400 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



CHAPTER XXII. 



THE REMEDY. 



Review of the Wrongs suffered by the Agricultural Classes A Minor Evil- 

 The Remedy The Farmer to receive a fair Return for his Industry The 

 Farmer's Interest that of the Nation The Duty of the Country to protect 

 the Fanner The Kind of Laws needed The Monopolists the Enemies of 

 the Whole People A Free and Cheap Market demanded Power of the 

 Farmers of the United States The Extent to which they control the Popular 

 Vote Number of voting Farmers The People in Sympathy with the 

 Agricultural Class What the Farmers can accomplish Necessity of Union 

 A great and glorious Revolution at Hand. 



AT the risk of being tedious to the reader, we have 

 enumerated some of the principal evils from which the 

 farming class of this country is at present suffering. 

 We did not hope at the outset to recount all the griev- 

 ances of this, the most useful, industrial class. We have 

 aimed only at pointing out merely the leading troubles 

 against which the farmer is struggling. We trust we 

 have done so. 



We have seen how he is robbed by the Railroad 

 Monopoly ; how in order to swell the dividends of the 

 roads upon which he is forced to depend to reach his 

 market, he is compelled to submit to an iniquitously 

 high rate of transportation, which renders it impossible 

 for him to receive his fair share of the proceeds of his 

 crop. We have seen how utterly regardless of his 

 rights and interests are these corporations, whose only 

 care is to earn the largest dividend upon their stocks 

 that can possibly be wrung from the community. 



