Picnic Edition I. A. A. Record 



MURPHY STIRS 

 PICKNICKERS IN 

 MAIN ADDRESS 



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iirtlticial obstruetions and inlerler- 

 encea which have resulted in material 

 advantage to labor, industry and com 

 merte, and to corresponding disadvant 

 ages to the nation's basic industry 

 Our agricultural purposes are peace 

 ful, but at the same time determined 

 and just. 



Farmers Not Radicals. 

 "Many people have found it an in 

 teresting pastime to charge groups of 

 farmers in America with being radical 

 with not knowing whul they wanted, 

 and Willi, being chronic malcontents. 

 No right-thinking citlien of the United 

 States should have such a short mem- 

 ory as not to be fully cognizant of the 

 fact that the most conservative class 

 under the flag are our farmers. One 

 who lives close to nature as the farmer 

 does; one who holds daily communion 

 with the flowers and birds and matches 

 his wits against the forces of nature, 

 and lives out in the open with God 

 must be conservative. If you would 

 understand the soul of America— It 

 you would catch the fire of that great 

 spiritual force that keeps tne flame 

 of patriotism burning in this land of 

 ours — if you should know the source 

 from which flows that great current of 

 fine purposes, high resolves, courage- 

 ous, clean, Christian citizenship, visit 

 the shrines of American farm homes 

 and there you will find it all. 

 "By the rude bridge that arched the 

 flood. 

 Their flag to April breezes furled 

 Here once the embattled farmer stood 

 And fired the shot heard around the 

 , world." 



"It is well that this inspirational and 

 Sever to be forgotten verse should re- 

 kindle the fires on the hearthstones of 

 our lives this afternoon. Many in this 

 presence have devoted several months 

 to the great cause of American agri- 

 culture. In the long annals of time 

 no more glorious contest has ever been 

 waged for equal rights than many of 

 you have just emerged from. Peace 

 has its conquests quite as much as 

 war. 



Progressiva Called Radicals. 

 "In common with you I have been 

 called a radical and a demagogue, but 



I can say with you that we have had 

 an abiding conviction in the rectitude 

 of our intentions and purposes. 



"We. sought through legislation — 

 through the .McNary-Haugen bill — a 

 s(iuare deal for America's agriculture. 

 Through this legislation w;e did not 

 "ask for favor nor for «ny^6vantage 

 that we were not justly entitled to. 

 Neither did we ask the government to 

 take away from labor, commerce and 

 industry the advantages enjoyed by 

 them through national legislation. We 

 did not ask for alms nor for anything 

 that we would not gladly grant to 

 others were they similarly situated. 

 We urged that disfavor be abolished. 

 If ever a group of citizens of this or 

 any other republic in all tJod's tmie 

 made a fair, unprejudiced, impassion- 

 ed appeal for that which was justly 

 their due, it was those men who dur- 

 ing the last session of congress plead- 

 ed the cause of America's agriculture 

 and requested the enactment of this 

 legislation. 



"Karmers have always stood for 

 equal rights for all people under the 

 flag through the demand that the pur- 

 chasing power of the farmer's ser- 

 vice, which was taken away from him 

 by national legislation, be restored, are 

 radicalVand demagogues, then Patrick 

 Hinr^ was a demagogne and radical 

 Ben he said 'Give me liberty or give 

 te deftth.' It, in our determination to 

 reserve for future generation — to the 

 I honor and glory of this republic — the 

 (ascrert shrine of liberty — the American 

 Ifarm home, we are called radicals and 

 |demagogues, then those men of long 

 pgo who wrested the Magna Charter 

 loin over-lords were rarlicals and deni- 

 KOgues: if we who are heer insisting 

 |ith Koosevelt that 'all men should be 

 not some up and some down, but 



II up' are radicals and demagogues, 

 lien Abraham Lincoln was a radical 

 ■id demagogue when he freed the 

 laves. 



1 40,000.000 People Wearing Chains. 

 l"lf you, 'representatives of forty inil- 

 people who are today wearing 

 I'onomic chains and are the victims 

 tyranny of law inflated prices and 

 le demanding that you be given the 

 line advantages that others are en- 

 lying— if you who insist that Inas- 

 lueh its more than one-third of our 

 lople depend upon agriculture are 

 laring the common burdens but are 

 ]it enjoying the common benefits. 



Iiich indefensible situation you here 

 lek to correct, are radicals and dem- 

 logues, then those patriots who 

 Irow the tea overboard in Boston har- 

 Ir and those who at Concord fired 

 lu shot that was heard around the 



prld. w(ue demagogues and radicals. 



"And for you. as for myself. I am 

 leaking out that the world may hear 

 Id understancf that we have no apol- 

 ly to make to any citizen or group of 

 for the contest which we have 

 InducKHl as best we could to restore 

 Irfculture, labor and industry to an 

 Jen keel in the life of the nation. 

 Jid on this occasion 1 want to say in 

 le teeth of certain individuaU in high 



places who by reason oj a selfishness 

 so engrossing — so sordid and so un- 

 sympathetic that they could find noth- 

 ing in the situation of agriculture that 

 called for relief, notwithstanding the 

 (act that the condition of the men and 

 women of America's farms is upon the 

 whole 30 distressing, so pitiful and so 

 unjust, as to invoke and command the 

 sympathy of every honest citizen in 

 the nation — that the McNary-Haugen 

 bin went down to defeat by reason 

 of the contemptible misstatements cir- 

 culated by the board of trade, big busi- 

 ness Interests and others who were 

 opposed to it. This legislation was 

 not defeated because it was bad, but 

 because unknowing people said it was 

 bad. It was not defeated because it 

 was unworkable in fact, but because 

 its opponents falsely said it was un- 

 workable. 



Opponents Made Misstatements. 



"Everything they said against the 

 bill was unjust. They deliberately put 

 into circulation through the length 

 and breadth of the land infamous false- 

 hoods in respect to this legislation. 

 And as was to be expected, this ready- 

 to-wear, seclsndhand, canned Informa- 

 tion, which l^a^ altogether misinfornia. 

 tion, was spread throughout the na- 

 tion because they were in a situation 

 to put into circulation. They realized 

 our helplessness and made the most 

 of it. They knew that we lacked or- 

 ganization and finance and took ad- 

 vantage of it. They knew that we were 

 down and in great distress. They 

 knew that the exchange power of the 

 products of the American farms had 

 been deliberately cut in two by the di- 

 rect and indirect effect of national and 

 state legislation. They knew that the 

 farmer had to deliver twice as much 

 of the products of the soil for fuel, 

 clothing, farm machinery and building 

 material as he did ten years ago. They 

 knew that this condition was the re- 

 sult of a policy of protection tor labor, 

 industry and commerce that had I>e 

 come a permanent policy and that the 

 farmer was the unwilling and unwit- 

 ting victim of it. They knew it was 

 not just for any group of our citizens 

 to have their service measured by a 

 different yardstick than the other 

 groups. They knew that it was un- 

 just, indefensible and stupid to de- 

 liberately take away the purchasing 

 power of the farmers of America and 

 knowing that they were submerged and 

 in an unequal situation they used their 

 influence and power to keep them sub- 

 merged. 



Cannot Submerge Farmers. 



"Wo are here today to give notice 

 that no man or group of men — no in- 

 terest or group of interests — no po- 

 litical party or combination of parties 

 — no power on tlod's earth can keep 

 in economic bondage — can submerge 

 and reduce to a peasantry more than 

 one-third of the population of the Unit- 

 ed States. That day-has passed. The 

 affairs of the nation cannot function 

 safely with thirty-five per cent of the 

 I>eople slaves and sixty-five per cent 

 free. The world is to witness today 

 .1 co-ordination of the forces of agri- 

 culture in this Republic. 



"We exceed any other group. Farm 

 wealth constkufes nearly one. fourth of 

 the nation's total, nevertheless, labor 

 and industrial groups have by or- 

 ganization comi)elled recognition 

 through radical legislation of demands 

 resulting In material advantages to 

 their groups with corresponding disad- 

 vantages to ours. \ It is because we 

 have jiist come through a bitter experi- 

 ence in our endeavor, without being 

 properly oHganized to make the fight, 

 that we are so deeply conscious of 

 what has relegated us to a position of 

 pitiful helplessness. Heretofore, that 

 is. prior to the contest for the enact- 

 ment of the McNary-Haugen hill, in 

 which national farm organizations join- 

 eil .and worked in harmony, the forces 

 of apriculture have been scattered — 

 nay more, they have had a divided 

 leadership and a disorganized, broken 

 battle front. It is because of this that 

 we are today standing at the open 

 grave of agriculture's first born, and 

 in this solemn presence we are making 

 high resolve that never again shall 

 ;iny legislative child of our meet with 

 a similar fate. 



Needed Common Voice. 



"If at the opening of the December, 

 V2?,. session of Congress America's 

 agriculture had been represented by 

 an American Council of Agriculture as 

 we now have, would there have been 

 any doubt about the enactment of the 

 .McXary-Haugen hill? Positively not. 

 Look at this map! (Here Mr. Murphy 

 indicated the map that was reproduc- 

 ed in the UECORO.) No more strik- 

 ing bit of evidence has ever been pre- 

 sented in support of a great cause in 

 all history than this graphic picture 

 of the glorious fight waged by agri- 

 cultural America for even-handed jus- 

 tice and of the failure on the part of 

 those portions of this country designat- 

 ed in blue on that map to recognize 

 what was honest, fair and just. What 

 an indictment of the statesmanship 

 of a great nation that map isl What 

 an evidence of blind and stupid 

 selfishness: What a pitiful picture 

 that is of the failure of a few men in 

 the great agricultural states of this na- 

 tion to recognize their plain responsi- 

 bilities and duties! 



Some Leaders Saw Light. 



"Some of the leaders in Congress, 

 both on the Democratic and Republi- 

 can side, liad the intelligence to realize 

 that the great oppressed giant. Amer- 

 ican Agriculture, was arousing. Dur- 

 ing the months of conre.'-'t there was 

 plenty of danger signals flying all 

 about which intelligent Congressmen 

 were wise enough to observe. Mur- 

 murs of discontent throughout the 

 agricultural states swelled into tre- 

 mendous rumble as otslistant thunder 

 presaging the coming of a great storm. 

 Other Congressmen contented them- 

 selvis by saying: "Well, my part of 

 the country is prosperous; my constitu- 

 ents are enjoying advantages under the 

 protective system, and there are not 

 enough of you to enact a law that will 

 bring the farmer into the protective 

 system. Stay where ypu are and ab- 

 sorb out of your capitaf the disadvant- 



ages that come to you by reason of 

 our advantages.' 



"The red mark of guilt is upon the 

 brow of many men in both the great 

 political i)arties. The McNary-Haugen 

 bill was not sponsored by either of 

 the great parties nor by any party 

 group. It was supported by Republi- 

 cans, Democrats and Progressives. 

 Why McNary-Haugen Bill Failed. 

 ""Many of the leaders among all po- 

 litical parties and factions realizing 

 that during the past session of Con- 

 gress agriculture was not organized — 

 (hat its forces were not co-ordinated 

 that it could s<>eak with one voice, 

 and that agriculture in its pitifully 

 weak, disorganized condition could not 

 punish or reward at the polls. That 

 is the (iismal. but frankly told story 

 of our failure — but again I repeat — 

 that will never be true again. Agri- 

 culture, properly organized and co- 

 orilinated in a great, national, legis- 

 lative force, has and controls four 

 times as many votes as labor or any 

 other group in America. It has enough 

 strength when exerted through a def- 

 inite, intelligent, leadership as a bal- 

 ance of power, to control political elec- 

 tions In America. 



"Again, this is to make it definitely 

 plain that we have no thought, either 

 of organizing agriculture into a great 

 directing force in matters of legisla- 

 tion with a view of imposing upon any 

 other class or group or encroaching 

 upon the inalienable rights of others, 

 hut it is our solemn purpose and duty 

 to so co-ordinate the great forces of 

 American agriculture that from this 

 day agriculture will not only be in a 

 position tb prevent injustices and en- 

 croachments upon its proper rights, 

 but that it will be in a position to de- 

 mand and back up such demands by 

 its own irresistible forces, that agri- 

 culture shall be restored to an equal- 

 ity with labor and industry. 



Sincerely in the Cause. 



"And that there may be no room tor 

 doubt as to the sincerity of our pur- 

 poses nor as to what agriculture pro- 

 poses to stand for, we are making no 

 attack here upon the protective sys- 

 tem under which through state and na- 

 tional legislation labor, industry and 

 commerce are enjoying advantages 

 which have resulted in the highest 

 prosperity to them that they have en- 

 joyed in many a long year. Agricul- 

 ture has no thought to enter upon a 

 process of throwing down the citadel 

 of strength and advantages held by 

 others providing, after a fair and de- 

 termined effort it is enabled to secure 

 the same advantages others enjoy. 



"It must he remeifibered that in 

 common with industry the farmers of 

 America incurred a tremendous debt 

 during the years of the World War. 

 This debt was incurred when the price 

 of farm products was high. That debt 

 is still unpaid and though it was in- 

 curred at li time when the price of 

 farm jiroducts was from lOO to 200 

 per cent higher than they are today, 

 the farmer is required to go about tlie 

 undertaking of paying that debt with 

 prices on the' whole about the same 

 level as they were in l!iI3 for the 

 products of the farm. Industry and 

 labor is retiring the debt it incurred 

 during a period of high prices by re- 

 turns which they are receiving on a 

 high price level. Labor and industry 

 retires its debt by paying one dollar 

 for each dollar of obligation, while 

 agriculture is retiring its debi by pay- 

 ing two dollars for every doll.ir of 

 obligation. 



Should state Case Clearly. 



"Tlid cast- of tiu- .Anu-ricuii faniuT 

 .'-liould in: fairly .stated, understood clef- 

 loncl.v aiirl dealt with accordlnKly, Car 

 uiiM]o«-, V<\vi\el ehair. and proimtrutidist 

 fHrniers — of whom we have a verv con- 

 siderable iiuniber tii .\merlca— have for 

 years Hpreaii, anil ihey arc still spiead- 

 iriL; throughout the nation niisleadiiii;: and 

 * 'HitemiUlhle stories, niisf-taliiu; anri ini.s- 

 repres^minK the situation of the man on 

 the farm. They have t-one about this 

 cloDherately. They occupy |>ositions which 

 entitle them to their opinions and state- 

 iiH'iitK eonsidered by the c-i-eat consum- 

 niK iiul'iie. .Vo more delilii-ratu attemlit 

 \ft misstate the situation of a irreat 

 uroup of our |>eopIe has ever been made 

 iTi the history of the Ilepulilic than lias 

 been and is beiiiK made at this time to de- 

 eei\e the coiisumiiiK liubllc in resia-et to 

 the actual status of the man on the farm 

 Two matters stand out prominently in 

 re.spe(."t to the situation of acrieuliure 

 l-"ir.sl, Ihne is thi.s untruthful propa- 

 tanda to which I have already called at- 

 tention and whiyh is damnine and de- 

 moralizin;.' in its in<luenee. Second, we 

 lia\e Hddressed to the solution of the 

 prnhlenis of ihe fanner the least intel- 

 llKenee that has heen addressed to the 

 .-iolutioii of any Kreat national problems 

 in all the history of the Republii- 

 People Want the Truth. 



"I .im firmly convinced— and this con- 

 ^■Icfl^n is Ihe result of personal experi- 

 ence In addrestina many audiences upon* 



i^Mi«iaaMa*iaa 



this subject- that the American iieoplc'Tbe sltu.itiob is beinE mi.orepresentcd to 

 want to know the exact truth about the the public tithe end that the prolilem of 

 situation of the farmer and understandinB the farmer snail not be understood. There 

 it. have a definite desire to settle it is a short world crop of wheat and rye. 

 utterly repardless of whether it would re- The prospeJ^.s for a corn croi> in this 

 suit in dtsadvantaKes to them or whether country ha\4.;never been so unsatisfactory 

 it would increase the cost of food. Every at this seaJii of the year, I he crop is 

 riBht thinkinK American citizen ouEht to i very b.ickvArd and lacking in promise, 

 vv'unt to lend his influence to abolishinir I -Vatural causes can never Influence llli- 

 disfavor ami brinBinE the farmer into natural caultes. The sale of farm nia- 

 a proper relationship with lalior and In- ' twines in lil2t is only about 2n or ..0 per 

 dustry. And the solution of this problem cTnt of what it was before the World 

 of agriculture is not one to he .solved by j War. 

 any particular political party. I Farmers Pay, an d Pay. 



•■We have prided ourselves throiii-hout ..vntu-ithsfntidinir this fact— ilotwitb- 

 our ElOriou.s hi...torj- upon being able )o\^.^^^^f.^,^''^^^'f",^^^l^ Xr ^^^^^^^^ 

 declare that no wrons exists lonK In .'^'J' fVned with plows and drills, a farmer 

 .\merica withou beinR righted < 'ne of »^« ^'^'/'-n^^* '^'J ' j,,,^ of these articles for 



cannot buy any one 



a cent less than if sales were Km lier 



I^alior and industry 



latural coii- 



tlie fundamental Jdeals of our govern- 

 ment makes it a part of the creed of our i , ^ „„ti)ut I^lior 

 everyday life that every citizen shall he- J^. their mice re^ardl^s of 

 permitted to so about his daily business ; Jj?''*''''^ l"'Sf/'y7„'f^-;"afp„„ 

 without bearing the burdens of others f''""^^^*^/''^."'^^^^^^^ 

 and without wearing shackles that are J^'^-'^J" l^o^fon'^lfTlEh at"the present 

 imposed ui«n h,m hy •;«"'"" "'"O.^"".- hecwe ther^ have been three short crops 

 .?,'^^r. V° °L'''^[.'„i,' k'„"^,° jr' ",[,,i'V'';lof cotton in succession. The farmer's 



icas creed, .sociab husmessiKim^^^^ °J ■business cannot eo along with labor and 



ntherwise. that the purohasinR power 

 the service <if _ ' 

 ln' much less than that of others. 

 Fault of Nation's Statesmen. 

 "TliP (iisiiarity in price between what 

 tlie farmer receives for his jiroducts and 

 pays for wliat he uses is an indictment 

 against the inleHiirenre and pf :■♦*«:"■ --i. 

 siiip of our leaders. It is indefensible. 

 It cannot lonRcr exist without liie "'u.-i , -rce'-of Vheat"atid' rye is ah 



■Tir"?orT;"m^ni'.?n ^'^f ";V,;."'';:l,r^T''ii[^: -"^ «^ ^^ "^'^ f Procluclion, 



trlcts exert suoh a tremendous political ^ ;:ARricuHure is today carrymKjhe com 



farmer is subject to weather and other 

 croi) conditions throughout the worhl. 



'Hut while wheat, corn and r>e are 

 some hiKher. a farmer today is receivinK 

 onlv one-half the cost of jiroduction of 

 pork and about *>0 per cent of the cost of 

 the production of his cattle. The present 

 ' '- about ti5 per 



If you have something to sell, you have a story 

 to tell. Tell it. That means Advertising. It Pay& 



and social influence in this UepuJ>iic that 

 their submerRenoe for anj' extended period 

 ijf time would be fraupht with tho ^ivavest 

 daiiper to the national welfare. Not only 

 the business structure of the nntinn 



btned burdens of labor, industry, trans-, 

 portiition-jmd commerce. J':xi>orls of farm 

 products have made us the creditor na- 

 tion of Iht' world. Beautiful crops have 

 been the pride and plory of the Kepublii 



zen an<l pvory eroui> of citizens in the 

 country. Ihe flau of the Republic should 

 be planted, and in its name and in Ihe 

 name of everythinc we hold dear in 

 America, we should po about our plain 

 duty of restoring agriculture to a situa- 

 tion of e<iuality. 



Cannot Control Farmers' Production. 

 ■'I'lxportable surjilus of food products is 

 .1 national ciononiic necessity. 'I'o lon- 

 Irol the luoduction of meat and ffrain 

 on farmers of America to the point of 

 consum|)tion is humanly imiwssiMe 

 Moreover, it would be inadvisable. We 

 shctuld have on hand at all times several 

 months supply of foi)d. It would be a 

 serious mistake in this treat Tiation of 

 ours to have our food su]>plies at any 

 time in danjurer. For years foreljiu coun- 

 tries have consumed our surplus n>eat 

 and irrain products. The supply of food 

 in the world today is rather limited. Lean 

 yejtrs offset the fat years. Kor e\ery 

 pounti of meat and every bushel of grain 

 exi>orted from the L'nited Stales, new 

 wealth is broujrht into the country. But 

 since the price of the surplus of farm 

 products fixes the domestic i»rices. the 

 farmer Is in a situation of such irross in- 

 equality that his problem cries aloud 

 for immediate solution. 



"The farmer is compelled — he has no 

 alternative, but to buy what he requires in 



ma'^ker^'iT' prl?ef ran^'h^B 'fron,'''i«r'p5? "iiiE fur the music" and furnishing the baii- 

 ;.ent''on an Cvertge'-'aboye the"li.Ki le'S ! u,"_^'..!?r.„',''?„.^.?'«,?'.V^M!>."i...\i<^„i»ir. ^l!;'" 



\\hen agriculture asks for etiuality 

 met with the ory that its demands are 

 nneconomi.-. How absurd! Any leRisla- 

 tion that interferes with the natural flow 

 uf the curi'-nt of economic law is properly 

 chargeable with being: unsound. It just 

 depends on what we nie.an by unsound. 

 If l)v law the farmer can be compelled, 

 as he is today, to i)ay about $15 additional 

 by reason of the tariff on an ordinary 

 suit of clothes ! if. hy law. a farmer is 

 <-omiielled. as he is today, to pay nearly 

 twice as much freight ujwn what he pro- 

 duces and purcha.ses: if. by reason of law. 

 a farmer is compelled, as he is today, to 

 l>av twice'^as much for coal and buildliijr 

 nuilerial then does it lie in jtnybody's 

 mouth to say that throufih the enactment 

 into law of the same principles which 

 have increased these other prii-es the 

 farmer can gel a better price for what he 

 jiroduces and sells in America, that such 

 liiw is unjust and because the farmer asKs 

 for it. it is uneconomic? Wh.v make the 

 farmer the goat? AVhat offense has he 

 committe.I that he shoul<l be so unjustly 

 discriminated against? If labor and In- 

 dustry are to receive l(»i per rent inore 

 for their services than they did in 1^13, 

 make no mistake al>out it. they are Koini: 

 to have to ay what it costs the farmer 

 to have to pay wh:;t it costs the 

 farmer to produce the food they eat. 

 The farmer is throu^rh behiK the Wiill 

 flower at the dance; he is all throuph pay 



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At the same 



[>elled— he has no alternative — but to Bell 



at j)rk'es that are offered ium on tne oa.-- .< 

 of :, world market in competition with 

 tlu> i>eon and peasant of other lands on 

 a level of i>rices substantially the same 

 as those prevailing in 1H13. He must pa^ 

 taxes, support scljools, churches, build 

 roads, and bear all other burdens com- 

 mon to other citizens, and at the same 

 time contribute to the maintenance of a 

 law stabilized, protected, domestic market 

 and at the same time sell the proiluct of 

 his toil not only abroad but domestically, 

 on the basis of the iwwresl pajd labor of 

 the whole world. Such a situation is iutt 

 o|iIy intolerable, but it is .so manifestly 

 unjust that it challeiij.'es the purpose and 

 soul of the American people to conxxt 

 this abuse and injustice. 



Adamson Law Protects Labor. 



■"K\*cry eiy:ht-hour day law. whether 

 stale or national, every regulation of 

 leicwrapli. telephone, electric llKht and 

 Km* rate, the restrictive imminTalion act. 

 (and we favor the re,striction of Immiprra- 

 tlon) the Adam.^oii law. the tariff law. 

 the transportation act. the lalK>r board. 

 coal board, and all other interferences 

 with nattu-al economic laws by such leKis- 

 lation places a burden upon America's 

 farmers. These burdens have become in- 

 ■toleral)le. The farmer is bearing injus- 

 tices without proper representation or 

 advantaKes. It is just such situations as 

 these that have caused people throughout 

 all a^es to rise and assert themselves. 

 The existence for a period of more than 

 four years of such an unjust situation in 

 this tfreat Uepublic of the West is the 

 most terrific indit-tmenl ever laiti ay^alnst 

 the ability of the American people to 

 Ko\erti themselves. 



'■Inasmuch as the farmer is comttelled 

 to pay twice as much for clothing, fuel, 

 buildinp material, machinery and other 

 farm equiinnent as he did in JftlH. liecause 

 of the cost of the nation's jprotectlve 

 policy, and is compelled because he is 

 outside of the i»rotcclive system to sell 

 all of his pividucis on the basis of the 

 world market, labor and industry is en- 

 abled to t>ass on all increase in price 

 which it has to pay by adrlintr to its 

 product, each additional cost item, and 

 when these products reach the farmer ho 

 must pay the jtrlce asked and cannot pass 

 on the Increased cost to Hn> one. Op- 

 erating as he does without protection on 

 the basis of the world market, he is com- 

 pelled to al)sorb the loss, in increased 

 cost of wh«it he buys, out of his capital, 

 and' that Is why today America's farm 

 homes, as well as the chattels of the 

 farmer, are bearinc the crushing burden 

 of billions of dollars of indebtedness. But 

 the |>oint of absorption of the ability of 

 the farnier to ab.sorb out of his capital 

 Ihe.'-c in<'reased costs and losses has been 

 passfd anri the nation is confronted with 

 a serious biNiness situation. 



Present Prices No Permanent Relief. 



"The increase, during recent weelc*. in 

 the ]irice of wheat and rye is due to a 

 situation which propagandists outside of 

 the agricultural industry do uot concede. 



. ithe serviie part just as Ions: as he is go- 

 ins to do it and just as Iohk Jis anybody 



should 



ect him to do it. He wants 

 le. He inslBts on the 

 : opened uji. Klther 

 .., protective wall throuyh 

 it;n food submerjres him 

 d. or the entire protecti\e 

 ne down. What is the sen- 

 Brinp the farmer into 

 liip with labor and industry 

 . a square Aeal or throw down 

 HOtective svsteni and dilut*' 

 trength witli the weakness 

 Td world? We Ijelieve that all 

 1^ treated alike, and that under 

 conditions the farmer should be 

 ecisely the same consideration 

 t ]jresent sliown to others. 

 Xa]K:>|eon said that God was on the 

 ide ha' in;-' the heaviest artiuery. iie 

 also sail that his streuKth lay iti the 

 co-ordin; tion of his forces. This is the 

 hour of mobilization. All of our aiete 

 ;,'uns are tu be moved into position. >Ve 

 are to ) o forward under ne command. 



There i; 

 jective. 

 with no 



. . be no doubt about our ol 



\\'e are no longer to be charged 



knowing what we want. All 



of the fa ;'m organizations of America are 

 to be bri raded witii otlrer forces in a com- 

 mon off' Msive. We ai'e to be in a posi- 

 tion to r ward our friends and punish our 

 enemies. We are forced to take this 

 position by reason of the acti\ ities of 

 other pr mps which have resulted in ad- 

 vaiitaKC.' to them and corresponding <lis- 

 advantaj es to us. We will only ask foi" 

 uur riKh s, and all the^ forces, desirin;.' to 

 keep us in a situation of inequality and 

 servltudt shall never prevail a^'ainsl us. 

 The HI bject is fundamentally economic 

 rather thafi political. Certainly it 



should n .t become the footliall of partisan 

 jiolitics. Republicans. OemocrKls and 

 I'roKress ves have all included aj?ricultural 

 planks i: i their platforms which promised 

 to securt equality for aKricuUure. But we 

 have bet n well fed up on promises. It is 

 now our solemn duty to carefully endorse 

 candidal -s for public office, who. rey^ard- 

 less of partisan poHtiea. pledge them- 

 selves t' secure equality for afiriculturo 

 with inci ustry and labor at the next ses- 

 sion of ,'onfiTess. 



T aok Ptxrrot'M Advice 



It \va 3 close and sultry, a storm wae 

 coming up, causing ray rheumatic 

 pftlns { > make me groan. I was alone. 

 From b ehlnd a voice said, "Forget It." 

 I looke 1 and saw no one. The voice 

 repeate 1, "Forget It" In the transom 

 of the loor opening on the rear porch 

 Bat a p irrot, which belonged to a lady 

 across the alley. It had flown away 

 when it s cage was being cleaned. When 

 juy rht umatism pains me I think of 

 the pai rot and forget it.— Exchange. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



BULLETIN NO. SIXTEEN 



Our Hiii.shiuf^ nKiiu isl now cuiuidctf. AVc 

 will be ]ik'a.scd to quote you piiccs on Fur- 

 iiitun',.B('(ls and KU'ctiif- Liylit Fixtm-cs or 

 anytliinjf that you would like to liavc made 

 over like NEW. We will uiatcli aiiv color to 

 HAEilOXIZK with Drapes and' Decoia- 

 tioii.s. Nothing more beautiful than the 

 ROMAN Shades of IVOliY and the Present 

 Day shades of GRAY. • .1 j- . 



All work finished in 'our new Piilishin;," 

 Room and new m<'tliodn used bv filiisbinir 

 with AIR-BRUSH. NO LONG DELAYS. 



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PAINTERS & DECORATORS 

 Phone 9%. 209 S. Sangamon St., Lincphi. 



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On Your own Security 



Time Arranged to Your Convenience 

 Rates and Payment the Best. 



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Telephone 600 .' i : 



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