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of the organization. The question is not whether a 

 man is a Republican or a Democrat, a Liberal or a 

 Conservative, a supporter or an opponent of the gov- 

 ernment, but simply and solely whether he wants 

 to end the bad, uncertain and unprofitable system of 

 the past. Elevate his business on a plane with the 

 best of others, and make the best possible man out 

 of himself. It is from this point of view that rulers 

 and people alike are asked to consider this plan. 

 The combination is one of the world's producers 

 for their own, and so for the world's good. It is 

 proposed to antagonize nothing except unfair com- 

 mercial and industrial conditions. And when it is 

 known that those conditions operate to injure by 

 far the largest class of people in the world, surely 

 no one can object to having them removed. 



So the organization will be, and indeed has been, 

 extended to other countries than the United States. 

 The Russian farmers are roused, and are moving 

 in the same path which the American farmers are 

 asked to tread. Societies similar to the American 

 Society of Equity will soon be organized in the 

 Czar's dominions and other countries. The in- 

 terest is intense wherever the plan has been devel- 

 oped. No man to whom it has been explained has 

 failed to be convinced. Its simplicity, and, at the 

 same time, its wide scope, its effectiveness, its justice 

 and its equity, have all served to commend it to rea- 

 h »nable men. Whether a man lives in Russia or In- 

 dia, the United States, or elsewhere, he wants at 



