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If we are to attend to the announcements of the 

 different Agrarian Leagues: 



The fanners want the State to come to their help 

 so that they will be able to dispose of their crops re- 

 muneratively . 



The farmers or * ' chacareros J ' who are tenants want 

 their rents reduced. 



They want better terms of credit for agricultur- 

 ists . 



They demand fairer conditions of land renting, 

 longer contracts, and less onerous clauses. 



They ask for better roads- 



They want a stop to be put to their exploited by 

 everybody they deal with, that is, they want cheaper 

 articles all round. 



The majority of the Grain brokers want the Gov- 

 ernment to push the sale of the crop abroad. 



To give the home markets a firm basis so that they 

 are not subject to outside speculators, to the pres- 

 sure of the big exporting concerns. 



To endeavour to reduce the freights, to provide 

 better handling and shipping facilities. 



To make operations as easy on the home markets 

 and exchanges as elsewhere, so that similar benefits can 

 be enjoyed from financial deals, from options, etc., as 

 in other countries. 



To make warrants, grain certificates, etc., really 

 effective . 



STATE ALLIED WITH COMMERCE AND 

 INDUSTRY. 



With this must go a well-founded scheme of State 

 action 



For, good or for bad we have henceforth, at least 

 for a decade, to expect conjoint action on the part of 

 the State in the interests of trade : Politics with Com- 

 merce and Industry, indefinitely mixed. All over the 

 world there are the same symptoms; all countries are 

 drawn into the same net. It is impossible to define 

 where the State shall cease and Private enterprise rule 

 undisturbed 



TIME FOR ACTION, NOT FOR MORE WORDS 



But whether the directing of our efforts is to be 

 assumed by a State official or by a private body is im- 

 material ; the essential is .that a definite course be adopt- 

 ed, and stuck to. Above all, action. 



