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to the tenant-farmer, all take a patriotic pride in being connected with the soil 
on which they live, other than mere ownership and revenue derived therefrom. 
I think the subject is worthy of the consideraton of our men of wealth. It is not 
to be hoped that the wealthy can make money in any line of farming, but the — . 
country can never prosper while only the very poor farmer tills the soil; and 
if men of wealth and social standing hold aloof from the soil, the more mode- 
rately wealthy will also avoid it; whereas, if our wealthiest citizens made it 
fashionable to take up some line of agriculture, moneyed men of less means | 
would itnitate, and the certain result would be improved methods and more 
ambition. In England and Scotland, and indeed in all the old lands, the tenant- 
farmer has many opportunities during the year of meeting on equal terms with | 
his lordship of high degree who is engaged in farming in the vicinity. Even 
the Queen and the Prince of Wales are largely engaged in farming and pure- 
bred stock raising. In conelusion, I desire to say that no class of business men — 
in the world have stood higher trom a moral standpoint than the real breeders 
and importers of shorthorn cattle during the past fifty years. This has been | 
so not only in Canada but also in the United States and Great Britain. It is 
much to say, but J believe it will not be contradicted. If we do not number in 
our ranks men of great wealth, we do number among us men of great ability 
and considerable influence, and I venture to say that in every neighbourhood in 
which they are found they will at least carry a full share of the respect and — 
trust of the locality ” 
The following eloquent passage by Henry Howard Molyneux (4th Harl 
of Caernarvon) will appeal forcibly to the present veneration of Australians. — 
We reproduce it in the hope that it may stimulate the latter to emulate the 
indomitable courage and perseverance of their fathers :— 
“What will be the character and tendencies of that young generation 
who have been born and brought up in Australia, and who know no: 
other country or home? Whatever they may be, let no one deceive himself 
into the belief that they can be identical with their fathers, or with that 
earlier race who were, in very truth, the pioneers and makers of 
Australian civilisation. By vigour of intellect, by force of will, and by — 
strength of limb they subdued the wilderness, hewed their way through 
trackless forests, and turned a rugged country into the rich land of 
romise it now is. They were giants; and unaided, and sometimes single- — 
anded, they did their work with a thoroughness to which words can scarcely 
pay an adequate tribute. They had seen the rough sides of things, and— 
rightly or wrongly—they were not always content with the support which 
England gave her adventurous sons, who, in far-off lands, whence hardly an 
echo came back, and in hardship and danger, were planting great colonies and 
extending the distant bounds of the Empire; they sometimes murmured at the 
apparent forgetfulness; they often rebelled against what they deemed the 
interference and dictation of Downing street. But all this has passed away ; 
the survivors of this brave race are now standing in the sunset of life, and amid 
the long shadows that are cast across their path, they condone past wrongs, — 
they only remember the land of their birth with its manifold and tender 
associations, and they turn with almost passionate and pathetic fondness to 
their early home and the ‘old country. . . . Whatever may be the precise | Pees 
character of the political and official ties which in the future will exist, it 
would be treason to our best traditions to question the enduring affection which 
throughout all time will bind the Australian colonies and the Mother-country — 
to each other.” 
The Twenty-second Annual Exhibition of the Wide Bay and Burnett 
Pastoral and Agricultural Society was opened on the 2nd June by the 
Hon. A. J. Thynne, Minister for Agricuiture. ae 
Owing to the severe drought the exhibits were not so numerous, nor was 
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the competition so keen, as on previous occasions. Still many of the exhibits 
were of sterling merit, especially in the eattle and horse sections. In the 
