AGRICULTURAL DISCONTENT 



fall of 1918, Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois had declared, "We 

 are going to hear from the farmers as never before. They will tell us that 

 their profits have been limited and their businesses regulated during the 

 war, while others have been getting rich because of the war, without 

 restraint. This protest of the farmer will be a big factor two years hence." 47 

 The senator was right, but if he could have foreseen that the farmer was 

 soon to find himself in a state of depression with most of the city popula- 

 tion in a state of prosperity, he would have expanded his rhetoric. The 

 country would indeed hear from the farmer. 



47. Wallaces' Farmer, XLIII (September 20, 1918), p. 1329. 



