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Show THE love of the Democracy always In presiden-l presiden-l years goes out to the farmer. It is made conspicuous con-spicuous this year by the president and emphasized empha-sized by every Democratic orator and newspaper. Have the farmers discovered the benefits that have come to them? It would be good for the president and his echoes to explain one little truth to the farmers. When the gxeat war broke upon Europe two years ago, ocean commerce was at once paralyzed. para-lyzed. The dullest chump in the nation saw what o crime it had been to depend upon foreigners to handle our ocean trade. Tho freight on the farmer's products sent abroad has doubled since then. Has the government come to the farmer's relief re-lief by one single ship? |