82 THE FARMERS IN COUNCIL. 



prosperity and contentment all over the State, and secure the 

 good-will of the entire producing classes; or it has the power 

 temporarily to extort an unjust and unreasonable amount for the 

 performance of this labor, and thus oppress the agriculturists, 

 drive prosperity and thrift from their doors, produce suffering 

 and discontent throughout the land, and provoke the ill-will and 

 the combined opposition of the people who have this labor to 

 give and the freights to carry, and who, while acting as individ 

 uals, have no influence or power, but who, when forced to com 

 bine, will have all the influence and all the power. 



&quot;There is no proposition clearer than that a liberal policy, 

 adopted and carried out by the capitalists, the produce dealers 

 and grain buyers and freighting companies of the State toward 

 the industrial classes, will result in the mutual benefit of all, in 

 the increased population and redoubled prosperity of the State. 

 Equally clear is the other proposition that the opposite policy 

 will secure the opposite effect and will form a combination of 

 those industrial classes for their own protection. 



&quot;The organization of the farmers clubs throughout the State 

 is one of the first fruits of this latter policy. It is an evidence 

 that the farmers feel their wrongs and know and mean to apply 

 the remedy. They have the power to regulate alike the rate of 

 interest on money, and the rate of freights on railroads. The} r 

 have the power to dispense with all middle-men, and by co-opera 

 tive systems, to dispose of their own produce directly to the con 

 sumers, free of all commissions and all unnecessary charges.&quot; 



The Sacramento convention brought together the following 

 delegates : 



Sonoma County Club E. A. Thompson, A. TV. Middleton, Wil 

 liam H. Eector, Henderson Holmes, G. W. Davis, John Adams. 



Napa County Club J. B. Saul, ..James M. Thompson, W. H. 

 Nash, &quot;Wm. Gouverneur Morris, T. L. Griggs, W. A. Truebody, J. 

 M. Mayfield, W. A. Fisher. 



Vacaville and Pleasant Valley Fruit Growers Association T. O. 

 Bingham, Wm. Cantelow. 



Sacramento County Farmers Club I. N. Hoag, S. N. Baker, W. 

 S. Manlove, James Eutter, William M. Haynie. 



Oakland Farming, Horticultural and Industrial Club Dr. E. S. 

 Carr, T. Hart Hyatt, Christian Bagge, A. D. Pryall, and A. T. 

 Dewey. 



Santa Clara County Club W. H. Ware, Jesse Hobson, C. T. Set- 

 tie, Chipman, Gary Peebles. 



Sutter County ClubJohn Mcllmoil, M. Wilson, C. P. Berry. 



