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impoverished and agricultural and industrial interests would 

 • suffer a like degree of depression. So we get back to the original 

 proposition, "Man can not live by bread alone." Rather is 

 that race making the greatest progress in the affairs of the world 

 whose individuals live in part upon the rich red meat of the 

 animal. 



If the business activity of the country depends upon the 

 prosperity of the farmer and the farmer-stockman, as our states- 

 men would flatter us to believe, then it is past my comprehen- 

 sion that your business and mine should be offered as a sacrifice 

 to those who toil not. In the conduct of our business no mo- 

 nopoly is possible, for no combine would permit us to member- 

 ship because we display too little the quality of adhesiveness. 

 Yet because we have been unable to make our petitions reach 

 the throne of legislative action, by reason of neglected opportu- 

 nities, we must permit to sit at the feast those who will not 

 share with us any of the responsibilities of government, who will 



A Missouri feeder and one of liis smooth-as-an-egg steers weighing a ton. 



