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Show FARMERS GAIN BUYING POWER Wallace Tells Retailers They Must Also Come to Reasonable Level NEW FORK. Feb. 10. Increased pnri-h.isint: power of farmers whirh h i- resulted from recent advances In prices of farm products and decreases in other lines was cited by Seen rj Wallace in an address before the National Na-tional Retail Dryjroods association as 'a hopeful slpn to Industry in general." gen-eral." Eselmatlng that farmers and their families represented 40 per cent of tho population he declared, every, phase of business should be Interested in 'every sensible effort to get fanning fann-ing back on a sound basN." He dented what he termed the Widely held notion that corn belt farmers had plunged into land speculation specu-lation during the war years Probably Proba-bly not more than 10 pr cent of the cultivated land chanced hands, he said. "The farmer hius taken his full share and more of liquidation," be declared. "He has the right to expect ex-pect that others, such as manufacturers, manufac-turers, railroads, laboring men and retailers will follow hH example. Prices of things must corne down. "Farmers always have been and axe now the great stabilizing force in government." The so-culle,i "farm legislation" if last year, the speaker said, has be.n of just as much benefit to nil claases as it ls to the farmer, being designed to put "40 per cent of our people ln a position to help themselves." oo |