INDEX 



577 



parison of country with city, 27; in North 

 Dakota, 153; in Middle West, 539 



Populism: achievements, 7; political activi- 

 ties, 32; legacy of, 53; disappearance of, 

 112 



Potato Growers' Exchange, Minnesota co- 

 operative: 315 



Powell, G. Harold, writes on cooperative 

 marketing: 287 



Powell, Major J. W., on the Great Plains: 

 511-12 



Preus, J. A. O.: Minnesota politician, 197; 

 elected governor, 345; defeated for sen- 

 ator, 354 



Price fixing: see Farm prices 



Prices: see Farm prices 



Primary elections: see Direct primary 



Processing tax: included in Rainey bill, 456; 

 challenged, 500; declared unconstitutional, 

 501; payments returned, 503; revenue 

 from, 537 



Progressives: in Iowa politics, 47; form 

 bloc in Congress, 335-36; election vic- 

 tories, 342; in election of 1924, 357 



Public utilities: La Follette's efforts to con- 

 trol, 39; Missouri legislation on, 51 



Pure Milk Association, conducts strike: 310 



Purnell Act, aids agricultural experiment 

 stations: 385 



Quick, Herbert, quoted: 47 



Railroads: open the West, 4; farmer oppo- 

 sition to, 32; La Follette on, 38; Iowa 

 regulation of, 41-43, 46; Minnesota regu- 

 lation of, 49; Missouri legislation on, 51; 

 denounced, 132, 161; support county-agent 

 movement, 263; Transportation Act of 

 1920, 283; freight rates reduced, 332; La 

 Follette's criticisms of, 366; keep up farm 

 costs, 376; North Dakota wheat embargo, 



483 



Railway Trainmen, Brotherhood of: in elec- 

 tion of 1920, 345 



Rainey, Henry T., Illinois congressman: 456 



Reciprocity, with Canada, opposed: 54 



Reconstruction Finance Corporation: on 

 wheat deal with China, 459; inflationary 

 tendencies, 467 



Reed, Clyde: Kansas governor, 421; candi- 

 date for Congress, 523; elected to U.S. 

 Senate, 526 



Reno, Milo: Iowa farmer leader, 229; 

 Farmers' Union activities, 237; suggests 

 farm conference, 386; opposes F.F.B., 429, 

 432; promotes farm strike, 435; sketch of, 

 436-37; urges wheat holding, 441; plans 

 Des Moines parade, 445; urged to call off 

 farm strike, 451; endorses price fixing, 

 484 



Resettlement Administration, created: 510 



Ricker, A. W.: editor of farm journal, 215; 

 Farmers' Union activities, 235 



Rochdale Society, nature of: 59 



Roosevelt, F. D.: inaugurated, 447; interest 

 in domestic allotment plan, 455; Topeka 

 address, 458; elected President, 460; on 

 Jones bill, 462; on Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, 465; appoints committee on Great 

 Plains, 511; approves ever normal granary, 

 518; supports farm program, 532; calls 

 conference, 537 



Roosevelt, Theodore: on farm tenancy, 14; 

 on food supply, 27; on rural education, 

 28; carries Minnesota (1904), 48; as re- 

 former, 51; campaign of 1912, 53, 54; 

 honors Barrett, 221; appoints Country 

 Life Commission, 261 



Roylance, W. G.: League adviser, 192; op- 

 poses industrial program, 193 



Ruml, Bearsley, transferable-rights plan: 453 



Rural credits: see Agricultural credit 



Rural Life Commission: see Country Life 

 Commission 



Russell, Charles Edward, on tainted news: 

 162 



Ruthenberg, C. E., favors La Follette in 

 1924: 358 



Ryan, Thomas J., tobacco merchant: 125 



