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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER VIII
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Let me show you.

A few years ago we dairymen had everything our own way." "But you competed among yourselves ?" Ernest interrupted.
"Yes, that was what kept the profits down.

We did try to organize, but independent dairymen always broke through us.

Then came the Milk Trust." "Financed by surplus capital from Standard Oil,"* Ernest said.
* The first successful great trust--almost a generation in advance of the rest.
"Yes," Mr.Calvin acknowledged.

"But we did not know it at the time.
Its agents approached us with a club.


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