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Issued Every Month for 63,000 Thinking Farmers 



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Volumes 



SEPTEMBER, 1927 



Number 9 



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Executive Committee Points Way v 



to Equal Opportunity for Agriculture 



Refers to Lowden and Dawes as the Only Men Thus Far 



Prominently Mentioned for President, Whose Position • t 



Is Known and Approved by the Farmers of the Nation 



The Executive Committee of the Illinois Agricultural Association, meeting 

 in regular session September 9 ,'formulated and authorized the follow- 

 ing statement and recommendations to its members 



"'' I ^HE years since the war have been 

 X costly to agriculture. The Illinois 

 Agricultural Association on many oc- 

 casions has summed up the evidence 

 of the loss which the unfair working 

 out of national policies has caused 

 farmers of Illinois, and of the rest of 

 the country. The present moment is 

 a critical one, for as a nation the 

 United States is now forming the 

 policies toward agriculture which will 

 determine for better or worse the im- 

 mediate and future trend of that in- 

 dustry. 



"We are entering the season when 

 the position of political parties on 

 public issues is to be determined, and 

 national leaders chosen. The farmers 

 have the largest stake of all in nation- 

 al affairs. Their concern over na- 

 tional policies is broader than interest 

 in any one bill or measure. They can- 

 not be indifferent to government finan- 

 cial and banking policies, to the tariff, 

 to transportation laws, rates and ad- 

 justments, to land and immigration 

 policies and to the countless other 

 fields in which government action ef- 

 fects the economic interest of the 

 farm. 



Know Your Delegates 



"The purpose of this statement is to 

 urge farmers and their friends in every 

 Illinois district to see to it that only 

 those delegates who are pledged to 

 candidates whose position is known to 

 be fair and favorable to agriculture 

 are sent to the national party conven- 

 tions. Farmers and all fviends of 

 agriculture in Illinois can rightfully 

 feel proud of the fact that thus far 

 the only two men prominently men- 

 ijioned for president whose position on 



agricultural matters is known and ap- 

 proved by the farmers of the nation, 

 former Governor Frank O. Lowden 

 and Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, 

 come from Illinois. 



"There never was a time in the 

 economic history of the United States 

 when it was so important for farmers 

 to concern themselves over policies of 

 government. Nor has there been a 

 time since the Civil War when farmers 

 had a better opportunity to impress 

 their influence on political history than 

 the present. They neither seek nor 

 desire class government, or special fa- 

 vors to agn*iculture ; but they ask for, 

 and by right are entitled to a national 



B. C. COULTER 



E. C. Coulter, president of the Sangamon County 

 Farm Bureau, had much to do with inaugurating 

 the first FARM BUREAU DAY at the Illinois 

 State Fair. He was a familiar figure at the head- 

 quarters tent throughout the week wdcoming 

 visitors to Sangamon county 



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jadministration which in its executive 

 as well as its legislative branch, has a 

 jvision national not sectional in scope, 

 land has at least a sympathetic under- 

 I standing of the present critical prob- 

 lems of the farm. The practical way 

 to secure not only satisfactory plat- 

 forms but fair execution of them, is to 

 rise above party lines and work and 

 vote for men and principles rather 

 than for party labels.** , , . 



Duties of Secretary's Office to be 



Disckarged Temporarily by tbe 



President and Treasurer 



The 



le Executive Committee, meeting 

 September 9, expressed the desire and 

 directed that the duties of the Secre- 

 tary's office, pending the selection of a 

 Secretary by the Executive Committee, 

 be discharged by the President and 

 Treasurer, of the Association. ? 



' Report On Decatur Meeting 



President Earl C. Smith reported on 

 the I farm relief meeting of representa- 

 tives of the various group organiza- 

 tions held at Decatur on Thursday, 

 Sept. 8. No plan for legislative action 

 was formally adopted, he said, but a 

 resolution was adopted as follows: 



"Resolved that it be the sense of 

 this meeting that we carry back to the 

 various organizations represented, the 

 recommendation that they aggressively 

 interest themselves in the farm prob- 

 lem and put forth every effort to se- 

 cure coordinated support for such a 

 sound agricultural policy as seems pos- 

 sible of passage in the next session of 

 Congress. 



Representing the I. A. A. were Pres- 

 ident Smith, Secretary Geo. A Fox, 

 and Treasurer Robt. A. Cowles. Oth- 

 er organizations represented were the 

 Illinois Bankers' Association, the Illi- 

 nois Chamber of Commerce, Illinois 

 State Grange, Illinois Grain Dealers' 

 Association, Farmers' Grain Dealers' 

 Association, the American Land 

 League, and local organizations of 

 Decatur. '• 



