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and confidence, and who is willing to admit that there is a bright 
side, will much more successfully resist evil and combat every 
thing that is oppressing him, than the man who by his talk seems 
to indicate that it is always hopeless, and that we are sure to be 
beaten and destroyed. 
I do not believe it. I do not believe that we believe it. We are 
succeeding now about as well as the average of men in other kinds 
of business, and we are going to succeed still better by insisting 
upon our rights, and removing the evils with which the farming 
class are enveloped. We shall do better and better, and live more 
happily and wisely. 
Secretary Field. I desire to ask Mr. Morrow if the farmers are 
succeeding as well as any other class of people, why it is that nine- 
tenths of all the young men that we educate up to a certain point 
where they are capable of transacting other business; where we 
would say they are better calculated and better qualified to do 
farming than ever before; why it is they leave farming and take up 
with other vocations, if it is paying as well as other branches of 
industry ? 
Mr. Morrow. Let me make a statement now of what I do be¬ 
lieve. I believe what I said before. I believe as fully and heartily 
as I believe in any thing, that all things considered, with the capi¬ 
tal, the education, the amount of intelligence, the amount of labor, 
everything considered, the farmers of this country in any consid¬ 
erable series of years have prospered as well as any other class of 
men, or any particular number. That is what I believe. One of 
the principal reasons why the thing Mr. Field asks is true, is that 
we, in our talk have not admitted that we believe that. One of 
the principal reasons why the farmer boy at an early day gets the 
opinion that he wants to leave the farm, is that he is taught to be¬ 
lieve that he can do better elsewhere. Another reason is, that 
there has been a market in other callings for Avhat we call educated 
labor, skilled labor, a greater demand than has seemed to exist for 
it on the farm; consequently, with all respect to the farmers, (and 
I am a farmer’s son, and a farmer’s grandson,) the consequence is, 
as Mr. Field intimates; the best educated men, the men of sense, 
the men of intelligence, have left the farm, and engaged in some 
other calling; therefore, it is not strange they have succeeded, they 
ought to have succeeded better, other things being equal, than those 
