120 FARMERS' UNION AND FEDERATION 



am not putting it too strong when I say that one man with the backing 

 of 7,000,000 farmers employed to aid in shaping legislation and one man 

 in the gallery checking up and making records would bring better 

 results, so far as the farmer is concerned, than any 2,000 men employed 

 in the Department of Agriculture." 



How Farmers Can Control Congress and Legislatures. 



Having seen how unionized capital and labor have been 

 favored by Congress at the expense of the unionized 

 farmers, the great importance of gaining control of Congress 

 is vividly brought out. That can easily be done through the 

 ballot as already in use, by the farmers unionizing and voting 

 unitedly at the primaries for candidates of their own choos- 

 ing and giving them their entire vote at the general elections. 



When all products are unionized and federated into one 

 community of class-conscious interests, each State Federation 

 will have a political advisory board to advise their members 

 how to proceed in political matters so they will not vote 

 against their own interests. This board will make a survey 

 of each Congressional district in the State to ascertain how 

 many members each separate union has in each. The union 

 having the most members will be entitled to the Congress- 

 man, and members of all the other unions will be instructed 

 to vote for him. The same process will be adopted for each 

 State in selecting the Senators. Thus all unionized farm 

 products will be proportionately represented in Congress. It 

 will be immaterial whether they be Democrats or Republi- 

 cans, as their primary duty will be to look after the interests 

 of their constituents. The same process will be adopted in 

 electing State Legislatures. Thus the legislative power of 

 unionized capital and labor both will pass into the hands of 

 unionized farmers. 



It is worth billions of dollars annually to the farmers to 

 take over the law-making business of the States and Nation 

 to themselves, which they can easily do by unionizing, and 

 which they are entitled to by their numbers. The agricul- 



