Governmental Interference 3 



in the interest of the community and the state. 

 There is self-help and governmental interfer- 

 ence. The inter-relationships of these personal 

 and external forces constitute one of the most 

 important and difficult questions concerned 

 with farming and politics. They are questions 

 of adjustment between the self-help and the 

 state-help forces as expressed in the complex 

 terms of present society. One force works 

 from the inside outward, the other from the 

 outside inward. Both are essential. I propose 

 to examine some phases of these questions 

 that are suggested by current movements and 

 discussions. 



Governmental interference with persons is of 

 two kinds, that which concerns the larger 

 relation of each man to society in general, and 

 that which applies directly to the particular 

 occupation, trade or profession. In the first 

 division are questions of taxation, tariffs, con- 

 duct and the fundamental laws. In the second 

 division, so far as the farmer is concerned, are 

 questions of agricultural education, regulation 

 of diseases of live-stock and crops, the estab- 



