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"Much of our natural resources has been recklessly 

 handled, and as a people we are faced with the necessity 

 of overcoming the evil effects of our unbusinesslike 

 methods as a nation in administering resources. If we 

 are to surmount our shortcomings in this respect and 

 pay our obligations as a nation to the outside world, 

 we must place agriculture throughout Canada upon a 

 thoroughly sound and profitable basis. The creation 

 of wealth from our wonderfully rich natural resources, 

 in which agriculture stands in the forefront, is the 

 essential thing and should receive most consideration 

 from our Governments both Dominion and Provincial. 



"We must learn to respect each other's differences 

 and, if we do, with the development of that democratic 

 spirit which is now day by day becoming more manifest 

 in Western Canada, we need have no fear of our useful- 

 ness as an agency in bringing about the ultimate 

 triumph of the principles of justice between man and 

 man." 



Listen to President J. A. Maharg, addressing the 

 Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association in 1914 : 



"What is wanted is the general recognition by all 

 classes of the importance of Agriculture and an honest 

 desire by them to assist in placing it on a basis equal 

 to that of any other industry making it an occupation 

 that will draw people to it instead of driving them 

 away. In soliciting the aid of other classes I am not 

 asking them to assist us in gaining any special favors 

 whatever; all we ask is that they assist us to have 

 Agriculture placed in the position its importance 

 entitles it to." 



Hear the President of the United Farmers of Alberta. 

 H. W. Wood : 



