The law of supply and demand has worked against the cotton farmer. He has made more cotton than the world wants this year. and therefore the price has gone down. That would be perfectly fair If everyone else under the flag had to have his prosperity measured by that same standard. but there has intervened our protective systemnot only our protectivetariff system. but there seems to have been engrafted upon America as a lasting policy the matter of protecting not only the manufacturers but the railways through the operation of the EschCummins law. the bankers through the operation of the Federal reserve act. labor through the operation of the immigration law and the creation of the eighthour day. None of these is required to measure and to secure its prosperity through the operation of the law of supply and demand. The farmers of this country. not alone in the South but in the West and in the great agricultural sections where the wheat. the hogs. and corn are grown. have been led to believe all through the sumifher by publications in the press. reflecting the alleged opinions of those In authority. that this Congress would come to the relief of agriculture in America.
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