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the customs officials. You know, wheat has been coming over, 

 you have heard about that — there is no tariff on wheat; not 

 only that, but when it comes over here and is sold and they get 

 a dollar of our money, they jump back over the line with it and 

 that American dollar is transformed into $1.30 of Canadian 

 money, so that they have all the advantage in the world over our 

 farmers. When this young man got to the American-Canadian 

 line he was informed that there was a 30% tariff against auto- 

 mobiles coming into the United States. Our automobile dealers 

 in the United States were protected by a 30% tariff against in- 

 vasion from Canada. The boy had to dig up $450.00 if he came 

 across the line and he didn't have the money, so he took the 

 car back and traded it for a questionable equity in some Canadian 

 land, and came to the United States, anyhow. (Laughter and 

 applause). 



So my contention is, whether we are democratic or republican 

 makes no difference, we are all good Farm Bureau members and 

 interested in a tariff for the farmer. And that is one of the 

 things that the American Farm Bureau Federation is working 

 for, and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation is working for. 



I am talking too long — there are lots of things I haven't told 

 you. ^Ir. Cunningham will give you some of them, perhaps, in 

 his report. I don't want to go on with this rambling talk of 

 mine, but I do want to say just one more thing before I quit. We 

 have one big problem that we must work out, that we have 

 started on, in a way, and that is to study the other fellows' 

 business. They invited us to meet with them and sit around the 

 table — get our feet under the table and put our cards on the 

 table. Of course, they would do that; they know all about our 

 business. The packing industry, the railroad people, all of these 

 big interests, the Standard Oil, and other interests that we might 

 mention, have statisticians that keep studying our business, and 

 they know all about our business and their own, and when they 

 get around the table with us we have no cards and they have 

 the whole deck, so what's the use. But it is our business to get 

 those cards, to split the deck with them, and while we are doing 

 that, we want to be careful that we get the joker and a few 

 aces. (Laughter and applause.) And that is what we are going 

 to try to do. We are going to try to study the railroad proposi- 

 tion. In other words, we are going to try to get them out in the 

 open. W^e believe that when we get strong enough, and when we 



