Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-22

" mind of America.
you cannot find such wonderfully
inspired thoughts as that emanating from
|. the crowded, congested districts of tene-
ment quarters. This is the inspiration
and the dream Of the man who lived out
doors, who co-operated with his neighbor,
who was not elbowed about and embar-
raised by people jostling him about. He
thought along the lines of the posterity
and the farmers of America-ninety-h
per cent of the people living in America
at that time we're farmers. They made
possible this Republic of the United States
of America.
The Farmers Part.
They fought the wars. The monu-
Gated to the memory of those who fought,
Washington, Monroe, Jefferson and John
Hancock lived on tn farm. John Han
cock lived on the farm and was the head
of the Supreme Court; he was truly a
farmer Our Constitution is purely the
contribution of the farmers mind.
After launching the Ship Of State, one
thing happened which possibly changed
the entire trend and thought of the
engine, which made possible central fac
came the controversies Of the man who
owned the machine and the man who
operated the machine, and the contro-
versy has continued between the man
who owned the machine and the man who
operated the machine until the problems
of capital and labor have been solved far
e H. of
1--WE have had the problems of agricul-
ture facing us since the Revolutionary
War, but instead of solving them and
fighting them out and occupying the CEN
ter of the stage as has labor and capital,
agriculture has gradually retreated from
those problems. If the agricuturist has
had an acute problem in Kentucky, he
retreated to Ohio, and the expansive ter
ritory offered to the people of America
has afforded relief to the agriculturist in
these economic problems and has delayed
the solution of these problems possibly Is
years. The capital invested in agriCul-
ture is so strong that if the farmers should
in hand all of the railroads of the United
States, all of the manufacturing plants,
and then the next IS biggest industries Of
senting the capital invested.
A Washington Conference.
1--WE had a conference last April in
Washington-ou Executive Commit
tee of the American Farm Bureau FEEDER
ation-and we invited to this conference
representatives from every state in the
Union, leading agriculturists, flnanciers,
and we asked them questions. What is
the difficulty with agriculture in your part
of the country? And they brought in va
rious answers as to their difficulties that
were affecting agriculture in that part of
the country and we, after careful analy-
sis, were able to group them under prac-
tically four heads-t transportation diff
Guilty financial difficulty, marketing
difficulty, and a tax or tariff difficulty.
Allied then and closely identified with
those were the various groups under
which you could subdivide those heads,
but those we're the chief problems.
What do you consider is necessary in
a legislative way to correct these difficult
ties? They outlined program then to
be presented at Congress III this last
session. The Agricultural Bloc came
into being.
The Distribution Cost.
''In dining with Secretary Wallace and
Mr.. Hoover, and two or three more men,
bers of that like standing, this point was
brought up for discussion. Under our
present methods of transportation today,
| the center of production of the United
States is about at St. Louis, Missouri; the
! center of consumption is near Philadel-
phia in Pennsylvania Under our pres
ent methods of distribution it costs more
to take food assembled at St. Louis to
Philadelphia than it does to go down to
Argentine Republic or New Zealand and
! deliver that same amount of food to
Philadelphia.
There are tremendous responsibilities
placed upon the people of the United
States; not agriculturists alone, but every
| body identified with agriculture is inter-
ested in the correct solution of these
| problems, and there never was a time in
| the civilization of society where there were
more people looking towards the United
| States for the standard by which they
| shall standardize their type of c1vlllza-
ton at this time When | look over this
| whole country with that view, it seems
to me there never was call so great as
that upon the people of America today
to act in cooperative, friendly, patri-
| otto spirit to solve some of these problems.
The Farm Bureau has undertaken to
solve these problems for farmers as a
class 1t is the farmer. organized And
organized, he can do through his organ
ization, the Farm Bureau, what, if he at
tempted singly, would result in miser-
| able failure"
A pair of mems shoes weighs three
pounds and is priced at S10.50. A cow
hide weighs ffty-fve pounds and the
| price today is seven cents per pound. A
| farmer hauls hides to town and offers to
trade them to the storekeeper for shoes.
| If the storekeeper takes him up on the
basis of present prices the farmer finds
+ha+ ha &c not strong enoiInh To CARR