154 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
tellectual farming is going to do a whole lot of good for this country. 
When you come to ask your legislature to help you I don't believe they 
will refuse any of your just demands. You ought to have your share of 
the taxes paid in. What right has any set of men to refuse to give to 
those who produce what they ask. 
I expect I have talked long enough. I want to wish everybody well in 
this state. You have good live men out here; I think everyone of you 
are live wires. I am not sure I said it last night, but I think every one 
of you can swim upstream; you are independent. In the east you are 
becoming famous as becoming independent fellows. Count one. Do 
something. Be not only good, but good for something. This education 
that is going on is going to be the salvation of this country. We have 
men who in their mad race for gold would sacrifice almost everything; 
they don't care for the people on these broad acres. They have little 
conception of what it takes to make a great country or a great state. 
John D. Rockefeller's income is $60,000,000.00 a year; $1.90 every time 
the watch ticks; $114.00 every minute. I suspect that is more than his 
share. I suspect that that is evidence that some place he has had special 
favors or something like that. My good friends, it is not all you ought 
to do to plow, sow and farm. You want to pay some attention to your 
public affairs. It is a good thing when you find out about some of these 
things going on to just take a day off and raise another kind of crop — 
raise hell with those fellows. About ten tons to the acre is all right. 
I want to call your attention to this: In our state the farmers are 
getting tired of just having garden seed sent to them. They see all these 
things going on and hear about the congressmen down at Washington. 
Our farmers' institutes are passing resolutions that they don't want 
garden seeds. What they want is just and more favorable laws in the 
interest of agriculture. $250,000.00 is spent buying garden seeds of 
favored companies, usually left over from last year; $260,000.00 to $270,- 
000.00 to rairoad companies to take these though the mail. Suppose they 
give your state fair $10,000.00 to help agriculture, or to colleges for giv- 
ing lectures. Would not that do more good? I am not sure they want 
to do so much for the farmers as for these favored companies. 
Another thing I want to call your attention to. The postmaster gen- 
eral last summer at a meeting of the Northeastern Postmasters' Associa- 
tion complained about some of the things in the postoffice department. 
Here is one of them: I don't know whether you people are in favor of 
the parcel post, but you can't have it; they w^on't let you have it, and 
there are as many reasons why you can't have it as there are express 
companies. You can get a copy of that address; it is splendid and full 
of information. He said if you want to send a one pound package from 
one town to another, take it to the postoffice and Uncle Sam will charge 
you one cent an ounce. If some foreigner would come up to that same 
postoffice window and want to send a four pound package across the ocean 
he could send that same package for one-half cent an ounce; not five miles, 
but five thousand or twice five thousand miles. That is the condition we 
are up against today. If you want to send a package weighing four pounds 
and one ounce they won't take it. The foreigner can come up with a 
package weighing eleven pounds and Uncle Sam will take it across the 
