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with nations, the tendency toward peace and harmony 

 among them being in the ratio of their interdependence ; 

 that, in its turn, being the direct ratio of their indepen- 

 dence," * Since liberty is the soul of independence — 

 power, so must a true interdependence know no slavish 

 bonds. Association, union, there should be among farm- 

 ers, but it should partake of no compulsory characteristics 

 calculated to weaken the springs of individual activity. 

 The trust, then, is not for the use of the farmer, though 

 we would not throttle it in the manner that some legis- 

 lators undertake to do. 



Henry C. Carey, vol. iii., p. 464. 



