CHAPTER XXIII 



Away with special privilege, 



Away with greed of gain, 

 Away with cunning schemes of men 



That equal rights restrain. 

 When Toil goes forth amid the fields, 



Its fruits mankind to bless, 

 Let Toil say what those fruits are worth, 



Let Toil its own possess. 



The plan outlined ought to appeal to European 

 farmers quite as much as to their American breth- 

 ren. With the cheap land in America, and bound- 

 less quantities of it, and by the large use of ma- 

 chinery, the farmers of the United States have 

 forced the price of European wheat, and farm prod- 

 ucts generally, to an extremely low price. So all 

 the farmers, and not merely those in the United 

 States, have suffered from low prices and inade- 

 quately rewarded labor. This American invasion 

 has not been a good thing for any of the farmers. 

 For they have been engaged in a competition that 

 was hurtful to all. Of course the farmers of Europe 

 can not possibly raise prices as long as they are sub- 

 jected to the competition of American products at 

 the present low prices. The thing to do is, mani- 

 festly, to combine to raise prices. Restrictive legis- 



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