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of serious importance to every one of these county and district 

 fairs. As far as I am personally concerned I have listened with 

 a great deal of interest to the paper. I think there should be 

 further discussion on them after. I think it should be taken up 

 later on when we have more time ; probably tonight at the banquet, 

 at the business session, and I think a committee should be ap- 

 pointed to prepare appropriate resolutions to go to the legislature 

 and ask them to do something. There is no reason why this state 

 should not do a^ much as Minnesota; we are richer, have more 

 money, and the matter should be taken up later : I think we 

 should proceed with our program at this time and take this matter 

 up later. With the exception of Eock Rapids, I do not believe 

 there is a fair represented here but what would accept a little 

 more money if they could get it. 



Mr. Christianson, of Clinton : Mr. President and Gentlemen : I 

 am in favor of a larger appropriation from the state, and if the 

 state has got money to spare and you cannot use it in any other 

 way, put it in the roads for the people to travel over to come in to 

 the fairs. 



Mr. Cameron, of Alta : I want to make a little explanation for 

 the benefit of my friend Bradley. I live up there and I know 

 something about that fair. It is the most loyal municipal fair I 

 know of in the state of Iowa. The fact of the matter is, they don't 

 allow anything to go on in Lyon county until fair time and nothing 

 to go on then that would interfere with the fair. Last year, I 

 think it was, a circus wanted to show on the ground and the mayor 

 would not even issue them the license. Some of the farmers out 

 there had a grievance against the fair people and agreed to rent the 

 circus a piece of ground. What did they do ? They went to work 

 and arrested that whole circus, the court bound them over and held 

 them in jail until the fair was over. They can't help but make 

 money. Not only that, but Bradley was mayor. 



Now another thing about Clark's paper is that it was very in- 

 teresting and it is on a matter that we are all interested in, viz : the 

 success of the county fair. Now we had a bill passed — I don't know 

 whether the last legislature or the legislature before that — allowing 

 the county to vote on an appropriation of one thousand dollars for 

 county fairs. All of you gentlemen know that when you submit to 

 any county a proposition to tax the farmers and the business men 

 in the county for a county fair, that your chances of carrying the 

 apropriation are mighty slim. Now I would like to see that bill 



