Show THE SOCIETY OF EQUITY i One of the most interesting economic I experiments In this country has been originated by bt the farmers tanners of ot the coun county count county ty t who have organized The American Society of or Equity The ground plan of ot the society is cooperative marketing fixing prices of ot farm tarm products in na national convention and determining in n a general way wa the kind and amount of or mops lOPS to be raised by members in suc sue c years ears According to official re report report report port the membership has grown with rapidity and the power of ho society has been felt wherever It t has been able to secure a foothold So far the tIme results have been Encouraging aging ahing though thou h not conclusive The great difficulty one ont due du to the very ery nature of ot the time membership Is in securing con concerted concerted concerted effort i rt among farmers With lith communication more or less difficult with residences widely separated with witha a tendency toward individualism in horent in the farmers occupation he finds It hard to effect as close cloie an or organization organization organization as Is necessary to control the tremendous and varied products of ot the soil The bare fact that combinations combinations lions in the time things he lie has las to no buy have driven him Into a defensive organization Ion tion is evidence of ot the straits to which the agriculturist has come Here are some of ot the objects of ot his attack The trusts the middlemen in inthe Inthe inthe the commission business busine L tho the grain speculators and their allies the time eleva eliva elevator elevator tor men And AmI to make the attack on these thebe enemies effective the society preaches sound business s doctrine It Insists that farmers should know tho the cost ost of the things they the rate that they should sell at a profit or stop raising the crop which produces no profit that they should not dump their crops on the market all at one time and so taU fall prey tp the speculators that they study demand and supply and sell only to tom m mf et the demand not to sacrifice their labor for tor the of ot others If such an organization could be ex extended extended extended tended to Include the great grain Crain rain pro producing producing producing states the cotton growers the stock feeders and the other farmers who produce the food and clothing cl sup supply up ply I or if it could Include a working majority of ot these classes it would be bean bean bean an enormously powerful engine But unless Its efforts were political as well as agriculturist and economic It could hardly secure the real remedies for the thc plight of It the farmer fanner of or today He is being ground by the trusts trust which fatten r on ou protection but b t his remedy In the society is to adopt th tho the J trust system and attain higher prices by curtailing the output In overloaded lines The implement trust robs hn and lila hIs propped r relief Is to boost hoost prices on the consumer The twine trust the woolen trust the nail trust the th glass trust and all aU the other trusts hold him up and he sees no rl med except to add the cost coet of oC these extortions to o the price cf wheat and corn com and butter and eggs and hay ha haIt If It the Society of Equity could drop its political bars long enough to get its members to demand denand a reasonable tariff tarltOn t un On n monopolized articles of oC manufacture manufacture ture turn it have haye to worry about ways and means m ans of ot putting prices es up upen en cn n the consumers of agricultural products |