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Excerpt from Remarks of D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture: At Conference of Editors of Agricultural Journals, Washington, D. C., November 20, 1918 I greatly appreciate your full response to my request and I would be untrue to myself if I were not also at this time, on behalf of the Department and the Government, to tell you how much the coopera tion of the Agricultural editors of the Union has been valued by the Department and the Government and how much it has contributed to the campaigns for the increased production of foods and feedstufl's and, therefore, to the successful prosecution of the war. The Depart ment has long recognized that the farm papers are perhaps the most effective printed mediums for reaching the millions of people living in the rural districts. We arrived at this conclusion a number of years ago after a very careful survey. I know of nothing that the better agricultural papers of the Union have omitted to influence thinking along right lines and to further the purposes of the Govern ment. I had two thoughts in asking for this conference. In the first place, I earnestly desire your advice, suggestions and criticisms as to the activities of the Department - past, present, and prospective. There is nothing which can be shown to be of value that the Department is not willing to undertake, within the limits of its powers and funds, to help the agriculture of the Nation. There is nothing that it is now doing which it is not willing to curtail or to eliminate 1f such action seems wise. Of course, the Department is not perfect. If it thought it were perfect, it would fail to do its duty effectively. For my part, I seek in my work here, as I hope I shall always do, to preserve an open mind and to receive every responsible suggestion and to give it the most earnest consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Houston was born in Monroe, North Carolina, on February 17, 1866. He was the second son and youngest of three children of William Henry and Cornelia Anne (Stevens) Houston. His paternal grandfather had been a planter in Union County. Houston's father tried his hand at farming, then moved in 1872 to Darlington, S. C. , where he engaged chiefly in dealing in horses and mules, making only a bare living for his family. At one time he ran a country store, in which young Frank worked.
After graduating from the College of South Carolina in 1887, Houston remained for a year of graduate study and then served as superintendent of the Spartanburg, S. C. , schools from 1888 to 1891. In the autumn of 1891 he went to Harvard for three years of graduate study in political science and economics, receiving the A. M. degree in 1892. With the strong support of President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, under whom he had studied, Houston rose rapidly in the academic world.
From 1894 to 1902 he taught political science at the University of Texas, establishing his scholarly reputation with the publication of A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina in 1896 and winning the confidence of his colleagues as dean of the faculty from 1899 to 1902. His election as president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (at College Station) in 1902 began a distinguished career of leadership in American higher education. From this position he returned to Austin in 1905 as president of the University of Texas, where he served until 1908. In the latter year he accepted the chancellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, Mo. , then in process of reorganization under the leadership of Robert S. Brookings. During the next four years Houston helped to transform it into one of the Middle West's important universities, earning a national reputation for administrative efficiency and academic integrity.
It seemed that Houston was destined for an even larger role of educational leadership, but fate and friends intervened after the election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States. The man chiefly responsible was Col. Edward M. House of Texas, Houston's intimate friend in Austin. It was House who, in December 1911, first brought Houston and Wilson together; it was House who, a year later, persuaded Wilson to name Houston his Secretary of Agriculture. A conservative in economic matters, Houston was something of a misfit in a progressive administration. He strongly opposed and, until 1916, helped to prevent the passage of legislation to establish a federal system of long-term rural credits. When the international cotton market collapsed following the outbreak of the first World War, moreover, Houston vigorously resisted southern-sponsored measures to commit the federal government to the support of cotton prices.
Yet Houston, like his chief, found that it was often politically safer to yield than to continue to oppose the demands of organized farm groups. Acquiescing in the passage of the Federal Farm Loan Act in 1916, he subsequently helped to establish a sound rural credits system. Moreover, he supported other measures that provided, first, for federal aid to the states for agricultural and vocational education and for the construction of hard-surfaced highways, and, second, for the federal licensing of agricultural warehouses. Houston left his strong impression upon these measures by insisting that strict federal standards in all programs of grants-in-aid to the states be established and maintained.
Houston made his most important contribution as Secretary of Agriculture, however, in his enlargement and reorganization of his department's administrative structure. Traditionally, the Department of Agriculture had emphasized improved methods of production; Houston gave more emphasis to other aspects of agriculture, especially to the problems of prices, marketing, and distribution. Establishing a Cooperative Extension Service, an Office of Information, and an Office of Markets, he drew many of the most competent agricultural economists in the country into the work of the department.
A model administrator, he did not interfere in policies that lay outside his own jurisdiction; nor did he attempt to influence the President's policies generally, except to join other cabinet members in advocating stern resistance to Germany's intermittent submarine warfare from 1915 to 1917. In February 1920 Houston was appointed Secretary of the Treasury to succeed Carter Glass of Virginia. His brief tenure of this office was marked by stormy controversies over federal fiscal policies. An ex officio member of the Federal Reserve Board, Houston was elected its chairman. Alarmed by signs of inflation and speculation, the Board attempted to halt the boom before it got out of hand in the early months of 1920, chiefly by issuing severe warnings and by increasing the rediscount rates. There then followed a severe decline in farm prices during the summer and autumn of 1920. Actually, the connection between the Board's policies and the collapse in farm prices was slight, if indeed there was any connection at all; but farm spokesmen accused Houston and his colleagues of deliberately wrecking agrarian prosperity, and the Secretary had soon become one of the best hated men in the country.
Leaving office with the outgoing President on March 4, 1921, Houston later in that year became president of the Bell Telephone Securities Company. In 1925 he was elected financial vice-president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Although mentioned as a Democratic presidential possibility in 1924, he took no part in politics in the 1920's, devoting his energies instead to business and educational affairs. From 1927 to 1940 he was president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He also served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and as a trustee of Columbia University. A retiring and reticent man, he quickly dropped out of public sight. When he died in New York City of a heart attack in 1940, few Americans remembered that he had once been a leading figure in the Wilson administration.
He is remembered as an American academic, businessman and conservative Democratic politician. He served under President Wilson as the 5th Secretary of Agriculture and the 48th United States Secretary of the Treasury. His memoirs, Eight Years with Wilson's Cabinet, 1913 to 1920 (2 vols. , 1926), have remained one of the major sources of information for the intimate discussions of the Wilson administration.
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On December 11, 1895, while teaching at the University of Texas, Houston had married Helen Beall of Austin. They had five children: Duval Beall, David Franklin, Elizabeth, Helen Beall, and Lawrence Reid.
