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the Northern Circle. I plead with you — it pays in money, it pays in 

 morals, it pays dividends of righteousness to more righteously treat your 

 men who come to your door to harvest your crops, and not let them lie 

 out along the fence or over the mangers of the horses or in the rickety 

 old barn. You will get help that is worth having if you will treat them 

 right. I know it; I have tried it. I have hundreds of men and I haven't 

 a drunkard or a gambler among them, nor in traveling twenty miles 

 over the property that I superintend will you find one single man who 

 is unworthy of your friendship, nor will you hear an oath in a week, 

 because the conditions which surround them are those that we human 

 beings need. You and I would be in the saloon — I would; I would go 

 to the saloon if I had no other place than the places that many of our 

 laboring men have to inhabit on our ranches. I need some social features 

 in my life. Give more of your money, more of your heart, more of your 

 soul to the settlement of this white labor question, and you will settle 

 it; then get after the politician. John P. Irish said the truest thing — 

 that we are not enforcing our rights at the primary. You men, who are 

 American citizens, go to the primary and send to the convention Ameri- 

 cans worthy the name, and you will have in this debasing legislature 

 at Sacramento better men to pass your laws. The whole question 

 resolves itself into the fact that you have been forfeiting your rights as 

 citizens; and God help you more righteously to remember the great 

 trust that is upon you as American citizens, and you will solve the labor 

 question, and many others, too. (Applause.) 



THE CHAIRMAN. We have now "The College and the People," 

 by Prof. Leroy Anderson, now of the State Farm at Davis. 



PROFESSOR ANDERSON. I have no doubt that this calm and quiet 

 paper was introduced here at this time to give you a chance for good 

 digestion after so exciting a session as you have had in the last hour or 

 so, and so I will attempt to perform my duty in as quiet and peaceable 

 a way as possible. The subject may not mean so much to you as a 

 different statement of it, that is, the bringing of our agricultural educa- 

 tion somewhat nearer to the agricultural population. 



THE COLLEGE AND THE PEOPLE. 



By PROF. LEROY ANDERSON, Director of California Polytechnic School, 



San Luis Obispo. 



The time has passed when there is any serious question as to the 

 usefulness of an education for agriculture. All thinking men — all pro- 

 gressive farmers, horticulturists, dairymen, and stockmen — believe in 

 the agricultural college and the experiment station, because each has 

 done something, or can do something, to aid his particular calling. 

 This unanimity of opinion did not prevail a generation ago, or when 



