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neither laborers nor farmers, and who are the retainers of 

 the rich at such fees and salaries as farmers and laborers 

 could not give. Therefore, they will favor the wealthy class 

 at the expense of both farmers and laborers in all legislation 

 to enable them to stay rich and continue paying huge lawyer 

 fees. 



As a life-long farmer I would much rather have members 

 of labor unions in Congress in place of these lawyers, though 

 they never saw the inside of a rich man's college. Their 

 interest and concern would be for the working people in- 

 stead of the idle rich, who prey on both farmers and city 

 laborers. 



Now, what do you unionized laborers say to the proposi- 

 tion of uniting with unionized farmers to oust these lawyer- 

 retainers of predatory wealth from Congress and placing 

 therein our own representatives? It can be done, and it 

 should be done. It would be worth billions of dollars an- 

 nually to each of our classes. We have the voting power to 

 do it. Why not use it for our own interests instead of using 

 it against our interest as both our classes have done in the 

 past? 



Farmers everywhere should unionize as fast as possible to 

 get in position to vote as a unit and put members of their 

 unions in all offices where they have the voting strength to 

 do it, and to unite with union labor where they have not. 

 They should discard Democrat, Republican and Socialist, 

 etc., as party labels and adopt their union name. This 

 would put them in position to know and vote for their friends 

 for offices. Each nationally unionized product would have 

 its political advisory board, which in connection with all such 

 boards would direct the political power of farmers in unison 

 to prevent its dissipation in divisions as it has been. With- 

 out such guidance farmers are as liable to vote for their 

 adversaries as for their friends, as they did in the last elec- 

 tion in Kansas by voting against their Congressmen who 

 worked for higher wheat prices. 



