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Ahasuerus, you remember, and she didn't want to do it. She said: "That 

 is political. That is not the woman's place." And Mordecai said unto 

 her: "Who knoweth but that thou art come into the kingdom for such 

 a time as this?" 



That is what I feel of this secretary — steady, careful, keeping within, 

 as we must keep within, for the protection of you farmers as well as the 

 rest of the nation — the constitution. But under the folds of the flag, with- 

 in constitutional limits, there may be achieved very great reform in the 

 protection of agriculture and its development, which is necessary to give 

 you the prosperity which your hard work certainly gives you the right to 

 have. It is a great day in which you meet in the midst of the work. It 

 will go on. Mr. Thorne says: "I am no longer your counsel." He could 

 not keep out of this fight, no more than he can fly. (Applause.) 



I want to make one statement here that may not be popular with 

 some of you, and that is this: If the republican party, to which I belong, 

 had three years ago given its concentrated best thought and talent and 

 passion — of course there is a great difference between being for a thing 

 academically and being for it with a passion — if that had been done, today 

 we would have a united party in the nation such as we have not today. 

 Take that home and think about it. That is the way I feel about it. It is 

 doing it now, and we are all past that time on the market when corn 

 dropped from $1.60 to 25 cents and oats from 75 and 80 down to 20 and 

 18 — new oats in the fall of 1921. I know what the situation was, when 

 your purchasing power stopped as if an automobile had run up against a 

 great building — stopped dead. When that stopped it opened their eyes. 



Now with better prices I see the papers are saying that trade is get- 

 ting better, and they will carry in their hearts a consciousness of your 

 importance, the importance of agriculture, such as they never had before. 

 I congratulate you upon your service, congratulate your counsel upon his 

 distinguished service, and your secretary upon his leadership in the great- 

 est movement, namely, that of the producing of the food and clothing for 

 a nation of 110,000,000 people. I thank you. 



THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1922 

 Morning Session — 10:05 A. M. 



President Sykes : We will now consider ourselves in session 

 and come to order, gentlemen. The first number, as you will 

 notice, on our program, is Hon. L. V. Carter, of Hardin county, 

 New Providence or Lawn Hill. Mr. Carter is a farmer and 

 feeder. I can vouch for that, for I was out to his place this fall. 

 And he is also the state representative of Hardin county. We 

 are fortunate to have him with us this morning. He is going to 

 talk to you this morning on some cattle feeding problems from 

 the standpoint of the farmer and feeder. So at this time I take 

 pleasure in introducing Hon. L. V. Carter, of Hardin county. 



