Deep Furrows

of truth, the more distinct and s

rdrafts imposed by special conditions. In spite of their extremely limited resources and the handicaps forced upon them, the volume of business transacted had exceeded $1,700,000 during the first ten months that the farmers had been in business; their paid-up capital had been approximately eleven thousand dollars of which over se

the approaching busy season before, without warning, the b

ined with other grain dealers cheering them forward and waving their hats. They expected competition of the keenest. What they could not antici

ad to pry off his wrinkled boots and lie down when it got dark in order to yank them on again, when the rooster crowed at dawn, for the purpose of "tuckering himself out" all over again. It was true that without him there would have been no grain to handle; equally true that without the g

the trading company's credit without apparent cause was another move of

ie, and almost the first account he sought for the Home Bank was that of the Grain Growers' Grain Company. The Home Bank was new in the West and in the East it had been an old loan company without big capitalis

business done by banks is carried on upon their deposits. If the working people and the farmers, as is generally accepted, form the majority of these depositors of money in banks, then were not many loans which went to monopolistic interests being used against the very people who furnished the money? If the farmers could acquire stock i

large block of the bank's stock to Western farmers, working men and merchants. On the sale of this they were to receive a commission which would, they expect

in the number of shareholders-was anticipated by the management. They were not prepared, however, for the heavy volume that poured in upon them when the crop began to move; it was double that of their first season and t

oader objective. It was not enough that the farmer sh

the lesson that we must organize and work together to secure those legislative and economic reforms necessary to well-being. In the day of our prosperity we must not forget that there are yet many wrongs to be righted and that true happiness and success in life cannot be measured by the wealth we acquire. In the mad, debasing struggle for material riches and pleasure, which is so characteristic of our age, we often neglect and let go to decay the finer a

sident happened to be in a little printshop one day, looking over the proof of a pamphlet which the Company was about

l like that?" he wondered. "It would

d by a Winnipeg farm paper which devoted

he farmers," said the publisher, "we'll devote mo

ld up another man's pa

't we get out a jou

he finally agreed that it would be of untold assistance to the farmers if they had a paper of their own to voice their ideals. The logical editor for the new

ence of E. A. Partridge on a favorite theme was something worth listening to; also, he gave his auditors much to think about and sometimes got completely beyond their depth. It wa

t, too, that it would be advisable to join hands with The Voice, which was the organ of the Labor unions. The President and the other officers could not agree that any of these was wise at the start; it wou

ieved it to be of vital importance to "the Cause" and its future. In October he had met with an unfortunate accident, having fallen from his binder and so injured his foot in the machinery that amputation was necessary; he was in no condition to undertake new and arduous duties in organizing

declared. "I know I'm impatient and all that, boys. You'd bette

f the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association from the first and had been a prime mover in its activities as well as wielding co

wired him to come do

even years of age he was plowing with a yoke of oxen on the stump lands of Huron, helping his father to scratch a living out of the bush farm for a family of

ing a flour-mill at Gladstone (then called Palestine), Manitoba, and young McKenzie decided to take a little walk out that way to visit him. It was a wade, rather than a walk! It was the year the country was flooded and

ng to build the first railway through the country Roderick McKenzie eventually located his farm n

iven a grade and price which he considered fair enough. When he came in with two more loads of the same kind of wheat next day, however, the

zie. "I suppose you sent it by wire!" He picked up the reins. "That five cents

ooked at the wheat but refused to give a price for it. One of them

you a knockdown

, bu

ainst him and if you want to sel

the conditions that prevailed, McKenzie wa

singled out at once for a place on the platform and was elected Secretary of the Brandon branch of the Association. At the annual convention of the Manitoba loc

n very much in favor of the farmers' trading company and only the restrictions of his official position with the Association ha

n the boy from the telegraph office r

" And like Cincinnatus at the call of the State in the "brave days of old," McKenzie unhitched the horses and

met him at

d the Secretary of the

I came right along as

What's

rowers' Guide. Partridge w

in my life!" cried McKenzie, sta

ennedy reassuringly. "You'll b