That is why you are crying out your feeble little battle-cry, 'Return to the ways of our fathers.' You are aware of your impotency.

You know that your strength is an empty shell.

And I'll show you the emptiness of it.
"What power have the farmers?
Over fifty per cent are thralls by virtue of the fact that they are merely tenants or are mortgaged.

And all of them are thralls by virtue of the fact that the trusts already own or control (which is the same thing only better)--own and control all the means of marketing the crops, such as cold storage, railroads, elevators, and steamship lines.

And, furthermore, the trusts control the markets.