prospect of the Government winning some seats in the
West, as there is of the Liberals fielding candidates who will not be
elected. Ontario is already a loose-jointed but effective part of the
movement. Business is not good. A time of trade depression has always
been a good time for a change of government, even along orthodox lines.
The present economic aftermath of destructive war and a large element of
I-Won't-Work labour along with high wages no matter what else falls, must
look to Crerar like a good time to make us all believe that we shall all
get through to Canaan if we follow his Ark of the Covenant. He is able
to assure us of cheap clothes and furniture and machinery, because the
farmer needs these things in the production of food, which must not
become too cheap or the advantage will be lost. What is to become of our
industries is not clearly stated; but if living is to be so cheap we
shall probably not need employment except on the farms; though under free
trade we are told that industry, free to flow, is sure to locate itself
at the point of advantage in material, power, transportation, and getting
to market. In fact some free traders blithely tell us that once you get
rid of tariffs, living becomes so cheap that people naturally flock to
the free trade country, and industry is bound to follow the people;
therefore free trade will give us factories as we need them.

There is no end of the mirage for your head and morass for your feet once
you begin to consider the possibilities of a revolution. We had somewhat
the same experience forty odd years ago in the forests of smokestacks
supposed to spring up in the wake of the National Policy. It took a long
while and much hard patient work to get those smokestacks. Now we have
got them as part of our national equipment, along with great water powers
and long-haul railways and centralized banks and a number of trusts and
an undeniable number of dear manufactures under a tariff--and Mr. Crerar
purposes to abolish the whole thing, to begin all over again as it was in
the beginning, except that even then if the farmer had lost his market
town on Saturday he would have been in a very bad way for his Sunday
clothes.

In short, Crerar proposes one more revolution, whether by one fell swoop
or by a slow process of getting us used to here a little and there a
little more--we do not know yet. What we do know is that he proposes to
govern this country by a huge econo