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ments, and liis sons, if rightly educated, soon see that there is some¬ 
thing worthy of their best efforts, and feel proud of their accumu¬ 
lations, as one who said u the proudest moment of my life was when 
the governor of the state rode up and said, 4 young man, will you 
sell me one of those heavy shearing-sheep of yours that I have 
heard so much about?’” 
A Lawes, a Johnston, a Geddes, a Randall, a Hammond, a Bake- 
well, a Booth or a Bates are greater benefactors of their race than 
the greatest politicians of the day. 
At the conclusion of the President’s interesting and profitable 
introductory remarks, Secretary Field announced to the conven¬ 
tion that it was expected that when papers were presented, such 
discussions would be had upon the subject-matter of the paper as 
the convention thought desirable, saying: This convention was 
called for the purpose of reading papers and an interchange of 
views by discussions upon all questions relating to the industrial 
interests of the state. I especially requested that farmers’ clubs, 
granges, county societies and all other industrial organizations of 
the state should send delegates here and participate with us. 
I am informed that many of those present, and many more that 
will arrive to-day, are delegates representing those different organi¬ 
zations, and I wish to say here, that it is not understood to be 
strictly a delegate convention. We invite all workers, regardless of 
whether they represent any society or not, to take part with us. 
I have sent a programme to each member of the Legislature, and 
as many of them are farmers, I doubt not they will participate with 
us in the general discussions. 
It is desirable that those gentlemen representing organizations 
as delegates, should send up their names to the secretary’s desk, 
showing the names of delegates and the societies they represent. 
And perhaps in order to open this discussion I may say this one 
item struck me in the President’s paper as of great interest, that 
we should request all the political papers of the day to devote at 
least a page or' two each week to the industrial interests and all 
legitimate enterprises which help to make up a great and noble 
state. Our papers now are filled with what? Well, to-day with 
the senatorial question, but it is not of that overshadowing impor¬ 
tance that it should take up all the space alloted to the reading mat¬ 
ter in the various journals of the day. We should all take those 
