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necessarily and inevitably tending to eliminate all objection- 

 able features of manufacturing trusts from these coming 

 agricultural trusts in their very inception. Therefore, if any 

 agricultural trusts will ever come, they can not be anything 

 else but organizations highly beneficial for all agricultural 

 producers as well as for the human society in its entirety. 

 The same social and economic conditions, which have created 

 national trusts, will undoubtedly create international ones — 

 manufacturing as well as agricultural — if the latter are bound 

 to come at all, what seems to be certain. Thus, if interna- 

 tional agreements of agricultural producers relating to prices 

 and outputs of each exported agricultural product, now be- 

 ing suggested by us, even would be international agricultural 

 trusts, our suggestion would be just in the strictest accord 

 with direction of economic development and industrial growth 

 of modern society and undoubtedly would be bound to pro- 

 duce the greatest benefits for agricultural producers of all 

 the civilized countries as well as for all mankind in general. 



Nevertheless, international organizations of producers of ex- 

 ported agricultural products, now first time being suggested 

 by us, would not be and can not be trusts. We have proven 

 already beyond any dispute that the American farmer is 

 simply a skilled agricultural laborer and that the price he re- 

 ceives for his produce represents merely his wages. There- 

 fore, United States branches of these international agricul- 

 tural organizations would be undoubtedly just agricultural 

 labor unions. Identical with this in the United States is 

 the condition of agriculture on all the American continent, 

 and thus all American branches of the said international agri- 

 cultural organizations would be simply agricultural labor 

 unions. Very similar with the condition of agriculture in all 

 the American countries is the condition of the same in all 

 the civilized countries of the old world. Great landed es- 

 tates of Europe, now of necessity combining the features of 

 agricultural trusts with essential features of agricultural labor 

 unions, represent relatively such a small percentage of all 

 productive agricultural forces of the old world that they can 

 not change a bit the character of European agricultural pro- 

 ducers as simply skilled agricultural laborers. Therefore, in- 



