Not only have I no apology for what has been done in the interest of the agricultural community; not only do I regard it as one of the monumental achievements of the last generation in developing our country’s institutions, but I venture that we might with profit to the whole people consider the possibility of effecting an analogous organization to promote and encourage, through measures of credit and finance, a proper organization of the consuming community in both cities and country.
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Address in Idaho Falls, Idaho
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Those who were sure that our salvation lay in the destruction of organized labor and the precipitated reduction of wages have found that the national administration was not disposed to Acquiesce in their program.
Productive labor is staggering under an economic burden too heavy to be borne unless the present vast public expenditures are greatly reduced.
We have become convinced that somehow our system of distribution has grown too cumbersome, too costly, too complex, too indirect, too unrelated to the interests of real producers and legitimate consumers.
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