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number of its members were farmers, so the 

 U.F.O. would cease to be a farmers' organization 

 with members who were doctors, lawyers, and 

 merchants. The name would lose all its signi- 

 ficance, and the organization would cease to 

 function in the manner intended by its founders, 

 viz. "to advance the cause of agriculture in all 

 its branches." The organization, as such, must 

 be kept intact. 



But that does not mean that as an organiza- 

 tion it must not or cannot act in harmony with 

 similar organizations of other occupations. It 

 must ultimately do this if peace and good-will 

 are ever to reign amongst men, but no one surely 

 has the hardihood to argue that peace and good- 

 will hold anything like sovereign sway yet. 

 Bitter class struggles have been waged in the 

 past, are going on now, and are likely to go on 

 for some time to come. Into this swirl of strife 

 the U.F.O. has been drawn, or perhaps it is more 

 accurate to say that out of the strife the U.F.O. 

 has evolved, through a mass of unsuccessful 

 contenders banding themselves together for 

 self preservation. These United Farmers in 

 their efforts are continually railed at as 

 knockers, preaching co-operation on the one 

 hand and deliberately making co-operation im- 

 possible on the other by attacking other classes. 

 "How," say these people, "are we ever to have 



