PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT MEETING. 



RErORTED BY KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, ANN ARBOR. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 

 Vice President Arthur Hill in the chair. 



Prof. C. 1). Siiiitli, Superintendent of Institutes, called the meeting to 

 order, and introduced as chairman for the afternoon Hou. Arthur Hill, 

 Vice il'resident-of the Michigan Political Science Association. 



Mr. Hill in taking the chair thanked the Agricultural ('allege in behalf 

 of the lV)litical Science Association for the invitation to hold the joint 

 meeting and for thp line arrangements made. He also remarked that he 

 was simply endeavoring to fill the place, temporarily, of Hon. D. M. 

 Ferry, I'resident of the Michigan Political Science Association, a man 

 who deserves to be remembered as a warm friend of everything progi'es- 

 sive and elevating. Mr. Hill said that such a gathering as this is possible 

 because 90 per cent of the attendance is here for mutual help. "The pur- 

 pose of this meeting is to bring together the thinker who toils and the 

 toiler who thinks.'- I like one thing about your farmers' organizations. 

 You study the things you want and not the things you don't want, and 

 you advocate what you want and oppose what you don't want. Our 

 Political Science Association does not do enough of this kind of work. 

 AVe point the way, but we don't have the corps of wood choppers who hew 

 out the way. Today of all times the getting together of various agri- 

 cultural organizations is important. Take for instance the beet sugar 

 industry which is likely to be cut down. Havemeyer, the sugar king, is 

 sending out millions of tracts to clergymen, college professors, etc., advo- 

 cating the keeping of the sugar trust in power, and they are having a 

 great influence. The only way to meet this influence is for the farmers to 

 organize.'' 



