The Third Power (Classic Reprint): Farmers to the Front

Excerpt from The Third Power: Farmers to the FrontThe World as a World scarcely makes a living. - Horace Greeley.If there is a place or corner anywhere in the world where the producers of our food and clothing supplies (commonly called farmers) are not ready to revolt against the absolute domination of non - producing classes in pricing their products, I am not aware of it.That the old and thoroughly bad system can speedily be changed. The producers regulate the marketing of their products and make their own prices - I am thoroughly convinced.The farmers own the earth. We may safely claim that farming exists by Divine right. The farmers first possess all the food and clothing supplies which are in dispensable for the life and comfort of humans and domestic animals their products constitute the greater portion of traffic for railroads and ships; nearly all the factories work on raw material produced on the farms and the products of the factories are largely consumed by the farmers, or in equipments to handle farm prod acts. It is clear, the important position of the farmer in his relation to all other industries, and how closely all other industries are interwoven with that of agri culture. It is the same way all over the world, in all civilized countries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.