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produces more wealth every year than all the orange and lemon groves 

 of California. Then I understood why it was that some New York banker 

 figured out last year that if the farm property in Iowa were to be sold 

 and the price invested in other farm property, that we could begin up in 

 the New England states and take a circle down the southeastern coast, 

 across the Gulf of Mexico and up into the mountain states, that we could 

 buy out nineteen states entirely and then have money enough left to take 

 our families to California to spend the winter, buy automobiles and a 

 number of other things. 



I am not going to take time tonight to discuss specifically the various 

 problems. You know about the stockyards, the packers all those other 

 questions which are vital. I will say that the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation and the Federations of the different states are preparing to 

 give their very best attention to these complicated questions. But they 

 are not to be solved in a day. 



There is another reason for the growth of these farmers' organizations. 

 We are living in an age of turmoil and discord, the maelstrom of war 

 turning into a cataclism of woe in many places a condition almost unpre- 

 cedented in America; a condition whereby capital, ever monopolistic, 

 ever leaning to the oppressive, is opposed to an organized labor which is 

 fast becoming very radical, very aggressive, very defiant, very domineer- 

 ing In its demands upon the general public; and there is no hope of 

 capital and labor reaching a solution of their difficulties other than by a 

 great civil strife of some sort, unless some outside agency can come in 

 to serve as a balance wheel. 



It is a matter of common belief, of common expression and of common 

 faith in the minds of many people that the organized farmers can and 

 must serve; that it is their patriotic duty to organize in such manner that 

 they can preserve the balance and sanity of the nation in this time of 

 need. It is to meet that demand and to fulfill that responsibility that we 

 are organizing. 



Now, in regard to radicalism in this country. How bad is it? Before 

 leaving Iowa I was under the impression that it was not so very exten- 

 sive in the United States. I knew there must be a little of it. I haUn't 

 heard of anything of the kind in Iowa until recently, but a well-developed 

 case of bolshevism was discovered the other day in my own county. 



It is much more common in the larger cities. In the East I found it 

 very common indeed. A large part of the industrial troubles in the East 

 are based upon fear — fear struck into the hearts of the commercial 

 interests and of the laboring man; fear of being blown out of existence 

 by a bomb in the hands of a "red." 



There Isn't any question about there being a tremendously large danger 

 from the "red" elements in the country. How are we going to handle it? 

 It is up to our governors, our state legislatures and the national govern- 

 ment to settle. And it should not be done in a pussy-footing manner. 

 It must be put down by the stern hand of the law, adequate, well-enforced 

 law. 



This radical element that is in the United States should be arrested 

 and deported. They shoud be put out of the country and be made to stay 



