596 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Iowa to help raise the funds to employ two or three accountants who 

 can center all their efforts on this case, because of its peculiar magnitude. 

 And then, when the legislature convenes, I trust that you people will 

 speak in such plain terms that there will be no repetition of this short- 

 sighted, penny-wise-and-pound-foolish policy. It was not the fault of the- 

 committee on Appropriations. It was definitely understood that such 

 situations would be cared for, and any man that says that is not true 

 is telling a damnable lie. I can't look after your interests unless you 

 fellows are willing to back .me up. 



I have found, sad but true, that it will be necessary for you people to 

 continue your organized watchfulness and care over these matters. The 

 live stock interests and the grain interests and the farming interests of 

 this state must reconcile themselves to that situation. You will have to 

 exercise the same consistent policy of constantly watching and guarding 

 your interests, just exactly as the coal men are guarding theirs, just as 

 the packinghouse men are guarding theirs, just as the manufacturing 

 interests of the large cities are guarding theirs, just as the Chicago 

 Board of Trade watches theirs; it is up to you to do it. Pass what laws 

 you have a mind to; in the ultimate analysis, it comes back to you people 

 to see that that law is lived up to, and if it is not right, to make it 

 right; you have got to keep constantly on the job. The Chicago Board 

 of Trade has its force of men and experts of unquestioned ability on the 

 job all the time. They have confidence in their state commission? Yes. 

 In the Interstate Commerce Commission? Yes. But they are always 

 there. The International Harvester Company, one single company, has 

 its traffic department in existence all the time, going into every case 

 where their interests are liable to be affected, simply to safeguard their 

 side of the proposition. 



I wanted to discuss the taxation question, because, through the energies 

 of Mr. Pierce, I was injected into that proposition. I also wanted to dis- 

 cuss the public utility question a little bit with you folks; and I am 

 going to come back here at five o'clock, or ten minutes after five, and 

 continue my remarks on these other subjects. There are some phases of 

 those subjects that have been given hardly any publicity in this state, and 

 I believe you should know certain facts that I desire to state to you. 



I am going to close by reading a little paper that I had prepared, 

 thinking that I was not going to be able to get over here this afternoon; 

 but a red-headed man who runs a farmers' magazine induced me to come. 



GREATER IOWA. 



While this state-wide discussion is going on about a greater Iowa, 

 it might be well to take stock of the situation as it exists today, to make 

 a sort of inventory of things as they are. Where is Iowa greater than 

 other states, and where do they surpass our commonwealth? 



Iowa is strong on farms and education; but she is weak on population, 

 factories and churches. 



