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Show 101 SEriATOR PREDICTS EARL! FAGTIDN FIGHT m Brookh&rt Pleased Orer Admission - by Moses That ConserratUes Must Unite- Againtt Radicals riATION'S FARMERS IN FORWARD MOVE Interests of Farmer and Laborer Now Declared to Be Mutual; Railroads Come In for Big Jolt CHICAGO. Ju! Jl (By. A. P.) Tbe progressive element In congress wilromea tha auiement attributed to flenator Moses of New Hamp-ahlre. Hamp-ahlre. In Washington yeeterdaf, ealllnc for cooperation of the con-servatlves con-servatlves of both Parties tj meet the "menace of radicalism" an will win aben. tha point cornea to Issue at the beelnnine of the next con-iresa. con-iresa. Senator Wraith W. Brookbart of Iowa sal.1 today. Ths IJncoln Hepubllcana nd tha Jefferson Demorrata will be prepared pre-pared for i uniting of the Tory Hepubllcana He-publlcana and the Bourbon pem.i-crata pem.i-crata whe. the next con are ss convenes,' con-venes,' air. Brookbart who passed through Chkaio on his wsy to his home In Washington. Ia., said. Commenting on the statemsnt of Senator Mnees, who Is chalrrmn of the Republicaiv eenatoiial campnteff committee. Mr. Brookbart aald that the pro -v selves were "prefer well orranlae-t cow.' and that they welcomed wel-comed the public atatement which reeognlZJd I hem to the est-nt ? calling for a combination of eon-taervatlvea eon-taervatlvea rf both partlea In ot4st to meet then-. EARLY TEST PREDICTED , The situation really would come ta Issue at tbe bra-inning of the nvx congress', "ne anld. In the lest of, strength and -the - "Lincoln tepua-licana tepua-licana and Jefferaon pemocratt,'' ill be characterised the progressives In i the two patties, would win, he -said. Mr, Brookbart denied that the present incilratlon toward tha progressive' pro-gressive' erdenclee in politic waa temporary or that It was fronflnrd a the farmers of the west qr the middle west. "I waa In 8o.'.or Moses state last Monday and 1 found the anma condition there among tha farmers ss exists 1n the middle weat,', Senator Brookhart aald. , ' "The farmers never have bad a square deal, he said, l "The prlcse be must pav and the.prtcea ha gets sre fixed tr the middleman-! T'ie one thing which haa aaved hint his been tha fact that ba got his lttnd from the government for l.ti an acre and that land haa edven-ed In i price from a low value. Now the advance In the price of land has ended. The price la backward. The financial interests of the eaat have determined to force the value of land beck by reducing mans, by using us-ing lib aa the vaulatlon of the best Illlnola and Iowa lands." The farmers now realise tha alt-nation, alt-nation, realise that they never h ve received a fair price for their Products Prod-ucts and that a large number - of them are faoed with bankruptcy, Mr. Brookhart aaasrted. SEES MUTUAL INTEREST. "The Interests of tbe farmer and the laborer are mutual." he aald. "The laborer la the principal customer cus-tomer of tbe farmer and the fermer la the principal customer of the laborer. la-borer. The middle profiteers are the common enemlea of both. j '-"Two thirds of the bank deposits are from the farm era and the labor- Ing people. Tbe federal reserve bank la built on these depoetta. Until recently re-cently neither the farmer nor the laborer had a voice In the federal reserve board and now tha farmers hsve one representative. ' There ought to be three farmers and two laborers on this board, and on thia proposition the farmers and the laborers la-borers are united. "They also believe that cooperative cooper-ative banking la the basis of the success of all cooperative enterprle-aa. enterprle-aa. They "need cooperative credit snd they hsve eufflclant 'funda.of their own If they are organised In a cooperative system. Their problems prob-lems ara too long atandtng. too far reaching and too Important to ba considered temporary.' Another point on which the farmers farm-ers snd laborers ara united. Senator Brookhart said, le that of the squeezing "the. water out of' the rallroada." ! "Tbe Interstate commerce commission com-mission paced a valuation of fit,-Ove.OOO.Ov fit,-Ove.OOO.Ov oa tbe roads, but the market vlue of the stocks and bonds at all tlmea haa been less than tl2.0Os.000.0O0," he aald. "The farmers and laborers are gnlted on squeezing out this water ' Senator Brookhart added that I both alao are willing to pay a bonus to the soldiers of the world war and to get the "profiteers to pay the Mil." t Tbe eenator left Chicago early thia evening and aald that ha would remain In Iowa for aoma time. He baa severs I Invitations for speaking speak-ing engagements, ha aald, and will fill some of them. |