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things, and has expected them immediately. 

 But even as injustice has been a long time in 

 entrenching itself securely here and there in our 

 national and community life, so justice must toil 

 tediously to drive it forth. Reforms are slow to 

 become well established. One might cite count- 

 less examples. Think, for instance, of the 

 bringing about of free trade in Great Britain. 

 Freedom of trade was proclaimed in Great 

 Britain seventy-five years ago and those who 

 have stood for this principle have been compelled 

 to wage a constant fight against those who would 

 overthrow it. Even now after these seventy- 

 five years we find interested parties managing 

 to have protective duties placed on numerous 

 articles. Add to this that the measure came in 

 the first place only after decades of agitation, and 

 one sees how slowly privilege yields ground. In 

 view of this, and with the certainty that relief 

 from wrongs cannot be brought about as speedily 

 as many members thought certain, the U.F.O. is 

 likely to suffer from a loss of interest on the part 

 of disappointed ones. 



This points immediately to a further danger. 

 It is new to the U.F.O. but it is old in history. 

 Let us think of the U.F.O. as the latest phase 

 but as only one phase of the great farmers' 

 movement in Canada. In the opening chapter 

 we noted how almost a century and a half 



