Manufacturing has had tariff protection for 100 years. Railroads have been given such legislation as allows a fair return on their investments. Labor has been helped and assisted by the Adamson eight hour law and the immigration laws. Hence the farmer has a right to demand that his industry shall be given at least an equal consideration by our Government. whose powers have been employed to help and shelter all other industries. Farmers have not now the power. nor are they likely to acquire it through voluntary action. to control their surplus crop . and the Government must come to thei assistance if this Republic is to surviveif our population is not soon to be divided into a large industrial class on the one hand and peasantry and poverty and want and misery on the other.
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