296 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



THE MIDDLE-MAN'S DREAM OF HIS PLUNDER. 



cheaper food, and in denouncing the farmer for keeping 

 up the price of bread, when it is their heavy profits that 

 keep up the high prices. They know where the trouble 

 lies, but by denouncing the farmer, they seek to screen, 

 themselves. 



The merchant and the miller make too much upon 

 their investment of labor and capital, and the farmer 

 makes too little upon his. Matters should be adjusted 

 upon a different basis. The middle-men should be con- 

 tent with a smaller profit, and the profit of the farmer 

 should be increased. It will be difficult to do this, for 

 the middle-men, being masters of the situation, will not. 



