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ization is completed, only at prices made by it. And 

 the work has only begun. You are asked simply to 

 conduct your business as other business is conducted 

 at the present time. It has been said that the twenti- 

 eth century farmer is a business man. It is for him to 

 show it. The opportunity will be offered to him. 

 A definite aim — dollar wheat and fair prices for all 

 other crops — will be placed before him. We are to 

 see whether he, like other business men, is able to 

 get what he goes after. To say that he can not do 

 this is to impeach his intelligence. Other men have 

 no difficulty in seeing what is for their own good, 

 nor will the farmer have. If others can organize, 

 he can organize — and he can be true to his organiza- 

 tion, especially when he would injure himself by be- 

 ing false to it. There will, of course, be predictions 

 of failure, as there have been already, but they will 

 come from the enemies of the farmer — from those 

 who flatter him by telling him that he is a business 

 man and yet want him to act as though he were a 

 child or a fool. But such criticisms are the surest in- 

 dications of success. If the movement were hopeless 

 or weak there would be no objections to it. The fact 

 that there are objections to it on the part of those 

 interested in defeating it, proves that it is practical 

 and powerful. The people at large, who love fair 

 play, will support the movement when they fully 

 understand it. 



