The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-30
President Hobbs, of Farmers
Convention, Interviews Him
Sampson Farmer Declares VIII
son Great President and
McAdoo Wonderful Finan-
Cier.

I Will ACSAocuI NOOOTOW i
Wilson and Secretary William McAdoo
of the Treasury, brings back an inter-
probation of the term moving crops"
Mr.. Hobbs. whose home is in Clin-
ton, Sampson County, attended the
National Farmers Union Convention
in Salina, Kansas, which opened Sep
TENDER 2. Newspaper men who did
not know what the Union did, sent
out reports that the Union knocked"
Secretary McAdoo and his plan and
that the offer of aid had not been ac-
cepted.
The resolutions adopted were as far
from such a state of facts, or fiction,
as this "a any undiscerning reporter
could have made them. Mr.. Hobbs
and Messrs. j. c. Kennette, Of Green's
boro, and E.. w. Dabbs, of South Caro-
lima. were appointed a committee to
wait on President Wilson and Secre-
tary McAdoo. They went to ask more
money and received in spite of reports
Of farmers opposition.
They were presented by Senator E.
u. Smith, of South Carolina, one of
the first men in point of service
among those who nave helped the far
mers to organize.
I'VE were introduced to the PreSi-
dent and the Secretary" Mr.. Hobbs
said. land asked Mr.. McAdoO to de-
fine what moving a crop means. We
used cotton as an illustration and his
construction was inevitably the COM
nonsense one. He said that moving
the cotton crop would begin with the
first boil picked and continue until the
crop had been ginned, baled, sold, and
exported, thus covering the whole har-
vest and sale.
xrv- x~Jl xl,.t - III, &c, I'm =
600, 900 available for this work. but
the Government will put $150.0O0.OO0
or $4,000, 0O0, 900 at the command OF
farmers. Touching the kind Of banks
which are to handle this money Mr..
McAdoo declared it his view that only
central banks, those well-known,
should deal direct with the Govern
ment, while the smaller banks can
distribute the fund among those who
actually use it after the larger
have loaned it to the smaller.
Mr.. McAdoo CAV his eason for
this course in lending to the larger
banks. If there should be a few fail
ures it would upset the country so
that the President and / might get I'M
peached,' h said, and we are making
it easy for the smaller banks to get
money. We are going to insist upon
our interpretation of moving the
crop and if any banks act different
~ We ndll IcDIIxAIdII0 SNNS
persist, We will withdraw the money
and put it where h rules will be
obeyed."
Mr.. Hobbs was asked what he thinks
of the administration and ne tninks
a good deal. IT believe Woodrow Will
son is the greatest President that we
have had since the war" he said, land
regard Mr.. McAdoo as h greatest
Secretary Of the Treasury since Alex
ander Hamilton. ! was for Wilson be-
fore his nomination and it makes me
feel good to see him living above the
expectations that I IA long before ms
election.
He just sat and talked to us as il
were old friends. He sa:c to me: DO
you gentlemen realize that this is the
first time that the farmers have ever
been recognized by h national gov
ernment?' And I told him that we
realize it mighty we'll. The President
told us that Wall street had maoea an
effort to discredit his administrator
early and did it's best to bring on q
panic. We are not going to have one
And there will be money a-pienty,
Mr.. Hobbs continued, the
money centers will " to disgorge
when they ear that those who neeo
1T can get it without them. n Gay
Of making panics to order is over. In
the nature of things there can be nc
sense in one now when there are more
people in the world than ever, more
needs to be supplied, better prices iol
crops and larger promise than mas
been vouchsafed the people in many
years. We have a great administra'
ton and the test of it's ability has beer
TO prevent panic against the threats
of those who make them"
Mr.. Hobbs thinks the ability OF the
government to increase its fund 1ol
moving the crops will have the efIec'
of making unnecessary the increase e
$50, 600, 900. Already New Yorf
banks have begun to open up in con
temptation Of competitive business
seeing a freeze-out was impossible.