Excerpt from The Mission, History and Times of the Farmers Union: A Narrative of the Greatest Industrial-Agricultural Organization in History and Its Makers The fate of humanity and the rapidity of progress have been determined by many critical developments in past centuries. Since the beginning of creation men have been continually, if somewhat blindly, working toward a more perfect conception of liberty; a finer adjustment of rights and privileges, so that no one class or clique should profit at the expense of another; so that opportunity should be equalized, and each man's title to happiness made to rest solely upon his own merits. The Magna Charta of the English barons is an illustration of the peculiar crisis of which I am speaking. That historic docu ment sought to chain kings down to an equitable interpretation of the rights of the average man, and to assure, at least, a degree of justice in government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.