190 OHIO
HISTORY
27. Gladys Baker and others, Century
of Service, the First 100 years of The United
States Department of Agriculture (Washington, D. C., 1963), 109-113.
28. Letter, Harding to Wallace, October
14, 1922. Box 1, Harding Papers.
29. Stenographic Report of the
Conference called by Secretary H. C. Wallace in
Washington, February 13, 1922, "To
Consider Means of Re-establishing a Price Ratio of
Exchange Between Farm Products and Other
Products," Typewritten Copy in USDA
Library, p. 64, as quoted by Taylor, Agricultural
Economics, 590; Henry C. Taylor,
"Henry C. Wallace And The Farmers'
Fight For The Right," Unpublished Manuscript
(1925), in Taylor Papers, State Historical
Society of Wisconsin, Madison; Henry A.
Wallace, New Frontiers (New York,
1934), 147-149.
30. Letter, Hoover to J. R. Howard, July
23, 1921. Copy in Box 4, Department of
Commerce-Agriculture Department, Hoover
Papers, Herbert Hoover Archives, West
Branch, Iowa.
31. Letter, Hoover to C. C. Teague,
December 1, 1924. Copy in Box 4, Hoover Archives.
32. Letter, Hoover to E. D. Funk, May
31, 1924. Copy in Box 3. See also "Memoran-
dum," undated [circa 1924] and
marked "not to be given out." Box 4, Hoover Archives.
33. Letter, Hoover to Representative
Sydney Lenroot, February 23, 1923; Hoover
to Senator Arthur Capper, September 17,
1924. Copies in Box 4, Hoover Archives.
34. Address by Herbert C. Hoover at the
Cooperative Meeting, San Francisco, Novem-
ber 6, 1924. Box 4, Hoover Archives.
35. "Memorandum," undated
[circa 1924]. Hoover Archives,
36. Congressional Record, 68th
Cong., 1st sess., vol. 69, Part I, 100; Coolidge's complete
adherence to the doctrines of laissez
faire was stated even more bluntly to the Inter-
national Live Stock Convention at
Chicago on December 4, 1924, when the President
asserted the farmer's "business and
his welfare are all governed by natural and inevitable
laws," Quoted in Congressional
Digest, IV (October, 1925), 261.
37. Homer Walten to Brown, October 20,
1921. Copy in Case File 1-1A1, Calvin
Coolidge Papers.
38. Letter, Wallace to Brown, January
16, 1923. Copy in Case File 1-1A1, Coolidge
Papers.
39. Wallace stated his objections to the
bill in a letter to Senator W. L. Jones, Chair-
man of the Commerce Committee, June 2,
1924. Copy in Coolidge Papers.
40. Such rumors were given periodic
official denials: Letter, C. Bascom Slemp (Secre-
tary to the President) to L. A. Andrew,
September 12, 1923; Bascom to L. French,
March 6, 1924; and Slemp to William
Hirth, July 30, 1924. Copies in Coolidge Papers.
41. Letter, Wallace to Coolidge, April
8, 1924. Copy in Box 2, Hoover Archives.
42. "What They Said At Galesburg
Meeting" Prairie Farmer, January 26, 1924, p. 94.
43. U. S. House of Representatives,
Committee on Agriculture, Hearings, on H. R.
5563, 68th Cong., 1st Sess., 1924
(Washington, D. C. 1924), 119. Reprint in Hoover
Archives.
44. Henry C. Taylor, "Henry C.
Wallace and the Farmer's Fight," unpublished
manuscript in Taylor Papers; State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison. Other
farm leaders felt the same way; see
Gilbert C. Fite, George Peek And The Fight For
Farm Parity (Norman, 1954), 106.
45. James W. Murphy, ed., Last
Speeches of President Warren G. Harding (Washing-
ton, D. C., 1923), 79.
HARDING
ADMINISTRATION AND
RECOGNITION OF
MEXICO
1. James Morton Callahan, American
Foreign Policy in Mexican Relations (New
York, 1932), 581. See also Fernando
Iglesias Calderon to Myron M. Parker, October 5,
1920. Box 478, Warren G. Harding Papers,
Ohio Historical Society. Calderon describes
an interview with Fall and tells about
Fall's ideas on recognition.
2. Report of interview of Alvaro Obregon
with George T. Summerlin, September 13,
1920, in "Relations Between the
United States and Mexico, 1910-1929," 812.00/246421/2
Microfilmed State Department Records.
Many of the State Department dispatches cited
herein also appear in Foreign
Relations of the United States (Washington, D. C., 1936)
for the years 1921-22-23.
3. Bainbridge Colby to Roberto
Pesqueira, November 20, 1920, 812.00/247011/2. See
also, John W. F. Dulles, Yesterday in
Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919-1936
(Austin, Texas, 1961), 91.
4. George Creel, The People Next
Door: An Interpretive History of Mexico and the
Mexicans (New York, 1926), 358.
5. Stuart Alexander MacCorkle, American
Policy of Recognition Towards Mexico
in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in
Historical and Political Science (1933), LI, 94.
6. Memorandum of A. J. Pani, April 30,
1923, 711.1211/189.
7. Creel, The People Next Door, 358.
See also Arthur Russell Jones to Warren G.