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INDEX 



Evarts, W. M., consulted on Potter law, 



187. 

 Everitt, J. A., American Society of Equity, 



337; Third Power, 337. 

 Examiner and Patron (Waco, Tex.), 328. 



Factories, Grange, 267-270. 

 Failor, A., organizes grange, 46. 

 Fairs, encouraged by Grange, 293, 294. 

 Far West, agricultural condition, 8. See 



also Pacific coast, West. 

 Faribault (Minn.), state grange session, 



162 note 2. 

 Farley, master of Manhattan Grange, 



257- 

 Farley and Company, Grange agents, 



257. 



" Farm Change in Politics," 346. 



Farm lands, increase (1860-80), 25, 26. 



Farm values, depreciation in East, 4. 



" Farmer as a ' Mediaeval Baron,' " 346. 



Fanners, relative status, 3; discontent, 

 3, 5, 7; effect of credit system on, 6; 

 inertia, 8; need cheap transportation, 

 9; purchase railroad stock, 10; antag- 

 onism to railroads, n; attitude to- 

 ward railroad rates, 14; physiocratic 

 theories, 16; and middleman, 16-18; 

 ignorance of market conditions, 17; 

 complaints against manufacturers, 18; 

 indebtedness, 19; and currency de- 

 preciation, 20; and tariff, 21; and 

 taxation, 22-24; political influence 

 before Civil War, 34; and politics, 

 34-36; political interests not consid- 

 ered> 35; small percentage in office, 

 35; social and intellectual conditions, 

 37; isolation, 37; lack of information, 

 38; lack of organization, 38, 41; or- 

 ganize clubs and granges, 44-79, 81; 

 dependence on railroads, 64; objec- 

 tions to Grange, 74; organize political 

 parties, 84-88; indebtedness, 104; 

 interest in politics aroused by Granger 

 movement, 108; interest in monetary 

 questions, 114; demand enforcement 

 of Illinois Granger laws, 144; support 

 Illinois railroad commission, 155; in- 



fluence on Illinois railroad legislation, 

 158; attitude toward railroad regula- 

 tion in South, 203; desire cooperation 

 with manufacturers, 238; organize 

 insurance companies, 271; benefited 

 by cooperation, 277; life broadened 

 by Grange, 279-282; later organiza- 

 tions, 302-306; join Knights of Labor, 

 308. See also Agriculture, Grange. 



Farmers' Advocate, title of Illinois and 

 Kansas papers, 322, 323, 324. 



" Farmers and the Supreme Court," 346. 



Farmers' and Laborers' Union of 

 America, 304. 



Farmers' Alliance, 302-305, 309, 310; 

 bibliography, 324, 336-339. 



Farmers' Blade (Neb.), 326. 



Farmers' Clubs, California, 59; early 

 organizations, 73; rapid spread, 74; 

 union in Illinois, 74-77; Kansas, 77; 

 connection with Independent parties, 

 81, 86, 88; influence legislation, 102; 

 confused with granges, 109; business 

 cooperation, 238; bibliography, 338. 

 See also Grange, National Farmers' 

 Alliance, Northwestern Farmers' Al- 

 liance, and various state farmers' 

 associations. 



" ' Farmers' Clubs' and the Railroads," 



345- 

 Farmers' Conventions, 74-79, 146. See 



also Producers' Convention. 

 Farmers' Cooperative Association of 



Kansas, 77. 

 Farmers' Cooperative Union of San Jose* 



(Calif.), 264. 

 Farmers' Declaration of Independence, 



86, 87. 



Farmers' Exchange of Grinnell (la.), 263. 

 Farmers' Fourth of July, 281. 

 Farmers' Friend (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), 



328. 



" Farmers' Future," 345. 

 " Farmers' Grievance," 332. 

 Farmers' Home. Journal (Ky.), 324. 

 Farmers' Journal (Carthage, N. Y.), 327. 

 Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, 



Stone v., 213, 



