CHAPTER XVI 



Of all the modern ideas, 



In the North, South, East or West, 

 The justice bringing idea 



Of Equity is best. 

 It can harm no human calling, 



And can boast none o'er the rest; 

 But brings equal chance to all of them, 



And therefore it's the best. 



Manifestly it will be impossible for the farmers 

 to cooperate unless they are kept thoroughly in- 

 formed of what is going on in every part of the coun- 

 try, and indeed of the world. It would be foolish, 

 to take a simple case, to attempt to fix and maintain 

 a price on farm products unless each member knew 

 what that price was. This information, at least, 

 must be regularly furnished. It will be conveyed to 

 the various members of the society through their 

 official paper, which is a part of the plan. This offi- 

 cial organ will be printed four times a month as 

 soon as the society is sufficiently organized, and 

 there can be little doubt that with this plan in opera- 

 tion the recommended price will be printed by all 

 the other daily and weekly papers as regularly as 

 the markets are reported now. The recommended 

 price will have to be printed by all newspapers hav- 



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