership of rural homes — the royal right of 

 American sovereigns and more honorable than the Order of the 

 Garter or the Golden Fleece." 



STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 



JULY 1907 



"Our large cities are danger places on the map of our republic. 

 Homes are so costly that only the rich can own them — the poor and 

 even those of considerable earning power are tenants at will. The 

 industrial enterprises are vast and it requires enormous wealth to 

 handle them. Each supports an army of employees — all dependent 

 upon a managing will." 



"The true representative of liberty is the man who owns his 

 farm home in the country. He is not obliged to vote for his job and 

 his segregation breaks the spell of mass leadership. He stands for 

 an independent political unit instead of the mass units of cities. '^ 



"In New York there are at least 100,000 men so completely de- 

 pendent for a day's bread upon a day's toil that they are compelled 

 to cast their votes for a job, and there is another hundred thousand 

 unavoidably influenced by their jobs. This we may call mass com- 



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