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fered to the farmers of Canada, France, Austria- 

 Hungary, Russia, the Argentine, far-off India, and, 

 in short, the world where food for man and beast are 

 grown, in the confident expectation that they will 

 eagerly embrace it. The arguments that prove that 

 organization will be a good thing for the American 

 farmers prove, also, that it will be a good thing for 

 the farmers everywhere. For the same conditions 

 that operate against the former operate against the 

 latter, and there is the additional element of Amer- 

 ican competition. 



Let it be distinctly understood that the organiza- 

 tion proposed is industrial rather than political. For 

 nations differ in their forms of government and in 

 their political institutions, and a political program 

 that would work well in one country might not work 

 at all in another. Production, however, is the same 

 the world over. Everywhere it depends on the three 

 factors, land, labor, and capital, and the problem is 

 the same everywhere, namely, to secure a fair reward 

 to all three. There is no reason why the Third 

 Power should not operate as effectively and benefi- 

 cently in Russia as in the United States, in India as 

 in the Argentine. The farmers in all these coun- 

 tries are interested in checking speculation, in pre- 

 venting the speculators from playing off the prod- 

 ucts of one against the other, and in securing fair 

 prices for what they raise. In a word, their interests 

 are identical. Therefore, all can easily cooperate. 

 The farmers of other countries need the society 



