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to be represented by men who have no interests in common 

 with themselves, whose advantage it is, indeed, that the 

 laws should be as complicated and obscure as possible 

 farmers can not hope that their interests will receive proper 

 attention. 



If this state of things be suffered to continue, the farmers 

 will have themselves to blame for their various grievances. 

 They must no longer suffer the village caucus to be manipu 

 lated by the Squire, the doctor, the merchant, and the 

 &quot; bummer,&quot; to whom, hitherto, they have been too ready to 

 leave the direction of their affairs. Farmers must attend the 

 primary meetings and see that, for the town and county 

 offices, as well as for the State and National legislatures, 

 persons of their own class, or known to be in sympathy with 

 them, be elected. 



Our farmers are not by any means free from blame for the 

 condition into which public affairs have drifted. They have 

 allowed their business to monopolize their attention, blind to 

 the fact that, while their assiduity may have netted them a 

 dollar, designing rascals were laying their plans for robbing 

 them of fifty cents. As a class, they neglected to inform 

 themselves upon the current topics of the day. Therefore, 

 they have fallen easy victims to swindlers of all shades 

 political swindlers chief of all. Now that they have awak 

 ened to their interests, we see the work of political regenera 

 tion making cheering progress, and still the tide is rising. 



UNITED, EARNEST ACTION DEMANDED. 



All other trades and professions, both in this country and 

 in England, have their recognized organs. Most of them have 

 an Association, Society, Club, Union, or something that 

 answers the same purpose. They never indulge in bickerings 



