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after presenting it. Our purpose is to put this Congress on a high 

 plane; this Congress is to benefit the entire country, and no real estate 

 agent is going to be hurt by disapproval of fake advertising. I wish to 

 say that if we are going to continue as a Congress and make it a great 

 congress, we have got to constantly stamp disapproval on anything that 

 looks like a fake, and I think it our duty, as this matter has come up 

 before the Resolutions Committee and it has given it careful thought, 

 that we pass on it." 



MR. CONKLIN, Nebraska: "Gentlemen, as a member of the Reso- 

 lutions Committee I would like to thank the gentleman from Montana 

 for expressing the opinion of the committee. When discussing this 

 resolution we felt as a committee that this body should be dignified and 

 honest enough in its transactions with the people of the world, to say 

 to them fairly and squarely that anything we endorsed was without 

 fake of any kind or description. It was for the purpose of adding to 

 the dignity of this Congress that we accepted that resolution as we did. 

 It was not in the interest of any real estate or loan men or promoters; 

 nor was it against their interest that this resolution was passed. I will 

 Dot take a back seat to any man sitting in this audience, as to his ability 

 to sell land and loan money to farmers for the purpose of developing their 

 land. There are men in this audience who know that no man in my 

 section of the state of Nebraska has sold as much laud in Nebraska as 

 I have, or loaned as much money as I have in our country, and as I am 

 doing today, and helping them to make homes for their families, and 

 create crops. I have noticed during the 40 years I have been in the 

 business, the absolute desire on the part of certain real estate men not 

 to tell the absolute truth. Years ago when the great B. & M. Railroad 

 Company of southern Nebraska were advertising all over the eastern 

 country the land they had for sale, they were stating absolute false- 

 hoods; there wasn't a word of truth in any pamphlet they sent out 

 for years. I went down to Omaha and discussed that matter with John 

 Francis, General Passenger Agent of that road, and who is now in 

 Chicago — I said to him: If you want to sell these rough lands in Neb- 

 raska, these grazing lands in Nebraska, tell the truth and the absolute 

 truth and bring these men from the East out here expecting to see rough 

 land and not lead them to believe that these lands are great wide prair- 

 ies, smooth and level as a floor. Every bit of that land in that state 

 v/as rough at that time. We discussed that matter and they got out a 

 pamphlet called 'Grazing I.and in the State of Nebraska.' This was in 

 1890, when they spread 100,000 copies of that over Iowa and another 

 150,000 over Illinois and they sold every bit of land that they had in the 

 state inside of the next twelve months. I tell you any business that 

 will not stand undv^r the limelight and will not stand being ventilated 

 in every respect from bottom to top isn't worth having." 



MR. SUDDITH, Montana: "It seems to me the convention has 

 gotten itself into a nice position. I do not see how we can afford not 

 to pass this resolution. . The resolution is presented here to condemn 



