ADVENTURES IN PHILANTHROPY 



found themselves in the familiar position of 

 defeat. 



What is said here about the composition of 

 the Senate committee is not to be taken as an 

 assertion. It is the admission of the chair- 

 man of the committee. He said that he had 

 selected the members after consultation with 

 Mr. McHugh, secretary of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, and with other gentlemen equally 

 interested on the Chamber's side. The State 

 Bar Association, the next year, marked its ap- 

 parent approval of these things by making the 

 chief counsel of the Chamber of Commerce 

 its president and the assistant counsel its vice- 

 president. Both of these had figured con- 

 spicuously in the proceedings before the Sen- 

 ate committee a fact from which we can 

 easily surmise where the heart of the associa- 

 tion found its loyalty to lie. 



Close upon the heels of this experience fol- 

 lowed another that, though seemingly so small 

 a matter, came to be regarded by the farmers, 

 because of the manner of it, as an additional 

 affront. This was an organized propaganda 

 called "The Better Farming Movement." 

 The farmers after a time charged that its 

 sole origin was the fact that they were dis- 

 contented and always becoming more dis- 

 contented, and that Organized Great Business 

 profitably interested in the existing order be- 

 lieved something should be done to distract 



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