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this way they are to become business men and use their 

 approved business methods. 



"I never thought of that. It begins to look good to me." 

 If you will just keep quiet until I get through it will look 

 better to us both, and you will see many more advantages 

 in becoming a business man in addition to being a farmer. 

 You may then even admit that it would be a good thing for 

 farmers to go into politics, also, and elect members of their 

 unions to the Legislatures and Congress to look after their 

 interests as business men do, and fc as union labor is beginning 

 to do. There is absolute certainty, much more than that 

 you will raise a crop next year, that if the wheat producers 

 will put up the necessary labor and money to unionize, like 

 they have to do in advance for next year's crop, that they 

 can sell that crop for two or three times the price they will 

 get for it if they leave the price-making to gamblers and 

 speculators as heretofore. The only task for me is to point 

 out to them the desirability and advantages of receiving that 

 increased price until they are convinced that it is worth 

 while to stand the work and expense pf unionizing in ad- 

 vance. 



I have listed one hundred reasons why the wheat produc- 

 ers should unionize to win that increased price and other 

 advantages. Some more reasons got away before I could 

 list them, and many wheat growers will think of some that 

 I did not. 



I shall index them and make some sustaining arguments 

 briefly for each. The reader can elaborate on them ad- 

 infinitum. No claim is made that these reasons are arranged 

 in logical order in their relation to the subject. I listed them 

 as they occurred to me. Some of the arguments apply to 

 two or more reasons and repetition may occur. 



