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had this to say: "An eminent journalist remarked to me in 1908
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that the two great parties were like two bottles. Each bore a label
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Quarter of Beef! This at any rate may be said, that the parties may seem to have
erred . . . by neglecting to discover and work out any principles
capable of solving the problems which now perplex the country.
2 In a country so full of change and movement as America, new
questions are always coming up and must be answered. New
Chances troubles surround a Government and a way must be found to
to Win escape from them; new diseases attack the nation, and have
to be cured. The duty of a great party is to face these, to fi nd
answers and remedies, applying to the facts of the hour the
doctrines it has lived by, so far as they are still applicable, and
when they have ceased to be applicable, thinking out new
doctrines conformable to the main principles and tendencies
which it represents."
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party. If it reverts to the situation of thirty or forty years ago,
which Lord Bryce described, it will fail.
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Increasingly during these past six years a common
understanding of what unity means has grown throughout the
CUTS • COLOR • PERMS • HIGHLIGHTS land. People have continued to ask their representatives, their
executive representatives, their representatives in Legislatures
suggestion that was put forward by those who belonged to the and the Congress, to be liberal, to take the initiative, to be
liberal school of thought. positive forces in improving social and economic conditions.
That applies to farmers just as much as to industrial workers.
"Mr. B," on the other hand, was the composite of a liberal. He
not only agreed with "Mr. A" on the needs and the problems, You who live on the farm or near the farm know well how
but "Mr. B" put his shoulder under the load, he gave active study farmers were exploited by those who controlled Government
and active support to working out methods, in cooperation from the end of the World War down to 1933—and by the
with his Government, for the solving of the problems and the monopolies they fostered which still give us trouble. But I
filling of the needs. "Mr. B" did not claim that the remedies think you realize also that for many long years industrial
were perfect but he knew that we had to start with something labor was exploited too. Farmers have come to realize that
less than perfect in this imperfect world of ours. unless industrial labor is prosperous it cannot buy the food
and the materials for clothing which are produced from the
If we have a Government run by the "Mr. A's" of this life, it is soil. Industrial labor has come to understand that unless the
obvious that the Nation will slip behind once more in the march farmers of the country are prosperous they cannot buy the
of civilization—bump along from one 1929 crisis to another. product of the factories.
Yours is the choice of what kind of a Government you want.
I ran across an interesting thing the other day. Lord Bryce, in the
last edition of his great work on the American Commonwealth, (continued on next page)
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