14 THE STORY OF THE U.F.O. 



again it has been a vision of a happier state for 

 mankind where each will be his fellows' equal 

 and where injustice will have vanished. No 

 matter what the end, men have instinctively 

 assumed that in union there is strength and that 

 success is attained in direct proportion to com- 

 bination and unity of purpose. 



Because of their peculiar position in the 

 economic life of their country, some men have 

 seen the advantage of organizing earlier than 

 others. But once this organizing process 

 commenced, it was inevitable that it should 

 spread. Not only did it spread from old 

 countries to new countries, but once having 

 entered a new country it gradually worked 

 through all ranks. Canada like every other 

 country has experienced her share of such 

 development, and in no province to a greater 

 degree than in Ontario. Who of us has not 

 been rendered merry and angry in turn with 

 tales of the exploits of the Family Compact, or of 

 more recent compacts? Among the various 

 classes probably no people moved more slowly 

 in organization than the tillers of the soil, but 

 their time came, and such familiar terms as the 

 "Grange" and the "Patrons of Industry" remind 

 the younger people of today that agricultural 

 organization is no new thing in Ontario. 



It has been assumed by most of those who 



