Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1917 — Farm Dwellers Destined to Dominate National Life of the United States [ARTICLE]

Farm Dwellers Destined to Dominate National Life of the United States

By CARL VROOMAN.

Aatuttat Secretary of Agriculture

The farmer ’is how in the saddle. There is no profession or occupation in the world which to my mind offers as many attractions as |hat of the farmer. The ti me is comi ngin thia country w hen ever y bod yw ho can ingoing to live in the coup try. We are getting all the Comforts of city life in the country now, getting**!! sorts of things that our ancestors did not have. ? Country life is becoming every year more interesting, tftore attractive,' and we are going to build up, as I firmly believe, in this country a great civilization, the dominant note of which is going to be th<J agricultural' note. I believe that the farmers, the country dwellers, of this country in the future, are going to dominate our national life, and if they to J feel sure the future of this country is assured.