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industrial armies concentrated in a few points of industrial 

 field, inevitably leading to the proposals for disarmament in 

 the form of agreements to suspend the competition and to the 

 changing of methods of industrial concentration, the modern 

 stage of development of agricultural industry presents an un- 

 ceasing, persistent and exhaustive guerrilla warfare between 

 millions of small guerrilla bands scattered all around the agri- 

 cultural field of the civilized world, the bands, which never 

 thought as yet not only of disarmament, but even of armistice. 

 This state of not belonging to one of the immense industrial 

 armies of our times, but of conducting the exhaustive guerrilla 

 warfare in the agricultural field in a small band, msually con- 

 sisting of the members of his family with an occasionally hired 

 helper, is the very independence, of which the American farmer 

 so thoughtlessly and so ignorantly boasts. 



Having thus defined the laws of modern social and economic 

 evolution, we can see without any difficulty the lines along 

 which the amelioration of the condition of the American 

 farmer can be accomplished and must be conducted. In all 

 civilized countries, i. e., the countries which have already 

 emerged out of the stage of agricultural production by indi- 

 vidual farmers for their own use only and entered the stage 

 of production by them for sale, the agricultural industry pre- 

 sents a state of a stupendous and monstrous guerrilla warfare 

 of millions of small farming bands with indescribable eco- 

 nomic anarchy incident thereto, usually miscalled "free com- 

 petition." The same as there are no means to humanize the 

 war and alieviate its horrors because the atrocity, brutality 

 and ferocity can not be humanized, there are no means also 

 to humanize this heinous economic guerrilla war between the 

 agricultural producers all over the world. As long as war, 

 either political or economic, exists there always will be some 

 killed and disabled for life, to say nothing about its terrible 

 demoralizing and degrading influence on the future genera- 

 tions. The only means to humanize the war, either political 

 or economic, is to abolish it altogether. Thus, this guerrilla 

 warfare between the farmers of all civilized countries must 

 be stopped at once. Prices of all agricultural products as 

 well as their outputs must be defined and regulated since by 



