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VI. Political Effects of Farm Organizations: 



1. The Agricultural "bloc" in Congress in 

 1921-23. 



2. Party platform pledges by all political 

 parties to aid agriculture. 



3. National agricultural conferences spon- 

 sored by the President of the United States. 



4. The President's (Coolidge) Agricultural 

 Commission for Farm Relief. 



5. Increasing favorable legislation and pro- 

 posed legislation in behalf of agriculture. 3 



While this outline is in no sense complete, it illus- 

 trates the widespread and growing influence of 

 farmers in their organized capacities on the nation 

 as a whole. While it may not be strictly accurate 

 to credit all of these accomplishments to farm move- 

 ments, it is reasonably clear that farm influence has 

 had either a direct or indirect influence in bringing 

 about all of the items in this outline. 



It will be observed also that the results of agrarian 

 efforts were very meager previous to the beginning 

 of the twentieth century. "The close of the old 

 century," says Walter Locke, in The New Republic, 

 "had little to show for the work of revolt done 

 through grange, alliance, and populism. The little 

 farmer stores had died like new-hatched chicks in a 

 March wind. The farmer parties had shrunk to 



8 The increasing number of farm products included in the Pro- 

 tective Tariff Act is an illustration of this tendency. 



