VI 



CONTENTS. 



BOOK IV. 



Impotence of the Remedies Proposed, and the Erroneous 

 Reasons Ascribed for the Difficulties now overtaking 



the farmers of AMERICA. 



BOOK VI. 



Politics. 

 Chapter I. The Farmer Losing his Political Power . . 175 

 " II. The Farmer's Interest in Free Trade in Natural 



Products only . . . . . . 187 



" III. Free Trade may be Selfish as well as Protection; 

 or, the Inefficiency of Free-Trade Move- 

 ments ....... 206 



BOOK VII. 



The Physical, Mental, Social, and Moral Considerations 



Involved. 



The Divergence of Intellectual Development 

 from a Basis of Physical Stamina, and its 

 Consequences ...... 



The Farmers' Interest in the Social Outlook . 



Danger to Morals ...... 



Chapter I. 



II. 

 III. 



The Conclusion, in Which the Remedy is Found 



211 

 221 

 235 

 251 



