STATE CONVENTION—DUTY OF FARMERS. 
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Money is raised by indirect taxation, and for every million put into 
the national treasury, two more are lost through improper tariff 
laws, expended on tax gatherers and protected monopolies of 
various kinds. 
We must demand that the laws imposing heavy duties on 
what we require for daily use, or must have for national develop¬ 
ment and improvement, enabling us to belt the land with iron 
bands that aid in creating cheap freights and easy transit, be 
repealed. 
We have a right to demand an honest profit on capital invested 
when we come to sell the products of the farm; and to demand, 
also, payment for them in money—a currency at par in any 
portion of the world. 
Is is our duty to enforce public justice, if need be, by an 
irresistible concert of action, through the influence of a thorough 
political organization pledged to excute the will of its con¬ 
stituents. 
I am aware the prevailing disposition shown for the past few 
months has been wholesale fault-finding. The scrutinizing watch¬ 
fulness indicates the overthrow of corrupt legislation. It foretells 
its extermination. It will cause the people to rise in their con¬ 
scious might, and enforce, even from arrant monopoly, obedience. 
The ballot is more powerful than the sword ; and with that, the 
controlling power is yours. None know their strength better 
than the gentlemen of the granges know theirs—than you know 
yours, farmers and horticulturists. .Oh ! what a mighty change ! 
Once you were almost slaves. Self-preservation—that law which 
knows no master—with one sweep of its wand, has raised from 
the dead, monotonous routine of daily life the toiling producer of 
the world’s wealth, and agriculture, and the Patrons of Husbandry 
will, to a great degree, be responsble for future events. 
The world is progressing in every department. We are march¬ 
ing to the front. Perfection in grains and tillage; faster time 
and more strength in horses ; weight unequaled, with beauty and 
purity of blood, in Short Horns and Southdowns; art hitherto 
triumphant, and still to be surpassed. Manhood, universal broth¬ 
erhood, is at hand. The three great lights of American civiliza* 
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