The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-03
MAY GIVE TAT
SOME POINTERS
President Will Face Fire of
Questions From Many Repre-
sentative Farmers.
BIG JOINT CONVENTION
OPENED IN ST. LOUIS
Head of Organization Says Ag-
ricuIturists Are Not Getting
Their Share.

ST. LOUIS, May 2.--''We shall
have some pointed questions to ask
President Taft when he speaks here
Wednesday.
Thus declared w. II. Wrightson OF
Fresno, Cal, president of the Califor-
MIA Fruit Growers association, in an
address here today before the Ma
tional Farmers union.
"The people in our state are coming
TO the conclusion said MI Wright
son, 'sthat the tariff IS no good TO
either the producer or the consumer.
We producers do not get the high
prices Tor food products. -
President Charles S. Barratt urged
the farmers not to let their attitude
toward their congressman be colorcd
by "xivial gifts, the bribery of pet.
ty Office for relative or cordial
handshake from the great man him
self. -
That the farmer does not get tho
benefit of the high prices and that he
ought To be ashamed OF himself was
of Cleburne, Texas He said the spec
ulators and middlemen get the benefit.
Bryan viii Also Speak.
A joint convention OF the Farmers
Educational aud Cooperative Union of
Equity and 400 subsidiary organiza-
tions opened in this city today. w. j.
Bryan will deliver an address at the
closing session Saturday night.
Samuel Gompcrs, president OF the
American Federation OF Labor, who
is 10 speak this afternoon, is expected
TO outline his plans for bringing about
a new political party through an at
filiation of the farmers with the la.
boring men.
Other speakers on the days pro
gram were Mayor F. IT. Kriesmann, G.
r, Barrett, Union City, Ga, president
of the Farmers union; G.. Q. Drayton,
Greenville. I'LL, president of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity; O. i, Dorm
blazer, Texas; Don Farnsworth, Chi
cago; W. II. Wrightson, California;
Clarence Poe. North Carolina; Curtiss
Hull, Columbia, Mo; John c, White and
w. H. Jackson.
President Barrett began his address
by saying: 'As the representative OF
three million militant American farm
ers, whose organized army rests one
flank upon the Atlantic and the other
upon the Pacific ocean. l give TO you
n cordial greeting which shall know
no boundaries of state or section, no
narrowness or political partisanship or
bigotry, but a tolerance AS broad as
justice and as wide as that sincerity
that underles our common heritage of
American citizenship.
Farmers Long Neglected.
fFor first we are Americans. After
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Americans that we greet you in good
faith. bidding you rejoice with us in
the dawning of that day when the
most distinguished men OF our nation
pay homage TO the might and the prob
lens of the long neglected farmers,
Without let or hjndrance, suppress
sion or censorship. we shall discuss the
problems that affect tho feeders and
clothiers OF the people-savc only that
IN our deliberations we shall avoid
those topics that refer TO the hysteria
DIT the passion of partisan politics. As
the ultimate analysis let lis not forget
that the partisan or personal element
IN politics or craftsmanship is transient
and passing. That which abides al
principles that we shall debate, free
Of the embarrassment Of that acri-
nony invariably attending the compli
'atiop Of short lived political platforms
,r their authors.
1.-The American farmer Of tradition
las been the farmer of the more or
eSs humorous cartoon or carcature, va
'icusly represented as fair prey to the
,reengoods man or the goldbrick ar
list.
Slow to Wake UP.
''And the farmer has been slow in
Weakening. His environment, in the
irst place. was against his awakening.
The tardlness of facilities for commu-
lication, the infrequencY with which
penetrated to the far rural
istricts and the natural suspicion
which is a part of his temperament, all
Initiated To keep him in shackles as
o his own power and his duty of self
government in the premises
''The era Of sleep is at an end-the
ra of wax cfulness to self duty, to the
litigation of self help. to the obliga
ION of duty TO country, is already
awning. ] do not say that the farmer
$ u class is reused TO his national i'm
ortance and 10 his national obliga-
ons; but | do assert. with all the EN-
hasis at NV command and supported
Y all tho experience of lifetime, that
~ leaven of rcadjustment. of revou.
opal change, is stirring throughout
lc mass of the American rarmer'
Parcels post, good roads and scien-
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