What does Rosicky value most for his children?

Rosicky values a happy life living off the land for his children. His greatest hope is that his children never have to contend with the worst of human nature.
In the story, Rosicky worries about Rudolph, his eldest son. Rudolph is married to Polly, but the relationship between the two is strained. The weather has not cooperated lately, and the crops have been poor. Rosicky also suspects that Polly misses city life, so he decides to cheer the couple up. He goes over to Rudolph and Polly's house and offers them the use of the family car. 
In order to encourage the couple to go into town, Rosicky offers to do the dishes and to clean up the kitchen for Polly. He tells his daughter-in-law that he means to watch out for her and to make sure that her life is a happy one. 
In the story, we learn that Rosicky deeply values the agricultural lifestyle. He believes that city life is unnatural because it is divorced from the land that sustains humankind. His greatest fear is that Rudolph will move back to the city and take up a job there. To Rosicky, a wage earner is a "landless man" and a slave. 
Although Rosicky recognizes that farmers are subject to the whims of weather cycles, he insists that they have more freedom than city workers. After all, farmers are not subject to the "foulness and misery and brutality" of city life, and they do not have to contend with the conflicting interests of "bosses and strikers." 
Accordingly, Rosicky values a simple, happy existence on the land away from "the cruelty of human beings" as the best thing his children can attain.