nary groups. Agriculture, not industry, is the basis of
Canada's economics. Even labour as embodied in the Trade Unions does
not aim at revolution: Only the Reds want that. And the Reds are a
hopeless minority. The farmers are not as yet a popular, though they
are an economic, majority; but the future of this nation depends upon a
voting as well as a producing majority of farmers."

This may not be the exact way in which Mr. Dafoe would state the case,
but it expresses the fact that sound economics are at the root of all
ideas which have to do with fair government. And it suggests that J.
W. Dafoe with his _Free Press_ has more to do than the _Grain Growers'
Guide_ with what the people think about the N.P.P.

For this reason we hope that Mr. Dafoe, the judge and the advocate as
well, will always stay "behind the scenes" to keep Mr. Crerar on the
right track if ever he gets the right of way.

HEADMASTER OF THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL

MICHAEL CLARK, M.P.

The eminent headmaster of the Manchester School in Canada is one of the
few M.P.'s who know how to build a wheat stack. He farms in the spot
north of Calgary where the poplar bluffs begin to mark that you are in
the black loam of wonderful crops at a maximum distance from Liverpool.
It is an art to build a wheat stack. Michael Clark--so we believe--knows
exactly how many tiers to lay before he begins the "belly"; how to fill
up the middle so that the butts of the sheaves droop to run off the rain;
and how high to go with the bulge before he begins to draw in with the
roof. All day long as he worked on his knees, not in prayer, he had
mental leisure to think about one vast, fructifying theme; which of
course is Free-Trade as they had it in England; unrestricted trade
according to the Manchester School. And when he got his stack done he
could tell to a ten-dollar bill how much tariff the railways and
steamships would levy on that stack by the time the wheat got to
Liverpool.

During the War, Clark was a win-the-war Liberal. He broke away from
Laurier on conscription, which he openly supported. In July this year he
was scheduled in the press--another of those wish-father-to-the-thought
news items--to join Messrs. Drury and Crerar in an anti-tariff tour of
Ontario. He did not go. He probably never had the slightest intention
of going. Michael Clark had other wheat to stack. An Alberta election
was coming. It came. When it was all over Alberta was in t