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sary to take in millions of people, living in widely 

 separated sections of the country, but this objection 

 is based, not on the impracticability of the plan, but 

 on the difficulty without conceding its impossibility. 

 It will undoubtedly be harder to organize the farm- 

 ers in such a way as to secure united action from 

 them than it is for two men in the same city to form 

 a commercial partnership ; but the one is no more im- 

 possible than the other. 



Surely the farmers in a certain neighborhood can 

 organize without much trouble, and they can agree 

 to abide by certain rules. They have done so and are 

 doing this every day. So of the farmers in another 

 and adjoining sections. Thus far the case is plain 

 enough. If, therefore, the farmers in any given 

 county have organized in the American Society of 

 Equity — and they have in many — does it not follow 

 that they can organize in other counties until a state 

 is organized. If one state can organize an- 

 other can. In fact, all the states can. If the 

 farmers in the United States can organize (and 

 they have more than once, but on very poor 

 plans), the farmers in Canada can organize, where 

 the needs are as urgent and the conditions are very 

 similar. Now if the farmers in America can organ- 

 ize on this new plan of the American Society of 

 Equity, and for the beautiful and meritorious ob- 

 jects for which it stands, does it not follow that the 

 farmers of Europe can organize, particularly since 

 they need organization even more? I do not admit 



