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CCLTURAL ASSOCIA 



RECORiy 



To advance the purpose for which the Farrrt Bureau I0a« organized, 

 namely to promote, protect and repreeent the bueineee, economic, 

 political, and educational intereetm of the tarmere of iliinoia and the 

 nation, and to develop agriculture. 



Published once a month at 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount Horris, 

 Illinois, by the Illinois Afirricultural Ajsociation. Entered as second- 

 class matter October 20, 1926, at the post office at Mount Morris, 

 Illinois, under the Act of March S, 1879. Accepted for mailine at 

 special rate of postaee provided for in Section 412, Act of February 

 28, 1925, authorised October 27, 1926. The individual membership 

 fee of the Illinois AKricultural Association is five dollars a year. The 

 fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois 

 AORICULTURAL ASSOCIATION Rbcoro. Postmaster: In returning an un- 

 called for or missent copy please indicate key number on address as 

 is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith J Detroit 



Vice-President, Frank D. Barton...; Cornell 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger _ Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles - Bloomlncton 



I EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

 j (By Concressional District) 



1st to nth _ 4 H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



12th „ ^ G. F. TuUock, Rockford 



13th „ 4 i _ C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th i i M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



ISth ^ i A, N. Skinner, Yates City 



16th 1 A. R. Wright, Verna 



I7th _; I Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



I8th.„ , i R. F. Karr, Ira<|Uois 



19th I I C. J. Cross, Atwood 



20th 4 J^ Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



21st _ , Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



23nl 4 W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th _ L Charles Marshall, Belknap 



2Sth „ [ Fred Dietz, De Soto 



DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENTS 



Dairy Marketing.. .-t. A. D. Lynch 



Limestone-Phosphate « J. R. Bent 



Finance 4 R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetahle Marketing _ .A. B. Leeper 



Comptroller.. .„ , ^ J. H. Kelker 



George Thiem 

 V. Vaniman 



Information ^l ...». 



Insurance Service 



Legal Counsel 



Live Stock Marketing.... 



Organization 



Produce Marketing 



Taxation and Statistics 

 Transportation 



..Donald Kirkpatrick 



Ray E. Miller 



G. E. Metsger 



F. A. Cougler 



.._ J. C. WaUon 



L. J. Quasey 



SUBSIDIARY ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Co-operative* Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Inaurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



/. A. A. Policy on Tariff 



A CRITICAL analysis of the Hawley tariff bill made by 

 John C. Watson, statistician for the I. A. A., declares 

 that protection of American agriculture requires adequate 

 duties on imported commodities regardless of their source, 

 use, or lack of identity with our products. It takes issue 

 with assumptions of the House Ways and Means Commit- 

 tee that there is no reason or necessity for imposing duties 

 on imported commodities not produced in this country, and, 

 secondly, that it is improper to impose adequate duties on 

 Philippine Island products for the protection of American 

 agriculture. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association believes "that in 

 revising tariff duties, congress should take fully into ac- 

 count the present endeavor to establish a stabilized market- 

 ing system which will ensure to efficient farmers a profit- 

 able level of prices. In any such marketing system proper 

 tariff duties must be an indispensable factor. It would 

 defeat any marketing system if it should be found that 

 higher domestic prices are not protected by tariff duties 

 sufficiently high to prevent a flood of imports. It should 

 not be assumed, therefore, that any duties which may be 

 imposed on agricultural products, will, as so often has been 

 true in the past, be ineffective or only partly effective. 

 The only safe assumption is that a marketing system will 

 be set up which will make them effective." 



Think It Ov«. 



THE following editorial reprinted from the Chicago 

 Tribune is representative of the tactics used to de- 

 feat the proposed state income tax measure in the Gen- 

 eral Assembly just closed. 



The fact that your organization led the fight to ini- 

 tiate a fair and equitable taxing system based upon ability 

 to pay is given due credit by this Chicago daily. We will 

 not stop to discuss the mis-statements and erroneous con- 

 clusions in this editorial. You can do that at your leisure. 

 Suffice it to say that to bring about an equitable taxation 

 system is not an easy task. Unorganized farmers are do- 

 ing nothing to help this just cause. You as Farm Bureau 

 members are helping to bring about much needed re- 

 forms. Organization and money are needed to get a 

 square deal for the farmer. 



MAKING THE CITY MAN PAY -" 



"A bill to impose an income tax in Illinois despite pres- 

 ent constitutional limitations has been defeated in the 

 house at Springfield, but proposals to amend the state 

 constitution with a view particularly to income taxation 

 are still under consideration. Those resolutions deserve 

 far more careful study than they have received or are 

 likely to receive at this session of the legislature. 



"The demand for a state income tax comes chiefly from 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association, made up of farmers, 

 while the tax itself will be paid almost in its entirety by 

 city dweller*. City dwellers, however, can defeat any taxa- 

 tion proposal which comes to a referendum, as the pro- 

 posed amendment must, for, though Cook county has only 

 a third of the legislaiyre, it has substantially half the popu- 

 lar voting strength of the state. It follows that there can 

 be little, if any, honest expectation of adopting an income 

 tax amendment in Illinois until a vast majority of urban 

 dwellers have been convinced that the tax item in their 

 budgets will not be markedly increased by the new levy. 



"It is not easy to see how this end can be achieved. If 

 the income tax is substituted for the personal property 

 tax, as farmers' organizations demand, the farmers will 

 benefit because their personal property taxes constitute 

 a considerable part of their total tax bills. On the other 

 hand, the repeal of the personal property tax will give 

 relatively little relief to the city man, while he will face 

 the imposition of an income tax which at anything like 

 the rates now being discussed must come close to doubling 

 the total tax yield from Cook county. 



"The city dwellers have seen their right to representa- 

 tion at Springfield taken from them. Whatever confidence 

 the city voter may have had at one time or another in the 

 fairness of downstate members toward Chicago has van- 

 ished as the years have rolled by without a reapportion, 

 ment. Under the circumstances, the mere fact that down- 

 state organizations are supporting an income tax measure 

 is enough to damn it in the eyes of countless city voters. 

 The leaders of the farmers may take pleasure in the no- 

 toriety which their advocacy of the amendment affords 

 them, but they must realize that they are wasting their 

 time if they are seriously interested in amending our tax 

 laws as long as they proceed on the present basis. Noth- 

 ing they propose in their present vein has a ghost of a 

 chance of adoption in a referendum, for the city man is 

 convinced the only object of the proposals is to rob him. 



"We do not for a moment believe that the present tax 

 laws of Illinois are above improvement. We are certain, 

 however, that they are not going to be changed as long 

 as the substitute forms of taxation are predicated on the 

 theory that Chicago pays vastly too little for the support 

 of the state, and downstate pays vastly too much. There 

 is no indication that any other view than this is animating 

 the downstate bloc in its approach to the proposed amend- 

 ments." — Chicago Tribune. 



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