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that there should be an appropriation. It will be necessary that there 

 should be help. We don't ask it for ourselves. We want it under the 

 direction of the government of the United States. Of all that appropria- 

 tion of $658,000 for the Paris Exposition only $75,000 of the $658,000 is for 

 agricultural products — everything— dairy, Indian corn, everything. It 

 will be comparatively little the Secretary of Agriculture will set apart for 

 Indian corn, but we want to get what we can of it, but we expect to have 

 more in this line. 



An addition to the price of Indian corn of one cent a bushel adds to the 

 property of this country $20,000,000.00. An increase of 5 cents adds one 

 hundred millions. An increase of one cent on a bushel in the price of corn 

 adds to the property of the State of Illinois $2,500,000.00. One cent a 

 bushel, think of it. An increase cf five cents adds over twelve millions to 

 the value of the crop of Illinois. It is more in Iowa, for they raise more 

 corn. Over a million in Missouri, the same in Indiana. One and a half 

 millions in Kansas and Nebraska. Add one cent a bushel to the value and 

 that is what you get. 



Now, gentlemen, with this increase, isn't it worth the while of these 

 six great grain producing states, the corn belt, as we say, Iowa, Illinois, In- 

 diana, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, to take up this matter, and push it? 



Now, I won't go on talking, because I am accustomed to confining my- 

 self to time, when I am limited, but will say this one thing in closing: 

 That when you increase the price of Indian corn, the demand for Indian 

 corn, the consumption of Indian corn, you yourselves have it all. You in- 

 crease the value of wheat, the price of oats and barley, every other cereal, 

 and you divide it between yourself and Russia, and India and Argentina, 

 and all the different countries of the earth; but there is no corn belt on the 

 face of the earth except ours, and when you increase the price of Indian 

 corn you get it all yourselves. We get it all, it comes to us, and so, gentle- 

 men, I think that you would be interested in having this subject brought Be- 

 fore you. We are not confined to food only, there are hundreds of other 

 things, or twelve other things the American Maize Propaganda is interest- 

 ed in for the uses of Indian corn, corn stalks, all the uses of the glucose 



