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Mr. KiNcHELOE. You seem to have more faith in these boards set
1 bv the Government than I do.

Mr. Stone. I haven’t expressed it.

Mr. KincaELOE. 1 thought you were very optimistic just now.

Mr. Stone. No.

Mr KincueLok. I thought you said leave it to them, and if they
jon’t do right leave it to repeal.

Mr. Stone. 1 did.

Mr. KincaeLoe. I would like to have you show me a board created
'n this Government hére in the last seven years that has been repealed
except some war boards. I am a little apprehensive about them
when they are responsible to nobody. There are autocratic boards
by the dozen here right now, and if you will look at this independent
offices appropriation bill that is before the House to-day, and see
these boards that are set up at the cost of millions, and none of them
responsible to anybody, I don’t think you would be optimistic as to
those boards, and a means of getting rid of them, as you now are.

Mr. Stone. If I left the impression that I was optimistic about
them or any of them, I left the wrong impression.

Mr. KincaeLok. Then I certainly misunderstood you. :

Mr. Stone. I have been fooling with this game 57 years, and it
‘as been up one time and down the other.

Mr. KiNcHELOE. Yu mean the cotton game?

Mr. Stone. Yes.

Mr. KincueLoE. I was talking about this government game up
here; this bureaucratic form of government.

Mr. Stone. I have been watching that too, and I think I am
entirely orthodox in that. I think there has been entirely too much
of it. I never did believe even in women’s suffrage, and do not now.

Mr. KincHELOE. You charge the woman vote of this country
with the responsibility for this bureaucratic government of ours?

Mr. Stone. That is an assumption on your part, not justified
by my statement.

Mr. KincuELOE. I don’t seem to be able to draw any other con-
clusion, when you say you are against women’s suffrage, and therefore
are not orthodox on that proposition. Why do you say that?

Mr. Stone. Just on general principles, like I am not in favor of the
eighteenth amendment, although I do not drink. I think we have
too many boards, too many bureaus, too much government in this
country.

Mr. CLarRkE. And too many laws.
oJ StoNE. Too many laws, rather than proper observance of

Mr. AsweLrL. I am deeply interested in this point. You said
you were for equalization, an equalization fee on cotton.

Mr. Stone. Yes.

Mr. AsweLL. Honestly for it?

Mr. Stone. I don’t know any other way to be for anything,

xcept honestly for it.

Mr. AsweLL. That is what I say. I am emphasizing your honesty.
Mr. Seow, Yes. It needs emphasis in times like this, y
zation fon ou 1 a Congress were to pass a bill without the equal-
vp ii an ing your insurance plan, providing for $400,-

$ g fund, would vou be for that, without the fee?

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