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more about your business than you have ever dreamed of. And so. 

 to repeat, I would encourage you to take cognizance of these facts and 

 get as much outside help as you can, if it is the right sort— not every- 

 body to talk at your meetings and dominate your time, but when oppor- 

 tunity presents itself for getting the right sort of men from the outside 

 of your own community and your own local atmosphere, so do it by all 

 means, and you will find it a wonderful and wholesome adjunct to your 

 work. 



That is ail I care to say, Mr. President. I am not Mr. Butt-in; I 

 find myself on the program this afternoon, and I will try to be here on 

 time, if I can. I thank you. 



Mr. Mills : I arise to defend the farmers. I want to in- 

 form you from the start that 1 am from Story county — right 

 up Avhere we make professors, and Mr. Curtis? is a farmer 

 amongst us. He was born, and I believe brought up in Story 

 county. We do not have to go to Illinois or to Kansas for our 

 talent. We live in a community, where, if you get the farmers 

 stirred up a little, they will get up and discuss these questions; 

 plenty of them. We have no quarrel, no fight with the pro- 

 fessors; we all agree; we invite the professors out to our meet- 

 ings and they come and talk to us. 



As I am not a public speaker, I have exhausted my subject, 

 and I thank you for your attention. 



A Member : I think the gentleman back in the audience put 

 the institutes in the wrong light. We do not wish to cut out 

 professors, by any means, and still hold the management of the 

 institutes for ourselves. We will use what talent we can and 

 get other talent wherever we can and as w^e think we need it. 

 What we are opposed to, is any mutilation of this law wath re- 

 gard to institutes. We want our professors and we want to use 

 tliem as we can. 



Mr. SpanglER : I am a farmer, and perhaps among the older, 

 if not the oldest farmer present and I confess, I am unusually 

 pleased at the situation, at the competition as between counties 

 and professional men, etc. I never made a public speech in my 

 life, but I have been very much entertained by the paper from 

 Clay county, and also the other address by the lady — wonder- 

 fully elevated. But it occurs to me w^e are all members of the 

 human family and possess very much the same nature. The 



