Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-08-09
he ala not sunderst Moreover
endorsement of the ship subsidy graft
was contrary to the mandates against

WAS the. mandateSs against
aidfessoi c any All sall Kinds, tpeat.
eddy expressed the sAmericans Farm
EBureau Fede ation which. he pretend
Ted 10 5represent. q wit out due warrant
For such represents ion: Certainly the
history Of farmers, 20 Organization has
f|ever before presented such a pitt
fable reprehehsible spectacle of be
trayaI and ignorance.
h do not want my readers to think
that am expressing my own opinion
alone NY view As shared 81 many
Others, Let me quote briefly from 4
speech delivered in congress on June
22d by r Representa- Rufus Hardy,
|3of Texas, in the course Of which he
spoke sof Mr.. Howard in this manner:
One i. r. Howard. president of the
American Farm Bureau,sa salaried POI
sition, in the city OF Chicago, was seen
andsgiven data by Mr. sLask Just
how much he was persuaded by him I
do not know, but he was induced to
send a telegram saying that the AM
erican Farm Bureau favored the abill
and he came voluntarily, and when he
came he was cross -examined He FAD.
mitted that his Organization had al:
ways opposed any subsidy on princi-
yple, and that they had never in any
convention or otherwise endorsed this
or any other ship subsidy bill But
claimed that he and certain other gen
stlemen whom he had selected. had con;
sstituted themselves "a committee and
had studied and approved the bill;
This committee included Clifford
Thorne, "a lawyer, certain manufact:
urers, and traffic managers, and they
got together and agreed they would
support the bill, and so the telegram
was sent They seem to have done all
their Investigation in Chicago, and
here with Lasker. and that is all of
their farmer endorsement
On cross:examination it appeared
that he did not represent any organi53
cation of farmers in sending the tele-t
gram; that in his own brain after be-
ing thoroly dressed by the argument
of Mr.. Lasker and talking with his
Chicago committee, he was for the
bill, altho he admitted that his order
in convention had declared themsel-
YES on general principles opposed to
subsidy legislation. So it seems to
me- s5%
Mr.. Davis, of Tennessee. If the gen
tleman will yield, right in that con-
nection I think it well to state that
Mr. Howard or Gray Silver, one Of the
Howard committee, was invited to the
white house to luncheon and appealed
to by the president and Mr.. Lasker on
behalf of this bill. At the time he
sent the telegram endorsing the bill,
he, Mr.. Howard, was an active candi-
date for a place on the Federal Re
serve Board. 81.
Mr. Hardy Of Texas. Well, do not
know that, but his cross-examination
absolutely wiped from under his feet
any pretense that he represented any
farm organization in his support of
/ sAAS ~ u |AA1C lac i CoS1y AAuOA otOOp
many features of the bill
There is no longer any question in
my mind but that Mr. Howard spoke
only for himself, Clifford Thorne and
their political and business associates,
without regard to what the rank and
file of the members of the-American
Farm Bureau Federation, and farmers
generally, thought, wanted or needed
Is such action to be rewarded by a
'$12; O00-a-year position as member OF
the Federal Reserve Board, which
holds the financial system and the
success or failures of hundreds OF
thousands of individuals and institu
tons in the hollow OF it's hand?
! I, for one, believe that such a deal
is pending and do not believe thai
a million and more farmers should be
8 misrepresented .and betrayed lin ordel
that one man may receive a highly
aEpaid,. soft-snap governme position,
Iowa Home stead.
$50 -........ -. -.
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