TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART TV 109 



But you don't need the grange to do that. I found here and there a 

 place where there was a corn club started. I struck one the other day — 

 some people in the town told me about it — where about thirty or forty 

 boj'S had formed a corn club and reorganized the whole society of the 

 neighborhood; and one woman wrote that there was not a boy in that 

 club that had a bad habit. That gets them together. I wish you had 

 an old-time spelling school in every school house to get you together. 

 Think it over and arrange to form a club in your own neighborhood like 

 one that has existed in the southern part of this state for sixty years 

 and been a center. Occasionally it will be a central high school that 

 will furnish such an educaton, so that the farmer doesn't need to go to 

 town to educate his children, but finds better society in the country. I am 

 not advocating central high schools; I am simply showing you that that 

 is one of the points around which farmers organize and learn to trust 

 each other and got together. The one thing that we want now is a social 

 organization, and I don't care around what you organize it. There are 

 some places in this state where you have women's clubs. My wife in her 

 lifetime had a scheme of organizing the women of Iowa and adjoining 

 states into a club — it might be literary, domestic, or what they liked. She 

 hadn't the health to take hold and organize it, but it would have been a 

 great blessing if she had, as would be anything that gets the farmers to- 

 gether, so that when the time comes for co-operation they can co-operate. 

 In Wisconsin the farmers have got together and determined to raise 

 just one breed of cows. What is the result? Why, the people from all 

 over the United States go up there for those cows; they are worth $10 a 

 head more than ordinary cows. If the farmers in any part of Iowa will 

 get together and decide whether they will raise Percherons or Clydes, or 

 whether they will grow Short-horns or some other kind of horns, we will 

 see a difference. Let's all work together and do the same thing, so that 

 if a man wants a car load of horses or stock, he can come here and pick 

 them up. Men come to me and ask where they can get a car load of 

 draft horses; they want to buy a whole car load of a certain kind at a 

 time. I can't tell them where to go, because I don't know a town where 

 there are enough to supply that want. I am simply giving you illustra- 

 tions. When you get society in the State of Iowa organized in some way 

 so that the people understand and know each other there will be no diffi- 

 culty in organizing for anything that you want, even if it is to clean 

 out some congressman who has gone back on you. You can drive out 

 saloons or do any other "bloomin' " thing you want to. You are a power 

 in this country if you only knew it. You don't know it, because you don't 

 know each other and don't understand each other and can't work together. 

 As I said in the beginning, you must either hang together or hang 

 separately; take your choice. 



