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188 matter of centuries as was the experience after the wreck of earlier civilizations. The fortunate few who exult in their temporary well-being and the unfortunate mnillions who bewail their present misery are equally ignorant of what is really happening and whither things are trending. They can not even grasp the facts and the logical deductions from them when they are informed respecting them. Salvation depends therefore upon intelligence undertaking to lead the way and persuading the masses to defer to it before dire necessity imposes its irresistible constraint.

The most conspicuous states of mind among the classes of people of the United States at the present time is expressed in the phrase ‘‘ Discontent among the farmers,” and the declared intention of labor to “‘hold its own.” In the words of an eminent political newspaper correspondent. recently making a survey of sentiment in the corn-growing states.

The farmers are sullen, and grow more so every day. If you should ask of a hundred farmers the reason for their discontent, they would all answer in practically the same words: “Low prices for what we have to sell; high prices for what we have to buy.”

What is characterized as being a radical, “almost bolshevist,” movement was rampant in Iowa. Anyone who has read my writings is aware that socialism and bolshevism are anathema to me, but we all know that the farmers are not socialistic by instinct or nature, although now and then they allow socialistic experiments to be foisted upon them, as in North Dakota. ] find, however, that one of the present exponents of. radicalism in Iowa is against high taxes, against the ship subsidy project and against the conditions that make for high railway rates. If this be radicalism,