AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
DENVER, Coro. January 9, 1928.
To the Congress of the United States:
We take this method of advising you that the Colorado Wheat Growers’
Association is enthusiastically supporting the movement to get Government
loans for organization work and securing facilities to handle grain,
Mr. A. P. Sprague, who is representing the wheat pools to secure such legislation,
 will be glad to fully explain the whole matter to you. and we trust you
will give him your help.
[SEAL.]

Joe PLUMMER, President.
Harry (. STrPHENS. Secretary.

Mr. Kercuam. Now, Mr. Chairman, we have with us this morning
 Mr. Louis Taber, master of the National Grange, who wants
to continue the testimony that he gave on the opening of the hearing,
and also wishes to take a little time to answer any questions members
of the committee desire to ask him.
Mr. Wirrtams. How many more witnesses have you?
Mr. Kercuam. These to-day will round out the program.

STATEMENT OF LOUIS J. TABER—Concluded

Mr. Taper. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, we
feel that continued testimony is not necessary. We feel very
strongly that a careful perusal of the testimony will indicate the
justice of the ground upon which we stand and the purpose of our
organization.
I mentioned in the opening statement the method by which the
grange develops its program of action, and I want at this time to
read into the record the resolution of the National Grange, upon
which our whole program has been founded. You remember I
stated in the beginning that the grange can not take snap judgment,
and that its officers can not in any manner dictate its policy. We
can not have a set of resolutions handed down to the membership.
It must be discussed in the subordinates, in the Pomona. in the State.
and then in the National Grange.
One year ago at Portland, Me., the grange went on record in
favor of accepting the debenture idea of farm relief. That was
discussed in the Pomona, in the subordinates and States Granges
of the Nation. This year it met at Cleveland, Ohio, and had on
that occasion between 9,000 and 10,000 farmers at the convention.
The master’s report called attention to the export debenture idea.
The executive committee called attention to it; resolutions were
introduced on the floor. The national master appointed a special
committee, of which Jesse Newsom, of Indiana; Mr. A. S. Goss, of
Washington; Mr. Eugene Eckert, of Illinois; Mr. Harry A. Caton,
of Ohio; and Mr. D. H. Agans, of New Jersey, were members.
This committee held hearings every evening for a week, and finally
reported this as the consensus of opinion of our organization
[reading] :

REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FARM RELIEF

The National Grange believes that the disparity in ‘the purchasing power
of agricultural products can most readily and effectively be corrected by
apblying princinles such as the following