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"All right, sir. If it's to be an exclusive for me I'll steer away the other newspaper men. But do you know just why Richard Dodd that man over there is damning you into shoe-strings?" Even at that distance Farr's keen gaze detected the filmy eyes and the flushed face. "Perhaps it's because the Corn-Growers propose to put their corn into johnny-bread instead of using it for whisky?"
Far otherwise was it for many years before the War, when corn-growers heard only its moaning, despondent note, telling anything but a flattering tale, only varied by an occasional angry growl, when irregular feeding choked its satiated appetite.
There seemed to be more or less mystery about this man who had provoked all those curses from the secretive chief clerk of the treasury. "Can you give me any information about these men who are meeting here to-day?" "Meeting of the Independent Corn-Growers' Association." The reporter's gaze was frankly skeptical, but Farr met it without a flicker of the eyelids.
A vast and non-sectional union of the corn-growers, wheat-raisers, and cotton-growers had been effected and the old time politicians were uneasy. As ten cent corn and ten per cent interest were troubling Kansas so six-cent cotton was inflaming Georgia and both were frankly sympathetic with Montana and Colorado whose miners were suffering from a drop in the price of silver.
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