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Show 19 . does not country exploit the . Clty," Ey expressing these sentiments the yeoman farmer, the se comm i.as i.on the hetorical cadence opened by as scr greatness unless this greatness ent of the being marching in were great farmer class, Bailey, In the President the ach l eve d perman- ever was 16 virtues of Theodore Roosevelt. as "no nation has ting I corollary. the on nembers is letter of c01ission to Professor .... the was the well- based on who live men on the soil; for it is upon their welfare, material and moral, the welfare that rests."l? included the if that As an of excerpt were from not an the nation of rest ultimately explicit enough, address he had given he also a year earlier in cO!7'ur:emoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the nation's first agricultural collegesl There is out one nerson "those welfare is vi t2 to the we Lf'ar-e of the whole country 2..8 is that of the ':2.Ge-,\.,or:er Yt10 does manual 12.00:-, and that is tl:e tiller of the soil- I: there is one lesson taugi1t by -ene I2.ITler. h i s toz Y , it is th2.t the nern2..l"1.ent greatness of any State Dust ultL-:12.telY de nend raor e upon the Ch2.r2..cter of its country popul2.tion then upon Po gr-ovrth of cities, no grovrth any th Ing else. of "teal th can IDaJ:e up for loss in either the Y!u:rloer or the character of the farming as ... - population. 18 As sion on previously mentioned, Country Life has 16_b·d .:L.J:.._., pp. 17Ib· --1:.£. , p. 22. 18Ibid• , p. 23· .. been 49, 6.3. the report of the Commis introduced and discussed |
