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Volume 4 



Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers — September 1, 1926 



LAND AND HOME OWNERS JOIN HANDS TO LffT HEAVY TAX BURDEN 



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Bunk About Tariff 

 Aiding Agriculture 

 Exploded by Experts 



Analysis By Leading Econo- 

 mists Reveals That Ford- 

 ney-McCumber Tariff Bill 

 Figures Little In Helping 

 Farmers 



Propaganda being broadcast 

 throughout the Middle West pur- 

 porting to show how the tariff helps 

 t! , . 'armer as much as the manu- 

 facturer and industrialist is so false 

 and misleading that the Department 

 of Information has undertaken to 

 reveal the truth about the tariff. 



One of the most pernicious pieces 

 of propaganda is an article in "Live- 

 stock Markets," an organ circulated 

 by a commission merchant, Chicago, 

 regarding the farmer and the tariff. 

 The writer, S. W. McClure, an Idaho 

 sheep feeder, mentions a great 

 many articles including wheat, corn, 

 barley, wool, potatoes, butter, sugar, 

 eggs, flaxseed, beans, etc., protected 

 by a tariff, and also a number of 

 others which farmers buy and con- 

 sume that are on the free list, name- 

 lyi agricultural implements (does 

 not include cream separators, type- 

 writers, and linotype machines), 

 copper ore, iron ore, crude rubber, 

 petroleum, refinery products, hides, 

 leather, boots, shoes, potash, shin- 

 gles, lumber and timber, newprint 

 paper, barbed wire, coal, binder 

 twine, raw silk, cotton, raw furs. 

 Tariff Doesn't Help. 



The assertion is made that be- 

 cause the former products are pro- 

 tected by a tariff, and the latter are 

 on the free list, the farmer receives 

 as much benefit from the tariff as 

 anyone. 



This will do for a superficial ar- 

 gument but unfortunately for the 

 farmer the tariff isn't worth a con- 

 tinental so long as his products are 

 on an export basis. Many of the 

 farmer's products are sold on a 

 world market, namely most of his 

 wheat, com, meat products, cotton, 

 cereals, etc. 



It will be noted that the articles 

 mentioned on the free list are near- 

 ly all raw materials or productive 

 equipment, and so are a boon to the 

 manufacturer rather than to the 

 farmer and consumer. 



It is easily understood why Mc- 

 Clure of Idaho so stoutly defends 

 the tariff when it is known that the 

 benefits of the tariff are practically 

 confined among farmers to sheep 

 growers who get the benefit of a 

 high tariff on wool, to a lesser ex- 

 tent dairymen, and to a larger ex- 

 tent sugar beet growers. 



The following statement taken 

 from the paper of Prof. B. H. Hib- 

 bard, noted economist from the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, which was 

 read before the annual meeting of 

 the American Farm Economic Asso- 

 ciation last year is illuminating on 

 this particular point. Here it is: 

 What Hibbara's Study Shows. 



"The greatest of all legislative 

 results, however, so far as general 

 income of a class, or classes, of peo- 

 ple is concerned is that providing a 

 payment for the privilege of bring- 

 ing goods into the country. The 

 tariff receipts are about $450,000,- 

 000, about one-third of which are on 

 agricultural products mainly on 

 sugar and wool. While it appears on 

 the face of it that the farmers are 

 getting a good thing out of certain 

 tariff protection, the total amount 

 received in increased income it esti- 

 mated to be $125,000,000 because 

 of the tariff which, however, goes to 

 a relatively small number of farm- 

 ers. 'The whole group of farmers 

 pays in increased prices of goods, 

 due to tariff on agricultural prod- 

 ucts, around $95,000,000 leaving as 

 the net gain to agriculture about 



Time to Equalize the Load! 



L. J. Quasey. 



Lower Freight Rate 

 On Peaches Secured 

 For Growers in Egypt 



ANEW low freight rate on 

 peaches shipped from points on 

 the Illinois Cen- 

 tral south of 

 Odin to Cairo in- 

 clusive became 

 effective last week. 

 The reduction 

 in rates from 

 $1.49% per 100 

 ^^^_^. to 59V4c per 100 



^^^^K^k pounds came 



^^k ^^^ ^^^ about following 

 ^^^^ A ^^^ word received 

 ■■■Lf^.^^l from the New Or- 

 leans representa- 

 tives of the Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange that 

 Southern Illinois quoted a much 

 higher rate than points across the 

 Wabash River in Indiana. 



A. B. Leeper, manager of the Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange, im- 

 mediately got in touch with L. J. 

 Quasey, director of transportation, 

 advising him of the discrimination 

 against growers in Southern Illinois. 

 The I. A. A. representative com- 

 municated with the Illinois Central 

 and subsequently with the South- 

 western Tariff Bureau at Atlanta, 

 Ga., and thanks to the energetic ef- 

 forts of the I. C. R. R. the order for 

 the lower rate was issued. 



This lowering in the rate on 

 peaches from 1.49% to 59% cents 

 per 100 pounds will effect a saving 

 of thousands of dollars to peach 

 growers throughout Southern Illi- 

 nois. It will enable shippers in that 

 section to compete for markets with 

 growers elsewhere who heretofore 

 have enjoyed a lower freight rate 

 on this commodity. 



$30,000,000 or one dollar per capita 

 for all JEarm people. 



"On steel alone the farmers pay 



a tariff bill, including the additional 



charges accumulated along the way 



between producer and consumer of 



(Continued on cot. 1, pace 4) 



Can You Make a Good 

 Speech? Here Are the 

 Rules from an Expert 



R. E. Pattison Kline, Director 

 of Kline School for Effec- 

 tive Speech Training, Says 

 Everyone Can Become An 

 Able Speaker 



WILLIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN 

 was a great national ftgiure 

 not because of what he said, but 

 how he said it," declared R. E. Pat- 

 tison Kline, public speaking expert 

 at the Mid-West Organization 

 School at Saugatuck, recently. 



"The spoken word can be made 

 1,000 times more effective than the 

 written word," said Kline, "because 

 the speaker may convey ideas by 

 his eyes, his body movements, his 

 hands, and by the inflections in his 

 voice. 



"Ability to speak effectively is 

 the result of training. The first 

 time Gladstone, the great orator, 

 appeared in public his speech was 

 a complete failure. He was hissed 

 by the audience. He determined to 

 make people respect his thoughts 

 and began regular training by read- 

 ing out loud and practicing his 

 speeches many times before they 

 were delivered. 



"Abraham Lincoln, likewise, be- 

 came an effective speaker after long 

 arduous practice in speaking out 

 loud in private. The first time he 

 addressed an audience he was so 

 ungainly both in speech and figure 

 that people laughed at him. He be- 

 came one of the most effective 

 speakers of his day." 



Kline makes the following sug- 

 gestions for effective speech: 



Speak distinctly. 



Make your speech attractive. 

 Make it alive, active. Put pep into 

 it. No ofle likes a dead one. 



Be positive. Adopt a note of 

 authority. . . 



Sentiment For Revenue Amendment 



Grows Throughout State As People 



Learn Facts Regarding Inequality 



Tuvo Thirds of Dowrnstate Counties Are Organized With 

 Representatives In Each District to Work For Vote In 

 November Elections. Determined to Change Present 

 Condition Where 37 Per Cent of State's Wealth Pays ftS 

 Per Cent of Taxea. 



BATTLE lines are drawing hard and fast as the fight 

 to put over the revenue amendment to the state con- 

 stitution draws near. A. C. Everingham, legislative 

 representative of the Illinois Agricultural A.ssociation who 

 is working also with the organized real estate boards of the 

 state has been in two-thirds of the downstate counties, and by 

 the middle of September will have spoken before 30 county 

 farm bureau picnics. 



"Sentiment is rapidly crystallizing in favor of the amend- 

 ment to the constitution," said Everingham, in a recent inter- 

 view. "I hear 100 opinions expressed in favor of the tax 



amendment to one against it. I 

 never have spoken to audience* 

 more keenly alive and more atten- 

 tive to my explanations of the need 

 for tax reforms. 



"We have county organisations 

 set up in two-thirds of the down- 

 state counties, and before the No- 

 vember elections we shall be 100 

 per cent organized," he declared. 



"These county organisationn are 

 made up of representatives from 

 the farm bureaus, real estate 

 boards, women's clubs, bankers' as- 

 sociations, labor organisations, and 

 people from almost every walk of 

 life. We have on these county 

 committees from one to five repre- 

 sentatives in every voting precinct 

 whose purpose is to disseminate in- 

 formation and urge people to vote 

 on the proposal." 



Cope Gets Check For 

 $55.18 



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W. L. Cope of Marion county 

 is $55.18 ahead as a result of 

 more than a year's work on the 

 part of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association transportation de- 

 partment in collecting a freight 

 overcharge claim of two years' 

 standing. 



On September 6, 1923, Mr. 

 Cope consigned a load of pears 

 through the Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Exchange from Tonti to 

 Alma, to finish loading, and on 

 to Milwaukee. They were then 

 reconsigned to Marion, Wiscon- 

 sin. 



This movement caused quite a 

 controversy in the application of 

 rates, the shipper being charged 

 with a combination of locals also 

 a combination on the refrigera- 

 tion. 



Claim originally was filed with 

 the Federated Fruit and Vege- 

 table Growers but they were 

 able to collect only $9.51 from 

 the railroad and so gave it up. 



The Fruit Exchange turned it 

 over to the I. A. A. The trans- 

 portation department made a 

 .thorough check on the rates and 

 took the matter up through the 



?:neral offices of the railroad, 

 he department was finally able 

 to convince the railroad of their 

 error by referring them to the 

 various tariffs applicable. 



Dominate your audience. 



Leam to be direct. Talk to peo- 

 ple, not at them. 



Be spontaneous and so full of 

 your subject that the words pour 

 out fluently. 



Never use a comedy story, or 

 joke, in a serious speech. Laughter 

 and applause divert attention from 

 what yon are saying. Don't try to 

 get applause if you want people to 

 keep interested in what you arc 

 saying. 



Use plain language, short words, 

 and be accurate in your choice of 

 words. Profanity and coarse slang 

 are detrimental to a good speech. 



Leam to speak from an outline. 

 Don't write out your speech unless 

 necessary for press purposes. 



Answer the questions, who, 

 where, what, why, how, and when 

 in your speaking. 



Divide your speech into introduc- 

 tion, discussion, and conclusion, and 

 make the introduction and conclu- 

 sion very brief. 



Modulate your voice, don't (peak 

 in a monotone. n j. 



Spealu to 2SO0 



At the Richland County Farm 

 Bureau picnic last week, Mr. Ever- 

 ingham spoke, to 2,500 people as- 

 sembled in tlse grandstand at the 

 fair grounds. At Moline, recently, 

 he addressed &00 men and women. 

 In the group was represented every 

 civic activity and organization in 

 this manufacturing city. At the 

 close of the meeting, the proposed 

 amendment was unanimou^y en- 

 dorsed. 



"The opposition to the tax amend- 

 ment expressed by John Glenn, sec- 

 retary of the Illinois Manufactur- 

 ers* Association is not representa- 

 tive of the business and industrial 

 interests throughout the state," 

 said Everingham. 



"Everywhere I go I find more 

 business men in favor of the pro- 

 posed amendment than against it." 

 Everingham has spoken to thou- 

 sands of business men at luncheon 

 clubs in addition to his appearance 

 at county and district picnics. 



Ob joctioBs Not RaaaoBablc 



The objections to the amendment 

 voiced by John Glenn and others 

 are not based upon fact or sound 

 reason," declared Everingham. 



"One argument advanced is that 

 the proposed amendment would 

 make it possible to tax i^anufac- 

 turers out of business. My an.^wer 

 to that spurious attack is that if the 

 present constitution were enforced 

 and all industrial properties were 

 (Contiaacd on eol. 1, pace S.> 



Don't talk too loud, cultivate a 

 resonant voice with tone quality. 



Look into the eyes of your audi- 

 ence and they will not see your ges- 

 tures. 



Be aggressive. Lean toward your 

 audience, with one foot advanced, 

 hands at the side when not making 

 gestures. 



