Excerpt from Land Credits: A Plea for the American Farmer
Every one who attempts to write anything for publication in book form, should have some excuse for so doing. In my early manhood, I removed from my native State, Indiana, to Western Kansas, where I resided for about four years. I have lived in Oklahoma since its birth, April 22, 1889. Thus, for nearly thirty years, I have lived in a new country, where capital was comparatively scarce, and interest rates were high. Through the favor of the voters of the "old second" and the "new eighth" Congressional districts of Oklahoma, I have been four times elected a Representative in the Congress of the United States. I represent, in part, a great agricultural State. The vast majority of my constituents are farmers. Oklahoma has made wonderful progress. Her future is bright with promise. With all her immense mineral wealth, agriculture will always be her chief industry. Today, inadequacy of farm-credit facilities impedes her agricultural development. High interest rates, as I honestly believe, impose an unjust and an unnecessary tax upon her farmers. Primarily my object in writing "Land Credits" is to serve my constituents who have trusted and honored me, and to aid the great young State, which I am proud in part to represent. However, I recognize that as a Representative in Congress, in cooperation with my colleagues in the House, I represent in part the nation at large. I hope even that "Land Credits" may be a means whereby I will discharge a duty I owe to all my countrymen.
When the Sixty-third Congress adjourned, March 4, 1915, I was confronted with a situation entirely new to me.
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