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&quot; Fourth : That, if there be no such remedy, measures should be 

 taken to secure one by appropriate legislation. 



&quot; Fifth : That statistics should be collected and published to show 

 the relation of North-western products to those of the rest of the 

 country. 



&quot; Sixth : That nothing can be accomplished for the enforcement of 

 our rights, and the redress of our wrongs, without an efficient organi 

 zation on the well-known principles that give the great corporations 

 such tremendous power. 



&quot; Seventh : That, with honest pay for honest labor, and compensation 

 commensurate with great service, we can secure the assistance and 

 support of the highest order of learning, ability, and skill. 



&quot; Eighth : That this Convention should appoint a commissioner of 

 agricultural and carrying statistics, to prepare and publish, with thq 

 aid of eminent counsel, a report of the products of the North-west, 

 the rights to market and transportation, and the remedies available 

 for existing wrongs, the expenses thereof to be defrayed by subscrip 

 tion price for such report.&quot; 



Hon. H. C. Wheeler was promptly, elected Statistician, 

 and after the appointment of an Executive Committee, the 

 Convention adjourned. 



ONLY A PARTIAL SUCCESS, AND WHY. 



Great results were expected from the meeting of this body. 

 Nothing practical, however, came of it, except that it was 

 the entering wedge, that opened the way to further work in 

 the same direction. 



It was obvious to all thinking men that the Statistician 

 could not work without money, and that no working farmer 

 could stand the necessary drain upon his pocket in collecting 

 statistics, and in employing legal talent to sift existing laws. 

 Thus, so far as remedying abuses, the first Bloomington Con 

 vention was a failure. Not so, however, as to its moral 

 bearings. It was the plow that broke into the stubborn soil 

 of monopoly. But plowing alone, the farmer well knows, 



