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new methods or combinations to secure the utmost returns 

 for their investments. 



Why should there not be organized effort among farmers ? 

 The greatest difficulty, heretofore, has been their apathy, 

 and their segregation one from another. But now the per 

 sistent exertions of a few leaders have awakened them and 

 broken up that apathy, and the wonderful increase of late 

 years in Clubs and Granges has counteracted, in a great 

 measure, the disability caused by their segregation. The 

 whole continent is aroused to the depredations of capital 

 upon labor, and the evil influences which monopolies are ex 

 ercising upon the consciences of our public men. 



There must now be no step backward. If the farmers of 

 the country now fail in asserting and maintaining their just 

 rights, they will cease to be free agents, and become 

 fitting subjects for the virtual slavery into which they will 

 then surely drift. Their only salvation is in their Societies, 

 their Clubs, their Granges. In union there is strength, 

 and in union there is growth. 



