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thirty million dollars. The same thing has been done in Iowa. What 

 could it do for us out here i Think of all the things we have that can 

 be improved, and of the millions of dollars that can be added to the 

 dairy product by improving- the character of the cows; think of the 

 added value by improving the character of the poultry, by improving 

 the orchard by teaching you a little bit more about the varieties to 

 plant. The possibilities of it are perfectly dazzling. 



And then there is another way that this institution pays its way, 

 and that is that it has a tendency to solve all the problems that have 

 been raised here to-day. It will stop this abandoned farm proposition ; 

 it will help equalize taxation ; it will solve the labor problem ; it Mall 

 keep the boys and girls in the country and strengthen society on that 

 side rather than on the side on which danger lies. The boys who attend 

 the Davisville school will become enthusiasts. They will be happy 

 themselves and they will draw others into the circle they occupy, and 

 how the State will be enriched as a result! We will have less crime, 

 less pauperism, less insanity, less reform schools. We will have a 

 higher standard of moral life. We will solve the divorce question, be- 

 cause whoever heard of divorce among country-dwelling, farm-loving 

 people ? We will have more school houses and we will obey our strenu- 

 ous and wise President in filling them, and in a thousand ways the Davis- 

 ville school is going to pay its way. It is going to pay it in fitness of its 

 students for citizenship, in morals, and in patriotism. I listened with 

 much interest to Professor Anderson and wished he had put much more 

 fire and emphasis in what he said. I am like Mr. Judd, and think I 

 have a solution of all the ills to which we are heir. I believe it is to 

 have more farmers, better farmers, and then we will have better politics 

 and less taxes and the whole life will be elevated. 



Professor Anderson made a plea that the people would meet the 

 Legislature half way. I want to speak for the people and say that we 

 want the college to meet the people half way. I have been before the 

 Legislature, a beggar for my pet theory, and I have found nothing but 

 an extended hand and an open heart and a disposition to give for the 

 growth and the promotion and. the extension of agricultural education, 

 as it is expressed and outlined in the Davisville idea, all money that is 

 needed, and wherever I go among bodies of this kind and meet people 

 of this type I find an equal disposition to send their sons there just as 

 fast as the place is organized to receive them. And so I say to Profes- 

 sor Anderson, that if he will go ahead and equip that institution, our 

 boys and girls will go there in flocks and the Legislature will pay all 

 the money that is necessary to keep them there, and then we will have 

 a better California and will have less of the evils that torment us to-day, 

 and will have less of the evils that will torment us hereafter. (Great 

 applause.) 



