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It is also proper to say that not all of our coopcrators are so weak-minded as 

 myself. Far more evil than was ever said about me has been said for years 

 against better men than I, who go steadily on with their work, and in time have 

 a following who stand by them and make them comfortable. This, I suppose, 

 will in time happen to every one who does his duty and is patient. There are 

 many such men in California, without whose aid cooperative work could rir)t 

 be carried on. I simply do not happen to be patient. 



After all there is nothing tragic about cooperative work among farmers. It 

 is cooperation among the fairly well to do. It does not particularly appeal to 

 the sympathies, nor call for much self-denial that one does not feel inclined to. 

 It is cooperation among the really suffering that stirs the blood. It is when 

 one thinks of such men as Mitchell in England, and Kaiffiesen in Germany, 

 and men like them, that he raises his hat and is silent a moment. 



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