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Most of the massive parking lots have been converted to a depot for supplies for those people in and around Houston who bore the brunt of the massive rains that accompanied the passage of Hurricane Harvey. One after another, the helicopters circle in and land, their cargo slung in nets beneath them as they circle. The continuous roar is something between an industrial shop floor and the beginning of a NASCAR race. Polite young men in brown fatigues, and carrying very impressive looking long guns, explain to the curious that, no, they won\u2019t be parking in these lots today. They point the curious off toward the Fort Bend County Extension offices, at the far end of the park.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nThis is a gentler, somewhat quieter place. A bingo game for displaced elderly citizens is about as noisy as it gets in here. Out back, repairs are underway. People are tending to the flowers, and to the remarkable butterfly garden, alive again with monarchs and various breeds of swallowtails, all dancing through the greenery, accessorizing nature as though nothing ever happened. Next to the butterfly garden, a group of  exhausted men in jeans and baseball caps are slinging duffel bags and rollerboards into the back of SUVs. These men are agents of the AgriLife Extension service sponsored by Texas A&M University. These particular men work in southwest Texas, which is pretty much the antipodes&mdash;according to Texas geography, anyway. They have been here for four days. They are going home now. Some agents from Amarillo will be arriving in a couple of hours to take their place. Here in this half of the fairgrounds, out back in the O.D. Tucker Arena, and in the barns adjacent to it, these agents and dozens more like them have come to save the four-legged refugees stranded by the waters rising all around them.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\u201cWe have strike teams throughout the state that are on call on needs like this to come and assist the other extension agents and offices that are in the affected areas,\u201d said Marcellino Lopez, leaning wearily against the back of his SUV. \u201cWe\u2019re from District 12. We have four agents from our district&mdash;from Frio, Dimmitt, Zavala, and Atascosa County, and we\u2019re deployed here for four days.\u201dThere were an estimated 1.2 million head of beef cattle alone in the areas that were designated as disaster areas during and after the storm. Nobody\u2019s really sure yet how many of them were lost, to say nothing of horses, goats, chickens, and other farm animals. Throughout the aftermath of the storm, people like Marcellino Lopez worked to find refugee livestock and bring them, one way or another, to shelters like the one set up at the Fort Bend Fairgrounds. There they stayed, until their owners came and got them. Now, a week after the rains came, there are only a few of them left. All the goats are gone, which the staff here considers something of a blessing, truth be told.It is here where we once again mount one of the shebeen\u2019s favorite hobby-horses. Texas A&M is a land-grant institution, created in 1876 under the Morrill Act of 1862, which was passed while Texas itself was still in treasonous rebellion against the United States.  (Pro tip: a lot of the land-grant schools once had \u201cA&M\u201d attached to their names. Texas A&M is one of the few of them that still carries its original monicker.) The purpose of the land-grant institutions was to spread higher education generally among the population and to give the children of farmers the opportunity to be better farmers, or not to be farmers at all, if they so chose.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nMorrill first introduced his bill in 1857. It was loudly condemned in the Congress as being an act of overreach by what undoubtedly would be termed \u201cBig Government.\u201d A senator from Minnesota railed, \u201cWe want no fancy farmers,\u201d while calling the act itself, \u201can unconstitutional robbing of the Treasury for the purpose of bribing the states.\u201d President James Buchanan, rousing himself from his customary torpor, vetoed the bill when it got to his desk. In his veto message, Buchanan sounded very much like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III talking about DACA.\u201cThe Constitution is a grant to Congress of a few enumerated, but most important powers...All other powers are related to the states and to the people. For the efficient and harmonious working of both, it is necessary that their several spheres of action should be kept distinct from each other. This alone can prevent conflict and mutual injury.\u201d\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nMorrill finally got his bill passed in 1862, after half the country had walked out of the government. As soon as the treasonous half came back in, however, they gobbled up the idea with both hands. (As with so many things, African-American citizens had to wait a decade or so before they were allowed to partake in the benefits of land-grant education; many of the historically black colleges and universities were established under the Morrill Act and its legislative progeny.) Which brings us to the extension services.One of the laws that sprang from the Morrill\u2019s brainchild was the Smith-Lever Act, which passed in 1914. One of its provisions formally committed the United States Department of Agriculture to what became known as the Cooperative Extension Service. This gave structure to an informal system of agricultural societies and clubs that had existed in rural America since the days when all of America was rural. It also gave structure to the system of \u201cexperimental stations\u201d that had been established in farming country by previous legislation. (One of the first of these was established in Wisconsin in 1887, as part of that state\u2019s commitment to what became known as \u201cThe Wisconsin Idea.\u201d)  The County Agent became a familiar sight around the farming communities in the Midwest and Plains states. The County Agent was the helpful neighbor who knew stuff and he was&hellip;wait for it&hellip;from the government and he could help.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nOne of the things I noticed during my trip from Rockport to Houston in the aftermath of the storm was that the narrative of people helping people was true and righteous altogether, to quote Abraham Lincoln quoting the Bible. What also struck me was that, if we could convince people again that they could help each other through the institutions of self-government as readily as they could hauling bottled water in a truck, or navigating a bass boat through what once was a suburban neighborhood, we would go a long way toward being the country we say we are again. Self-government is a creative act that ought to renew itself, over and over again, through the collective action of the people who choose to govern themselves. As such, it\u2019s possible for government to be a mechanism for charity in this country, because the government is us&mdash;or it should be, anyway&mdash;and we have convinced ourselves that we are fundamentally a charitable people.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\nIt\u2019s cheap and easy to point out that conservative Texas politicians have discovered a sweet-tooth for Big Gummint now that they\u2019ve got a natural disaster and a public health catastrophe on their hands for the next decade or so. The job of reclaiming self-government is harder than the job of reclaiming the land and the sprawl of what Houston once was. We have been inundated by decades of mendacious propaganda, all aimed at convincing us that government is some alien entity so that we don\u2019t once again engage the creative force of self-government and aim it at the people who are looting the country\u2019s wealth and destroying its natural beauty. It\u2019s worked, too. The many acts of charity in Texas over the past two weeks have been used far too often as anesthesia by the people who would rather not see the country apply its government as a permanent shelter for those in need. Look, they say, this is what people can do for each other. This is what the churches can do. We don\u2019t need government program X, Y, and Z. This is said, often, by people who did not go to those places, by people who would have fought the Morrill Act, and by too many people who would have walked out of the Congress in 1861. Nobody can do anything but admire the charitable whirlwind that was J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans. But, out in the field, the little churches and small communities are hanging on by their fingernails. (One person told me that it was God\u2019s miracle that there hadn\u2019t been any of the customary summer thunderstorms since Harvey passed through. She didn\u2019t know what she\u2019d do with more water on her land.) 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<p class="body-text">This is a gentler, somewhat quieter place. A bingo game for displaced elderly citizens is about as noisy as it gets in here. Out back, repairs are underway. People are tending to the flowers, and to the remarkable butterfly garden, alive again with monarchs and various breeds of swallowtails, all dancing through the greenery, accessorizing nature as though nothing ever happened. Next to the butterfly garden, a group of  exhausted men in jeans and baseball caps are slinging duffel bags and rollerboards into the back of SUVs. These men are agents of the AgriLife Extension service sponsored by Texas A&amp;M University. These particular men work in southwest Texas, which is pretty much the antipodes—according to Texas geography, anyway. They have been here for four days. They are going home now. Some agents from Amarillo will be arriving in a couple of hours to take their place. Here in this half of the fairgrounds, out back in the O.D. Tucker Arena, and in the barns adjacent to it, these agents and dozens more like them have come to save the four-legged refugees stranded by the waters rising all around them.</p><div class="embed embed-image embed-image-center embed-image-medium">
	















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<p class="body-text">“We have strike teams throughout the state that are on call on needs like this to come and assist the other extension agents and offices that are in the affected areas,” said Marcellino Lopez, leaning wearily against the back of his SUV. “We’re from District 12. We have four agents from our district—from Frio, Dimmitt, Zavala, and Atascosa County, and we’re deployed here for four days.”</p><p class="body-text">There were an estimated 1.2 million head of beef cattle alone in the areas that were designated as disaster areas during and after the storm. Nobody’s really sure yet how many of them were lost, to say nothing of horses, goats, chickens, and other farm animals. Throughout the aftermath of the storm, people like Marcellino Lopez worked to find refugee livestock and bring them, <a class="body-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/us/harvey-cattle-helicopter.html?mcubz=1&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">one way or another</a>, to shelters like the one set up at the Fort Bend Fairgrounds. There they stayed, until their owners came and got them. Now, a week after the rains came, there are only a few of them left. All the goats are gone, which the staff here considers something of a blessing, truth be told.</p><p class="body-text">It is here where we once again mount one of the shebeen’s favorite hobby-horses. Texas A&amp;M is a land-grant institution, created in 1876 under the Morrill Act of 1862, which was passed while Texas itself was still in treasonous rebellion against the United States.  (Pro tip: a lot of the land-grant schools once had “A&amp;M” attached to their names. Texas A&amp;M is one of the few of them that still carries its original monicker.) The purpose of the land-grant institutions was to spread higher education generally among the population and to give the children of farmers the opportunity to be better farmers, or not to be farmers at all, if they so chose.</p><div class="breaker-ad article-breaker-ad standard-article-breaker-ad">
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<p class="body-text">Morrill first introduced his bill in 1857. It was loudly condemned in the Congress as being an act of overreach by what undoubtedly would be termed “Big Government.” A senator from Minnesota railed, “We want no fancy farmers,” while calling the act itself, “an unconstitutional robbing of the Treasury for the purpose of bribing the states.” President James Buchanan, rousing himself from his customary torpor, vetoed the bill when it got to his desk. In his veto message, Buchanan sounded very much like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III talking about DACA.</p><p class="body-text">“The Constitution is a grant to Congress of a few enumerated, but most important powers...All other powers are related to the states and to the people. For the efficient and harmonious working of both, it is necessary that their several spheres of action should be kept distinct from each other. This alone can prevent conflict and mutual injury.”</p><div class="breaker-ad article-breaker-ad standard-article-breaker-ad mobile-breaker-ad">
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<p class="body-text">One of the things I noticed during my trip from Rockport to Houston in the aftermath of the storm was that the narrative of people helping people was true and righteous altogether, to quote Abraham Lincoln quoting the Bible. What also struck me was that, if we could convince people again that they could help each other through the institutions of self-government as readily as they could hauling bottled water in a truck, or navigating a bass boat through what once was a suburban neighborhood, we would go a long way toward being the country we say we are again. Self-government is a creative act that ought to renew itself, over and over again, through the collective action of the people who choose to govern themselves. As such, it’s possible for government to be a mechanism for charity in this country, because the government is us—or it should be, anyway—and we have convinced ourselves that we are fundamentally a charitable people.</p><div class="embed embed-pullquote embed-pullquote-align-center">
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<p class="body-text">It’s cheap and easy to point out that conservative Texas politicians have discovered a sweet-tooth for Big Gummint now that they’ve got a natural disaster and a public health catastrophe on their hands for the next decade or so. The job of reclaiming self-government is harder than the job of reclaiming the land and the sprawl of what Houston once was. We have been inundated by decades of mendacious propaganda, all aimed at convincing us that government is some alien entity so that we don’t once again engage the creative force of self-government and aim it at the people who are looting the country’s wealth and destroying its natural beauty. It’s worked, too. The many acts of charity in Texas over the past two weeks have been used far too often as anesthesia by the people who would rather not see the country apply its government as a permanent shelter for those in need. Look, they say, this is what people can do for each other. This is what the churches can do. We don’t need government program X, Y, and Z. </p><p class="body-text">This is said, often, by people who did not go to those places, by people who would have fought the Morrill Act, and by too many people who would have walked out of the Congress in 1861. Nobody can do anything but admire the charitable whirlwind that was J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans. But, out in the field, the little churches and small communities are hanging on by their fingernails. (One person told me that it was God’s miracle that there hadn’t been any of the customary summer thunderstorms since Harvey passed through. She didn’t know what she’d do with more water on her land.) The job of rebuilding (and, god knows, the job of preparing for the next hurricane, and the next one, and the one after that; they’re lined up at the moment like a chorus line out into the Atlantic) has to be done by the people acting through their government, and not through the little Baptist church with the twisted tin wall in its front yard.</p><div class="breaker-ad article-breaker-ad standard-article-breaker-ad">
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<p class="body-text">John Gordy, an extension agent from AgriLife at Texas A&amp;M, took me on a tour through the barns where the few remaining refugee animals were being kept. There were some men from the Texas animal health department there waiting for him. (Livestock left out in the flood were prone to all sorts of parasitic infections, especially in their hooves.) I wandered around while the horses snorted at me and the cattle lowed in what sounded like frustration. Gordy directed me to a pen containing a nursing mother whose calf had been born in the shelter at the height of the storm.</p><p class="body-text">“I was flooded in,” Gordy said. “I came in once I could get out of the house. I’ve been going since then—since this strike team came in and relieved us for a few days.” He walked off into the pens to herd a huge and rather slothful beast back to where it belonged. The calf, a small black fellow with a white face, moved back and began to nurse again. Its mother had had trouble producing milk, so the calf had been bottle fed for the first few days of its life, as the rain pounded on the tin roof of the O.D. Tucker Arena, where there were people from the government, and they were there to help.</p><p class="body-text"><em><a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link longform-body-el-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/esqpolitics/" target="_blank" data-tracking-id="recirc-text-link">Respond to this post on the Esquire Politics Facebook page.</a></em><br></p>


			


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			"Listicle": "list",
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					Created for
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				<span class="created-for--long" >
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					Created by
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