On the contrary I am convinced that it would bring disaster to the American farmer.

I can deplore that divisions in the ranks of the farmers themselves only encourage those who oppose all farm relief, and can at best only bring delay and danger of entire failure.

A definite plan of farm relief was adopted by the Republican Convention at Kansas City.

The general result has been that our agricultural industry has not kept pace in prosperity or standards of living with other lines of industry.

The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the Federal Government alone.

It is bringing about a more economic production of all agricultural crops.

The Government of the United States wants to see the condition of the farmer continue to improve.

Sometimes I wonder if gatherings of farmers are not a little tired of hearing discussions of farm relief.

I am undertaking to provide for it to be carried on as a farm for the next year.

Abundant harvests have rewarded the labors of those who till the soil.

I submit it to your mature consideration whether, in view of the important benefits arising from the treaty to the trade and commerce of the United States and to their agriculture, it would not comport with sound policy to adopt that course.

The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.

The immediate proximity of Texas to the United States and the consequent facility of intercourse, the nature of its principal agricultural production, and the relations which both countries bear to several large rivers which are boundaries between them, and which in some part of their course run within the territories of both, have caused peculiarities of condition and interests which it has been necessary to guard.