The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-08
FARMERS MEET
AT MACON, GA.
Delegates Present From All Over
the United States.
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT
FURTHER WORK ALONG EDUCA-
TIoNAL LINES NEEDED.

nEACON, Ca, Oct. THE twenty
M second annual meeting of the
Farmers National congress was
opened in this city today with an
estimated attendance of 1900 delegates,
representing every state in the Union.
The meeting was called to order by
President George L. Flanders, who
delivered his annual address. He said
In part:
THE granaries Of the world are be-
ing filed until today we are con-
fronted with the fact that in the Unit
ed States FIVE and two-thirds million
farms are producing $780, 600 worth
OF agricultural products sum said
to be much in excess of the total in
come of the farmers at any other time
in their history in this country. This
year we are raising in the United
States as much corn as was raised in
the world last year. The education
that has been going on in the inter-
ests Of the agriculturist during the
last thirty years has produced wonder
full results, but all or nearly so. are
upon one side of this two-sided ques-
ton. viz: upon the side of produc-
ton. without touching the question OF
distribution, or the question Of the
relation OF the agriculturist to the
government or governments under
which he lives. and by virture OF which
he is protected.
Age of Combinations.
I'VE are living in an age of COM
binations, an age when corporations
and corporate interests unite for pur-
] poses which to them seem wise and
| Just: an age when the labor element
/ is organized for purposes which 10 II
/ seem just and right and an age IN
! which capital. generally speaking. IS
/ organized and combined for reasons
which 10 it seem just and right. SO
/ that when any problem arises from
/ the question of distribution to the
| question of legislation. they are pre-
pared al short notice to say what &C
/ ton should be taken, and then act as
/ a unit. What is true Of these COM
/ binations is not true OF the agricultural
| population. and yet that population Is
| ten twenty-ninths OF the entire num-
Der engaged in the industrial pursuits
| OF this country.
More Light Needed.
1.-THE scope OF our educational work
| should now be such that it will eX-
tend TO this class Of our population
/ The theories and fundamental princi'
/ pies OF constitutional law should be-
/ taught alongside the Fundamental
I principles underlying the production o.
agricultural products. Those principles
are stable. undergoing few changes
/ Every agricultural citizen should un
\ derstand that the government Of tn,
/ United States under which he lives /;
| a government OF derived powers, tina
I II has no powers except those tina
/ have been conferred upon il and tina
/ the comforting was done by the SOW
| ereign states Of the Union, and tina
/ the matter conferred Is enumerated II
I that document known as the constitu
ton OF the United States, and tina
when he desires the national govern
ment 10 do anything IN his interest n
must first show whether the power L
do that thing has been given the gov
| eminent in that instrument. II III
power has been conferred, then ii l
/ plausible and feasible TO petition III
congress OF the United states 10 do III
thing desired.
Prepare to Legislate.
81 believe that no better work CA
now be taken up along educatiOna
lines In addition TO the work alread
being done than 10 put the agricul
tural population OF this country in pos
session OF such knowledge relative {
the government and its workings a
viii qualify or equip each and ever