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by it. What has been said to, and of, American 

 farmers applies to all farmers, and this organiza- 

 tion is meant for all farmers. It all comes to the 

 scriptural doctrine that the laborer is worthy of his 

 hire. To withhold his hire from him, or any part 

 of it, is to weaken all government and to impair the 

 foundations on which society must rest. While to 

 insure him his just reward is to strengthen the so- 

 cial order and to build anew the foundations of the 

 political structures of the world. 



Years before it came to pass, Arthur Young, trav- 

 eling in France, predicted the great revolution that 

 took place in that country more than a hundred 

 years ago. He based his prophecy simply on the 

 fact that the people were being robbed by the church 

 and the nobility, and robbed to such an extent that 

 they did not have enough left to live on. We are 

 wiser in our generation, in that we do not push our 

 spoliation to such an extreme point. But we want, 

 not simply to avoid revolution, but to make all the 

 people happy. The question is, not how much we can 

 safely take from them, but how much we can give 

 them. And when we are asked to give them only 

 what is already theirs, in equity, with the assurance 

 that by doing so we shall make them happy, shall 

 we hesitate? 



Peace, happiness, truth, justice, order, the death 

 of anarchy, firmly established governments, the 

 reign of law, contentment and satisfaction, together 

 with real and widely diffused prosperity, and to 



