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board of directors in each in order that they might pass upon the problems 

 that are dependent upon each other. Let us work together in the future in 

 a common cause to save humanity as we did in the last few years during 

 the great war we had. 



TRANSPORTATION RIVER, RAIL AND TRUCK. 



We next turn to transportation. When we create things we must move 

 them. We have neglected transportation for years. We have failed to build 

 roads because taxes were high; a state which has to compete with a state 

 with good roads can't compete unless it has roads which are equal to its 

 sister states. Then we have river and rail transportation, and now we are 

 carrying stuff by aeroplane. Transportation must be unified; river, rail and 

 truck must become the tripod of transportation, and every effort must be 

 made by all citizens to place these three forces of transportation so that they 

 might co-operate and not fight for their existence. 



MANUFACTURING. 



Then we have manufacturing. In order to convert raw materials into 

 finished products we must have manufactories. We need labor in the factory 

 and labor on the farm nearer balanced than it is. When a man puts the 

 price of labor up in a factory, it affects labor on the farm. When the price 

 of labor in the factory went up, with a high wage scale and short hours, 

 thirty thousand farmers closed their doors in Michigan and moved into 

 the city of Detroit and other cities. Why? Because the job was better. We 

 can't blame those fellows. Too much of that kind of work in the Nation 

 puts men and families idle, slackens buying and then corn, wheat, oats 

 and everything slacks up. Here is a lesson we must teach everybody in this 

 country. That no two million men in the United States can tell the rest 

 of us forty million workers what we can, or cannot do. 



COMMERCE. 



The last segment is Commerce. Gentlemen of the city, this interests 

 you and gentlemen of the farm, it should interest you. We have to have 

 banks. The banks don't belong to the bankers; the banks belong to you. 

 The banks are places where you deposit money. You must not be too 

 severe with the banker because he does not lend you money. He is the cus- 

 todian of your funds and you are going to be severe with him if he does 

 not take very good care of it. Then comes the doctor, lawyer, engineer, ad- 

 vertising man, publicity man and the insurance man all necessary in your 

 life and my life. The city man is a necessary adjunct. We must have our 

 central trading places in which to go. We must have our courts, our finan- 

 cial centers, our great social centers. We must have a place to distribute 

 our own goods, therefore the city, friends, is ours, the town is ours. Let us 

 learn to say "My town" and "My county," and not criticise the town or 

 country. Let us say it is one great regiment of soldiers who must fight 

 together. If we fail in the farm business, we are going to fail in the city 

 business, so let us equalize the burden of all parts of the great wheel in the 

 future. 



Don't allow this wheel to be thrown out of balance. If distribution is 

 outweighted in the scale of life by production it causes the whole Nation 

 to go out of balance. The whole distribution segment has fallen over, and 

 unless we stop it now it is going to pull the entire wheel structure to pieces. 



So here is the disease of the great American people as we see it lack 

 of understanding, a conflict, and the cogs don't mesh in the wheel and they 

 are out of gear. Now let us stay right on the job and find out what this 

 trouble is, oil it up and put it back to work. Then if we get it back, even 

 if it takes fifty years, let us bring it back to an economic balance, and see 

 to it that when we get it in balance it won't go over the other way. 



