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can do on your hills of Connecticut, if you go about it right. 

 Some years ago. in fact. I became so thoroughly impressed 

 with the absolute necessity on the part of the farmers to 

 organize their business in such a way as to meet the organ- 

 ization of other business, that that question got to be a sort 

 of a hobby with me. Every business under the sun was being 

 organized, everything was going into a trust, and it did seem 

 to me that the farmers must organize or perish. I confess 

 that conditions look a little brighter than they did even a year 

 ago. It does seem to me that conditions are in the way which 

 portend good things for the farmer ; it does seem to me that 

 conditions are in the way which portend that the power and 

 unbridled license of the great business organizations of this 

 country, which are commonly known as trusts and railroad 

 organizations, is going to terminate, and that the time has 

 come when they are going to be called to account, and it 

 aft'ords me great pleasure to say to a Connecticut audience, 

 that I believe if there is a man in the United States to-day 

 who can and will bring that thing about, it is the man who 

 is in the White House. And while I agree with ever}'thing 

 Mr. Hale has said about the effect of these resolutions upon 

 the members of congress, and the pounding away at con- 

 gress, I do also believe that the interstate commerce league 

 might have pounded away at congress for another genera- 

 tion, if you hadn't had a man in the White House who took 

 up your fight for you. Now you have been told that the 

 farmer must paddle his own canoe ; you tell your boys to 

 paddle their own canoe. But I think that the individual who 

 first let drop that expression from his flippant tongue must 

 have been inspired by the same arch enemy of agriculture 

 who planted thorns and thistles in the garden of the first agri- 

 culturist. I don't like the expression at all, "paddle your 

 own canoe," because I believe the time has come when each 

 individual in this country must join with each other individ- 

 ual to make his business a success, and I have got just a few 

 thoughts here that I want to call your attention to on that line. 



A distinguished citizen of my own town of A\'inchester 

 some years ago had a dream, and he reports his dream about 



