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be satisfied without a certain return for their labor r 

 which return they place at a very high figure, and the 

 farmer, who is entirely dependent upon them, must be 

 satisfied with what he can get. Yet the farmer's labor 

 is as much entitled to reward as that of the middle-man, 

 and it is fair that his profit should be as large in pro- 

 portion as that of any one through whose hands his 

 grain passes. But, instead of this, instead of receiving 

 the reward to which his honest labor is entitled, he i& 

 compelled to accept a miserably small return for that 

 labor, in order that the middle-men may make large 

 profits and grow rich. They grow rich at the expense 

 of the farmer and the community. The farmer either 

 remains where he started or grows poorer. 



Some time ago Mr. John T. Campbell, of Rockville, 

 Indiana, undertook to compare the average profits upon 

 the capital of the country invested in manufactures and 

 that invested in farming, as reported by the last Cen- 

 sus of the United States : 



" Let us take," says he, " a general survey of the sta- 

 tistics as shown by the census reports of the three last 

 decades, and carefully note the comparison between the 

 general manufacturing interests of the nation, much of 

 which is protected, and the general agricultural inter- 

 ests, and see if it teaches us a lesson. 



" But we would be discouraged from this comparison 

 by General Walker's foot note to the compendium of 

 the Ninth Census, page 797, in which he says in sub- 

 stance that capital reported as invested in manufactures 

 is entirely untrustworthy and delusive, and that it is the 

 one inquiry which manufacturers resent as uselessly ob- 

 trusive, and that they could not tell what they were worth 

 or how much of their wealth was invested as capital if 



