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this, and it is only a question of a little time when manu- 

 facturing plants will have to be convenient to lands where 

 the families of the hands can have a small tract of land to 

 cultivate. This requires good transportation facilities from 

 the homes to the factories. 



Corporate operation has been a great aid to human prog- 

 ress. Organization is man's orderly way of following the 

 Divine Plan for his economic salvation, yet the farmer has 

 profited less by organization than trades unions. Where 

 farmers have organized to aid each other to buy and sell, 

 they have gained wonderfully, but a beginning in this direc- 

 tion has but served to show how much more is needed. 



To the individual farmer with large area and small means, 

 the improvements in machinery that cheapen his produc- 

 tion are not at present available. The discoveries in methods 

 of fertilization of the soil only make it more difficult for him 

 to earn a living in competition with those whose ample 

 capital increases production by its use. Improvements in 

 fruits and vegetation, by hybridization and various methods 

 that add wealth to those of means, only add to the troubles 

 of our present small farmers. 



Hitherto corporate operation has been mainly for the 

 benefit of stockholders. The cases where those whose labor 

 creates dividends get more than wages have been rare. " A 

 living wage" has been the ambition of labor itself : all profit 

 beyond this is supposed to be the right of capital. There is 

 with some persons an unconscious reluctance to share profits 

 with labor lest the laborers become independent, and thus 

 reduce then* number to an extent to raise the labor market, 

 so that it is difficult to get fair consideration of any business 

 proposition that promises better conditions for the producer 

 or independence for the laborer. This is undoubtedly short- 



