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Let the United Farmers, leaders and followers, 

 learn this lesson well. Only by resolute, deter- 

 mined effort can they achieve success. Men 

 are forever grasping at the shadow and losing 

 the substance. The spectacular successes so 

 far gained in politics and business are mere 

 shadows, the substance is the change in the farm 

 home, the farmer and his family. On these 

 latter all else rests; on these all organization 

 and effort should focus. As sure as organization 

 and office become the chief end, just so surely 

 will the U.F.O. adopt the practices which it so 

 loudly denounces, and just so surely will those 

 practices destroy its usefulness. ^Therefore, , 

 farmers, in the words of your constitution, to 

 the task of ' 'endeavoring to suppress personal, 

 sectional, national, political, partisan and class 

 prejudices, and thereby to promote the best 

 interests of Canada as a whole." 



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