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tense importance to each, and especially to the farmers. 

 May they put forth new energy in the cause of rectify- 

 ing this great mistake of our day : that of legislating the 

 annihilation of the Typical American Farm and the 

 Typical American Farmer — a wrong to the best interests 

 of their country, a wrong to the universal brotherhood, 

 a wrong to themselves especially, and a grievous wrong 

 to their children, who are soon to take their places in the 

 battle of life. 



The century which has seen in America freedom 

 gained for the slave, in what may well be called " The 

 Last Crusade," is drawing to a close ; but there is space 

 left in it yet to win one more holy war ; a victory which 

 will confer upon all, the blessings of that equality in 

 economic rights, without which, they can scarcely be 

 called freemen. 



THE END. 



