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Speaking at the United Farmers of New Brunswick convention ot Woodstock, Mr. Pratt, oithe Groin Growers‘ Guide, Winnipeg, was asked what would happen -if the Maritime offshoot oi the Grain Growers’ Guide goes broke.

Mr. Pratt replied to the ef- fect that." ‘fThe paper would not be permitted to fall while there was a dollar behind the Griln Growers‘ Guide, as the management realized that the failure of the ptlper would mean the failure of the "Fur. therance oi the objects oi the Grain Growers of the Wiest?"

May we ask what are the . objects which induces a P191186 of millions oi dollars?

Why are the Grain Growers so willing to risk hundreds oi, thousands of dollars in "Furtherance oi the objects oi the Grain Growers oi the

West?" It must be a big game,

Dairyman Say

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WHY THE BIG STAKE.

nnl which believes in the East. it thinks rightly or wrongly that the interests of the east and west are not at all in keeping. Our farm- ers farin. Most oi the western farmers mine. They not only want the earth, but they are reaching out for some of the planets.

At present they are insisting that the government again buy their wheat at fancy prices and force the rest of (‘aneda to pay the bill. We say no. Not only do we say "no," to that, but we again urge the farm- ers oi tliese provinces to protest against any such use of the monies oi this country unless the farmers oi the Maritime Provinces are ac- corded llke treatment. The United Farmers of the west are going to Ottawa to force that unholy pro- posal on the government oi the Dominion. Just as surely as they succeed just so surely will every farmer continue to pay exhorbi- taut prices for his flour and feeds for the next year. The United States has decided to have no more price fixing. The“ why should we continue to pay an unheard‘ oi tax to the United Farmers of the West?

The liiiarilime Farmer is about to "utter Heresy,

lttbelieves that the farmers oi the Maritimir-Provlnces are being gold. bricked with one oi the most in. 9mm“ Cilmiiiiigns that has ever been undertaken in Canada,

has preached organization among 1110 farmers in the Maritime Prov- inces. 1t has not only preached but it has practised.

There are in the Maritime Prov- inces thousands of farmers for whom the Maritime Farmer has saved thousands oi dollars by put- ting in practise what it preached.

, iBut the Maritime Farmer has in VNW 8- dliierent kind oi organization t0 that which is being presently at- tempted in the Maritimes.

1i. has in view an organization where freedom oi speech will be permitted; anti organization in which any man may be permitted, to use the brains and common sense with which Provid- ence so generously endowed the ipeople of Nova Scotla, New Bruns- wick and ‘Prince Edward island.

‘it did not have in mind‘ an or- panizationdn which the farmers

. of these three provinces were to

dance to tunes composed in Winni-

. met. and to hopyto strings manipu- ' dmlfbflli . t

mariners‘ or "New

1111.18 its faith toa political consti- tution laid down absolutely in the interests of Western farmers. In its preparation no voice from the East was heard. lt is a dictum, as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and the -Persians. except insofar as the strong majority in whose in-- terests it was iranied will permit oi its amendment.

To become an associate in ad- vancing the ideals oi the United Farmers one must absolutely ec- cept the whole doctrine or none. There is no halfway. li‘ you think differently you must nevertheless do as "the Romans do." lf a Unit- ed Farmer member of Parliament chooses to use is brains or to act inany other way, except as he may be directed he is liable to a recall and told to go about his business and give way to more servile men- ials.

This is somewhat different to the mtothods of Maritime Province

- practise. We have had hlen who "dared." May "we have more of ihom. The llowes, 'l‘uppers. John- stons. Blalrs, and their liko met by issues and dared to oppose. Anti‘ "may "we preserve that tradition of ours. and" fall again to bc led like sheep -by cvcry demagogue that chooses to prattlc pretty promises which up to the present have not boon fulfilled in.vtheso nevi-n- -

-'l‘ho Maritime iFarmer is a ioni-

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Ifiscatory methods that the Mari-

{rm- years the Marmme Farmer time Former protests. lf wheat ls to »\get special treatment then let us

chase but it must pay a second

The men who are doing this thing are the some men who are pro- fessing brotherly love for thefarm- ers oi the east, but who at the same time are making an attempt to rifle their victims‘ pockets as have pock- ets never been i-ifled ,hefore.

It is against such absolutely con

have our potato growers looked after. Where is all the perfor- mance that was promised by the United Farmers in the marketing of potatoes? Has a single business- like effort been made to improve the condition 0f the farmers of the potato growing counties of'thls province? Has any person heard oi any delegation being sent to Ottawa to ui"ge the claims of the men who grow "spuds"? if there has been, it has been a very thin voice that has been rnisedln sup port of such n suggestion. Letters to the Maritime Farmer from up- river commend the course of this paper and claim that the United Farmers have been mighty short in fulfilling their pledges. They have stores which are owned by shareholders the some as other tstores.’ They are operated for pro- fit. just as other stores are and they earn and pay dividends to their (rfiiareholdeis. And thzylggy thelse i n Mtahbrpo loony. stlfi- go rfeilzwr-in the‘ outside is concerned he gets nothing. Just contrast this with‘ the policy oi the Maritime Farmer. We as- sisted in co-operatlon. ,We help Agricultural societies to get in touch with sources oi supply which save money—-not for the select few but for every farmer in the organ izzttion. More than that we have been buying ior United Farmer or- ganizations and‘ there has been no profit risked on the goods, as in the case of the head office oi the Unit- ed ‘Fnrmers oi Woodstock, which charges every branch a profit on every purchase made. Thai is to say a branch United Farmer store. must nol only pay the wholesale price ruling at the time of hur-

wholesale profit to the head oillce at Woodstock. And for rendering the some service that the Maritime Farmer has been giving to sirores of farm organizations in this prov- ince and in Nova Scotia without charging a single cent for that ser- vice. And yet we are asked to view the United Farmer organization as at present constituted-ms some- thing purely churltable and philan- tropic. i .

Gentle reader. the Maritime Fnr- mer sold car after car of feed and flour this year to farmers in the‘ Marltiino Provinces Just one hun- drcd dollars per car cheaper than the United Farmers sold the same

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commodities from their stores. Did

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V01! lat it? We said one hundred dollars per car leu‘!

It was because of its knowledge of these thins: that the Maritime Farmer refused the oiler oi Winni. P88 to acquire this paper, The Maritime Farmer made up its mind that if there was to be a campaign

lee" one inner left with sufficient 0133880 to say something about the

that the United" Farmers oi New

mers of Prince Edward island New Brunswick or the United Far- mers of Nova Scotia, or the United Farmers of Prince dddward island. We do not believe that they should -be that in name only, and be div, tateirto by Winnipeg and the West.

The recent meeting of the Unit- ed Farmers ut Woodstock was at- tended by about 200 delegates. Some 3000 farmers were expected. The program was one calculated to make farmers believe that there was nothing left on earth for the farmer except what Winnipeg in duecourse will supply. (Probably the increased price- for flour and feeds will be the most notable con- tribution to this section). A reso- lution demanding a Canadian born Governor-General was widely de- bated. Yet when the question of forcing the Dominion Government to provide abattoir facilities for the Maritime Provinces was brought up, M. A. E. Trites. of Salisbury, and Mr. C. F. Alward. of Havelock, two of the sanest men in this prov- ince, were given about three. min- utes in which to lay the important facts .in their possessi before the meeting Yet only e iew short months ago the United Farmers

auguration of a scheme which they iismlssed in three mlnutel. The rest of the time was spent in lining up schemes in accord with the pro~ gram adopted at Winnipeg.

The Nova Scotin. IIGlGK-‘ttr-B to tho convention were given as warm a wt-itome as others. Anl it": the Maritime Farmer say tight here. tint the United Farmers (leis-gates could have heard more to their ad- vantage and profit from Mr Trltss and Mr. Alward than they would l"lVC from some of the visit-nary importations who addressed the various meetings.

it is in view of these things that we point out to the farmers oi Eastern Canada the sirOfl; pelvis- ability of organizing in their own interests. The Grain Growers are establishing a paper to inflict upon the farmers oi the Maritime Prov- inces the views oi Winnipeg. it is represented to the farmers as being "their paper." It isn't. it is controlled from Winnipeg. and it will say what Winnipeg Wants it to say. The director oi the paper will be Mr. G. FfChipman who is an employee of the G-ra n Growers’ Guide. TheGraln Growers‘ Guide is the mouth-piece of the very men who ask that the farmers in this part of Canada be soaked for their feeds "and their ilour. -The Grain Growers’ Guide also professes to be owned -by farmers. it is owned by Hon. Mr. Crerar and one or two others. The farmers share is re- presented by hls subscription. in the same way every reader of the Maritime Farmer is n part owner. Mr. (Thipman will run the nowa- paper as he is told to rim it. l-ic will advocate for eastern consump- tion and will try and gold-brick to a still greater extent the farmers of Eastern Canada.

The Maritime ‘Farmer would like to see a purely Maritime Province organization, run in the interests of the farmers of the three provinces. it would like to see an organization which wll be of the farmers, for the farmers and by the farmers; but we mean Eastern farmers.

We commend to the attention of Eastern Farmers the views of Mr. Pratt, oi the Grain Growers Guide, which are published in a panel on this page. What are the ideals which Mr. Pratt oi the United Far- mers oi the West would impose on

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We believe that it is good for the‘ , faYmerfl t0 Ofsanize, but we believe‘

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Shipping News DRIVVEN ASHORE OFF CAPE IHETON COAST.

A steamer which it is fegred" is

‘the ‘Dominion Coal Company oar-.

rler Cape Breton, vent ashore on Scatterie island at 1o o'clock Bun- day morning, and observers from Long Point, near llihinodieu, on oc- count of heavy seas which were pounding against her, held. hora that she WI] doomed. Theobald- Newfoundland isteamer Kyle left North ydney to go-to her enlist-- snce at- 6 o'clock Sunday nilht Ind reached a point near the wreck at ,l0 o'clock. By wireless to North

These are charges by the Presi- Sydney -sil° "Ported t pat“? ‘Aho-

- a 1 Secretary oi the Alberta‘ brim! heavy seas she could r0806!" W ‘I ~ and the secretary oi the Saskatche- ' . wan branch.

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aid and was returning. loo has broken the spbgaripahcab

beiwoel thdKOIpQ .~ land and scatterie. The assumption that the ship ls the Cape

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irate! ll i Pr i c ti u with a move- based on word received from Long t me l: to. (it'd? own disnd- Shore, the residents of which piano, us have all the say that the break: resembles the

i shape and carries the black din- mond crest upon her funnel and also upon the tact that the (lope Breton, in company with the Nev- ada was expected in "Louisburg on Saturday from Halifax but iuilcd to arrive at that port. The ship was observed-early Sunday morn- inl-by fishermen oi Long iShore to be idrifting towards Scatterie in an unmanageable condition, swerv- ing in her course. and seemingly aplayihing for then winds. At 10 o'clock she struck near what was judge to be the Red Rocks at the east1lde oi Tin Cove. At dai"k she appeared to be intact lying-broad- ‘s do to the shore and some dis- tance out. Heavy seas and" huge floss of ice crashed against her end those who viewed her from the. mainland thought that she would not withstand, lthe heavy battering for any great length of time. At dark her spars and funnel were still standing. Nothing can be ascertained as to the safety of the crew, but grave doubts are held that they will be rescued.

GIDRIC FOULED HER PROPELLOR’

Owing togqnilnt "or propeller shortly after leaving her dock at New York on Saturday. the White Mar liner Cedric was forced to abandon her trip to ‘Liverpool via Halifax and return to New York.

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iflic Cedric fouled hcr propel- lor wllll a lorry limit. The (‘oilrlc was to have cnllcii a-l l-luliiztx lo take on 475 lllll‘(l-i'l65‘~§ paissongers from the steamer Si. Paul. if ar- rnngetnelits t-nn be mailo. tlic steam or Scandinavian, now at St. John, will call for the passengers.

SERIOUS FIRE ON SHIP AT PORT OF LONDON

Fire which started in the after holds oi the United Stat s Ship- ping Board steamship Bridge now in London n 'l‘ day night. was still burn ng Friday when the stem of t steamer was submerged nit efforts to control the flames ad failed". Ex- tensive damage to the cargo is reported.

The Louisville Bridge arrived in London on Feb 28. from New Or- leans and! Gltlvestan. She is of 5,075 gross tons, and was built last year.

ANOTHER STEAMER SENDB OUT CALL FOR ASSISTANCE

The Allpniic ‘Transport line steamer Maine sent a wireless message Sunday from latitude 54.20 longitude 14.20 reporting that she was experiencing a hard gale ing condition. (‘lubs interested should write the Horse Division

' T999511? from England, has again

|>r_einluin scheme and special Ap- hlicaiion and" Agreement forms, All clubs should note that the final iiute for receiving applications h, April 1st, next.

——-—<0>_-_. THE CHALEUR LEAVQQ

The Royal llhll Bteam ‘Paultct Liner Cihaleur left Halifax Satur- dly morning for the West indies with B larse numiber of passengers. "Bbtain Hill, formerly master of the steamer, and who returned

taken over command. Among the Passengers leaving on the Chai- eur are many prominent Halifax people» among them Eds Grace Archbishop Worrel and ‘Mrs. Wer- reil. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Nuli will also be passengers.