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tie, hogs, and all the pure-bred breeds — would come back 

 when agriculture came back. I do not know of anything that 

 has suffered more through the depression period than agri- 

 culture, and I want to call your attention to a few things 

 this afternoon that seem to me have been done for the 

 railroads and for the industries, which put us on a dif- 

 ferent basis from what they are at this time. 



Now when I pick up a time table, perhaps wanting to 

 go to New York, I look it over, pick up the Pennsylvania 

 time table or the New York Central, what do I find? In- 

 stead of a charge of two cents a mile as we formerly had 

 before the war, I find a charge of three-sixty a mile, and 

 then I find besides that out of about eleven trains running 

 over each of those roads an extra charge for extra fare, 

 for anywhere around three to eight dollars, is made. Then 

 besides that, when you buy your Pullman, sleeper, what 

 do you find there? Still an extra charge. And now why? 

 Because legislation hasi permitted these people to put 

 that on. 



Now take up for instance the man who sells me my 

 shoes or my clothes or anything of that kind. What do I 

 find? I find that extra price. All of this is brought about 

 by legislation. Labor, that is the average laboring man of 

 the country is getting pretty near double what he was 

 before the war. What is the man on the farm getting? 



You know I am reminded of a story, sometimes, when 

 I think of the condition of the railroads and the industries 

 as compared with the farmer. I don't know just what can 

 be done to help in this fight that we are in. I want to say 

 in the beginning I have got to a point when I am willing to 

 almost try anything to help out the farmer and the dairy- 

 men of this country, and the story that I wish to mention 

 is this: 



It was said that a negro made up his mind that he 

 would go bear hunting, so he fixed up his gun in fine shape 

 and started out. It was along about four or five o'clock 

 in the evening, and he went down the road a ways. He 

 didn't see a bear for a considerable time. It got along to- 

 ward dusk and he looked down the road a little ways and 



