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preached in arrogance the labor organizations of the present; 

 nor did they ever, either directly or indirectly, countenance 

 violence or lawlessness of any kind. This is probably due to the 

 fact that the farmers, as a class, are vastly more intelligent and 

 law-abiding than the rank and file of the wage-workers, though 

 they are more numerous and politically more powerful. 



The corn belt is the most considerable area in the world where 

 agriculture is uniformly prosperous. This prosperity is, more- 

 over, healthful and natural, and not artificial, like the sugar- 

 beet industry, for example, which has never in any country 

 shown its ability to stand alone unaided by government favors, 

 nor, like much of our manufacturing prosperity, based upon 

 government protection. The people engaged in the corn-growing 

 industry are an independent, progressive class, drawing their 

 sustenance from the soil, and not from other people. 



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