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more hired men at union wages, the year around, 

 which is what this movement means, we make a mar- 

 ket for labor such as was never before dreamed of. 



Is it necessary to illustrate this further? Is it not 

 clear that if marketing was done systematically and 

 the existing demand supplied, and no more, that 

 prices can be maintained at equitable rates? The 

 American Society of Equity, through its board of 

 directors, will be the head or clearing house to the 

 entire agricultural industry. Through the official 

 paper and the press of the country this head will 

 speak to every member weekly and give news about 

 crops and crop prospects; advice about market and 

 marketing. All the millions of farmers will have the 

 same advice at the same time about the same things 

 from an authentic head quite in contrast with the 

 blind guessing as at present. All will thus be pos- 

 sessed of the same knowledge, influenced by the same 

 motives, and they may act as one man — in short, 

 cooperate — for the single purpose of securing the 

 equitable minimum price. 



The plan of the American Society of Equity is 

 broad enough and comprehensive enough to care 

 for every branch of agricultural effort — the grain 

 grower, the stock feeder, the dairyman, the poultry 

 man, the cotton grower, the tobacco grower, the fruit 

 grower, etc. As soon as it is in operation it will ben- 

 efit the largest operator, no difference in what line 

 nor where situated, and also the owner of a few rods 



