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Lower Prices to Consumers. 



From the preceding article some consumers might get the 

 impression that to enforce a better price to farmers would 

 require raising it to the consumer ; but it would not neces- 

 sarily have that effect. It would mean lessening the great 

 difference between the price the consumer now pays and 

 what the farmer gets a part going to each. For instance, 

 an article that the farmer how gets one dollar for costs the 

 consumer four dollars, leaving three dollars, which could be 

 divided by three, giving the farmer one dollar more, the con- 

 sumer one dollar less, leaving one dollar for legitimate busi- 

 ness, and the speculator and profiteerer eliminated. It would 

 tend to increase both production and consumption to thus 

 divide between them the great difference in prices now pre- 

 vailing. It should never cost half as much to distribute 

 products as. to produce them. 



Were the producers of all farm products unionized they 

 could aid greatly in the distribution of their products, and 

 by using their influence to induce the government to take 

 over and operate all public utilities would further lessen cost 

 of distribution. 



With so much to be gained by unionizing, no class of farm 

 products should long remain unorganized after the wheat 

 growers demonstrate that it can be done. 



Dependable Expert Advice. 



Wheat growers are often advised to act against their in- 

 terest to the advantage of conflicting interest, thus aiding 

 speculators to beat them out of their wheat. The advisory 

 board of their union, composed of their own members, would 

 study their interest from every angle on all matters pertain- 

 ing to the raising, care, storage, grading, marketing, etc., of 

 wheat. They would be advised how best to not only raise 

 the largest possible yield but how to sell it without lowering 

 the price. They could rely upon this advice as being for 



