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and chewed it, using the gum to make man and he has been sticking to 

 her ever since. 



"This lady who made the talk today, — Miss Frink, — I have never 

 known a man to make the showing that this lady made in her first year 

 of dry farming. She convinced me of the superiority of woman over man, 

 from the results she got. T wish to say a word for your governor; he is 

 very modest and wouldn't say it himself. I had the pleasure of attending 

 a conference of governors at Washington for the purpose of conserving 

 our great resources. Your governor spoke there to the men of the north, 

 south, east and west. He told of the great resources of your state; he 

 astonished the men of the south who wanted their canals and water-ways 

 protected. He told them of the west and of the possibilities of it; he 

 told them that by conserving the water here and irrigating the land and 

 improving the country, it would protect the very things they were looking 

 for. They eam.e to know that the men of the west did not regard any 

 lines between the north, south, east and west, but stood for a great 

 country, and I do not think anything in the history of this country has 

 done more for it than that conference. It brought us all close together 

 for the common good, and I think every man should realize that you are 

 fortunate in having a man in your state that will come out and show the 

 country what you have and that you stand for a broad and expansive 

 policy. 



"Fellow citizens, I want you to realize and appreciate that we of 

 Montana, your sister state, living on your border, and occupying a closer 

 relation to you than any other state in the Union, appreciate the generous 

 <'ind kind treatment you have given us here, and we want you all to bring 

 your wives and sweethearts and come to Billings next year. We have 

 there a garden of Eden; we have a citizenship there that are looking to 

 put this congress upon a higher plane, not for selfish reasons, but to 

 spread the good news. 



Work of the Congress. 



"I believe firmly and honestly that this congress today is doing the 

 greatest good at this time in America. I am convinced that the work of 

 scientific farming is of as much benefit to the man who has irrigated 

 land and land that will produce sufficient, with the rainfall, as to the man 

 with land that is unirrigated. We have got to make the land produce ten 

 times what it is producing today and we cannot do it without scientific 

 thorough farming. The address tonight by Mr. Parsons of Colorado, in- 

 terested me beyond anything I have heard; his thirty years of experience 

 showed practical results. I tell you we do not want to get away from 

 results. 



"This oratory is a good thing, but it doesn't amount to anything if 

 we do not advance; let us do something for posterity; let us leave the 

 lend which God Almighty has given us in better condition than that in 

 which it was given, I want to apologize to you for intruding on you but 

 by heart is in this subject and I deeply appreciate the education I have 



