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about through our own efforts. If the farmers will make availa- 

 ble their power and use it wisely for the proper protection of their 

 own interests, there is nothing that is right which they may not 

 demand and hope to accomplish. If they will not do so, they 

 should cease complaining because of the inequalities of taxation 

 and other wrongs from which they suffer. Self-help is the one 

 thing needed by the farmers at this time. 



The additions recently made to our possessions make it all 

 the more important that the farmer should be in a condition to 

 guard well every agricultural interest. It is not now a question 

 of whether or not expansion is wise ; we have already expanded 

 and the fortunes of war have placed new and important responsi- 

 bilities upon our country, and the farmers must bear their share 

 of this responsibility and act wisely and patriotically in meeting 

 the same and especially see to it that no harm comes to the 

 farmers of our own country in settling these important questions. 



