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 I'LL NEVER BE A SLAVE. 
 
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 THE BIDDING OF THE BISHOPS. 
 
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 Tne Slogan of Clarke Wallace : 
 
 "I'LL NEVER BE A SLAVE!" 
 
 Beino the Protcat of the Honorahte ^A'.y Clarke Wallace 
 aupjHised to hare been spoken by him to the Honorable 
 Sir McKenzie Bonell, Prime Minister of Canada, on 
 the 11th day of iJeeember, 1896, in the Parlia- 
 ment ImiMin/fs at Ottawa, immediately before he ten- 
 dered his resif/nation from the Bouell Ministry on 
 aeamnt of his opposition to the forcimi of Roman Ca- 
 tholic Separate Schools on the Prorince of Manitoba by 
 the Cabinet of Sjr McKenzie Howell and the Parliament 
 of Canada, at the reqnest of Bishop Lanyevin and other 
 Roman Catholics, ayainst the will of the Leyislatnre and 
 I'l'ople <f that Pnnince, which, before the Judicial Com- 
 mittee in Knyland, had established its leyal riyht to 
 (dxdisJi Roman (^atholic Separate Schools. 
 
 By I). H. Watt. 
 
 NCEl more again shall I be told 
 That we must be the tools 
 '' Of Langevin (Lany-zhe-rany) , a BiHho\i bold, 
 Who calls for Cath'lic schools. 
 And is his plot by you endorsed 
 With foresight and with skill, 
 On Manitoba to be forced 
 Against her i^eople's will '? 
 
 Do you behold these Frankish ranks, 
 
 With all their zeal and zest. 
 Would build on the Saint Lawrence banks 
 
 And still extend it west, 
 A nation of their race and creed, 
 
 That looks alone to Rome, 
 And lightly love the Lamps that lead 
 
 Our Motherland nt home ? 
 
Tlie Slogan of Clarke Wallnce. 
 
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 Behold, this Bishop has decreed 
 
 Within this plot to trace 
 A nation of another creed 
 
 There to supphint thy race. 
 Will you discard, at the last niche, 
 
 Thou leader of our State, 
 That blood-hought pure Religion which 
 
 Makes Old Britannia great. 
 
 Or shall you, as an Orangeman, 
 
 With me oppose him now, 
 Or shall vou aid him in his Plan 
 
 Beneath the Bishop's bow '? 
 Have you now weighed the debt indeed 
 
 You owe an orange nurse, 
 The Lodges lent you power to lead, 
 
 So you return a curse. 
 
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 And from their fold have you now strayed. 
 
 Become a godless Goat, 
 That hopes through schools and other aid 
 . To bribe the Cath'lic vote, 
 In the elections which will come 
 
 At some no distant hour. 
 When Bishops with a Eoman drum 
 
 Will then renew thy power. 
 
 
 Is this the price now to be paid 
 
 That you these schools shall give, 
 And then as Premier still arrayed 
 
 For five more years shall live 
 At Ottawa, where power unsung 
 
 Our statesmen now abuse. 
 And yet are praised with lavish tongue 
 
 By Birmingham and Hughes. 
 
The Slogan of Clarke Wallace. 
 
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 But, hark ! I hear the Roman drum, 
 
 And loud their trump does blow ; 
 Will you, then, shout, when that they come 
 
 To that bold Bishop, No ? 
 Or will you follow Roman rules, 
 
 Give what thev call redress. 
 And grant them Roman Cath'lic schools ? 
 
 Your silence — sounds like Yes ? 
 
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 So Sep'rate Schools this Bishop's hand 
 
 Shall through your Cab'net force 
 On Manitoba's maiden land. 
 
 What now shall be my course ? 
 Shall I remain ? In it be dumb ? 
 
 From me shall manhood fly ? 
 The Bishop beats a warlike drum ; 
 
 I'll raise my battle-cry. 
 
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 The Slogan still of Wallace is : 
 
 " I'll never be a slave ;" 
 My loyal heart was never his, 
 
 I'll never be a knave. 
 No Popish power or princely post 
 
 Shall sway my loyal heart ; 
 My principles shall be my boast ; 
 
 From them I'll ne'er depart. 
 
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 The Bishop has begun the war 
 
 'Gainst Maditoba's right. 
 [ too shall mount a flaming car 
 
 And meet him in the fight ; 
 And if I fall, I'll not regret, 
 
 My eyes shall face the Toe ; 
 My humble heart shall not forget 
 
 The duties which I owe. 
 
The Slogan of Clarke Wallace. 
 
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 Myself, the Empire, and that Lord 
 
 Who reigns on earth and sky, 
 If Bishops will provoke the sword, 
 
 I'll raise my battle-cry. 
 To arms ! To arms ! ye Orange men, 
 
 And all who love our State ; 
 Your freedom is in danger when 
 
 A Bishop guards the gate ! 
 
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 You bid me follow him who leads 
 
 Until the race be run, 
 And finish up the daring deeds 
 
 The Bishop has begun. 
 I'll not obey the Bishop's brow 
 
 Though he may be divine ; 
 I'll break no principle or vow — 
 
 I rather would resign. 
 
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 In ofiice I have served you well. 
 
 Perhaps too long a time. 
 If you your Principles will sell 
 
 Or perpetrate a crime, 
 When you enslave the Saxon race. 
 
 Or to these Bishops cower, 
 That you may hold your lofty place 
 
 And thus abuse thy power. 
 
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 So here's my Resignation, Sir. 
 
 I shall no longer stay ; 
 My principles I shall bestir. 
 
 Get ready for the fray. 
 I love the Orange Rules and Laws, 
 
 Their precepts I pursue ; 
 And to my faith and country's cause 
 
 My conscience shall be true. 
 
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 For what is right should be the rule 
 
 In this Canadian land ; 
 No statesman now should be the tool 
 
 In this bold Bishop's hand, 
 To bring in laws that will ensla e 
 
 The people as a horde, 
 Or rouse their ire, to make them brave 
 
 To clutch a patriot's sword. 
 
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 You may want peace, you may be proud, 
 
 Indeed, you may be great — 
 The only man with gifts endowed 
 
 To rule this noble State. 
 You may be strong and need no aid 
 
 From Eoman Cath'lic rules ; 
 And yet on Manitoba's maid 
 
 You'd force these Sep'rate Schools, 
 
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 To grant these schools I'll ne'er consent. 
 
 Be bribed by office spoils ; 
 From what is right I'll ne'er be rent 
 
 Or woven in the toils 
 Of waifs who still in office wait 
 
 To play the part of knave, 
 Though Koman Bishops rule the State 
 
 I will not be a slave. 
 
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 From Ottawa I'll quickly bound. 
 
 Free from the galling chain 
 That Roman Bishops weave around 
 
 The statesmen that remain, 
 Once more, again I cry aloud, 
 
 Let Protestants be brave. 
 For Queen and Country now be pi oud, 
 
 But never be a siave. 
 
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 Good-bye, old friend, the office fruit 
 
 May charm your cheerful mind ; 
 You may soon change your Orange suit — 
 
 The Bishops' hands are kind. 
 They'll lead you on as they've begun 
 
 So long as you obey ; 
 But when you have their work well done 
 
 They'll vote for Laurier {Lan-ri-aii). 
 
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 'Tis sweet to sway the stately powers 
 
 And live in princely plac 3 ; 
 And statesmen in official bowers 
 
 Might grandest glory trace. 
 If Truth and Justice led thoir ken. 
 
 Or fired them to be brave, 
 No tongue need raise the Slogan then,— 
 
 I'll never be a slave. 
 
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 THE BIDDING OF THE BI8HOP8. 
 
 lieiiHf the Rejdif Hupposed to hare been gpokefi by the Hon- 
 orable Sir McKenzie Bowell to the Honorable N. Clarke 
 Wallace immediately after the latter Iiad tendered kin 
 Resiff nation, in the Parliament Home at Ottawa, 
 
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 your rousing l^osignation, Sir, 
 Is a thing now of the past ; 
 I regret, you frowned on Frenchmen, 
 But they're glad you've gone at laut. 
 So to Hoar like yourself 1*11 boldly mount 
 
 On an Orange Lily wing ; 
 And unmask the mystic reason 
 Why with Langeviu I sing. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 At the biddhig of the Bishop here. 
 
 We eat all fruits that come, 
 But 1 think he's bound to burst me 
 
 With this Manitoba Phiin. 
 
 So I sing 1 am in office now. 
 
 From Hastings here I came, 
 There among its loyal lodges 
 
 I unearthed such Orange fame, 
 That they soon sent myself to Parliament, 
 
 And made nui a raw recruit 
 In a Royal llouuin lieg'ment 
 
 Where thev eat forbidden fruit. 
 
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 But though oft I eat this foreign fruit, 
 
 I still feel its vile effect ; 
 And I wonder if the Saxon 
 
 Will at last by it be wrecked, 
 For to Rome we so often sell our rights 
 
 For the fruits which Bishops brin< 
 That 1 dreamt we lost our Freedom, 
 
 When with Bishops we would sing — 
 
 Chorus. 
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 In the west our trend the Bishop sees 
 
 So he plots at any cost 
 To restrain the onward Saxon, 
 
 And regain what Frencliuien lost. 
 Where the sword has oft failed the Church succeeds 
 
 Through the fruits that Jiishops bring 
 To debase the onward Saxon, 
 
 And make him a slave to sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 For this Plum now cries, if a Plum can speak, 
 
 " To your swords from sea to sea ! " 
 And demands from each Canadian : 
 
 " Shall our Provinces l)e free ? " 
 To repeal or io pass such rightful laws 
 
 As fair truth and honor bring, 
 Or be ruled by Uoman Bishops 
 
 That would teach your tongu«s to sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 For the Bishop seeks for Se))'rate Schools 
 
 With his Jesuitical skill, 
 To be forced on Manitoba, 
 
 There against her people's will. 
 My our Orange-green gods in Parliament, 
 
 Where the Bishop rules as khig. 
 Like a Daring, Dreaming Despot, 
 
 Mids me and my Cabinet sing. 
 
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 For he dreams if he can teach the youth 
 In his Roman Cath'lic School 
 To abhor the British Bulwarks 
 Ilis own race may rise to rule. 
 So by luring the Saxon from his guard, 
 
 By the fruits the Bishops bring, 
 They now slowly slay the Saxon 
 
 Through our statesmen who now sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Hence this wide-expanding Plum now springs 
 
 From an old Franconian scheme, 
 To erect a Frankisli nation. 
 
 And to realize their dream 
 In the Province of Manitoba, that 
 
 Has defied tliis lioman ring. 
 And now boldly curbs this Bishop 
 
 Tliat would teach her tongue to sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 But that State, like Kome in her ancient days, 
 
 Ne'er relies on foreign fools; . 
 
 For through sires in Council sitting 
 
 She alxJished Sep'rate Schools ; 
 But in court, like wild wolyes the Bishops fought 
 
 Back again these schools to bring ; 
 But in triuuipli still she's boasting, 
 
 Mani^jba sliall never sing: 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Ru* the Maid that checks a Bishop's cheek. 
 
 And declines fair foreign fools, 
 But accepts her sin^s in counsel 
 
 As the (mly power that rules, 
 
 Must b(! true to the trend of Sacred Truth 
 
 \i\d the race from which we spring, 
 Well dt^serves the praisti of angels, 
 
 Not the stufT whicli stat(^snien sing. 
 
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 But the Bishops, beaten at Winnipeg, 
 
 Are not left without resource, 
 They will live through Ottawa's larder, 
 
 Whose lambs fear their fiendish force ; * 
 For the souls of the voters they hold in their hand 
 
 Like a stone in David's sling. 
 And though I'm great as Goliath, 
 
 I must either die or sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
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 For this House is not like Winnipeg's, 
 
 Where strong Saxon sires now lead. 
 But the souls of Ottawa statesmen 
 
 Are imbued with another creed, 
 For the tramp of old Rome in her darkest dayj^ 
 
 Is the tread of all this Ring, 
 Who here win a hell or a heaven 
 
 Just according as they sing : 
 
 Choras. 
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 For we know when here a Bishop blows 
 
 Men bshold his god-like power, 
 For at will he moulds with greatest ease 
 
 A good statesman in an hour. 
 For he'll place him upon the polling-booth, 
 
 A big storm before him bring, 
 And a statesman with no talent 
 
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 Will at once be taught to sing : 
 
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 And it matters not if men are made 
 
 By Dame Nature moss uncouth, 
 Like angels bright they'll warble 
 
 When they're placed on a polling-booth ; 
 And 'tis better still if they have no brains, 
 
 And if green the fruit they bring ; 
 Then the Bishop's tongue will whisper 
 
 '* Boobies make the Iwst birds to sing : 
 
 Chorus, 
 
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 Here the greater minds will find no fame, 
 
 For the Bishops thom despise, 
 And the men of noblest taients 
 
 In this House can never rise ; 
 When the State and the Church do here combine 
 
 Through the bribes that the Bishops bring, 
 They destroy the moral standing 
 
 Of all statesmen who here sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 Here the purest principles must bend ; 
 
 Let our politicians read. 
 That unnatural combinations 
 
 Give the wicked power to lead. 
 From the tread of the traitors' truckling tram;r 
 
 An Italian curse shall s]iriiig, 
 When the loyal " Onward Saxon " 
 
 Hears McKenzie Bowell sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 Shall this curse now come, and something sighs, 
 
 Do not grant these Separate Schools ; 
 To exalt a Roman Bishop 
 
 O'er the Saxon who now rules ; 
 Then on right and on left I see a storm, 
 
 To our office we would cling, 
 But we hear the Bishop growling — 
 
 " You must either quit or sing : " 
 
 Chorus. 
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 • For the Bishops, beaten in the Courts, 
 
 To my Cab'net at last retreat, 
 And demand with adulation 
 
 These same Schools or my defeat. 
 And in Parliament they now hold the key 
 
 Which unlocks the Roman Ring, 
 When we hear the Bishop growling, 
 
 Then the Roman soldiers sing : 
 
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 When the Bishop growled wild whirlpools rose 
 
 Close before my ship of state, 
 And I heard the deadly thnnders roar, 
 
 So I cried, " Bold Bishop, wait ! 
 And now hold thy brave breath, and to that pool 
 
 My frail bark no nearer bring ; 
 I'm an Orange Anglo-Saxon, 
 
 And for Rome I dare not sing : " 
 
 Chorus. 
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 But disunion seized my Cab'net crew, 
 
 So in warring groups they form ; 
 And then blacker grew the billows. 
 
 And still higher howled the storm. 
 For upon me nevt came the Orange call, 
 
 Far above the Roman ring ; 
 Yet this smiling, smooth-tongued Bishop 
 
 Cried out, " Captain Bowell, sing : " 
 
 Chorus. 
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 First among the warring, growling groups, 
 
 Both Caron and Ouimet left, 
 With my noble friend, great Angers, 
 
 Who is from my Cab'net cleft. 
 And they howled that they would the hierarchy 
 
 Down upon my Cab'net bring, 
 And '^ould break McKenzie Bowell, 
 
 Whc' had then refused to sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 O'erwhelmed in this dilemma, sir, 
 
 I did then the past review, 
 And I saw the Orange Order 
 
 Did demand that I be true ; 
 But for fear "the Old Flag" might soon be soiled 
 
 If a Frenchmen led the Ring, 
 I then promised these deserters 
 
 That I would consent to sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 
 
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 But at mv delay the Bishops fumed ; 
 
 " The Old Flas " was in a fix, 
 So I pror ised legislation, 
 
 But not till Ninety-six. 
 Then at once the two great deserting Chiefs 
 
 Came back here on a Bishop's wing, 
 And with merry-making music 
 
 Hei-e again we all did sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Then a blissful breeze did surge our sail. 
 Though some sullen sounds did growl, 
 
 Till we neared the close of Ninety- 
 Five, when Orange winds did howl, 
 
 " Let no false legislation come to aid 
 This Franconian Cath'lic Bing, 
 
 ^VIlich would force that Manitoba Maid 
 With a Bishop there to sing : 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Here again the ]3ishop blows his breath ; 
 
 I see two whirling pools, 
 And above the Roman one is writ : 
 
 " Bowell's Death or Sep'rate Schools." 
 But my office I love, and I would live, 
 
 If new power to me they bring, 
 As an Orange Anglo-Saxon 
 
 With the Bishoi)s I will sing : 
 
 Choruh. 
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 But brave Wallace now deserts his chief, 
 
 So regardless of my fate, 
 As to fight for Manitoba, 
 
 And against our ship of state, 
 And against this great Remedial law 
 
 Which I promised 1 would bring, 
 And against this blissful JMshop 
 
 That would teach his tongue to sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 The Manitoba Plnm. 
 
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 And above the Wallace Slogan rings 
 
 That loud, mighty man in law, 
 Whose devouring declamation 
 
 Overpowers my heart with awe. 
 For the moment I hear McCarthy speak 
 
 My own death-knell seems to ring 
 Through his scathing scorching censure 
 
 Of those Protestants who sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Here amid this howling blizzard blast 
 
 Of men of many views, 
 " The Old Flag " still finds a Champion 
 
 In a Birmingham or Hughes, 
 Who now bids me unfold to Orange men, 
 
 On a pure poetic wing, 
 The other loves that lead me 
 
 With this Langevin to sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 So I'll tell the Orange Brotherhood, 
 
 That I hate the power of pelf. 
 But I boast I served the Order 
 
 Ev'ry time I helped myself; 
 For I never forgot my Orange Friends, 
 
 But rich gifts I would them bring. 
 Though I sacrificed my conscience 
 
 When with Bishops I would sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
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 High above the Bishops' houndish howl 
 
 Shall I feel the Orange frown. 
 And in dark and deep disaster 
 
 Shall my gallant bark go down? 
 Or now like that Caron and Ouimet bold, 
 
 Shall brave Orangemen me bring, 
 All the aid of all the Order, 
 
 Wliile with Langevin I sing? 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 
 
The Manitoba Plum. 
 
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 Let the Orangemen of Canada 
 
 Now, before the Order drifts, 
 Think of all the thousand favors, 
 
 And the great unnumbered gifts, 
 Which my hand to the Orange brotherhood 
 
 By its faithfulness did bring ; 
 Though I sacrificed my freedom. 
 
 When with Bishops I did sing. 
 
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 For when first I went t Ottawa, 
 
 I at once began to think, 
 That if there I would be useful, 
 
 I must with the Bishops wink. 
 And then quick all the Roman Hierarchy, 
 
 Did fair favors fondly bring ; 
 And it pays poor politicians 
 
 With the Bishops there to sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 33 
 
 In this Parli'ment of Canada, 
 
 I have risen to be great, 
 By the aid of Orange lodges. 
 
 And the cruel hand of fate 
 That from earth bore away John Thompson's flame, 
 
 Whose great success in truth did spring 
 From the use he made of these Bishops, 
 
 So for Langevin I'll sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 34 
 
 He now asks me as Prime Minister, 
 
 Here to pass remedial law. 
 To degrade the noble Greenway, 
 
 Whose brave heart ne'er bends in awe. 
 But the Saxons shall see that i.iv tread is true, 
 
 And although a craven thing, 
 I request th( ir admiration 
 
 While with Langevin I sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 The Manitoba Plnm. 
 
 35 
 
 So I tell the Orange Order now 
 
 That no one need be afraid, 
 That this promised legislation 
 
 Will bring Roman Cath'lics aid, 
 For the promised Remedial Order will 
 
 To themselves no succor bring, 
 I'll outwit the Roman Bishop, 
 
 When with Langevin I sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 36 
 
 Hence I ask my Orange bi*ethren here. 
 
 All the Loyal and the True, 
 With McCarthy and Clarke Wallace 
 
 They have nothing more to do. 
 But come rally around that standard now, 
 
 That to you does favors bring. 
 In their place I'll keep the Catholics, 
 
 W^liile with Bishops I do sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 37 
 
 But unless the Orange brotherhood 
 
 Shall assist my broken barge, 
 I'll be forced to quit the vessel, 
 
 And let Laurier take charge. 
 With McShane and young Stubbs, two grumbling 
 Grits, 
 
 Who will join the Romish ring. 
 And will think that they are favored 
 
 When, with Bishops they can sing. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 38 
 
 Then the boodling business all will stop. 
 
 For he'll strictly guide the State, 
 And you need not look for boodle, 
 
 When Tarte guards the golden gate, 
 
The Manitoba Plum. 
 
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 For he hates all the Orange Order here, 
 And at thieves will take his fling ; 
 
 And with Manitoba Martin, 
 For the Bishop he will sing. 
 
 Chorus — At the bidding of the Bishops here 
 We eat all fruits that come, 
 But we've bursted Brother Bowell 
 With the Manitoba Plum. 
 
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 And that Greenway who does now oppose, 
 
 Will then turn to Koman rules. 
 And in lordly Manitoba 
 
 Will erect new Sep'rate Schools. 
 Then to aid his Grit friends at Ottawa, 
 
 He will court the Koman ring. 
 And will sweep along in splendor, 
 
 When I am forced to sing. 
 
 Chorus — At the bidding of the Bishops here 
 We eat all fruits that come, 
 But we've bursted Brother Bowell 
 With this Manitoba Plum. 
 
 40 
 
 At my singing you may now feel sore. 
 
 And be driven to your wits, 
 I3ut the Manitoba Bishop 
 
 Will get far more from the Grits, 
 Than what through this legislation now 
 
 I would then to Cathlics bring. 
 For I do not love their tactics, 
 
 Though I now mih the Bishop sing. 
 
 Chorus — At the bidding of the Bishops here 
 We eat all fruits that come. 
 But I think they're bound to burst me 
 With this Manitoba Plum. 
 
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 The Slogan of McCarthy ; 
 
 ''CANADIANS SHALL BE FEEE!" 
 
 Being Dalton McCarthy's supposed Address to Canadians 
 and Appeal to Manitoba, on the eve of her impending 
 elections, now brought on by the Greenway Government, 
 to test the present feeling of the people of Manitoba on 
 the School question. 
 
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 ANADIAN hills ! Canadian rills ! 
 
 Where my young mem'ries dwell, 
 • To belted Knight or Bishop wight 
 Thy freedom never sell ; 
 Though this I crave, my heart is brave, 
 
 But ;yet I dread the Ring, 
 Which Rome now binds on youthful minds. 
 So for the slave I'll sing. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 The slogan of McCarthy 
 
 Rings loud from sea to sea — 
 
 The slogan of McCarthy is : 
 " Canadians shall be free ! " 
 
 Free in those lands where toiling hands 
 
 Are warring in the west, 
 'Gainst Egypt's asp, the Bishop's grasp. 
 
 Which on their throat is pressed ; 
 Without fierce pain shall it remain 
 
 Along the trend of time, 
 Or shall at last, when all is past, 
 
 His grip become a crime ? 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 The Slogan of McCarthy. 
 
 8 
 
 His earthly end is not the trend 
 
 That Protestaiits pursue ; 
 But through his school he wants to rule 
 
 The Anglo-Saxon too. 
 For as a dove he does not love 
 
 •Old Luther's sacred lot, 
 And to o'ercome the Orange drum 
 
 From age to age doth plot. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 And like a fox pursues good Knox, 
 
 And Latimer the great, 
 And some might burn if Eome return 
 
 Again to rule the state. 
 For what men preach they too shall teach 
 
 And mould the young through time, 
 To be a brood of all that's good, 
 
 Or else a source of crime. 
 
 Chorus. 
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 Let us contrast what lately passed 
 
 In Rome's Italian land. 
 Which Bishops wrecked till they were checked 
 
 By Garibaldi's band. 
 If Rome be good without base brood, 
 
 Why did the bad prevail ? 
 Why did the priest with bishop feast 
 
 While patriots wept in gaol ? 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 Let Romans read ; it's not their creed 
 
 That Protestants detest ; 
 They'll not besmirch the Roman church 
 
 If Rome herself will rest. 
 Rome might be good, without base brood, 
 
 For crimes need not atone. 
 If she would reap where sinners weep, 
 
 And leave the State alone. 
 
 ChoruH. 
 
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The Slogan of McCarthy. 
 
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 The Prankish race none would disgrace 
 
 If Rome herself would cease, 
 Then old and young of ev'ry tongue 
 
 Would live in perfect peace. 
 And all our youth could search for truth 
 
 In one wide common school ; 
 But, lo ! a storm the Bishops form — 
 
 Demand the right to rule. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
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 Once more again along the plain, 
 
 Thou Manitoba, speak, 
 And let thine ire and battle lire 
 
 Around the Bishop reek. 
 Still let thy rule still guard thy school, 
 
 (lird on thy sacred sword, 
 And in the fight slay i>elted Knight, 
 
 And Langevin his Lord. 
 
 Chorup. 
 
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