8 Agriculture and Its Needs 



by itself. The work is at home. The 

 family all have part in it. There is less 

 mingling with fellow craftsmen and with 

 the men and women of other crafts. 

 Trades unionism is absent. The black- 

 list and the boycott are almost un- 

 known. The farmer is both a capitalist 

 and a laborer. If there are combinations 

 to control the prices of labor, they will not 

 hold together; and if there are combinations 

 to control the prices of products, they are 

 made by manipulators who get the advan- 

 tages. It all makes so distinct a manner 

 of life that it must create instrumental- 

 ities and policies of its own. 



We live in an industrial democracy. 

 We are to work out our political freedom 

 and our political theories in our politics, 

 our religion, our education, and our in- 

 dustries. People are to do what they can 

 for themselves. What can only be done 



