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tural surplus producing countries. It is very remarkable in 

 this respect that the two leading agricultural countries of the 

 globe — United States and Russia — which practically are the 

 granaries of the world, possess the most atrocious protective 

 tariffs on the face of the earth, thus putting all the burdens 

 of fostering manufactures of the countries on the shoulders 

 of their agricultural producers. 



Therefore the amelioration of the condition of the Amer- 

 ican farmer lies undoubtedly in the same direction as the 

 amelioration of the condition of the farmers of all civilized 

 countries the world over. The American farmer being just a 

 part of all the creators of agricultural wealth of the civilized 

 world, his interests being identical with and just a part of the 

 interests of all the agricultural producers of the globe, rem- 

 edies for his wrongs must necessarily and inevitably be the 

 same as those for wrongs of the farmers of all the civilized 

 world. In order to find out the means of relief from social 

 oppression and economic exploitation for the American farmer 

 (as well as for the farmer of all the civilized countries) we 

 have evidently to seek out the laws of economic advance, in- 

 dustrial growth and social evolution, because all the measures 

 to accomplish all these high and just aims, if taken in opposi- 

 tion to the direction of social evolution and economic ad- 

 vance would inevitably prove abortive and disastrous. The 

 history of all previous efforts at bringing relief to the farmers 

 from social oppression and economic exploitation, ever made 

 in the United States, as well as in various foreign countries 

 (which history is outside of the province of our short sketch 

 on the subject), is highly eloquent and sufficiently instructive 

 in this respect. Thus the laws of modern economic and social 

 evolution are to be defined at first. 



It does not require a particularly strong intellect or very 

 keen power of observation to see that modern state of society 

 all around the world is a state of universal war, political as 

 well as economic, war of different political and economic 

 classes within the separate states as well as between the states 

 themselves, with complete anarchy and undescribable horrors 

 incident thereto. 



This universal economic war and inevitable anarchy, result- 



