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that I helped him by doing my duty toward him in the first Congres- 
sional district. So my instincts are kindly. 
Mr. IX INCHELOE. You attributed your condition out there to 
this Republican prosperity? 
Mr. WELLER. We do not have any of the Republican prosperity 
any place In what I like to call the “bread and meat’ section of 
nmerica. 
Mr. KINCHELOE. Have you discussed this proposed legislation in 
conventions and things of that kind, and were the conventions 
extensive enough, where you came in contact in the conventions with 
the individual farmer, and does he know about these various bills 
and proposed plans for legislation that are pending here before 
Congress and have been pending for the last three or four years? 
Mr. WELLER. Yes, sir; our farmers as a class belong to two organi- 
zations; some of them to the third organization. We have farmers 
belongins to the Grange, farmers belonging to the Union and the 
farm Bureau. They are well posted. And I would say that about 
fury of our weekly country papers are continually taking up this 
subject. 
Mr. Kincaeror. What percentage of your farmers are in one or 
all of those organizations? 
Mr. WELLER. I can not answer that. 
a Dpeamnal You could not give an estimate? 
ga X, Vimaang, | i say. some of them have been so poor that 
they hb cept up their dues In those farm organizations. We 
os en them as organization men, however. 
Mr. KincreLoE. My purpose in asking you this was: I was t ing 
to cet at how much the farmers of 4 0 ne this 
es ri your State knew concerning this 
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3 \ypLLet. About what percentage of them are posted? 
Ar. hn . Yes. 
Mr. WeLLER. In the last tw ] 
: > la o years that percentage h sed 
¢ i ge has increased 
i my Jaiad, wonderfully. I would say I spoke before 60 farm 
agting ast spring, and every time we took up that subject, and we 
¢ D 3 a s 
Au nf b on orum on it. Lowes really Aalunihe at the understand- 
= £ 10 A . e ” a 
three or four years ago they Sere Dt of 4 however, thas 
know what the equalization fee meant T} I ed that some oe 
Was Tome ar ( ‘meant. hey pictured that some one 
coiling around to their grain bins and esti i 
bushals td making thom per Some bi # Lo imating the number of 
There was some sundersta di e kind of a fec right then and there 
to 507. But ae a class. tb an ing and misapprehension, I am frank 
hala Tot about whats e farmers read, and they do understand a 
Nir. Koronasr Th a S them, and seek a remedy. 
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answer to questions by Mr. Ken hel hove Jui bom paaing 
indicating vou sould fa cheloe are to be understood as 
Mr Weirer 1 Gaver a repeal of the tariff on wheat? 
tion along the fines hos say that in the expectation of farm legisla- 
If it did continue. in my o favor, no, I would not want to repeal it. 
whether wo ropealod y pinion, it would not make much difference 
Mr. KeTcHaM. What 
he position that the 1 am trying to get at is this: Do you take 
fr. WELLER. That is the wos bw he put in, this tariff picture. 
4 eel about it.