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to your manhood to submit to such infamous extortion 

 as is being practised upon you with the assistance of 

 your servants in Congress. The remedy lies in your 

 own hands. Members of Congress will do much for the 

 monopolists, but they will not dare to resist the deter- 

 mined expression of your will, for do you not hold their 

 official lives in your hands ? and can you not make or 

 unmake them with a ballot? Organize, combine for 

 the protection of your interests. Join hands with the 

 farmers of the West in their courageous war upon mon- 

 opolies of all kinds. There is not a monopoly in the 

 land but can be broken to atoms by the combined and 

 determined action of an indignant and wronged people. 



