The Nevada County picayune., 1907-04-12

Take steam engine for instance A 'eh-horsepower can pull, we will Say l0,oO0 pounds up an inclined plane when working at it's full ca paclty. Twenty one -horsepower en- slhes, each one operated by an en siheef With plan of his own. would not budge the 10000 pounds. The fafilefs Union was organized to bet ter the condition of the farming classes; 10 devise ways and means by means of which the farmers of this country can secure adequate prices TOT 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 10 carry these principles in- 10 effect and accomplish it's ends It has based its 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 is members, and will follow strictly the paths of action it maps out, it will accomplish all il 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 ative 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, oyeriowins sranaries and smokehouses.
 Will secure educaton, pnlighten- 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.
 Wll secure that independence or thought and action thar poverty takes from men
 win secure better laws for the country. better enforcement of the laws
 will secure a genuine prosperity for the entire nation prosperity based upon SuDSldnlldi, dHu HOl thO ficticious, airy nothing5 of over-cap- italization represented by stocks and bonds of ficticious value.
 Will secure, in so ia as material things go, everything that tends to make a people happy, nation great and strong.
 But all this is up to the farme: himself. He must be true to em' self and therefore to the Union, or he must expect nothing lnt failure, and with failure condition worse than that he ever knew before. an enthrallment to the money Nultures 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 or burden. with ambition dead, and hope
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