They have left agricultural pursuits. diminished the field of production. and increased the field of consumption. That is true with reference to a great many of the Eastern States. We are now engaged in every way which ingenuity has been able so far to suggest in different schemes by which to invite people to go to the farms. by which to turn the immigration from the cities back to the agricultural region. It is a matter which is engaging the attention of the best thinkers and the greatest publicists of our Nation how to take from these congested centers. where American citizenship is being degraded and broken down by a condition of affairs and environment which they can not conquer. and turn people to the American farms. to the agricultural regions. So long as we place a discriminatory statute upon the statute books which has the effect of lessening the incentive to agriculture and of stimulating the incentive to manufacture. that condition will go on and all the theorists and party policies and organizations for country life will have pursued their work in vain.
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