THE FARMER'S INHERENT RIGHTS. .79 



(e) REMEDIES FOR THE DISREGARD OF THE INHEB- 

 ENT RIGHTS OF THE FARMER. 



We need, in the first place, as a people, to 

 recognize the necessary rights of the individual 

 farmer to the use of the native resources and 

 agencies that go with the utilization of agricul- 

 tural lands, and to protect him from hindrance 

 and encroachment in the normal development 

 of his business. If the farmer suffers because his 

 business is small, isolated and unsyndicated, 

 then it is the part of government to see that he 

 has a natural opportunity among his fellows and 

 a square deal. 



In the second place, we need such an attitude 

 of government, both state and national, as will 

 safeguard the separate and individual rights of 

 the farmer, in the interest of the public good. As 

 a contribution toward this attitude, we commend 

 the general policy of the present administration 

 to safeguard the streams, forests, coal lands, and 

 phosphate lands, and in endeavoring to develop 

 a home-owning settlement in the irrigated regions. 



At the moment, one of the most available and 

 effective single means of giving the farmer the 

 benefit of his natural opportunities is the enlarge- 



