The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-27

- roads were thought of, he asserted
 "All our commissions and nyesti- gations will be uselesse unless we de- velope competition through the. Such natural competition is the only way to regulate our railroads
 "I believe every waterway in this country should be developed 10 the greatest possible extent, provided. a thorough seryey by army engineers, it is found it can be done at a reason able cost. They should be given over to privately owened dimes, just as our railrods are. It is useless econ omy 10 attempt to cut any appropria- tion for such developement.'
 With a large number of Indians in his audience Gabe D. Parker, super iutendent of the five civilized tribes, which have headquarters in Musko gee, and former registar of the United States treasury welcomed the con gress delegates for the Indians of Oklahoma. Mir. Parker asserted that while large ndmbers of Indians .n this section have Lrown wealthy from the discovery of oil and gas on their land aIlotments, the vast majority must look to agriculture pursuits.
 Tribal and clannish relations should be done away by the Indians of the United States Mir. Parker said "The Indians should no longer be dealt with in the mass, but as individuals
 Major W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture of North Carolina. an other speaker declared several ser ious problems must be faced before the south can be rejuvenated.'
 We must create he said "a home owning yoemanry, who will raise crops to feed themselves and thus recover their lost independent coudi- ton. We must establish tne princi- ples of cooperation in buying and sell ing by means of twonship, county and state organizations. We must teach the farmer to think by inducing him
  farmers who know that they must live by the sweat of their brows be- the brow is situated in the back.
 We must nave rural credit laws that will free the farmer from the cures of borrowing and we must have currency system that will give the farmer the money he needs when he wants it."
 Myron r. Herrlck, former ambassa- dor to France, discussed rural credit and the question of state aid to farm CTS. He voiced his opposition to the Hollis-Bulkley bill and the McCumbei amendment, which, though they failed of passage in congress. con tained provisions for state aid which were bound to come up again
 State aid, in ordinary times" he said, "is great wrong and means simply the bestowal of benefit on one person at the expense of the pub lic The farmers are not chronic bor- rowers. The majority have no need of special favors; and when they real ize that they must pay by increased taxes their share of the cost and any loss they will oppose such class legis- lation.'
 MT. Herrick said he did not believe the intervention of government should go any further than the super vision and publicity now enforced against national and state banks.
 '1 believe that American farmers could obtain results from cooperation surpassing those in all other coun- tries if proper laws were enacted and correct principles followed" Mr. Her. rick continued Their self-suffic- iency and absence of community life, cited as arguments against its sue cess, are the very reason why coop erative organizations should be intro duced. Although America has no rural villages as in Europe, the auto mobiles of the farmer here eliminate the questions of distance and of sparceness of population.
 As soon as farmers were organ ized in local groups for banking ana business the headquarters would be- come the social center of the locality exactly in the German way
 Before farmers can do anything in cooperation worthy of its name they must first of all rid their minds of the false not in that it is intended mainly for the affairs of little people or per sons in distress. The rural co-opera- tive banks should not remain as iso- lated and detached associations for investing savings in loans in a neigh borhood They should be formed with view of serving as basic units of great systems and be authorized by law to carry on banking operations of all kinds subject to wise regula- tions and restrictions"
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