the entire subject. This investigation should 

 include the entire middleman system, farmers' 

 cooperative organizations, transportation rates 

 and practices, taxation of agricultural property, 

 methods of securing funds on reasonable condi- 

 tions for agricultural uses, and the entire range 

 of economic questions involved in the relation of 

 the farmer to the accustomed methods of doing 

 business. 



We find that there is need of a new general 

 attitude toward legislation, in the way of safe- 

 guarding the farmers' natural rights and interests. 

 It is natural that the organized and consolidated 

 interests should be strongly in mind in the making 

 of legislation. We recommend that the welfare 

 of the farmer and countryman be also kept in 

 mind in the construction of laws. We specially 

 recommend that his interests be considered and 

 safeguarded in any new legislation on the tariff, 

 on regulation of railroads, control or regulating 

 of corporations and of speculation, river, swamp, 

 and forest legislation, and public health regulation. 

 At the present moment, it is especially important 

 that the farmer's interests be well considered in 

 the revision of the tariff. One of the particular 



