96 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. ' 



of the man, who, after viewing for a moment the great 

 Niagara casting its two miUions of tons of water per min- 

 ute into the chasm below, while beholding this most 

 wonderful, this most stupendous work of nature, could 

 exclaim " What a fine chance to wash sheep, boys ! " 



People are numerous who can see no value in a mag- 

 nificent cataract, with all its sublimity and grandeur, unless 

 it can be made to assist in the accumulation of material 

 wealth — unless it can be made to turn the grindstone, 

 water the garden, grind grain, saw wood, pump, or churn ! 

 To such persons a picture of Niagara or of Yosemite, even 

 though executed by a Bierstadt, would be utterly useless. 

 Their farms, their homes, their houses, their cattle, and I 

 had almost said their wives and their children, are valued 

 only in so far as they will aid them in making money. 



I value the dollar. It is mighty, but not almighty. 

 Under certain circumstances it is the desirable thing for a 

 man to possess. But when a man has more dollars than 

 he needs to satisfy his physical and intellectual wants — 

 more money than he needs to buy food, clothes, a home 

 and such mental privileges as he is able to appreciate, it 

 were far wiser for him to spend his time in increasing his 

 capacity for intellectual enjoyments, rather than in the 

 accumulation of property which he can never use. 



There is a man in Kane county who has a mania for 

 collecting whips. Every scrap of leather is by him trans- 

 formed into a whip-lash ; every suitable piece of wood into 

 a whip-stock. When I last saw him he had one thousand 

 whip-stocks and fourteen bushels of lashes ! and he was 

 very anxious to complete another whip that day. Such a 

 man is scarcely more foolish than he who has a mania to 

 accumulate money beyond the amount which he has the 

 ability to use for his own enjoyment and for the comfort 

 and welfare of his friends and of humanity. 



Intellectual development — knowledge — increases our 

 desires, and our capacity, for enjoyment. The fool is 

 easily satisfied. Beyond the food and clothes which are an 

 absolute necessity, his wants can be as easily supplied with 

 a few dollars as with millions. The more one knows the 

 more will it take to gratify his reasonable desires. 



What will education do for the farmer? It will 

 increase his capacity for enjoyment. I speak now more 

 especially to our wealthy farmers — men_ who are worth 



