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haps that is why Halo himself didn't favor that proposition. 

 But now, gentlemen. 1 hope that yon will take this proposi- 

 tion home with you, and I hope >on wnll think ahont it, and 

 I hope you people here will help us people out in Virginia, 

 because we have all got to stand together. This country is 

 a great big country, but it is close together, and it only takes 

 a little while to go from here to Virginia, and we want you 

 to stand with us, and we want you to help organize the farm- 

 ers all over the country into farmers' institutes and pomo- 

 logical societies. We have one farmers' institute that has an 

 attendance of 1,200 people to hear our talks, and we can do 

 an}thing in the way of local legislation in that county that we 

 take a notion to do. We didn't want any whiskey sold in that 

 county, and there has not been a drop of whiskey sold in that 

 county for ten years. And more than that, w'hen we got to 

 growing apples, the distilleries began to come around there, 

 and some of them were moonshine distilleries, and we didn't 

 like the smell of things around there, and we concluded we 

 would rather let our apples rot than to make them up into bad 

 brandy, and we got rid of all the distilleries, and the judge 

 of the court said he \vas going to give a man a license whether 

 we wanted it or not. and we told him we would run him 

 out of the county, and he didn't give the license. There is 

 no limit to wdiat you can do if you get together and organize, 

 and there is no reason why you shouldn't do it. I have come 

 here to talk to you on the theory of man's helpfulness to man. 

 and while you are doing this you may be sure you are going 

 to get some financial advantage out of it in the end. I want 

 to feel that I have said something to-day, because it is near 

 my heart, and it is the thing in my judgment to do. and I hope 

 I have given you something to think about, and which may 

 possibly bear some fruit after I have gone away from you. 

 I didn't expect to have so much to say when I came here. I 

 suggested one subject for discussion, and was told I had 

 better suggest something else, and when I wrote to your sec- 

 retary I suggested the other subject, and he put me down 

 for both, and it is not my fault and you must blame your sec- 

 retary, and I thank you very much for giving me the oppor- 



