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at the local butcher shop, or almost any other commodity that 

 you might mention. Your farm machinery, I am told, is going 

 to be higher this year. I think we ought to do something to 

 check that operation. But our products are way down on too 

 low a level. 



Now, the thing that we are striving for and must have^ and 

 are laboring for, is to raise up our products, and possibly lower 

 those other products a lot and get us all on the same level, and 

 then we will have a fair show with the other fellow. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to apologize to you for 

 talking so long, but I am full of this subject. Mr. Cunningham 

 and myself lay awake nights talking this thing over; Ave go to 

 bed when there is no other place to go, and we earnestly hope 

 that we may all stick together through thick and thin, and when 

 you see some article in the newspaper that don't look right, 

 don't give us Hail Columbia, but turn your guns on the news- 

 paper, because the chances are that he has misquoted us. (Ap- 

 plause) I am not condemning the newspapers, God Bless them! 

 We couldn't get along without them. They have been standing 

 by us royally ; they have been giving us publicity. You know, it 

 has not been over two years ago that the information was 

 circulated out that if we got into the newspapers we had to pay 

 for it, and pay well. Some of our farmers had that idea, but I 

 tell you we have been giving the newspapers some stuff that 

 they want, and they are taking it and giving us good publicity, 

 and I want to hand them that bouquet. On the other hand, we 

 have some farmers who aren't worth a continental, they are 

 pretty shady characters, a few of them, and you have them in 

 all classes of business, and occasionally we run up against a shady 

 reporter, and he is tempted by satan or some other animal to put 

 something in that will look nice in print and he sometimes mis- 

 quotes us. But we are not condemning them, as I said before ; 

 we are going to get along with the newspapers fine. And we are 

 going on with this work, and whether the present officers live, 

 or die this cause is going to go on and finally the farm is going 

 to be a mighty good place to live. I thank you ! (Applause) 



