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fewer saloons, more schools and more innocent places 

 of amusement. Present uncertainties as to price will 

 be removed, farm values will increase, thus adding 

 billions of dollars to the wealth of the country. Busi- 

 ness everywhere will be stimulated, and there will 

 be a more equal distribution of wealth, a much larger 

 proportion of it remaining in the country. Specula- 

 tion in the products of the farm will be done away 

 w r ith, and all its evil effects on those products and on 

 the people who watch the board and ticker will van- 

 ish. The success of the American Society of Equity 

 will make it possible for the farmers whose tastes 

 run in that direction to have comfortable and even 

 luxurious homes, and will make of the country a 

 veritable paradise. And prosperity will be general 

 and permanent because based on the prosperity of 

 that industry on which all other industries depend. 

 An ambitious program surely, but it can be carried 

 out if the farmers will but loyally and intelligently 

 cooperate. This is no dream — or, if it is, it is one that 

 can be easily realized. The farmers of the United 

 States can make it come true. The future of the 

 United States of America is the future of agricul- 

 ture ; mark this prediction. So the appeal is to the 

 patriotic as well as to the selfish motives of the farm- 

 ers. Through their salvation the salvation of the 

 country must be worked out. 



