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pounds of pepper, that you do not carry up to your home finely 

 ground hulls of buckwheat flavored with capsicum ? It is due 

 to the farming interest of the world that every man, woman, 

 and child shall rise in his might, over the length and breadth 

 of this great country and say we demand at the hands of our 

 government a law that will return to us pure food products 

 in exchange for the products that we grow upon the farms 

 by the sweat of our brows and bring them in exchange for 

 barter. 



I have but a few minutes more to stay, but if any one has 

 a question to ask, I would be glad to have you ask it. Before 

 you do so, however, I want to say one more word. The back- 

 bone of the American government is the agricultural people, 

 from Maine to California, and from Alaska to the Gulf. You 

 are the people that own the country. You are the people that 

 can govern. You are the only people that can say to the legis- 

 lature of the national government, we demand our rights ; we 

 demand that the people that have gone ahead and practiced 

 this outrage upon our stomachs, our homes, our families, by 

 selling impure articles of food, shall be compelled to brand 

 upon the product that they sell us, the honest contents of the 

 package. How many of us, when we buy canned goods, 

 ground coffee, a package of tea, or cinnamon, cloves, allspice, 

 or any of these things know what we get and what we pay 

 for? Now if you people will look facts in the face and act 

 together as the saying is, you can be the power that will rule 

 the world, so far as America is concerned, and you can have 

 whatever is your right, if you, will only unite and say we are 

 the people, and we wish the true return that is our due. 



Now if there is any question that anyone would like to ask 

 before I go, I would be glad to answer it. Before I go I want 

 to thank you for your kind attention. 



Secretary Brown. At this point I would like to offer the 

 following resolution : 



" Whereas, the agricultural experiment stations are found 

 to be of the greatest aid to the farming interests of this State, 

 and 



Whereas, the Hon. H. C. Adams, Congressman from Wis- 

 consin, has introduced a bill, H. R. 345, providing for increased 

 federal appropriations for these experiment stations, 



