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shows us in Wisconsin that we cannot support a purely agricultu¬ 
ral paper. You have not done it. Mr. Morrow had to go away 
from here because he was not sustained. I think both can be com¬ 
bined without making a party-paper of it. 
Mr. Roberts: I wish to offer a substitute for that resolution: 
Resolved , That the agricultural interests of the State demand the establishment of 
an agricultural journal devoted especially to promoting the progress and prosperity 
of the State, and that we, as farmers, and as citizens of this commonwealth, will do 
all in our power to support such a paper. 
The reason I offer this substitute is, I find a good deal of indefi¬ 
niteness in the resolution as offered by the committee. It does not 
say the establishing in this State; and I see from Mr. Orledge’s re¬ 
marks, that he is for establishing a political paper. I am support¬ 
ing all the political papers I want. I think we are well provided 
with political papers. I would like to see established here, or at 
some other point in the State, such a journal as the Western Far¬ 
mer was the last few years of its publication. I would be willing 
to give one subscription, and perhaps more, to see just such a paper; 
not a political paper. I believe the interests of agriculture in this 
State demand such a paper. 
The substitute was adopted. 
Mr. Wood: I have listened to the remarks of Mr. Orledge, and 
was a good deal mystified by them. 1 do not feel that I am a mis¬ 
erable wretch, and should get somebody to fight my battles for me 
politically. I want an agricultural paper as the Western Farmer 
was. I would be willing for the re-establishing of such a paper 
to-day. I think I could get quite a large subscription to start such 
a paper. 
Mr. Smith: With regard to the original resolution I would sim¬ 
ply say, I drew it simply to get the subject before the convention, 
and to get the people to thinking about a paper. We all know we 
need a paper— I have been ashamed every time I think of it, 
that a paper like the Wester Farmer was allowed to go down. I don’t 
think the people are altogether to blame for it. I know a good 
many who, if they had known the condition of the paper, would 
have advanced the means to sustain it and put it beyond the possi¬ 
bility of failure. I know there is a feeling among the friends with 
whom I have conversed, that they .would be very glad to get Mr. 
Morrow back. I am not certain that that could be done, as he 
