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industrial interests and you see where you are at! 

 There is no form of industry, no form of labor, no form 

 of finance, banking associations, loan associations, 

 insurance compensation associations, transportation 

 associations, that are not organized. In Winnipeg we 

 have a Bootblack's Association and each of the little 

 fellows contributes five dollars a year to the support 

 of their organization and five dollars represents fifty 

 pairs of boots to blacken at a dime the pair. 



" In our Grain Growers' associations the organization 

 is simple and coherent. There is no pass-word. There 

 is no grip. There is no riding of the goat. We don't 

 ask a farmer whether he is a Grit or a Tory ; we don't 

 ask him anything about his nationality or his relations 

 or where he comes from or anything else. One of the 

 main aims of the organization is to make good 

 Canadians of the different nationalities we have in this 

 Western country. We are getting the Galicians and 

 other nationalities gradually brought in getting them 

 together for the development of Canadianism and the 

 community spirit. 



"The one thing we have steered clear of is letting 

 party politics enter into our organization. The thing 

 we are trying to do is to co-operate with our legislators 

 by helping them to find out the things that need 

 enacting into law and that have not been enacted into 

 law or to find what laws already on the statute books 

 are weak and ask that these weaknesses be corrected 

 not in a dominating spirit but in a spirit of equity." 



Public opinion is rallying to the leadership of the 

 farmers. Their policy is progressive. Probably the 

 first body in Canada to give Woman her proper place in 

 its activities and councils was the Saskatchewan Grain 

 Growers' Association. To-day the farm women of the 



