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“DELIVER ME FROM MY ‘ FRIENDS!’”—(Sixteenth of tlie Series.) 
Pp.oeessob Henry E. Alvord: “While attending numerous agricultural meetings, and 
reading the proceedings of others, my attention has been attracted by a discouraging sort of 
talk prevailing to a certain extent in many places, to the effect that farmers have no influence 
on public affairs; legislators pay no regard to the agricultural interests, and that while other 
occupations havajbeen amply ‘protected’ by laws, farmers continue to be a poor, downtrodden 
class, neglected, if not utterly ignored. I have no patience with this kind of talk. It results 
from most inexcusable ignorance of the progress of events, or else is pure demagogism. In 
looking over the whole field there does not appear to be a single business interest, or class of 
interests, which, during the past ten or twelve years, has secured so much special legislation. 
State and national, as the business of farming .”—From the American Cultivator. 
