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Show ers, and yet we are so unalterably opposed to class legislation that e cannot see the justice jus-tice of a guarantee against loss for the farmer, unless the same guarantee is invoked for the bricklayer and the barber. If the American citizenship is to be guaranteed guar-anteed a full return on its labor, the protection must extend to every class. The day laborer as well as the farmer is entitled to a profit on his labor. There Is but one way to sup-part sup-part such f guarantee and that is through taxation, the burden of-.which would fall on the landowners.: It Is not difficult to see that this would work back to the farm itself and eventually deprive the farmer of more thin it rave him. - As Mr. Johnson suggests, congress will have to work out the problem and It appears that the subtle suggestions of Mr. Johnson will render very little aid In reaching the solution. I 6 0 i Government Guarantees - o TAGNL'S JOHNSON, senator-elect from I V.innes'ita. is full of direful forebodings f f the future of the United States. He even f'ars that v.e may find ourselves in the same predicament as the Russian peasants. Revo- ljilon, with a!l the attendant bloodshed and J; ..ruction, is not impossible, unless material tlungcs z'z made in the immediate future, tLinks ti.e Wisconsin solon. . E it he has no solution to offer for the country's v.oes, gracefully declaring that the poi icm wiil have to be solved by congress. I he troui '.e with Johnson is that he Is like ail other .ackers of Utopia. He knows that s :ne:hir,g is wrong with the present order, 1 .t is not certain what it is and so he can offer no definite cure. It. is all well enough to say a man shouldn't be ill, but it is scant i'.i:,fa::i, n and less hope for the man -who is. J;!.rron seems to plac his direful fore-' fore-' on the plight of the farmers. He s that the farmer will have to have a ::;r.v'nt guarantee of a profit on his work. . t s.i-s: . ' , "..e f rir thould hare coat of produo , j ' i it rcaaonaLIe profit, ruarantect by r r.L" ' i. . .-j is a'l r'ht tut the guarantee : i ! c -r,-.c irom the people. In-iivij- : t c. ; 1 y t.;?. same fuarantee in t a -i to he slow to in-r in-r aa'.. t 5 ional losses or mis-. mis-. have r ,u,rx t".et syn-pathy : ; 'J f i.z A::u';i.aa farm- |