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Now, gentlemen, I want to say this, whatever you men do, we are going 

 to watch your steps. We are not strong in Missouri; we have an organiza- 

 tion of several hundred men, the standing men of the different counties of 

 the state, and we in the years past have been able to do things that were 

 helpful to our people, but we have not been able to do the really big th.ngs 

 that count for something in the long run. Now, we can not all be suc- 

 cesses; we won't all be successes under any plan or theory of co-opera- 

 tion. Men will be failures in every avenue, in every industry in the world. 

 You have right here today, I daresay, men who by virtue of their peculiar 

 surroundings, their fitness, their facilities to handle their business, prob- 

 ably can show a profit, but ninety-nine of their neighbors will have to 

 close up their accounts this year with red ink. 



Now, it is not within the province of any man to live unto himself 

 alone in this great world. It never was and it never was intended to be. 

 If we can not be helpful to our neighbors, if we can not contribute if we 

 have superior ability, if we can not contribute to their uplift and their 

 betterment, we are not living the part of a full-sized American citizen, 

 and it is for us to do our best, and do it in a faithful, straightforward, 

 patriotic, American way. 



I am very glad to meet you gentlemen, and I hope that if you come 

 as far south as Columbia, Missouri, where we are going to have a two- 

 days' session on the 18th and 19th, during Farmers' Week, we will be 

 more than glad to see any of you there. 



The President: We also have with us Dr. Nelson, of Missouri, 

 and at this time — I am informed that Dr. Nelson has just gone 

 out. I was going to ask Dr. Nelson to say a few words to the con- 

 vention at this time. 



Adjournment taken until the banquet hour. 



THE BANQUET. 



The banquet was held Tuesday evening, December 14. Henry 

 C. Wallace presided. 



The Chairman : There are three things that farmers and 

 stockmen of Iowa are very intensely interested in just now. One 

 is the matter of markets, especially the foreign markets ; one is 

 banking and credits, and the third is the transportation and or- 

 ganization business. In preparing for the program tonight, we 

 felt that we were bringing before you three speakers who would 

 talk on those three topics in w^hich you have probably more in- 

 terest than anything else. We will first hear from Mr. E. G. 

 Montgomery, who is in charge of the Bureau of Foreign Markets 

 of the Department of Agriculture; then Mr. E. B. Wilson, presi- 

 dent of the First Trust and Savings Bank of Des Moines, who 

 will speak on banking, and lastly we will hear from our own 

 Clifford Thorne on transportation matters. 



