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ternational organizations of producers of exported agricul- 

 tural products, now first time being suggested by us, a new- 

 est and only means for amelioration of the condition of the 

 farmer all over the civilized world, beyond any dispute, will 

 be just international agricultural labor unions. Thus, we 

 venture to call out so loudly that all the world could hear : 

 "Farmers of all countries, great landowners attending to your 

 business on your estates not excepted, unite : this is the only 

 way to beat the wolf of speculator and price manipulator, suck- 

 ing your blood, off your back !" 



Now from the exposition of economic principles of inter- 

 national consolidation of agricultural interests of all civil- 

 ized countries, we have to turn to the practical side of the 

 case. 



The transition from the present competitive system in agri- 

 cultural industry of the civilized countries to the new cooper- 

 ative one, now first time being suggested by us, as a newest 

 and only means for raising most miserable income of the 

 farmer all over the civilized world, and for the general ameli- 

 oration of his present pitiful condition, in order to be effective 

 and able to bring about desired results, must be accomplished 

 fully and thoroughly. It would be of course a very great 

 step toward such amelioration for the farmers of all surplus 

 producing countries to enter into international agreements 

 relating to prices and outputs of exported agricultural prod- 

 ucts, but this would not be enough. Before all, and above 

 all, they ought to be able to maintain the prices agreed 

 upon between themselves by the said international agreement 

 on their national as well as local markets. Otherwise the 

 transition from the competitive to the cooperative system in 

 the agriculture of the world would be just merely a nominal 

 one, without any practical significance whatsoever. 



In the field of agriculture cooperation, in full meaning of 

 the word, found as yet so limited application and its results 

 in the modern hostile environment have been so sporadic and 

 so uncertain that a wild confusion in respect to this com- 

 paratively new principle of social economy in its application 

 to agriculture prevails, not only in the minds of ordinary 

 mortals, but even in the intellects of political economists and 



