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Surely not ?" And Mr.Asmunsen amiably confessed to the weakness.

There was one other man who was quizzed by Ernest at this juncture, a Mr.Calvin, who had once been a great dairy-owner.
"Some time ago you were fighting the Milk Trust," Ernest said to him; "and now you are in Grange politics.* How did it happen ?" * Many efforts were made during this period to organize the perishing farmer class into a political party, the aim of which was destroy the trusts and corporations by drastic legislation.

All such attempts ended in failure.
"Oh, I haven't quit the fight," Mr.Calvin answered, and he looked belligerent enough.

"I'm fighting the Trust on the only field where it is possible to fight--the political field.