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methods of distributing cars where and when they 

 chose and to disregard, as before, those provisions of 

 the Grain Act which aimed to protect the farmer in 

 getting his fair share of cars in which to load direct. 



Thus it soon turned out. The officers of the Associa- 

 tion at once warned the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company that if they persisted in such practice the 

 farmers would be compelled to take legal action against 

 them. It looked so much like the attack of a toddling 

 child against a man full grown that the big fellow 

 laughed good-naturedly. Who, pray, were the " Terri- 

 torial Grain Growers' Association " ? 



"We represent the farmers of Western Canada," 

 retorted the unabashed officers of the little organiza- 

 tion " and we want what the law allows us as our right. 

 What's more, we propose to get it !" 



That was about the message which W. R. Motherwell 

 and Peter Dayman went down to Winnipeg to deliver 

 in person to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. 

 The official whom they interviewed manipulated the 

 necessary levers to start the matter on its way through 

 he " proper channels " towards that " serious consid- 

 eration" into which all good politicians and corpora- 

 * tion officials take everything that comes unexpectedly 

 before them. W. R. Motherwell could not wait for the 

 unfolding of this hardy perennial and left Peter Day- 

 man at Winnipeg to follow up developments. 



When the latter got back home he brought with him a 

 practical improvement in the 



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situation which was to support these promises, how- 

 ever, evidently got wrapped up in somebody else's order 

 and delivered to another address^ As soon as the 

 Association were satisfied that relief was not to be 



