t. wicker 

 D. Lynch 

 II. Covlcs 

 B. Lecper 

 H. Kelkcr 

 ■C. Daitia 

 . Butcher 

 rkpatrlck 

 Hedsoock 

 . Mcti(er 

 . R. Bolt 

 . Gousler 

 . Wataon 

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:essories, autos, 

 enerally objec- 

 r in the inheri- 

 <> the abolition 

 5,000; (g) re- 

 luction decided 

 X! (i) increase 

 (j) remove re- 

 ) retain di&r- 



n ion the Vestal 

 te hundreds of 

 riners of fruits 



national forest 

 lure and regu- 

 leed elseyhere. 



a study of the 



n this country 



! tariff the full 



the tariff law. 



o approximate- 

 d safeguarding 

 nization of the 

 and efficiency. 



Jrercnting the 

 ;ed and worth- 

 if Argentinian, 

 regions of mild 

 retary of Agri- 

 id all imported 

 ian-grown. 



of Agriculture 

 he land grant 

 sloyees, agents 

 jrt in teaching 

 marketing and 

 their operation 



•estock market 

 inapolis, Pitts- 

 it given from 

 s Congress to 

 le Department 



juestion of an 

 1 would grant 

 libit the labor 

 the states for 

 unsuccessfully 

 ate Farm Su- 

 ites to defeat 



Tapper-French 

 requiring the 

 ount of virjtin 

 or other fibers 



it of Agricul- 

 lat will assist 

 larketing asso- 



work of 1926 

 elates t6 life, 

 to submit the 



Itural Day. 



t introduction 

 itines as pro- 

 y of Agricul- 

 Tectiveness of 



committee on 

 F., including 

 i Community 

 1 secure more 



voman leader 



Y work in the 



F. and that 



the national 



jral products, 

 were prior to 

 pposed to the 

 ing asked by,. 



December 19, 1925 



The Illinoig Agricultural Association RECORD 



Pages 



PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ADDRESSES FARM BUREAU MEMBERS 



Senator Capper Says 

 Congress Must Aid in 

 Farm Surplus Problem 



National Authorities Speak 

 Before Delegates at Ameri- 

 can Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion Convention* 



interest of the producer, would be sure to 

 dominate in the end." 



Co-op0rativ*B Promis* Greatest 

 Succ«M 



Referring to the co-operative movement 

 as the most important development of 

 late years in the agricultural field, and 

 emphasizing the crop surplus problem as 

 a vexing factor in the farm price situation, 

 Coolidge expressed the opinion that with 

 the economic information furnished by the 

 Department of Agriculture, with better 



through financing and through the co- 

 operative movement, would appear to be 

 a wise method of soh-ing this problem. 

 Of course I should be willing to ap- 

 prove any plan that can be devised in 

 accM>rdance with sound econonnic prin- 

 ciples.'* 



Turning to the question of tariff. Presi- 

 dent Coohdge, as a defender of RepulJican 

 policies, pointed out that the import duty 

 on products that the farmer purchasers 

 and the general increase in price of non- 

 agricultural necessities advances the cost 



and 5.000,000 of our iTage earners were 

 u»emplo>-ed. their ooiisutnption of the 

 more expensive agnruUuml supplies fell 

 18 per cent below what ji had l>een before 

 and what it became aglun when cniplnv- 

 ment increased. This waa more than tht> 

 amount of our exports. 



"Piisperity in our industries is of more 

 value to the farmer than ibc wh<Je exptwt 

 market for foodstuffs. Protection has 

 contributed in making tni(>lo>'ment plen- 

 tiful with the highest itages and highest 

 standards of living in tl|c worid. Genera! 



credit, but eouqd business ad\ice and the 

 farmers to a ntuch l^i-tter extent nhould 

 learn to use all iheee facilities." 



CAPPER SPEAKS 



I^R the first time in the his- 

 *■ tory of farm organizations, in 

 fact for the first time in the his- 

 tory of this country, the Chief 

 Executive of the United States 

 • made a special trip of 2000 miles 

 ' to greet and address a meeting 

 of America's farmers. 

 ■ On Monday, Dec. 7, at exactly 

 11 o'clock President Coolidge, 

 acoomi>anied by Mrs. Coolidge, 

 O. E. Bradfute. president and 

 E. A. O'Neal, vice-president of 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration, entered the ball room of 

 the Sherman hotel where he ad- 

 dressed nearly 4,000 farmers 

 representing approximately all 

 the states of the Union, over a 

 thousand of whom were from 

 Illinois. 



Fifty newspaper and motWi 

 picture cameramen were crowtied 

 around the speaker's platform. 

 Four microphones were arranged 

 to broadcast the message to the 

 farm people of the United States 

 who could not attend. Two 

 telegraph instruments ticked out 

 the story to thousands of news- 

 papers in all corners of the land. 

 On the platforn) were also Gov- 

 ernor Small, Mayor Dever of 

 Chicago, Everett Sanders, sec- 

 retary to the President, military 

 aides and secret senice men. 



Slaps McNary-Haugen as Un- 

 sound 



President Coolidge predicted 

 that, in spite of past and present 

 adversities, agricultiure as a 

 whole will lead industry in future 

 prosperity. Assailing le^alative 

 proposals savoring of paternal- 

 ism, he promised to approve any 

 a^cultural relief plan "devised 

 in accordance with sound eco- 

 nomic principles." ' 



"I propose," he added, "ac- 

 tively and energetically to assist the farm- 

 ers to promote their welfare through co- 

 operative marketing." ^ 



He opposed tampering with the tarifT 

 with any intention of aiding the farmers, 

 and condemned proposals which woidd 

 bring the governmeift into the field of 

 buying and selUng farm products, or of 

 fixing prices. 



To Assist Co-operative Marketing 



The President's audience listened atten- 

 tively to the address, which he read with 

 few gestures. Only a half-dozen times was 

 he interrupted by applause. His defense 

 of the tanfT as an aid to agriculture and 

 his arraignment of propo^s that the 

 government engage in the marketing of 

 farm products or in price fixing direct or 

 indirect were greeted with silence. 



With an assurance that his adminis- 

 tration will assist farmers in profitably 

 disposing of their products and 

 providing better storage facilities 

 and credit, the President ex- 

 pressed the view that agriculture 

 could thus be placed "on a sound 

 and independent business basis." 



"To have agriculture worth 

 anything, it must rest on an in- 

 dependent business basis." he 

 added, "it cannot at the same 

 time be part private business and 

 part government business. I 

 believe the government ought 

 to give it every assistance, but 

 it ought to leave it as the sup- 

 port, the benefit and the busi- 

 ness of the people." 



Opposes Direct or Indirect 

 Price-Fixing 



The President launched into an 

 attack of proposals that the gov- 

 .ernment engage in buying and 

 selling of farm produce and direct 

 or indirect price fixing with the 

 following obser\ations: 



"This would be a dangerous 

 vftodertaking, and as the emer- 

 gency is not so acute, it seems at 

 present to have lost much of its 

 , support. No matter how it is 

 disguised, the moment the gov- 

 ernment engages in bu>'ing and 

 selling, by that act it is fixing 

 prices. 



"Moreover, it would appar- 

 ently destroy co-operative asso- 

 ciations and all other marketing 

 machinery, for no one can com- 

 pete with the government. Ulti- 

 mately it would end the inde- 

 pendence which the farmers of 

 this country enjoy as a result of 

 centuries of struggle and prevent 

 the exercise of their own judg- 

 ment and control in cultivating 

 their land and marketing their 

 produce. 



"Government control cannot 

 lie divorced from political con- 

 trol. The overwhehning interest 

 <^ the oonsumer. not the smaller 



So much was going on during the seventli annual convention of the American Farm Bureau F<Mlarajti#n ihmt tibe ouly euit- 

 able time that could be found for the presidents of the county Farm Bureaus and the 1. A. A. officials to hold a conference 

 was at breakfast. Can you pick out the president of your Farm Bureau? Most all of them attended. Plans were made for 

 the I. A. A. annual meeting which will be held Jan. 21-22 atthe University of Illinois. It's to be the biggest and best so far, 

 the presidents decided. Howard Leonard, former I* A. A. President, was yresant also, and gave a sfcort talk. 



warehouses and storage facilities and a 

 better credit structure much can be done 

 to take care of the ordinary surplus. 



"The leaders in the co-opwative move- 

 ment with the advice of the Department 

 of Agriculture have prepared what is be- 

 lieved to be an adequate bill embodying 

 these principles, which will be presented 

 to the Congress for enactment. 



"For a more orderiy marketing calcu- 

 lated to secure a better range of prices the 

 co-operative movement promises the great- 

 eat success. Already they are handhng 

 »2.500,000.000 of farm produce, or neariy 

 one-fifth of the annual production. 



Points to Tariff as Assisting Farmers 



"The initiative of the farmers them- 

 sdves, with such assistance as can be given 

 by the government without assuming 

 responsibility for business management 



to the farmer tess than from two to three 

 per cent. -He said that' many economists 

 consider this contribution of farmers to 

 the tariff is over estimated. On the cMther 

 side he told how the protective tariff on 

 agriciiltural products benefited the farmer 

 and tended to hold the domestic agricul- 

 tural markets above the world or foreign 

 price levels. He sUted that S780,000,000 

 of agricultural products imported last 

 vear had paid $260,000,000 for the privi- 

 lege of coming into competition with our 

 own farm production. 



"But the largest benefits atircruing to the 

 farmer come from supplying him with borne 

 markets," be stated. "What the farmer 

 raises must either be sold at home or sent 

 abroad. Our per capita consumption of 

 butter, sugar, meats, eggs, milk and 

 tobacco is far above those of foreign coun- 

 tries. When the depression of 1920 oame 



economic stabiUty is of vie; utmost impor- 

 tance to the farmer anf * depression in 

 industry with the atte^dlint unemploy- 

 ment would do the farmer (an incalculable 

 injury. 



Famn Loan B**kft Help 

 "If the price fixing and tarifT reWsion 

 do not seem to be helpfi|l. Ahere are other 

 proposals that do prom^ improvements. 

 For financing the farmer 'we are developing 

 the farm loa n and i niermediate credit 

 banks. These have put Out about tl.200,- 

 000,000 of loans at moderate rates to alK>ut 

 350.000 farmers. In addition, there is the 

 general banking system, hational and state. 

 All of these agencies n^ed to give more 

 informed attention to firm needs. They 

 need more enerK>' in adi|tiiustration. They 

 should be equipped to j mipply not only 



And herV> the hope chest of the future — the boys and girls of the farms. These are the ones who were entertained by the 

 I. A. A. at a breakfast affair during the International Live Stock Exposition when they were cashing ie on their hard earned 

 trips to Chicago. Dean Mumford made a talk and said, among other things, that Red Grange has the b«st wishes of everybody 

 at the U. of 1. and they all hope he will make barrels of money, but the real question is: Will he be at good a moral char- 

 acter as he would have been if he had not become a professional ? The Dean said each of the leading boys and girls represented 

 here is a kind of Red Grange in his or her own community and now each must live up to his or her success. Suecess 



bringf greater responsibility, he said. 



.-.. .w --::;^ 



SEN'.^TOR ARTHUR CAPPKR of Kan- 

 sas, who atMressed the mendiers at- 

 tending the afinual lianquet. Tueedmy 

 nijrfit^ Dec. h. on the subjert. 

 "TheiFarmer and the \e«- C-on- 

 g Tw . siKike in a more opti- 

 tfiistid and promising manner 

 than 4id the Prasident. AHhougb 

 8tAtin|[ that he wao in agn^^ment 

 with -the statements made by 

 President Coolidge, ScnalorCai*- 

 per showed a mure e>'mp^thetic 

 undertitanding of the farm prob^ 

 lem and offered in a stronger 

 raannhr U> assist in getting great- 

 er "equality for agriculture." In 

 Ijart qo said : 



"T^o farmer is fully justified 

 in ailing of Omgrees that the 

 eeonotiiic re»'ards of agriculture 

 Khali \>f' (»n a i>arity witli those 

 nrcf)nj«'<l fch indu8tr>-. He te 

 juMtifiNl in asking that agricni- 

 turc t*p sufficiently remunerative 

 for hitn to maintain a comfort- 

 aUc homo and educate his rliil- 

 dren 9iyN>rding Uy the bestVitand- 

 ards. In asking this, he is not 

 demanding 8i*eciaJ priWloges . 

 equality of op)K>rtunity is alt. 



"The tarifT lielps the manu- 

 facturer, ininiigration restriction 

 lieli* |al>or. the E8ch-( 'ummins 

 fic-t h^lpf the r&ilroads and the 

 I c*'*' Ri-sene art hfliie the 



iinitsi and the farmer iWi>-8 a 

 ■'>d ^art of the cost without re- 



■ i\ iiii his fair (Uiare of the liene- 

 tit(" or much of tlii* le^slation. 

 It catinot lie eniphaiased too 

 often hor loo strongly tliat what 

 the falnier reail\ np(>dB is not the 

 I banc* to liorntw riiore money. 

 iliough adequate credit facilities 

 mean i a great deal to him — Iwit 

 fits* ^d above everything else 

 he must have lietter prices, a 

 fair pttjfii for his products. 



Capper Says Congress Must 

 Help 



"The farmer i.-- encoiiraieed bv 

 ==:=: the tetoporan reUef afforded hv 

 oircuntstanoes and i» paying o}f 

 debts, but allowCng for the recent change 

 in price levels, be can buy today witti bis 

 dollar only about 85 i>pr ceni as much as 

 be could before the war. And the moat 

 generous figured yet disci' wed show he 

 earns a net Inootne of lees than 4 pw cent 

 annually on his iiveetroent. 



*'Kven in taxfa faruMrs are not on an 

 equality with tUe rest of the world. Last 

 yc-ar in most farming states Uxos absorbed 

 OIK -third of farm income compwd »ith 

 less than one-t4nth in 1913. All other 

 business passes bn its increased taxes to 

 the consumer, qat the fanner cannot do 

 thin. I 



"These and n^ny other facts show that 

 if the producer m to receive an>-thing like 

 a fair return for liis labor and his risks. 

 * <mgre« should igo as far as it can to prrv 

 \'wie some meats by which an equality 

 with other groups in our industrial life 

 may be attsiined. The agricultural indus- 

 tries must Ik* reconstructed and 

 stabili^. A permanent policy 

 ffM- aghcAlture must be worked 

 oui w-ltli the farmer himself a 

 argp factor in the program. 



Surplus Big Prablssn 



I ^-ant to HP*' this g«>vaA- 

 meiit, ^) far a« it can. put throt^h 

 an Hgffvfwive [Kilicy for advan^ 

 mem 0f the interr«i..« of agrirul- 

 liire. Ijut afUT tux years at Wash- 

 ingUtiH I am r«>nvinrod that the 

 '•est gd\'ernnieiit can do for farm- 

 ers is (>f little imi>ortanf!e com- 

 pared I with what, by carefully 

 tlH>ugHt out and lo>-al r<o-opera- 

 uon, they can -do for themselves. 

 l*iH even after all that is done 

 the pr()14em of the miriklus will 

 still 1>A with us, although it may 

 not ali'avfi l»e quite so e\'ident. 

 We «^1 still have wonderful 

 wheat Vears. Uke 1914 for exam- 

 ple, wfcen all of naiun> seems to 

 r*W)(>ei>te in a delightful way to 

 produce a rwil huni[ier crop, far 

 larger than tlie home market. 

 no matter how pruAperoufi it may 

 be. cat ever aliworh. When this 

 OiY-urs the »ur|>Iut must be fteiu 

 ubniad. We should see to it 

 if posaible that this is done 

 in a way so the surplus of 10 

 or 15 br 20 par cent will not 

 set the price for the entire 

 yield. This nneans that some 

 systeiti must be worked out 

 so it ean be moved into for- 

 eign channels, sold for whet 

 it will bring, and the loss dis- 

 tributed properly among the 

 producers, who will than be 

 able to sell thsir rentainirkg 

 crop ftt home, free from the 

 weight of this s ac ess produc- 

 tion. JWe mus t give t he farm- 

 er the same kind of market 

 to sell in that- he is obliged to 

 buy hk.^And this_9iu8t faa 



