ITS CAUSE AND REMEDY ll 



American farmers, who constitute only 35 

 per cent of our population or about 25 mil- 

 lion of souls, have produced in the last 10 

 years wealth equal to one-half of the total 

 wealth of our great commonwealth's pro- 

 duction in three centuries. Yet the Ameri- 

 can farmer has not been allowed to enjoy 

 the fruits of his labor. 



The products of his farm have been taken 

 by the speculator, railroad and other cor- 

 porations to become wealthy upon, and he 

 has been allowed to suffer most acutely. 

 His crops and herds have been filched out 

 of his hands, and he has not been allowed 

 to have anything near his share of its 

 worth to our great nation. 



But God in His providence has raised up 

 for us President Roosevelt, who is thor- 

 oughly imbued with the spirit of Christ, and 

 who is working hard to lift up the op- 

 pressed and to bind up the broken hearted. 



One of the most cruel measures enacted 

 against the American farmer is to force 

 him to pay for protected labor, machinery, 

 in fact, everything he makes use of, and 

 force him to pay for it with the price of a 

 free trade bushel of wheat. The American 

 merchant marine has been wiped out of ex- 

 istence from the same conditions. This 

 seems to any reasonable person an act of 

 tyranny that so far exceeds the cruelty of 

 the Egyptians to the children of Israel 

 when they forced them to make bricks 



