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lerstate Commerce Commission for the producer of food- 

 stuffs? Where is the tribunal you go to and say, ''My farm 

 is worth so much, I ought to have 5% on that, and my labor 

 is wprth so much per hour and I work about 16 hours a day, 

 and my wife's labor is worth so much, and she is working 16 

 hours a day, and there are the boys and girls and that is the 

 cost of producing these foodstuffs." 



Where is your tribunal? It has not been established 

 yet, but I hope that througli some good commercial system 

 such as the Banana Trust have adopted, it will come to your 

 relief and help you some. If it is a step forward, it is worth 

 taking. If it is not a step forward, it should be defeated 

 and its defeat is already published. Well it is a quite 

 lively corpse yet and they know when they publish those 

 stories that they are not publishing the truth. You don't 

 like to have your neighbor lie to you, you don't like to sub- 

 scribe for a paper and have it mislead you. Let us see Avhat 

 the.y publish. 



A week or so ago I was up in Rochester and had many 

 threats of what would happen to me that night when I 

 spoke, and some 600 or 700 farmer folk and their friends 

 appeared in the banquet room and of course I was timid as 

 I always am and I felt very much frightened and told my 

 story in a very sympathetic tone of voice about like I told 

 it to you people, and what was the result? After some little 

 discussion, they passed a resolution approving the act of our 

 commission and commending our commissioner and asked 

 the Governor and the Legislature to appropriate plenty of 

 money this year to carry on the work, and then what did 

 the papers say about it? The papers, one of them, said that 

 Mr. Frank Bradley had rammed this resolution down the 

 throats of those growers. 



You women folks knoAv how badly he rammed it down 

 their throats when I tell you the next day they elected him 

 President for another year. You women folks know how 

 your husbands would A^ote for a man under the conditions 

 described in one of the trade papers. 



