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The idea grew more insistent the longer it was enter- 

 tained, and although at first E. A. Partridge, who was 

 on the directorate, was opposed to such a venture, he 

 finally agreed that it would be of untold assistance to 

 the farmers if they had a paper of their own to voice 

 their ideals. The logical editor for the new undertaking 

 was E. A. Partridge, of course, and accordingly he 

 began to gather material for the first issue of a paper, 

 o be called the (h-fin jfjfcyjjiers' Guide. 



Partridge had a few ideas of his own that had 

 lived with him for a long time. On occasion he had 

 introduced some of them to his friends with character- 

 istic eloquence and the eloquence of E. A. Partridge 

 on a favorite theme was something worth listening to ; 

 also, he gave his auditors much to think about and 

 sometimes got completely beyond their depth. It was 

 then that some of them were forced to shake their 

 heads at theories which appeared to them to be so 

 idealistic that their practical consummation belonged 

 to a future generation. 



In connection with this new paper it was Partridge's 

 idea to issue it as a weekly and as the official organ of 

 the grain growers' trading company instead of the 

 grain growers' movement as a whole. He thought, too, 

 that it would be advisable to join hands with The Voice, 

 which was the organ of the Labor unions. The Presi- 

 dent and the other officers could not agree that any of 

 these was wise at the start; it would be better, they 

 thought, to creep before trying to walk, to issue the 

 paper as a monthly at first and to have it the official 

 organ of the Grain Growers' Associations rather than 

 the trading company alone. 



This failure of his associates to see the wisdom of his 

 plan to amalgamate with the organ of the Labor unions 



