TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 167 



two children. A poor fellow the other day was loading some flour 

 for a farmer down at the station. The farmer asked him how 

 much he made. "Nineteen cents an hour." "How much a 

 m.onth?" "Fifty dollars." "Can you live on it?" "Well x 

 thought I could, but my wife's sister had to go to the hospital 

 up here, and I had to board her husband for two weeks, and 

 my grocery bill increased $5 ; and, honor bright, I don 't see how 

 I will ever get ahead enough to pay that; and I have no accumu- 

 lation for old age." 



Gentlemen, the citj'^ has nothing to offer. If you will develop 

 the social life of the farm, and make farming a satisfactory life, 

 you will have done much to solve the labor problem and the 

 whole agricultural problem, and you will have laid the founda- 

 tion for growing the finest thing that ever grew on an Iowa farm 

 — a fine human being. When you figure on fine human beings — 

 healthy boys and* girls, educated with the education which the 

 farmers can have if they will simply open their eyes to it — you 

 will solve the chief end of man. The chief end of man is to glorify 

 God, and the best way you can glorify Him is to be a fine human 

 being yourself, and then bring up fine human beings as your 

 children. That is this end of it; you will attend to the other 

 side when you get there; and enjoy it all the better. 



President Sj^'kes: I would like to ask you how you view the 

 future competition of the South American country in our live 

 stock business, provided the tariff is taken off of cattle and dressed 

 meat. 



Mr. Wallace: The other day I met our old friend, Murdo 

 Mackenzie. He told me he was going to Brazil to run a ranch for 

 John D. Rockefeller and Pierpont Morgan. I said "I am sorry 

 to see you go." "I'm sorry to go myself," replied he;" but they 

 put down $50,000 a year in American gold, and I couldn't very 

 well resist that." They have five million acres of land with San 

 Paulo as a center. They expect to keep 500,000 head of cattle, 

 to grow 450,000 hogs on alfalfa, to establish three packing houses; 

 they have the railroad. When that comes, give us free meat, 

 unless you people and the farmers of the west get together. The 

 first thing will be (and there are already two or three bills in 

 congress) a ship subsidy to cheapen freights. All you need to do 

 to get a merchant marine is to allow men to buy their ships where 

 they like. Our merchant marine is now owned largely by Ameri- 



