permitted, are almost inevitable.

A voluntary organizing body like the Irish Agricultural Organization
Society, which was the first to attempt the co-operative organization of
farmers in these islands, is the only kind of body which can pursue its
work fearlessly, unhampered by alien interests. The moment such a body
declares its aims, its declaration automatically separates the sheep
from the goats, and its enemies are outside and not inside. The
organizing body should be the heart and centre of the farmers' movement,
and if the heart has its allegiance divided, its work will be poor and
ineffectual, and very soon the farmers will fall away from it to follow
more single-hearted leaders. No trades union would admit
representatives of capitalist employers on its committee, and no
organization of farmers should allow alien or opposing interest on their
councils to clog the machine or betray the cause. This is the best
advice I can give reformers. It is the result of many years' experience
in this work. An industry must have the same freedom of movement as an
individual in possession of all his powers. An industry divided against
itself can no more prosper than a household divided against itself. By
the means I have indicated the farmers can become the masters of their
own destinies, just as the urban workers can, I think, by steadfastly
applying the same principles, emancipate themselves. It is a battle in
which, as in all other battles, numbers and moral superiority united are
irresistible; and in the Irish struggle to create a true democracy
numbers and the power of moral ideas are with the insurgents.