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(8) The wheat growers are consumers of hundreds of arti- 

 cles, none of which were lowered by fifty per cent of their 

 price and nailed down by an arbitrary committee of con- 

 sumers. How does it come that sauce for the goose is not 

 sauce for the gander? 



(9) The argument that twenty cents a bushel added to the 

 price of wheat would have necessitated an increase of $2.00 

 a barrel for flour is self-evidently fallacious. At that rate 

 the present price of wheat ($2.20) would make flour cost 

 $22.00 a barrel instead of $10.50. The increase would not 

 have added relatively $1.00 to the price of flour. However, 

 not one cent more need to have been added to flour. It 

 could have been deducted from the millers' profits on the 

 by-products of wheat that were allowed them above the 

 twenty-five cents a barrel profit over all expenses. 



(10) But, Mr. President, could you not have vetoed these 

 expected increases in wages in all industries just as you are 

 now doing to the attempted increase of wages by the wheat 

 raisers? How does it come you allow all other classes to 

 increase their wages to meet the increased cost of living and 

 prohibit only wheat growers doing so? As you will not 

 answer this question, I shall attempt it on three theories : 

 First, you are a college-bred man ; not having ever been a 

 farmer or the son of one, you naturally have no sympathy 

 for them or interest in their welfare or problems. Second, 

 you are a Southern man, where they are more interested in 

 high-priced cotton and low-priced flour, and you would 

 naturally favor the former at the expense gf the latter. 

 Third, you are a wise politician who deals only with the 

 heads of organized classes who have the power to aid or 

 injure your political aspirations. The wheat growers, not 

 being organized, are unable to act in unison. Their votes 

 are only so much waste paper to clutter up ballot-boxes, as 

 they divide them about equally between the Democrats and 

 Republicans, thus killing their own political power. 



