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combine to get it. Farmers should not have any- 

 thing to which they are not entitled. And it is not 

 the intention of the writer to array them against 

 their brethren of the capitalistic and labor classes. 

 All that is desired is that the farmer should profit 

 by the example set by these other classes. The de- 

 mand is for equity and nothing more. And equity 

 for one is equity for all. The farmer can not be 

 truly prosperous without benefiting the whole coun- 

 try. The country can not be prosperous without 

 the farmer is prosperous. Keep the farmer prosper- 

 ous and we can not have hard times. So the cause 

 of the farmer is the cause of the nation, and of every 

 citizen of the nation. Prosperity begins and ends 

 on the farms. Therefore, keep the farmers prosper- 

 ous. Keep the source of prosperity pure and strong, 

 so it will flow a powerful stream that will invigorate 

 every industry. 



Having shown how organization helps the capi- 

 talist and the workingman in their relations with 

 the business of government, it is now necessary to 

 show how it helps them in the ordinary conduct of 

 their own private business. The threshermen afford 

 an excellent illustration. Recently in Indiana they 

 have been asking and getting six or seven cents a 

 bushel for threshing wheat. The threshermen have 

 an exceedingly effective organization, and it makes 

 the price for threshing wheat. The farmers have 

 to pay it. The question is not whether or not it is 

 fair, but whether the threshermen can compel their 



