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take away. The minority has some rights in this country that the ma- 

 jority cannot take away. Those are the rights which are guaranteed by 

 the Constitution. 



There are men abroad who do not believe in the individual; they don't 

 believe in the church; they don't believe in the home; they don't believe 

 in the family as you and I believe in it. They call themselves "direct 

 actionists." They are organized to tear down, to destroy our form of 

 government, to destroy the home, to destroy the church, and they are 

 organized in this country two million strong. 



The red-blooded, pure-minded American citizen who believes In this 

 government has a job ahead of him. He must organize for order. The 

 keynote of our form of government was the keynote of the Sermon on 

 the Mount. I don't know how you feel about it, but I believe that the 

 Saviour came into this world to save me — not to save men, not to save 

 classes, but to save individuals. The Constitution of this country was 

 written in the spirit and heart beat of the Sermon on the Mount, and it is 

 up to you and me to fight for the things it guarantees. 



Most of our battles can be fought in the field of thought, with educa- 

 tion. The great free public school system which we have in this country 

 has won more victories than have ever been won with the gun. But let's 

 not put ourselves in a position where we will have to fight with but one 

 instrument. Let's fight with the public school and education, and let's 

 carry it into the highways, the byways, and the dark places. Let's go 

 wherever we find ignorance, superstition and wrong notions, and then not 

 drive them out. Let us say: 



"There's the flag! it is red, white and blue; there isn't room for any 

 other flag In this country. If you won't follow Old Glory, and if you want 

 to follow the red flag, we will put you on your ship — as has been sug- 

 gested — and we will start it on the sea; and if you can find any place to 

 land with that flag, then you land there." 



I appreciate the opportunity you have given me, and I want to con- 

 gratulate you on this organization. I want to encourage you to stay by it. 

 I know these two men here, your president and your secretary. I have 

 campaigned for this organization with both of them, and I know their 

 hearts beat true. I think you couldn't get either of them to run for politi- 

 cal office, and that's the kind of men you want at the head of this insti- 

 tution. 



ADDRESS BY T. A. HOUGAS 

 PRESIDENT OF THE IOWA FARMERS' UNION 



Friends : 



I am glad to meet with you here this morning, and I must say that I 

 am surprised to see such a gathering of representative men from over 

 the state. Surprised, not that we had this number, but that we could get 

 them out here, to see so many, as I understand that practically every 

 county in the state is represented. 



Well, we are here this morning, friends, to tell you something about 



