Putnam patriot., 1909-10-08

fk< stored tree clad hills can alone rzf To accomplish this : e'e''- ton State leg' - aesiiapie i'ihosa. ,onro,ao,. ..slation will be invoked i,g ,b fthe general welfare by check .se. .e indiyidual power to continue our hills barren of trees for his personal benefit.
 The effort to consummate this good service Is we'll begun, and will go on in- creasing at rapid ratio with the in- creased public consciousness of its inn portance and in witnessing its initial benefits.
 Another alarm has been sounded out in regard to the diminishing supply of wheat in comparison with the increas- ing demand owing to the increase of population, and is declared must go on until the price of the loaf, like the price of beef, will go on doubling and quad rupling, because the submissive con sumer makes no effort to protect him. self. He sees the capitalists forming trusts and combinations 10 control the necessities of life, and as yet he stands helpless, not knowing he has the right and power to secure just treatment as against every other injustice. He can form acombination more powerful than any trust to secure hts rights against any combination that unjustly treats him with injustice. The spirit of our American institution does not permit any class to be wronged by any other class. Legislation has been successful ly invoked against railroads, oil trusts, and other incorporated bodies which have sought to unjustly treat the pub- lie by arbitrary power.
 Where law cannot right certain pub lie injustice, combination of those un- justly treated and wronged may do so by their greater strength and prepond- erance to control conditions. As an il- lustration, take the case of the raisers of oranges and lemons. in California, as related in the Hartford Gourant recent
 
 ly, did not get returns enough 10 pay the shipping and selling charges. In 1893 the growers formed an organiza- ton, and in one year increased their | shipments seven-fold, and without middlemen or other outside agencies, sold all their own fruit at a good profit; Virginia raisers of Irish and sweet po- tatoes had suffered the same, and fol- lowed the lead of California in organix- ing and reaped the same benefits, IS did the peach growers of Georgia and also the apple-growers of Washington, Oregon, Colorado and ldaho-and:the work of organization continues spread. ing. This to prove that ia square deal' can be secured both by producer and consumer by organized effort. IL is not the farmers who fix prices of wheat, that is done in the wheat pit In Chicago, where speculators invest hum dreds of millions of dollars in getting control of the wheat of the country and fix prices.
 IL may seem big scheme, but il is as feasible as those mentioned. to form "tafmers' Exchange, with branch es, aided by the consumers, to regulate prices on fair scale Io each, and the millions diverted 10 the specalators, will oe transferred to producer and con sumner. Then, with the assurance Of good prices, wheat raising can oe sS- tended to any amount demanded. In our article, :" New Farming l il wss shown by statements msde by expert scientists of the Agricultural Impairment, that the crops of tie na- ton can ne increased four-foid, and they are demonstrating il by practical ex- anples. that are carrying conviction 10 tue truth oi their exsIaordinry claims ! sTAe natannal govcsnment is Also send