8 Introduction. 



doubt the existence of a just Grod. Conditions have 

 remained much the same for more than forty years, 

 because the class, blinded by party leaders, has never 

 given it consideration. The indications now are that the 

 time is near when the subject will be taken up and the 

 other side of the tariff question will be heard. No change 

 is likely to come until the agricultural masses demand it ; 

 for it is true now, as ever, that ^ ' they who would be free 

 themselves must strike the blow. ' ' 



