92 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



This is no overdrawn picture. What care these money 

 lords, who are seeking to carry the nation to a point where 

 consolidated capital will hold a centralized government at 

 its beck and to crush out the last vestige of that liberty which 

 was gained by the labor and the life-blood of the heroes of 

 the Eevolution? 



COMBINE, CONSOLIDATE, CONCENTRATE. 



Co-operation was inaugurated by the original framers of 

 Farmers Clubs and kindred societies. Its growth has been 

 slow, extending now over a century and a half. It is still 

 continuing to take shape; witness the increased interest mani 

 fested in practical education, and in Clubs, Granges, Farmers 

 &quot;Unions, and Agricultural Conventions. It may be consoli 

 dated by a movement to unite the farmer and the artisan, 

 which is even now engaging the talent of some of the best 

 minds of the country. 



Let the farmers of the country take hold unitedly in this 

 matter of co-operation, using the calm judgment for which, 

 as a class, they have always been noted, and they can hurl 

 from power those who have pandered to the monopolizing 

 tendency of capital. For it is this monopolizing power of 

 centralized capital that is sapping the foundation of the 

 people s liberties, and ; through the open and unblushing 

 purchase and sale of public men, rendering the government 

 a byword of contempt. The farmers of the United States 

 can accomplish this of themselves, if thoroughly combined. 

 United with the other industrial classes, their power will be 

 not merely irresistible, but overwhelming. 



&quot;When crime and false intent whether in the Judiciary, 

 in the Legislature, in Congress, or in the departments of 

 State shall have been made odious ; when the penitentiary 



