Country Must Stand for Itself 63 



this moment making -the mistake of con- 

 sidering agricultural education as a thing 

 apart, whereas it is only a phase of education 

 in general and cannot, be isolated without 

 leading us into error. 



If these statements are sound, it follows that 

 the country should not be exploited in the 

 interest of the city. The country must be 

 developed for itself and out of itself. There 

 must be a country social order, as there is a 

 city social order. One might think, from many 

 current discussions, that the country exists for 

 the convenience and benefit of the city, pro- 

 viding occupation for those who have failed to 

 attach themselves in cities and an asylum for 

 the undesirables. To some persons, the coun- 

 try question seems to be only a congeries of 

 isolated problems of needy families and of 

 vicious communities ; but these are not country 

 questions more than city questions. In either 

 case, they are but symptoms. Want must be 

 relieved and vice must be controlled, wherever 

 they are. No small part of the vice of the 

 country districts is that which is forced out 



