120 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



A few days later the same newspaper fore- 

 cast a determined fight between the Farm Bloc 

 and the rest of the Senate and this time stated 

 that 2,000,000 organized farmers were behind 

 the movement. It is to be noted that this sec- 

 tion of the press at least was discovering the 

 far-reaching support which was behind the agri- 

 cultural Senators. 



The misunderstanding of those who are un- 

 familiar with the agricultural situation con- 

 tinued to grow, and many dangers were cited 

 for which the Bloc was in no sense responsible. 

 The growing tendency towards group organiza- 

 tion drew criticisms from the press and the 

 menace of this group movement spreading to 

 other interests was outlined. It is notable that 

 the press appeared to have forgotten its dis- 

 cussion of organized lobbies of various sorts 

 of a year or two before and the almost constant 

 agitation of the control exercised by Wall 

 Street, which we observed prior to the war. 



Then other situations and developments in 

 Congress entirely outside the scope of the agri- 

 cultural group began to be attributed to the Bloc 

 by popular statements. The opposition to cer- 

 tain parts of the tax bill as well as the support 

 which certain measures received were attrib- 



