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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



CHAIRMAN BURRELL: What is the pleasure of the Congress? 



A motion to adjourn was then made and seconded. 



MR. JOHN HENRY SMITH, of Utah: Before you vote on that 

 motion, Mr. Chairman, fellow congressmen, ladies and gentlemen, I want 

 to say that I trust that this matter will receive consideration at once, as 

 has just been stated, and that every man that can will put his hand down in 

 his pocket. I will start the proposition, if I have got ten dollars, b}^ putting- 

 it down at once, because I believe this Congress has got to have the 

 sinews of war if you are going to succeed. We can't do that except we 

 have the proper membership. 



My friends, while I am on my feet I want to commend you for this 

 effort. I am a believer in the mixing of men together. We, the people 

 of this grand land should love each other better and treat our fellow men 

 better, and treat and love our country better. This is God's country. This, 

 th^, American continent, is the grandest spot in the world. No more honest, 

 no truer men can be found on the face of this fpotstool of Almighty God 

 than are found in these mountain regions, delving in the hills, delving upon 

 the farms, laying the foundations of that prosperity that means a race that 

 every man should be proud to be a member of. And I trust that this 

 farming community that is here today, coming from various sections of 

 our land, will regard this as one of the sections that shall develop men 

 in whose lives will be found the best elements that can be found in the 

 race in all the world. (Applause.) We stand off in the distance and are 

 afraid of each other. Some men turn away from me in horror because 

 I am a Mormon. Some men turn away from another man because he is 

 a Catholic, and another makes faces because a man is a Jew, or a French- 

 man, or an Irishman, and we have our dou/bts, but when we come up 

 face to face with each other, the American, the Englishman, the Jew and 

 the Spaniard, and every other class of man, when we come to know each 

 other, and work with each other, our manlTood is sharpened, and we see 

 in tKe race all the elements that make a man. I trust this body of riien 

 will work to that end — farmers all; yes, fruit-raisers all; yes, stock rais- 

 ers all; yes, and all of the business elements that are worth loving, and 

 that other men will love — that the spirit of the statesman shall be in the 

 heart of every man who enters into this audience, that formulates laws for 

 this body of men, that their children and children's children shall love this 

 land and see that every man has his- just share of the credit by the people 

 of his own belief as well as every other man. 



I did not realize or think of making a speech to you on this occa- 

 sion, but we want your money, friends, (laughter) we want your money. 



I don't believe the grangers are small fellows. My friend Grace gave 

 you some ideas worthy of your consideration. These big fellows that 

 can manage ten thousand acres can take care of themselves. But our 

 small fellows, taking care of 160 acres, we must do the best we can 

 to help make that farm so useful that the man who has charge of it will 

 be counted among the Cincinnatuses and Washingtons of our country. 

 We have been called from our farms to save our country, and we will 



