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ucts, including grain, fruit, vegetables, stock, cotton, wool, etc., 

 by introducing and establishing of modem methods of mar- 

 keting of all agricultural products. As competitive system of 

 modern agricultural production and distribution embraces all 

 the countries, producing national surpluses of each agricul- 

 tural product, in their grand total composing an international 

 marketable surplus of the same, the chief and paramount ob- 

 ject of the American Society of Equity may not be fully ac- 

 complished without the cooperation of farmers of all other 

 surplus producing countries. Thus, to the cooperation of the 

 American farmers in marketing their produce, which con- 

 stitutes the basis of the American Society of Equity, the 

 cooperation of the farmers of all other surplus producing 

 countries in the same direction should be added. Fully realiz- 

 ing this fundamental principle of its activity and this neces- 

 sary condition to insure the success of the latter, the Amer- 

 ican Society of Equity, first time in the history of the United 

 States, has made arrangements for the establishment of 

 similar societies in all leading surplus producing countries. 

 These preparatory arrangements met with universal approval 

 and support of prominent agriculturists as well as of states- 

 men of leading European countries. This shows quite de- 

 cisively that if in this hour of extreme peril the American 

 farmers would become aroused to exigencies of the situation, 

 and would be prompt enough to join the ranks of their 

 national organization in proper meaning of the word, which 

 represents, undoubtedly, the embryo of the first and most 

 powerful international agricultural organization of the world, 

 they will become, very soon, powerful enough to drive the 

 economic anarchy, so strenuously and so harmoniously de- 

 fended and supported by capitalistic as well as the anarchistic 

 press of the country, out of economic and commercial sys- 

 tem of the United States. 



Great movements are not born to die in infancy. When the 

 spirit of the times finds its expression in social evolution and 

 becomes incarnated into social organizations they are des- 

 tined to growth and development. Therefore, the organiza- 

 tion of the societies of equity in leading agricultural coun- 

 of the world is just the question of the time. Meanwhile 



