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impossible thus to meet and know these men while 

 examining the facts of their accomplishments without 

 being impressed by the tremendous potentialities that 

 underlie their efforts. 



Almost the first discovery is that the organized 

 farmers have ideals beyoM^jQalexLal-^iiiajitage. and 

 that these ideals are national _in. s.cojie, therefore involv- 

 ing responsibilites. Undeterred by these, the farmers 

 are eager to push on to further achievements. Their 

 hope for these ideals lies in the success of their business 

 undertakings and it is because that success is the 

 spinal column of the whole movement that it occupies 

 such a prominent place in this historical outline. 



Not all the Grain Growers are men of vision, it must 

 be admitted. Many have joined the movement for what 

 they can get out of it. In all great aggregations of 

 human beings it is quite possible to discover the full 

 gamut of human failings. But loose threads sticking 

 to a piece of cloth are no part of its warp and woof. 

 It is the thinking Grain Grower who must be reckoned 

 with and he is in the majority; the others are being 

 educated. 



If there is doubt as to the sincerity of the organized 

 farmers, why did their pioneer business agency spend 

 its substance in educational directions instead of solely 

 along the straight commercial lines of the concerns 

 with which it was in competition? The very mould 

 into which it poured its energies shaped special diffi- 

 culties, generated special antagonisms and every 

 possible obstruction to its progress. Its cash grants 

 to the Associations in the West, to the official organ of 

 the movement, even to the Ontario farmers, run over 

 the hundred-thousand-dollar mark. 



