The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-22
TWIN FALLS BANK &
TRUSTCOMPANY

perfectly plain that ] am advising you
to take the best care you can. not OILY
of yourselves, but of the merchants,
the lawyers. the politicians. You have
been taking care of them all your
lives. God knows somebody has got
to do it. Since you have been doing
it so long / don't know why you
should ask somebody else to do it
now. But if 1 were you l would take
care of them under little different
arrangement. You can do it and take
better care of them. The farmers /
speak about in the city of New Rock
ford did not kill a single politician
merchant, lawyer or newspaper man
AS a result of that experience some
of them nearly died, but not quite
They got quite hungry but they didn't
die and they are all in better condi-
ton now than they were before that
experience, both physically, mentally
and morally.
We'll through this campaign, edu-
cational in every way, the farmers
and their friends in North Dakota
gathered strength enough so that at
the next election-the next election in
the state of North Dakota, they elect
ed everybody frem governor to dog
catcher They failed in the election of
of 10 representatives and "a out of
25 senators. But there are still %
hold-over senators. You know what
a hold-over senator is, don't you? A
hOld-over senator in North Dakota is
a fellow who represents the Mime
apolis Chamber of Commerce and you
can't get a crack at him when you
want to- They didn't have a chance
to vote on "a of them, so that our
friends outside of North Dakota still
had control of our government ma
chinery and prevented us from put
ting into operation very much of the
new program, but we did squeeze
through some 25 or 80 good progress
sive remedial pieces of legislation,
any one of which is worth the $16 the
farmers paid This one grain grading
law with little old Dr. Ladd at the
head has saved us three or four hun
dred thousand dollars this last year.
so we have all got our money back,
and the farmers think they have had
SIG worth of fun with the politicians
1t is the best show you ever saw, SIG
worth of vaudeville that lasts two
years.
NOW I want TO talk to you a little
bit about yourselves. Let's come back
from North Dakota to Idaho. / want
to talk to you about a matter almost
confidential You have noticed that
the most important part Of any bust
ness, the most important port of any
bOdys business is the price Let's
take the bankers. The most impor-
tant part of the bankers business is
how much he gets for the use of
money. How much he pays for il
and how much il costs him to fore
close on the farmer. The most inn
portant part of the grain business TO
J. K. Mullens is how much he has 10
pay you for grain. The most impor-
tant part of the BARRIERS business is
how much he gets for a shave or a
hair cut. The most important part Of
/ his business is not how long is the
hair. You would think a barber pref
| " foolish if he didn't care anything
about the price but just wanted plen-
! ty of long hair to cut. The most i'm
portant part of the boot-black's bust
ness is what he gets for backing
boots. The most important part even
of the l. W. w. business is how much
he gets for picking your apples or
your potatoes. Now the most impor-
tant part of a farmers business is
how much he gets for what he sells
and how much he pays for what he
buys. 1t is vitality necessary that the
farmer have the right to fix the price
of what he raises, fix the price OF
what he sells. The most important
part of the business now is what price
you get and what price you have TO
pay. Now the railroads and the bank
ers and the BARRIERS and the merchants
have all attended to this most i'm
portant part of their business. The
LAWYERS also have not neglected. If n Z
all
$50 I say, since the other fellows
have all attended to this most impor-
tant matter you must have attended to
it, too. 1 wanted to find out how far
you have gone in the matter of at
tending to the prices of the things
you sell and the price of the stuff You
buy l want to know how far you
have gone I'm attending to the most
important part of your business. ]
am going to ask any man in the aud
fence to tell me how much he and the
rest of this community have had 10
1 say about the prices of the stuff they