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effectively for the improvement of the agricultural 

 situation. 



Who dare predict that farmers can not and will 

 not stand by each other in a great national body for 

 business benefits? He might as well attempt to deny 

 that millions of farmers have not been loyal to the 

 great political parties, Republican and Democratic, 

 these many years. If the farmers will rally to the 

 support of their party in politics as often as called 

 upon will they not be faithful to themselves in a 

 business body? The farmers united in the great 

 American Society of Equity will each find a brother 

 at his elbow on the right and on the left who is 

 wearing the badge, "For Profitable Prices." They 

 all have common interests. When they are called 

 upon by headquarters to express themselves on any 

 matter it will appeal to them even more than politics. 

 The appeal will not be ambiguous. What they will 

 be asked to do will be for their benefit. Their self- 

 interests will be appealed to and why should they do 

 otherwise than cast their vote in favor of their own 

 interests? If the farmers are told to ask a fair price 

 for cotton, wool, wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, eggs, 

 milk, butter, tobacco, vegetables, fruit, hogs, cattle, 

 etc., and each farmer knows that the word goes out 

 to the millions of other farmers all over the broad 

 land, do you suppose they would do the contrary 

 thing? Or if we will admit that all will not obey, — 

 some because they can not stop marketing, — there 

 will still be enough in this great body to control the 



