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power in parts of Russia and are robbing and murdering the 

 farmers who own their homes, and take forcible possession 

 of them. The farmers are the only class who could cope with 

 the red terror of Bolshevism should it spring up in full force 

 in this country, and they would be powerless to defend them- 

 selves and their homes unless they are fully unionized so 

 they could be quickly mobilized. 



Are your homes worth defending against Bolshevism? It 

 is for the farmers to say and unionize if they are. 



Political Power of Unionized Farmers. 



Farmers have not yet tapped their greatest source of 

 wealth political power. By unionizing and becoming class 

 conscious, and going into politics as a voting unit, as union 

 labor will do, the farmers can capture the law-making and 

 Enforcing offices, and consequently the advantages and pow- 

 ers pertaining thereto. 



It has been intimated to me that the minimum price sys- 

 tem herein advocated would run afoul of the anti-trust laws 

 and be prohibited. But I understand that organizations of 

 farmers and laborers are exempted. However, it should be 

 tried out to see if the farmers are helplessly tied down while 

 a hundred trusts and profiteerers are allowed to skin them 

 financially. 



Since unionized capital, unionized labor and unionized 

 professions do agree collectively .on prices for their labor 

 and services, farmers must be allowed to do the same to be 

 on equal terms and advantages. It might be timely to take 

 a survey of the farmers' potential political power and their 

 relative power to other classes, especially organized labor. 



The 1910 United States Census enumerates those in all 

 occupations as 38,167,336, of whom 8,075,772 are females. 

 Engaged in agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry, 

 12,659,203, or 33.2 per cent ; manufacturing and mechanical 

 industries, 10,658,881 . or 27.9 per cent ; domestic and personal 



