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When these Grain Growers started out they did not 

 know very much about what was going on. They had 

 their suspicions; but that was all. To-day they know. 

 Their business activities have taught them many things 

 while providing the resources for the fight that is 

 shaping unless the whole monopolistic system lets go 

 its stranglehold. 



Yes, the farmers do talk about freedom in buying 

 and selling; also about tariff reform. They point out 

 that there are criminal laws to jail bankers who dared 

 to charge from twenty-five per cent, to forty-two per 

 cent, for the use of money ; that food and clothing and 

 the necessaries of life are the same as money and that 

 high tariff protection which fosters combines and 

 monopolies is official discrimination against the many 

 in favor of the few ; that there are other and more just 

 forms of taxation and that all old systems of patronage 

 and campaign funds have got to go if the grave 

 problems of these grave times are to be met successfully. 



It is no old-time " Hayseed " who is discussing these 

 things. It is a New Farmer altogether. The Farmers' 

 Movement is no fancy of the moment either, but the 

 product of Time itself. It is a condition which has 

 developed in our rural life as the corolla of increased 

 opportunities for education. The Farmer to-day is a 

 different man to what he was ten years ago indeed, 

 five years ago. 



It has taken fifteen years of bitter struggle for the 

 Western farmers to win to their present position and 

 now that they are far enough along their Trail to 

 Better Things to command respect they are going to say 

 what they think without fear or favor. They believe 

 the principles for which they stand to be fundamental 

 to national progress. 



