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we could in six days of sixteen hours each ; and so on 

 through all the branches of trade, professions or pro- 

 ductions, we found all getting a fair, and some an exor- 

 bitant, profit on their commodities and services with 

 which our own would bear no comparison." 



" Is it any wonder," says the New York Tribune, 

 commenting upon this decla- 

 ration, "that the men who 

 turned from their hard labor 

 and profitless crops to see 

 these features of their sur- 

 roundings should put up the 

 cry, 'There's something wrong 

 about all this'? And the 

 story is not much exagger- 

 ated ; from the farmer's point 

 of view not at all, but on the 

 contrary very mildly stated. 

 You may say some of these 

 things that seem so unjust 

 and harsh are but the natural 

 and inevitable accompani- 

 ments of the profession of 

 agriculture; that men take 

 up and follow farming know- ^ nAT IS LEFT OF A CROP 



, ,. , , AFTER PAYING RAILROAD 



ing all the disadvantages and CHARGES. 

 risks of the business; that 



they go into it with their eyes open, and that even with 

 these drawbacks the business is overdone, and low 

 prices are brought about by over-production. But with 

 all that, you do not remove or explain the patent injus- 

 tice which always stares the farmer in the face, that all 

 his neighbors in other pursuits and occupations are get- 



