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retracted their overbearing diction to deal with the Granges 

 only through the manufacturers agents, and they acknowledge 

 that their profits remain unimpaired. In the end, all manu 

 facturers must come under the same system, or go to the 

 wall. One of their great savings, and one not previously 

 estimated, is, that they are not obliged to keep immense 

 stocks scattered all over the land, constantly depreciating in 

 value, and in various ways entailing a considerable percent 

 age of losses. The new system of direct purchases will 

 eventually do away with a class of middle men or agents, 

 many of whom have been but little better than &quot; grain 

 scalpers,&quot; living as they did, and growing rich from their 

 inordinate commissions, and having a monopoly of the 

 articles sold. One of the very proper aims of the Patrons 

 is to do away with such exactions. 



CO-OPERATION OF INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS 

 NECESSARY TO ULTIMATE SUCCESS. 



Every Grange, Farmers Club, Farmers Union, Farmers 

 Co-operative Association, and every similar organization of 

 whatsoever name that has sprung up throughout the land, 

 since the banner of resistance to monopoly has been raised, 

 must not only co-operate with other Granges, Clubs, Unions, 

 etc., but these several organizations must learn to work 

 unitedly, as one coherent whole, toward all legitimate ends 

 that it may seem necessary to secure. 



The assumption is reiterated and insisted on, that all 

 these bodies must assist and co-operate with each other 

 upon all vital questions, whether social, financial, or even 

 political. 



Some of the leading partisan journals of the day begin to 

 see the beginning of the end, and are endeavoring to preju- 



