The Bill of Rights of U.S. Cooperative Agriculture
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OF U. S. COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE
DR. A. LADRU JENSEN*
American agriculturists appear determined to stand solidly
against the pressures from other economic classes which, in times past,
have produced an impoverished agriculture in older countries. In
this determination, farm leaders are aided and abeted by enlightened
friends in all segments of the American economy. Many business men
realize that their own prosperity, and national economic stability rest
in large part upon a prosperous agriculture. Fortune Magazine
recently emphasized these facts.
One of the great social and economic shifts of U. S.
history has, in this time of breaking of nations, gone largely
unheralded. It is the radical change in the life and outlook
of the American Farmer, who has regained his birthright-in
many cases, with accrued interest. It has happened within
a single generation. . . . It is perhaps the greatest single
factor now tending to assure the continued stability of the
U. S. economy and the revitalization of the American
Spirit....
U. S. farmers as a whole are not getting rich. The 27,-
500,000 farm people who comprise nearly 20 per cent of the
U. S. population still receive only 10 per cent of the national
income....
Nor are many individual farmers becoming, by urban
standards, really wealthy. The quick fortunes of a few tena-
cious or lucky wheat farmers in the ex-Dust Bowl are the
exception, not the rule-which is why they get in the news-
papers.'
Social justice aims at justice between classes as well as between
groups and individuals. The striving for this aim requires govern-
mental organization, exemptions and controls to equalize the long-run
competition between different economic classes.
Mr.. Salmond, in his Jurisprudence, emphasizes that in highly
organized industrial societies law is more than the system of authori-
tative legal material by means of which social ordering is carried
*Member of California, Utah, and American Bar Associations; Professor of Law,
University of Utah.
'The Farmer Goes to Town, Fortune Mag., Oct. 1947, pp. 89-98. Statistical data
based on report of Department of Commerce, Supplement to Survey of Current
Business, National Income by Industrial Origin, July, 1947, p. 26.
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