Show THE AMERICAN FARMER mr chairman retrogression in n american agriculture means national vat lifeline the power and grand eur cur of this great country cannot tvr sur vire the de degradation 9 ra dation of the american farmer struggle toil and suffer su er as he may each recurring year lias has brought to hini ini smaller reward for his labor until today surrounded by thc jhc most moil wonderful progress and development the world has ever witnessed wit nessell he is confronted and appalled with impending bankruptcy and ruin we protest and with all reverence that it is not gods fault we protest that it is not tile the farmers fault we believe and so charge 0 solemnly and deliberately that it is tile the fault of the financial system of tile government a system tem that has bas placed on agriculture 0 an all undue unjust and intolerable proportion of the burdens of taxation L L polk president of the Xa national tonal farmer alliance before united stairs senate on agriculture |