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produce and sell eight raw materials to buy 

 one of these suits. And take Oregon alone, 

 she would soon have 10 millions of sheep 

 instead of only two millions at present, and 

 the cost of the suit to the purchaser would 

 only need be increased 7 per cent of $3.00. 



Take the loaf of bread. Under ordinary 

 conditions the American farmer has to pro- 

 duce and sell the raw materials for five 

 loaves of bread to be able to buy one loaf, 

 whereas in England and France the farmer 

 only has to produce and sell one and two- 

 thirds raw materials to buy one loaf. If 

 the Federal Government would place a $30 

 per ton import duty and also a $30 per ton 

 export bounty on wheat the American 

 farmer would become immensely prosper- 

 ous and all those depleted, worn out farms 

 would soon be refertilized and made worth 

 $300 per acre, but Federal control of the 

 farmer would be necessary. All large hold- 

 ings should be sold to the government at a 

 fair assessed value and sold in 100-acre 

 tracts or more to bonafide farmers. All 

 the farmers should be forced to go on a 

 four year's rotation, that is to say, they 

 should not be allowed to put their land into 

 wheat only once in four years; then under 

 the stimulus of a $2 bushel permanent price 

 for wheat and everything else in proportion 

 we should have 60 milHons of people on the 

 land as against 30 millions at present. The 

 immigration laws would have to be made 



