Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Farmer John's Remedy

Ever since he set out to be Prime Minister, Canada's Tory leader, John Bracken, has had a hard time outpromising his opponents, Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and socialist CCFer M. J. Coldwell. Just before he accepted nomination in the next Federal election for the farming constituency of Neepawa, Manitoba, John Bracken tried again.

He told farmers that their troubles were due to the fact that the farmer had to buy in a tariff-protected market, sell in competition with "the peon workers of the Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself,...

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