re to blame me, Mister, for cutting out
all these unnecessary middle charges when by proper organization I am
able to finance myself and take advantage of cash discounts on the cost
of living?"

That is the Farmer's motive for taking action. He wants to improve his
scale of living for the sake of his family. By making the farm home a
place of comfort his sons and daughters will be more content to remain
on the land. He does not seek to hoard money; he intends to spend it.
If middlemen are crowded out of his community it will be because there
are too many of them. Instead of having to support parasites the
community will be just that much more prosperous, the farms just that
much better equipped, the land just that much more productive and
thereby the country's wealth just that much greater.

That is how it appears to the Farmer.

"If the Farmer is to be a merchant, a wholesaler, a banker and all the
rest of it he is no longer a farmer. Is nobody else to have a right to
live?" enquires the Cynic. "Did these Grain Growers fight the elevator
combine of the early days in order that they could establish a Farmers'
Combine? Is one any better than the other?"

The inference is that the Grain Growers are bluffing deliberately and
aiming at all the abuses conjured by the word, "combine." The slander
is self-evident to anyone who examines the constitution of the Farmers'
Movement, so framed from the first that any possibility of clique
control was removed for all time. It is impossible to have a "combine"
of fifty thousand units and maintain the necessary appeal to the
cupidity of the individual. It is not possible for designing leaders,
if such there were, to take even the first step in manipulation without
discovery. It simply cannot be done. Woe betide the man who even
exhibited such tendencies among his fellow Grain Growers! These
organized farmers have learned how to do their own thinking and every
rugged ounce of them is assertive. They are not to be fooled easily
nor stampeded from their objective. And what is that objective?

"To play politics!" explodes the hidebound Party Politician knowingly.

"To get a share in the Divvy and eventually hog it!" suggests the
Financial Adventurer.

"Equal opportunities to all; special privileges to none," the Grain
Grower patiently reiterates.

He believes in doing away with "the Divvy" altogether. He believes
that "the spoils system" is bad government and that