CHAPTER XI 



All hail the cause of Equity ! 



Let all the nation ring 

 With glad huzzas from wakened hearts, 



That blithesome tribute bring. 

 In honor of the dawn of truth, 



Of justice, fair and right; 

 For farmers who so patiently 



Have waited for the light. 



That light is swiftly coming now; 



It spreads along the way, 

 And brightens all the world about 



With its hope-giving ray. 

 Soon, soon the day of right shall glow, 



In splendor through the land, 

 When every farmer lad shall march 



In Equity's fair band. 



Such are some of the needs of the farmer. It has 

 been shown that they can be satisfied only through 

 organization, and it must now be inquired whether 

 the American Society of Equity is the sort of an or- 

 ganization that the situation demands. A consider- 

 ation of the subjects that it proposes to accomplish 

 will at least prove that its founder intends it to do 

 the work which it has been said must be done, if the 

 farmer is to wield the power that he should wield. 

 The objects that it aims at are precisely the ones 



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