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Agriculture. It was considered by each of the 

 provincial boards and by them referred in turn to the 

 three thousand local community associations into 

 which the members are organized. Each Local was 

 asked to call a meeting to consider the platform and 

 vote upon its adoption. The next step was for the 

 members to give their votes and financial support only 

 to such candidates for the House of Commons as would 

 pledge support of this National Platform in its entirety 

 and who could be relied upon as Members of Parliament 

 to live up to their pledges. 



And here is the National Political Platform on which 

 the farmers stand without equivocation: 



is 



THE CUSTOMS TARIFF 



WHEREAS the war has revealed the amazing financial 

 strength of Great Britain, which has enabled her to 

 finance not only her own part in the struggle, but also 

 to assist in financing her Allies to the extent of 

 hundreds of millions of pounds, this enviable position 

 being due to the free trade policy which has enabled her 

 to draw her supplies freely from every quarter of the 

 globe and consequently to undersell her competitors on 

 the world's markets, and because this policy has not 

 only been profitable to Great Britain but has greatly 

 strengthened the bonds of Empire by facilitating trade 

 between the Motherland and her overseas Dominions 

 we believe that the best interests of the Empire and 

 of Canada would be served by reciprocal action on the 

 part of Canada through gradual reductions of the 

 tariff on British imports, having for its object a closer 

 union and a better understanding between Canada and 

 the Motherland, and by so doing not only strengthen 

 the hands of Great Britain in the life and death 

 struggle in which she is now engaged, but at the same 



