HIS LIFE AND WORK 



pound of gold. For every loaf of bread upon a 

 Londoner's table, there will go a cent and a half 

 to the man behind the Reaper. And so, the 

 sale of every wheat-crop means that the gold 

 will come throbbing out into the arteries of 

 business, like the blood from the heart, and on 

 its way back and forth nourish the whole body 

 of the nation. 



It is in the very nature of the wheat trade to 

 benefit the masses and not the few. The more 

 wheat that grows, the less danger there is of an 

 aristocracy of wheat. More wheat means more 

 luxury in the farmhouse, more traffic on the 

 railway, and more food in the slums. It 

 means busier factories and steel-mills, because 

 the farmer, when he receives his wheat-money, 

 becomes the customer of the manufacturer. 

 Thus it was not at all accidental that the wealth 

 of Buenos Ayres came with the exportation of 

 wheat, or that the commercial awakening of 

 Canada followed the opening up of her western 

 prairies, or that the industrial supremacy of the 

 United States dates from the immense wheat 

 harvests that began in 1880 to push the whole 



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