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county drive. The hotel was full — everybody there. I was sitting quietly 

 in the lobby and remarked to an old gentleman who sat beside me: 



"Quite a crowd out tonight, isn't there?" 



"Yes," he replied, "And that bunch are all stock salesmen. It's getting 

 to be a hell of a game in Iowa." 



Well, I didn't try to disabuse his mind. Later I heard him tell the 

 same thing to three or four others. But I had this consolation; when I 

 was young I had to wear overalls and hand-me-down suits, and I thought 

 if we had such an improvement that a man couldn't tell the difference 

 between a farmer and a slick-looking stock salesman we were making 

 progress. 



Now, the organization is perfected in Iowa. It is the biggest and best 

 thing of the kind ever attempted in the state. It is composed of business 

 men, business farmers. And in order to keep it the biggest and best we 

 will have to keep our feet upon the ground and our heads out of the 

 clouds. 



There is no room in this organization for radical elements. There is 

 no room in Iowa for radicalism. We are a law-abiding people. We believe 

 in good government, and we propose to uphold the institutions and the 

 constitution of the United States, every man of us. 



Speaking for the farmers as I know them, they will never ask for any- 

 thing but what is right and just between man and man. We know that 

 conditions are chaotic; that the cost of living is sky-high; that the whole 

 industrial situation is top-heavy, but gentlemen, when all the big inter- 

 ests of this country are ready to put their feet under the arbitration table 

 and back up together, the farmers will do their share and go as far as 

 any other industry in the world. But they are not going to submit tamely 

 to insinuations or accusations that they and they alone, are to blame 

 for conditions that exist in this country today. 



I thank you, gentlemen, and I appreciate the opportunity, given me 

 through this great campaign, to meet the farmers of Iowa. 



ADDRESS BY C. J. FAWCETT 

 PRESIDENT IOWA FLEECE WOOL GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 



Gentlemen of the Iowa Federation of Farm Bureaus: 



In undertaking, for the first time, to market the wool produced by the 

 members of the Iowa Fleece Wool Growers' Association I can assure you 

 we tackled a mighty big job. It was a much larger task than any of us 

 had anticipated. 



It would be difficult for me to make you gentlemen who aren't inter- 

 ested in the sheep industry realize the importance of this possibility, for 

 Iowa is associated with corn and hogs, rather than with mutton and wool. 

 But there are a few things in connection with this wool proposition and 

 the sheep industry of Iowa that I would like to call your attention to. 



While Iowa is looked upon as one of the leading states in the produc- 

 tion of foodstuffs is is well to be reminded that the people have also to 



