Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-06
Gully" ADAMS
j. E. Wall Investigates it in Accordance With Mr. Targes
Suggestion published By Request

small political play winch fadeS into
nothing when put alongside the facts
as we find them in our investigation
of Mr.. Adam congressional record.
| also wrote the editor of The Wis
consin Agriculturist Of Racine, one of
the best farm papers published in
Wisconsin, and asked him if in his
opinion Mr.. Adams is friend of the
agricultural interests of this congress
sional district as we'll as the country
at large; if he was an honest and
trustworthy representative. l here
with give you his reply. Read it
carefully and see if you don't think
Mr.. forge was only bluffing when he
advised us to look up Mr.. Adams
congressional record. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Mr.. j. E. Wall, Oxford, Wis.
Dear Sir am in receipt of your
esteemed favor of the 21st inst. and
am much pleased at the opportunity
to do you a favor and also to say
good word for one of the brightest
and most able men in the House of
Representatives.
| have known Mr.. Adams a great
many years and have been intimately
associated with him in farm institute
work, as members of the executive
committee of the Wisconsin Dairy
mems Association, and in many other
ways, in All endeavor to do something
for the farmer and for the agriculture
of the state.
Mr.. Adams began life as dairy
farmer and has been up against every
proposition connected with life on the
farm. He has struggled to gain
foothold and competency; has
worked early and late; knows every
phase of farm life and is in perfect
sympathy with the tiller of the soil.
Not only has he spent the best part
of his life in agriculture as a pursuit,
and endeavorlng to lift up the profess
sion to higher plane of usefulness
and intelligence, but he is still at the
good work, and since he has been in
Congress from your district he intro
duced what is known as the Adams
bill, which gives the agricultural col
lege of the United States an addition
al appropriation. The Adams bill
provides for increasing the present
appropriation for agricultural colleges
S., 900 for the year ending in June
and an additional $1,000 annually
above the amount of the preceding
year for the next five years. At the
end of five years this will amount to
an increase of $500 bringing the
total appropriation to each experiment
station to $50, 200 annually. The
funds are to be applied to paying the
necessary expenses of conducting orr
ginal researches or experiments bear
ing directly on the agricultural indus
try of United States, with due regard
for varying conditions and needs of
the state in which the stations are
located. The $1,000 due our Wiscon-
sin College at Madison has been re-
ceived already and number of i'm
portant problems which concern the
farmers of our state are now being
solved with this money.
Mr.. Adams has done a great work
for the farmers of this country in Sc
curing the passage of this bill. He
is entitled to and is receiving the
thanks of the farmers, not only of his
own district and state, but of the en-
tire nation.
1t was through his efforts very
largely that the oleomargarine bill
was passed by Congress few years
ago, which makes it a crime to sell
oleo colored yellow in imitation of
genuine butter. Mr.. Adams was not
then member of Congress, but he
appeared before the committee who
had the bill in charge and the argu-
ments he made could not be answered
by the smart lawyers employed by the
packing houses who make this fraud
butter. He fought great fight for
the American dairy farmer, for the
dairy cow and for honest butter made
of cows milk, and he won.
He has done splendid work for the
farmers of the whole nation as we'll
as for US here in the Badger State,
and if the farmers of your district are
as wise as l believe them to be, they
will keep him right in Congress
where he belongs.
He is not only the farmers friend
always and everywhere, but he is
able, has clear mind, reasons intel
ligently and to purpose, and is one
of the best debaters in Congress. He
is representative that any district
may we'll feel proud of, and you will
never need to be ashamed of his stand
ing in Congress, or of his utterances
on the floor of the House.
| sincerely hope that the farmers
of your district will stand as one man
for his nomination and election. The
men who are broad enough, big
enough and bright enough to repre-
sent US in Congress are rare. Mr..
Adams is one of them.
You may read this letter to your
neighbors if you think best.
With best wishes,