SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART 1. 55 



while I can say that the advantages are many, as said by the 

 gentleman, and as shown by Wisconsin and many other states, the 

 people of Iowa don't want it and won't have it. So there is no 

 use to urge it in Iowa. The people don't want it, and as long as 

 the people don't want it, let them keep what they have. 



Mr, D. Ward King : Now, I don't want a piece of that $75, 

 nor do I believe in the cause of an iron clad, rigid central organ- 

 ization ; but gentlemen, I have traveled in some 8 or 9 states, and 

 I will tell you Iowa people, and I told the Kansas people, that in 

 my opinion you are making a mistake by not having some central 

 management. There is a difference between central power and 

 central management. You cannot get the thing you want in this 

 state without some central management. You want Mr. Wing. 

 You haven't been able to get him. 



Now, there is another thing I want to say to our friends ; you 

 will pardon me if I speak to the point. There is a misunder- 

 standing here between you people who insist on having what you 

 think is local power, and these people who want to have central 

 management, because I don't think there ' is anybody here who 

 talks about central power; you don't want that. There is just 

 as big a misunderstanding here as there is between the stone 

 road men and the mud road men. One man declares he won't 

 have stone roads. I will tell you that the farmers of Iowa need 

 stone roads and they are getting them ; on the other hand you 

 have got to have tile under it ; it has got to cost ten thousand 

 dollars a mile; there is no use to talk to me about a road that 

 is not built that way. 



Now, there is a place between the two means. I want yoii to 

 understand I am a practical farmer; I am not a theorist; have 

 been living on one farm for 26 years. I told Mr. Wing today 

 when eating dinner, that this was the first time I had been home 

 for six days that I didn't get some of the colts broke. I have 

 trouble in Kansas lately, and I have trouble in Iowa. For some 

 reason Mr. Wing has trouble in Iowa and Kansas. I cannot 

 afford for the money you pay me to spend two or three days 

 laying around to attend a meeting. You cannot .afford to pay me. 



I got on my feet and I am talking a good deal longer than I 

 had expected; but I wanted to explain that it is not a question 

 of power, it is a question of management. 



