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independence, and until ii is possible for him to attain these, we are ao1 

 going to see a large and healthy movemenl toward our unoccupied 

 Lands. It is for the purpose of stabilizing the government through 

 conditions which make it possible for the farming community to obtain 

 social, financial and political independence thai we are seeking an 



e omic method of distribution of farm products. It is ool because 



we love the farmer "pi r s< . " 



Nations arc mad.' up of two elements: The radical and th >n- 



servative. The radical elemenl lives in cities, and the conservative 

 element in the country and these two elements are always engaged in a 

 tii'_ r of war. 



When, therefore, the pull on cither end of the rope is fairly even. 



we have a stabilized conditi if government and one thai makes for 



the advancemenl of humanity and the welfare of the individual as well 



as of the nation ; I mt where the pull is stronger (in o ml of the rope 



than on the other there is instability of government. How do we know 

 this? We know it because if history teaches us any lesson at all it 

 teaches us that the momenl the balance is not well preserved between 

 the conservative and radical elements of the nation, the nation decays 

 ami dies, if this condition is allowed to continue. A reading of Gib- 

 bon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."' will convince you of 

 the truth of this statement. That is why some of us are taking such a 

 particular interest in the condition of the farming community. 



As I sat through the discussion of yesterday, a discussion which at 

 times grew acrimonious and which was at all times almost utterly 

 gg, I studied, as 1 love to study, what we civic promotionists arc 

 pleased to call "mob sentiment" or ""mass emotion," and I tried to 

 determine what was the subconscious .sentiment prevailing and control- 

 ling the audience, unknown though it was to the individuals composing 

 it. It became quite patent to me that the contending factions, if I 

 may term them go, were both crying out for knowledge, knowledge, 

 knowledge, and it seemed to me thai these two factions were, after all, 

 not so very far apart and that, if given definite information and 

 knowledge, would scon he pulling together instead of contending. 



The poinl is. my friends, that th.' solution of tin- problem of economic 



distributi if farm products depends almost entirely upon complete, 



positive and definite knowledge, information and lighl regarding mar- 

 keting conditions throughoul the civilized world. Therefore, mani- 

 festly, the problem is net a l. cal problem ; it is not a state problem, it is 

 a national problem— aye, even an international problem, one which 

 deems a national organization of the farmers themselves semi-officially 

 connected with the national government which should give the organi- 

 zation its approval. Such an organization would he. as the Honorable 

 David Lubin describes it. "An Eiffel Tower of Intelligence," "an all- 

 seeing ami never-sleeping eye." which searches out and brings to the 



door of every consumer s] ific informal ion of where and how and when 



to market his products. 



And it seemed to me yesterday, that there was another subconscious 

 thought running through the audience ami pervading it and that 

 sentiment was againsl the kind of thing that your State Market Com- 

 missioner represented. If you noted that feeling and analyzed it yon 

 probably came to the conclusion that its reason is to he found in the 



