. A brief history of John and Christian Fretz and a complete genealogical family register to the fourth generation : with accounts and addresses delivered at the Fretz family reunions held at Bedminster, PA, 1888, 1893, 1898, and When I was a boy, a neighbor, in drawing acomparison, said: Wherever there is a goodfarm your people are on it. Silence gave con-sent, and I did not insist on a proof of the propo-sition. I admitted it, and found in later yearsthat history proved the same. I know that some people look upon farming asa mean occupation. This is not so. It is morehonorable, and
. A brief history of John and Christian Fretz and a complete genealogical family register to the fourth generation : with accounts and addresses delivered at the Fretz family reunions held at Bedminster, PA, 1888, 1893, 1898, and When I was a boy, a neighbor, in drawing acomparison, said: Wherever there is a goodfarm your people are on it. Silence gave con-sent, and I did not insist on a proof of the propo-sition. I admitted it, and found in later yearsthat history proved the same. I know that some people look upon farming asa mean occupation. This is not so. It is morehonorable, and a thousand times so, than manyother employments. Daniel Webster said: The farmers are thefounders of civilization and prosperity. AndBeecher, the eloquent, said: He that would lookwith contempt on the pursuits of a farmer is notworthy the name of a man. Another writerregards the topic in this light: There seem tobe but three ways for a nation to acquire first is by war, as the ancients did, in plun-dering their conquered neighbors. This is rob-bery. The second by commerce, which, generallj^,is cheating. The third by farming, the only hon-est way wherein man receives a real increase ofthe seed thrown in the ground, in a
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