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mentioning any names, but to come out and tell the people what they 

 really need out here. We cannot support advertising that calls for any- 

 body who has no more than four or five hundred dollars. I believe it 

 is our duty to tell eastern people who come out here that if they are 

 going to succeed, a certain amount of money is required. Many have 

 come without knowledge of this fact. I have been out here five years 



Causes of Failures. 



and a majority of failures in the West are due first to ignorance and 

 second to a lack of money, and those two things ruin the people, and 

 what I am after is this: I am going to try and enlighten the East as 

 well as T can about the necessity of money to make a success, and when 

 this resolution is adopted it will only mean the backing up of that 

 Jrtateraent." 



MR. JEFFRIES, South Dakota: "Nobody in this Congress or else- 

 where will try to put a single straw in the way of the press. This 

 Congress has nothing to do with that. This Congress is on record al- 

 ready in reputation as against things of that sort. But who is to be 

 the judge of whether a piece of land is fit for dry farming or anything 

 else? This gentleman said it requires a certain amount of money. 

 How many men are there who have come here without a cent of m:oney 

 and made a success? I have heard man after man get up in this Con- 

 gress and say that the year he struck the country he didn't have any^ 

 thing, and today they are well off; while others come with unlimited 

 means and make failures. For that reason there is no necessity to con- 

 demn anything. We are known to be opposed to fakes, for that reason 

 I move the resolution be rejected. 



MR. MARTIN, Texas: "In order not to have this resolution re- 

 submitted to the Committee, I will say I think the Committee acted on 

 it as they thought best and I move to table the amendment and bring the 

 resolution fairly before the Convention and if it doesn't suit the Con- 

 vention, to let them turn it down. I move we table the amendment and 

 vote on the resolution." 



MR. IRWIN, Wyoming: "I would like to have just a word on this 

 subject. It seems to me, gentlemen, that this convention should follow 

 a conservative course, and not an erratic course. I wish to say this 

 in regard to the conservative course: 



Conquering tiie Desert, 



"For the last 15 years 1 have watched the movement westward. I 

 have owned land along the 100th Meridian in Nebraska that 15 years 

 ago was regarded as not worth anything for farming purposes, but the 

 iiiost conservative man in the community today will say those lands 

 lying right in Dawson County are worth from $50.00 to $100.00 per acre. 

 Yet, none of us 15 years ago would concede that. Today, go out on the 

 street as I have gone out during this meeting. 



