The log cabin Democrat., 1907-04-18

Take steam engine, TOT instance.
 I. ten-horsepower can pull, we will | say, 10000 pounds up an inclined
 plane when working at its full ca l pacity. Twenty one horsepower en- ] zines, each one operated by an en- gineer with a plan of his own, would
 not budge the 10000 pounds. The Farmers Union was organized to bet 1 ter the condition of the farming
 classes; to devise ways and means by means of which the farmers of this country can secure adequate prices for the products they. raise on their farms. It has formulated it's declaration of principles and adopted the plans through and by which it proposes to carry these principles in- to effect and accomplish it's ends. It has based it's principles upon the gold en rule: that is, to live and let live. It has no end in view that is not honest and just; it has no method of operations that in the remotest degree conflict with the golden rule. If it's membership will live faithfully up to it's principles and their obligations Us members, and will follow strictly the paths of action it maps out, it will accomplish all it set out to accom- plish. In other words. the Union will, by the power of united action among farmers, secure for the farmers of this country every year:
 The right to manage their business in their own way.
 Will secure fair. just and remuner atiye prices for the products of the farms, based upon the cost of pro- duction.
 Will secure good and happy homes for them.
 Will secure better live stock and more of it, oyerAowing granaries and smollehouses.
 Will secure education. enlighten- ment and refinement for the farmers children.
 Will secure the elegances of life in the farm houses of the land
 Will enable the cultivation and the indulgence of the love of the fine arts and the beautiful in the rural districts as well as in the cities.
 Will secure libraries for the young and the old, that learning may rear it's altars in the country districts, and not alone among urban population.
 Will secure the same utilities in large measure for the farmers that the cities boast; namely, telephones, ice and electric light plants, rural trolley lines, macadamized roads.
 Will secure better school houses, more of them better equipments and appurtenances and better church buildings.
 Will secure better farming meth ods, better farm machinery, and there fore, better yields from the farms.
 Will secure that independence of thought and action that poverty takes from men.
 Will secure better laws for the country, a better enforcement of the laws.
 Will secure genuine prosperity for the entire nation, a prosperity based upon substantial, and not the ficticious, airy nothings of over-cap- italization represented by stocks and bonds of ficticious value.
 Will secure, in so fac as material things go, everything that tends to make a people happy, nation great and strong.
 But all this is up to the farmer himself He must be true to em- self, and therefore to the Union, or he must expect nothing lut failure, and with failure a condition worse than that he ever knew before, an to the money vultures who have preyed upon him so long. more galling, more absolute, more degrading than he ever yet has even dreamed of; an enthrallment that makes of himself, his wife and his children little more than beasts ot burden, with ambition dead, and hope C>n n,T, nY