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time. However, I made every effort that I was endowed with. I wrote 

 some three or four hundred different speeches, and it was impossible to 

 draw upon my imagination and transfer to paper, bi'g enough in magni- 

 tude for this occasion. I would have put in more time along this line, 

 but I telephoned down for some more paper, and the paper man said, 

 'if we give you any more we will have to put in a new order, therefore, 

 we will have to collect for what you owe us now.' That was $39.40, and 

 T told him I was no longer in the market. Therefore, I will have to trust 

 in God and you grand people to talk to you on this occasion. Mr. Mohler, 

 night before last, after giving you a short talk, went over to the hall of 

 exhibits, and I had the pleasure and privilege of being with him for a 

 few hours afterward. He said, had he gone over and seen the exhibition 

 placed here for your inspection, that he would have talked at least thirty 

 or forty minutes more. He also said that he thought he ought to have 

 made an apology for not talking longer, and he gave me in brief a few 

 things he had done, with the assistance of Colonel Judson and our friend 

 Cooke up in Oregon, and I am going to relate them to you, for you ought 

 to know. He said that he took up, through Mr. Judson and Dr. Cooke, a 

 little work in dry farming districts in Oregon, with the result that they 

 were now bringing into the State of Oregon from agricultural produce 

 some $60,000,000 annually, and to the railroad owned by the great mag- 

 nate Hill, some $2,000,000 a year, and land had gone up in that section 

 of the country from prices it was then worth, and now is worth some- 

 thing over two billion dollars. I do claim that no man can possibly draw 

 on his imagination to express the magnitude of this meeting in this 

 grand town of Cheyenne, with its noble people to give you the welcome 

 it has. I feel that in giving you my impressions of the real relation of 

 the dry farmer to the stockman, I ought to give you a little humor along 

 with the seriousness, but after listening to the talk from that clever 

 gentleman, Professor Campbell, it absolutely took all the humor out of 

 me, and I feel like preaching you a sermon on this subject. 



"I would like to talk just a moment before I take up the subject 

 that appeals to me above all others and which, if you will allow me, I 

 shall do. We have three classes in this country; we have the leaders 

 and the wheelers, and between the leaders and the wheelers we have 

 another faction, they are the kickers and knockers. As I understand it, 

 the duty of the leader is to pave the way and make paths and roads 

 and climb the hills and look into the valleys with the undeveloped re- 

 sources ahead of the noble wheelers who afterwards come along pulling 

 the load. I believe that gentlemen who spoke a while ago is one of those 

 wheelers. 



"Permit me to quote you a misfortune which befell me. We first 

 began to farm over on the plains with the noble animal, the horse. We 

 found it impossible to make him do the heavy plowing, and in or^er to 

 lessen his burden we bought a traction engine and then we believed 

 our troubles were at an end. Not understanding the true management 

 of the engine, we found a little later that our troubles had just begun. 

 But it wasn't the fault of the engine — no, sir. It was the misrepresenta- 



