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in their hands. Let them be studious ; let them think vigorously, 
and coin waste moments into ideas, and the sceptre of national 
power is theirs. To attempt the protection of labor mainly by 
civil enactments is too wild a project to merit sober consideration. 
Laborers must protect themselves by the cultivation of their 
higher powers. Increase the intellectuality of the toiler, and he 
will have means of protection which will give him a spirit of in¬ 
dependence, and challenge public respect: 
I will not pause here to criticise the premiums offered for ex¬ 
cellency in various kinds and grades of animals, yet I wall suggest 
that an association, aiming to increase the social and intellectual 
culture of the people, and annually giving thousands of dollars 
in premiums upon swine, sheep, cattle and horses, might wisely 
appropriate a few hundred dollars to secure the right education of 
the thousands of young men of this state who are soon to control 
the great interests of the commonwealth. The establishment in 
the Agricultural College of the Stale University, by this associa¬ 
tion, of a few scholarships worth $100 each per annum, would 
accomplish far more to secure generous products in the fields and 
workshops, than the appropriation of an equal amount for the 
presentation of race horses. Brains, not hoofs, must protect our 
great industries. I commend this practical suggestion respecting 
the establishment of scholarships, to the favorable consideration 
of the gentlemen -whom I address. 
Give to our youth good morals and the power of earnest thought, 
then our political institutions will be perpetuated, our great in¬ 
dustries will be honored and promoted, our seminaries ol learning 
will be fountains of life to the nation, and the glorious banner 
which proudly floats above us to-day, and which has been so re¬ 
cently baptized with the blood of your sons and your brothers, 
will wave in triumph through the centuries. 
