. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 160 Missouri Agricultural W. B. Sanford. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. (Hon. W. B. Sanford. Springfield, Mo.) Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems your chairman is given to mistakes. When your meeting was opened he asked all the members of the audience to come forward, alleg- ing that Dr. Black's voice—the voice of an orator—was weak. Now, I will straighten out that mistake. I told him to ask you to come up here be- cause my knees were weak, and he got me confused with Dr. B
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 160 Missouri Agricultural W. B. Sanford. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. (Hon. W. B. Sanford. Springfield, Mo.) Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems your chairman is given to mistakes. When your meeting was opened he asked all the members of the audience to come forward, alleg- ing that Dr. Black's voice—the voice of an orator—was weak. Now, I will straighten out that mistake. I told him to ask you to come up here be- cause my knees were weak, and he got me confused with Dr. Black. Dr. Black has touched beauti- fully on the new conditions. The speaker who has just preceded me has talked and told you more eloquently than I could, were I to try, of what the conditions of this day and time demand. I have not lived in the country for years, but my love and affection and the beautiful memories that I have of my home life on the farm have endeared the farm to me to the extent that I have not ceased to be a farmer. While I am a native Missourian, yet in infancy my father moved out of this State into Arkansas, and there he lived as an humble citizen, in an humble home, in an humble way, and to my mind, when I go back and think of his life of drudgery and toil and the things that came up in his life, the many conflicts he had, I feel that he was indeed a martyr. Then when I think of my sainted mother, I only think of her in reverence, and think she was the noblest, truest, purest, grandest and best woman that ever lived. These are the sacred memories that cling to me from boyhood days. I can recall the little things that would be of most consequence to me and would be tiresome to you, but to me they all cluster with fragrance and tender memory. I am sorry that there are not more old people in the audience to whom I could tell them, for they could appre- ciate the conditions under which I lived. But this is a new era and new conditions have come. So I wil
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