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21. We favor some plan of publicity whereby the works of the various 

 units, township, county, state and national, can be made more available 

 to the members. 



22. We appreciate the helpfulness of our farm women in maintaining the 

 morale of farm bureau membership, and in giving material aid to the 

 activities of our local farm bureau units, and favor a more general move- 

 ment for such cooperative work on a larger workable basis to the end that 

 our active organization may never grow away from its natural setting of 

 the Iowa Farm Home. 



23. Realizing the great value of the advice and counsel of women In 

 questions relating to community and home life, we recommend that the 

 Executive Committee select from the farm women of Iowa a woman mem- 

 ber of the committee who shall have all the privileges of ex-officio mem- 

 bers. 



24. We commend the American Farm Bureau Federation and our execu- 

 tive officers for their success in procuring the 16 per cent reduction in 

 freight rates on grain and hay. 



25. We will do everything in our power to aid and secure to the laboring 

 man just wages and good working conditions when efficient service is 

 rendered. 



We are deeply concerned in assuring lawful and orderly protection to 

 every citizen, and are unalterably opposed to organized strikes and lock- 

 outs which interfere with the orderly conduct of business. 



26. We endorse the adjusted Compensation Act for soldiers of the world 

 war, and urge the people to support it as a public duty, as well as an act 

 of justice. 



27. We wish to endorse the resolutions adopted by the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation at the recent annual convention at Atlanta, Georgia, 

 placing particular emphasis on the following sections: 



Tariff — We request of Congress the enactment of tariff legislation at once 

 which will give to the farmers of America that measure of protection that 

 may be necessary to equalize the difference between the costs of produc- 

 tion of farm products in this country and in competing nations. 



Tax — ^We heartily endorse the following principles as the foundation of 

 our national tax policy. 



1. The measure of ability to pay taxes for the support of the National 

 Government is NET INCOME, and the bulk of the taxes should be levied 

 and collected on that basis. 



2. The tax should be progressive; that is, the greater the income the 

 higher the rate. 



3. As this is a country of all the people, all the people should have some 

 part in supporting the Government; hence, a certain part of the revenue 

 may justly be raised by means of consumption taxes. 



We are opposed to the issuing of all tax free securities, and request 

 that Congress submit a constitutional amendment to the several states to 

 cure this defect in our tax system. We disapprove the repeal of the 

 Excess Profit tax. 



We are opposed to the principle of a General Sales Tax, or any similar 

 plan such as the General Manufacturers' Tax. While recognizing that the 

 first consideration in any tax measure is the raising of revenue, its collat- 



