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who were not so well educated and remained on the farm; but if 
we change our tactics, and teach as Mr. Smith teaches, that form¬ 
ing with all the disadvantages under which it has labored, has done 
reasonably well, we can then induce those of our sons who have 
received an education, to still remain on the farm. 
I do not say that for the last five years, particularly here in the 
northwest, or any part of the country, farming has been generally 
a successful business; but it is also true that with all the discour¬ 
agements it has, it is in a much more prosperous condition than 
many other kinds of employments, and taking any considerable 
scope of the country together, that is true entirely. The thing I 
want to insist upon all the time is, that as a matter of pleasant de¬ 
lusion for the time, I want to believe in the possibility and the 
probability of the success and the prosperity of farmers. 
Mr. Clark. I want to ask Mr. Morrow one question; why it is, 
that in the decade from 1850, to 1860, statistics show that unpro¬ 
ductive property has increased very largely over the increase of 
farming. 
Mr. Anderson. I should be very much pleased to have such 
a state of affairs exist as Mr. Smith described should exist among 
the farmers, and I am looking forward to that good time com¬ 
ing.” But so far as my experience goes, we cannot expect such a 
state of affairs, so long as a young man will have to work on the 
farm for $200 a year, when he can go to the City of Madison and 
get $1,000 a year for standing behind a counter, and not work half 
so hard. And that is one of the reasons why a young man don’t 
want to work on the 'farm, when he can get $1,000 or $2,000, for 
riding on a steam-engine or in some other way make more money. 
To make our business popular with young men and to enable us 
to support our families in the same style and condition as others do, 
we must make our business pay as well as other classes of business, 
or else we cannot live and dress as well as those engaged in other 
occupations do. 
I deny that farming has paid as other kinds of business. Take 
from 1860 to 1870, the best time farmers ever knew in the United 
States and I deny that farming paid one-half as well as capital in¬ 
vested in manufacturing, and 1 am satisfied that it will not pay as 
well in the next ten years. The man who has made the most mon- 
