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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la methode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 House of Commons Sebati^s FIRST SESSION-NINTH PARLIAMENT s P I : K c 1 1 OF HENRI BOURASSA M.P. OM THE SOUTH AFHICAN WAR CANADIAN INTERVENTION, &C. OTTAWA, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1901 SUPPLY— S. A. WAR— CANADIAN IN- TERVENTION, &c. The MINISTER OF FINANCE (Hon. W. S. Fielding) moved tliat the House go luto Committee of Supply. Mr. HENRI BOURASSA (Labelle). Since I luive given notice of the motion wbieli I am now to propose, a double accusation has been brought against me. Ou one liand, 1 am pointed out to the e.ves of my English-spealiing fellow-citi/.eus as a Frencli demagogue; anU, on tlie otlier, I am denouiueil to my own couiitiTmen as a dangerous British Imperialist. Of course, '.aving nnide up my mind to say wliat I thinli. as I tliiuli it. on all mat- ters of national Importance, I will not trouble myself with the opinion of this paper or tliat one: It would be easier to got a camel to pass through tl'.e eye of a needle than to l)ring a political sheet to appreciate an idea with complete independence and good faith. Ill the eour.-e of my remarks, \ y,-',]\ b;tv:' occasion to deal witli the charge of French demagogy, to which, I must sny, I never B— 1 attached any importance. Tlie intention of raising a racial agitation ou this matter has always been so foreign to my mind and so totally absent from my utterances, that I never took the trouble to confute that ac- cusation. I thought I could rely on the comnKUi sense and straightforwardness of English Canadians to do Justice ou that slander. As to my imperialistic tendencies, they should not call for much argument either. Nevertheles the problem lias receiveoi)ularlty, or even in order to avoid the nightmare of racial agita- Ucn, to open, by a mere cabinet decision, a new era in our relations with lireat IJritaiii. w.tliout at least enlijihteuiuK the people upon the real couseciuem-es ol their action. I still assert that Canada is not bound and should Hot be called to any other luilltary action than the defence of iier territory. Such principles beinfj reserved, Uiere is no necessity fur uiy insisting any more upon theui iit present. The point I want to make is this; We, Canadians, have been taxed, some wilfully and some forcib; , to defray the cost of tills expedition; we have, there- fore, the viiiht to pronounce on the outcome aud the settlement of the couUict in which we have bciMi made a party, and we should not allow tiie British jrovernmeiit to pre- i sume and decide arbitr.irily uf our opinion without even . niisuitin;,' lis on the matter. As I lia\e stai. 1 when 1 moved my aiiti- ' In perialist resolution last year ; as 1 re- , peated the other day in support of the i motion of the hon. member for Victoria, 1 N.B. (Mr. Costlsani reiiuestinj: the aboil- I tlon of tlie anti-Catholic declaration forced upon the Kin^' on the day of his coronation: I believe it is our ri^Ut and duty, as repre- seut.i elves of a self Hfoveniinx British com- munity, tu express an opinion and to make sUKfiestioiis on any in.'itter of vital interest to British pi, wer— provided always we Impair In no way our full liberty and complete self- comiul (ji action. Strange to say, no traces of Imi)erlullsm | were pointed out in the help given by Can-! ada to soldiers wounded in the Crimean ! war; nor in the p.-irt played by Sir .lohn A. ' Macdonald in the settlement of the Ala- bama claim at tlie exi>ense of Canada; nor In the three resolutions in favour of home rule )oi- Ireland discussed in this parliament; nor even in the motion of sympathy with the u'oM luinrrs and sjuK'nlators of the Tr.'iisvaal adopted liy this House at the re- quest of Mr. Rhodes's agent. But now. Imperialism Is declared to be the basis of a proposition asking tliat a conllict in which we I'.ive taken an active part should be settled upon the same principles that have made Canada happy and prosperous and which this parliament wanted, some ye.irs ago, to be applied to Ireland. Stranger still, I am told tlint Canada has not the right to say that an end should be put to a war in which her reijuired contribution of .'lOO men has been raised to over 3.000. and her national expenditure of a few thousand dollars tn nmre than two millions. And Anally when British authorities are unable to find police recruits In the Unlteil Kin'jr- doin. in Xew Zealand and In Australia, when the Pane Colnniats themselves, for the ben:' fit of whom that force Is organized, refuse , to eulist-I am denied by Imperialists and by antl-lmperlallsu as well, the right to say mat Mr AUred Miluer and Av. Chuii-berluiu sliouhl not have been allowed and haipetl to play any longer upon the candid and en- thusiastic naivety of Canadians. The principles upon which 1 have baseil this iiroposition are not uew; they were born with the BntisJi jiation Itself; they were brought by the Saxon pirates from the dark forests of Teutonla to the Celtic island of the north; they w.-re laid down as the corner-stone of the British constitution by a section of that robust Xormnn race ot which the French Canadians are to-day, per- haps, the most direct and thorough olT- spriiigs. .^laiiy a blow wim struck at them; they were reddened by the blood of power- nil assailants and of heroic defeiideVs; I hope tiiey will stand the present era/.- as they stood the attacks of niunarchs and niolis, of oligarcliists and aristocrats 1 mean the riglit, for all British subjects, ol petition and remonstrance to the » 'rown, aud the right of directing tlie use that sha'll be made of tiieir money. j The new Imperialism Is the very antl- , thesis Ol liiese rights. The tendency of Mr. I Chamberlain's Ideals, favoured, either wil- fully or blindly, by most colonial public men, is to centralize gradually the political, nulitary and ecunomical ruling of tlie em- pire, making it as free as possible from in- dependent lo<-al action. In order to set asleep the suscepti!)ilitir>s of the Canaf British si>ir-governing colonies to tlie raik of 'ree nations allied with Cveat Britair. Eloquent periods have been thrown to tin four winds, celebrating the proud positin-i which we ocfupy now in the Briti.*h Kimire. Those triumphant effusions of colonial pride recall forcibly to my mlna the decad- ent years of the Roman empire, \rhen poets and rhetors, forgetful of the rudi but free life of their forefathers, were extuUlng the glories of Caesar and worsiiipping his 'rolden image, because they were allowed to share in his refined debaucheries ; because the oid warriors of Gaul and Brittany, of Iberia aud Germanla had become the best legionaries nf the empire, and eould help in oonqueriuK more lands, in looting more herds. In bnrn- 'LmitmSt L&i^S !nR more farms, In ravlslilni? more women ' and sturvliiK more flilUlren for the everlaat- lnj{ Klory of "tajsar, Imperator et rteus ' Home lifltl a vaster empire, her provlneos were better subdued, she boastetl more of i r iM)\ver on the eve of her downfall tliaii at any oflier period of her history. But we know now, and her elearslKhted citizens knew then, that tlie time of her jjreatest u'.oral iiud material slrenstli was when iiir Rtiitesuien thought more of eurluK evils at home and of keeplnc the old Uomau spirit of liberty, than of plundering the worM and worshippInK brntal foree and Insatiable greed in the person of the lOniperor. Hut I ilo not want to add fuel to the Are of Jingo feelings. I will simply remind th.' niembi rs of the House, those especially who are most proud of tlie position we occupy In the emi)lre, tl-at. If we do not want Canada to be considered by the British government as a mere eoloidal tlelil for profitable specn- iiition. It ' '""^ urgent that wo should niiikc o- >ected not only on tin- bnttlelio 'n Ills Majesty's coun- cils. 'V 'ome when we should teli .Mr tliat. having liad at leisure . i' -dly the blood of our blood am . 'Sh of our tlosh, the tciirs of <*aniidlaii mother.i and the sweat of Cana- dian farmers and workers, in order to en- rich liluiseU' and his brother and his son : and tlu> wliole of his tribe, by selling guns and ammunltioi,, he sliould at least respe( t the language of the Canadinn people, and not distort as he pleases the documents which are sent to him by the CanadUin gov- ernment. I exposed l)efore the House, at the last session, the strange course followed by the Colonial Secretary; his using our Transvaal resolution of 1WK» to say that we were In favour of hia provoking and arrogant policy; his acceptation of our offers of help befor,' thi'y had ever been tendered ; the publica- tion by the London papers of his otflcial despatch to Lord >llnto before It had reached our government ; .and above all. his Insolent reply to the order in council of October 13th. Since then, we have had an otlier mnnifestiition of the growing audacity of the master of the empire. Last year, on the 4th of .Tune. I put the following ques- tion to the government : 11.13 tlie government, or any of Its members, been consulted as to the conditions upon which the South .\frlcan war shnuld be settled? Is It the Intention of the government to offer any suggestion or opinion on the matter? To which the Prime Minister (Sir Wilfrid Lanrler) replied : Neither the government, nor any of Its mem- bers, have been consulted as to conditions upon which the South African war should bo settled. They are not considering the advisability of offering any suggestion or opinion upon the mat- > ter. "> And the reply was noisily applauded by the B-IJ opiKisltlon. This session, on the 18th of Feb- riniry, I put the following question : 1. Wna the Canaill:m governinent, or any of its membiTS, inusuiu I by Ihv Driii-sh goveru- ment on the South Afiiiiin nuesi'lon since tha lit cf June last? .;. iJld the tlanadiin gov eminent, or any of Its uuuiLirs, olttr aiij opinion or make utiy sug- gestion ti) the British government on the mat- tor? The PRIME MI.VISTEU (Kt. Uvn. i^lr Wilfrid Laurier). The Canadian government was not con.-,ulu-d. nor ^ny of Its members, by the llrlt- Isli RAernment on the South .\trlcaii nuosiloa since June Ist last. .No member cf tho Cana- dian government offered any opinion i n the mat- ter. Let us now cross the ocean, enter West- minster Palace, the mother of parliaments, the source ami safeguard of liriiisli lilierty, of British Justice, of llrltish tiulli. On the 7tli day of August last— I read from the Times' imrliamentary reiiort : .Mr. Paber (Yorl<) asked the Secretary of Slate for the Colonies whether, considering the part taken by Canada and .\untrall;i In the South .\frican w.'vr. It was proposed to a.s' ertaln the vlvvvs ' f the government of these countries In reK.ird to the ?cttlemenf and gTvernment of the Tiansvanl and Orange State when the war was liver. And remembering tlie de<-laratlon8 made by the Prime Minister of Caiiaila tm tlie Ith of .lune. I'.MH). and on the 18th of Kel>ni,iry, I'.Hil, let us hear the reply of the onide of tlie new British world ; Mr. Chamberlain.— I have already made mysolt acquaiu.cil wl'h ihi vi'wa of ihi' colonies of Canada and Australia In regard to th-^ main points of the future settlement, and Her Ma- jesty's government arc In complete acnordanoe with them as t > the necosffy for annexation, ihe establishment (f a ;;ovprninent supported by military force, with the ultimate expectation of an extension to both colonies of representa- : live sclf-sovcrnnient. (Cheers.) Yes. cheers on both sides of the Atlantic, ' - Init which is whicdi '.- One would be tempted to (luallfy such a i tiaerant contradiction in terms tiitit would call for your ruling, Mr. Speaker. I'.tit, after ail. this was not mtiih woise tlmn when ' being told otlieially tli;it the Canadian gov- ernment were permitting tiie enlistment of the ttrst contingent becau.se they considerwl that the colony was not committed to any ' future action, the Colonial Secretary replied I officially that the British govenimont were accepting our troops as an ev!ii nee of our ; willingness ' to share in the r >3 and bur- i dens of the empire.' and ns n ,iroof of our , sympathy with his policy in .Soutli .Vfrlca. ' 'riiat lirst distortion httving been tacitly ac- I Cf pted liere, the Colonial Secretary was oul.v ' enconr:i'_'ed in his metlio to Unow hou- lon>; wi- ar.' calk-d to play tlio part of a .locelved but coutontod liusliiiiKl. In national IntcrcourHO as widl as in privatf life that role 1» not yet eon- sldor.Ml as one to be aiiich boasted about— by the liusband at least. I (lo not see that I have to apolojclze for anythins 1 said in the past on tliis ouett- tlon. My course has been twiee endorsed and enipli.itically approved by my eonstltu- onls. u iijis been said that the almost un- anUnoHs vo:. e of tlie people of Canada an- i proved of our intervention in Soutli Africa ' and tlierefore. that we. the fe« menjl)ers : of tins House wlio condemned ihat inter- vention, must be in the wrong, i deny this proposition in toto. It is false both In prin- ciple and In f;ict. First, number does not make rijiht what is wroni;. Majority rules but not always In truth and equity. I am an optimist. I firmly believe that, on the, whole, -ood is prevalent and that rl-'ht conquers misht at the end. But there are periods of moral depression when thousands ^ and millions of men. when entire nations i seem to lose the path of Justice and even the sense of self conservation. If it Is but an aceldentiil attack of fever, a reaction follows which restores health and common sense in tlie body politic. If It Is the last Illness, the nation disappears and a new one takes Its place under the sun. And the world poes on under the guidance of Ood. Fortunately for Canada, signs of re- action are already noticeable ; and I can foresee the day when the Judgment of the people of Canada. Engll.sh as well as French, will not be so hard on me as the speeches, the votes, the songs and the i bowlings which lllustratiHl the debates of last session. That reaction Is not yet of such a character to warrant the confidence : of my Quebec Liberal friends who naivelv beli(>ve that Imperialism Is a fake or a deall issue. But the change is strong enougli to give iiopes to those who dread for our rising i nation tlie brutalizing elfcct o|- soi.ii.rv rule ' the development of the spirit of .oiinuest and plunder, and the heavy burdens of Im- perial militarism. Kven in Eni-'Innd the re- nction is manifest. In fact the wave of Jitigmsni never reached there the point it attained here. As usual, the true colonial Jingo outdid tlie loudest London cocknev Before going to the polls, Mr. Chnml>erlnin the in.'istcr of the British administrat-on mad., of iiis war the main, nav the sole issun of the electoral contest : ' V vote again.st the government is a vote for the I.oers,' s:i!d he in li'^ penniiar Bismnrckiaii va.y. And in reply to this passionate ap- peal and in spite of the dlsorcanlzatlon of the Liberal party. 1 .oo.-!..'>:!7 siifTra'^es were givcii for tl;e Bocrs-to use tlie "colonial i .Sfiretary-K own stamping -In I ': divisions. • I lid eighty rldiii'.-s returned ..i.posltlonlst* i>y acclam.itlon. Ami every one admits that t 1.' vote would he far more favourable to till' Liberals now than last fall. I he chnii.;e effected In the editorship of the IJaily News Is (inlte an Indication of the change of sentiment. We mav see before long a repetition ■ the anti-war feoUnB ; which followed tl, deplorable Crimean e-xpedltion. Now take the result of tli. Lon- ,don county council elections Just held last j week. The .Moderates, despairing to get ^ a majority on straight muulelnal Issues, dragged the kl.kl cry In the contest. 'Do .von want a pit.-Boer council Y ' was their ! "ar cry ; and what was the rejilv ? Vn In- creased majority for the Progressists. As far as Canada is concerned, the venllet of the electorate has been Interpreted by the people of Creat Britain and of the omplre at large with such an Ignorance of tlie real ssue that It Is most proper to make a short analysis of the situation. In order to give to the House an Idea of tne way British opinion was misguided on Canadian feelings, by the leading Tory organs. I will Just quote a few lines from the London limes. In a letter from Its special corre- spondent In Toronto, dated September 24 and published on the Cth October, the poli- tical situation In Canada and Its bearing on Impei'lal affairs is very ably considered After saying that the French Canadians are , more thoroughly Canadian than all others and consmiuently less interested In British and Imperial concerns, the writer adds these i words, which I commeml to the attention j of the House : I It was a singularly fortunate circumstance that I at this critical t:nu> in nati.)iial );f:,ii;> a F, ,nch ) Canadian state-snian was at the head of th • Do- minion Koveruniei t. Without his lead.rshlp QiiflK'i- miRht havo caiis-d trouble. A French .Ti'mbpr of the cabinet and more than one prl- viae member of parliament objected to the con- ditious on which the Canadian contingents were ■ tnt to the front. Tlion speaking of the hesitations of the Prime .Minister In sending the troops : •\o doubt h. (Sir Mllfrld Laurier) felt that "is fompatilots r?quired to be educated by de- crees to tne full demands of British citizenship. I would like to hear from the right hon. gentleman on what lines and how far be !s prepared to carry on that course of educa- tion. After the elections, the great English Tor," or^'an thouglit it was good policv to interpret the Liberal majority as a victory for Imperialism. In an editorial dated Novendier 10th, It said • "Dth parties In C.inada are Imperialist ; and we bclifve that the Conservatives. If they had been m power, would have pur.sued. In this "e- ^I|Wt, the .=anie course that was pursued by the i-K-erals. Nevertheless, It fell to the Liberals •■■s a mntter of f.nrf. fn .„,i, ^^^ ,. ^.' I'.k"^" u."" -l .Promptitude, a graco'fuine'ss. and\ liberality which cnuld not have been surpassed, Ia-. and which (ireat Ilr'taln will never forget. Ai far a* oMaliiIng pot il.irlty In thU couutry wa« coDCBmed, Sir Wllfr.l Laurler and his calilni't had a mannlllcent oppuriunlty and they cmplcyml. It to the full. That they »hotiH d" »o wai the more iiratlfylni? whi'n we eonnl-l r that the back Done > f the.r strciiKlh la d-rlved from the French populallcn of th(> I)omli\l(in and especially from Quchoc which from cIrciiinHtanci'S which we, por- hap!<. 'Id nut fully understand, was leat atrungly represenlod veu nt the bauds of Freiieh doiiilnutors. But thp most poeiillnr apprceia- 1 tloii liy the Times of the electoral result In i Canada appparew manifest \ that Sir Wilfrid I.aiirl'r hiia not been injured ati'.ona lii» I'riiich C'uuallan rollowers by hM i British Imperialism. So tar as Quebec Is con- : cernt'd. ■.',\e sen. III. g of thfl Caradiiin contingent.^ | to Siiiih .\frlc-.i was fullv ratified by the votD of last Wednesday. The Premier had never ahlrk- ; ed the responsibility which be assumed in the < matter. ;md the issue was fairly before the French plL>ctor.s. ... So far as Imperial politics are concerned, therefore, the doclslvu | attitude (.f Qiielec 's satisfactory. The eoiielusious of the two last quoted articles are utterly fnipe, and the Intelli- gence of i.'aiiadlau affairs displayed In the former is an evidence of the wilful bad faith of the two others. The iiiie«tlon of Imperialism w put nei- ther S(jii;irely nor fairly before i,.e people of Canada. In the EnKllsh-speakinir pro- vinces, it was kept on tl-e (irouiid of senti- ment where it had been placed in this House, each party clalmhi;: the lirst prizi- in their competitive devotion to the inother land : but the constitutional aspwt and the ultUnate consequences of our military expe dition were not discussed. In the province of Quebec, when the Issue was raisetl. both ixirtics were siiiiDly cliiM-;.'- luK each other with beiiit; the cause of that display of jinsolsm which lind foroe ..led .\i:.uii-l his t'onvlctlont. To.) Dritlah for Hlrn. If Mr. I'utiie had ha.l hln way, there would hav.' liccn no cotiilnKcnti sent to South .Vfrica In il. ren.o of the nnplrc. Ill;; uympathles were Willi Mr. It urasBa. Winnipegers w.int a repr<\scntatlv.' at Ot- tawa '.vho Is a nrili.shcr at heart ami who will staiKl by the empire on principle. These are ultra-loyal appeal.s Mr. rUTTEK. The paper that the hoii. gentleman (Mr. Bourassa) has quotiMl was iucorn-ct on that occasion and admittedly so. Mr. BOURASS.^V. I was Just coming to that point. I do not say that the hon. gen- tleman (Mr. Puttee) used these words, but I simply say, that, on the eve of the poll- ing day. If the passions of the peoiile had been aroused to the point that was stated, If there had been such a current of public oidnloii. ii man simply supimspd to be what is called a pro-Boer, and supposed to liave said that the ^'iivernment should havi' hesi- tated a little before comniittiiiK this coun- try, would have been swamped by his op- ponent. What was the result '.' The hon. (.-entleman was elected by a ma.lorily of l.bsa. while, ten months previ. is, when he had the streiiKth of two Koveriiinents be- hind him. he was elected by 8. In the east rldlujf of Laiiibton the mem- l.crelect (Mr. .^Siiii.nousi was d.,'nounce.v tlie Brl- tisii ftoverninent on South Alrican matters. I do not pretenil that the statement was founded ; but nobody will deny thiit, had tiie war feeliiiit been overwhelmiii;.: In tiiat rhllnff, sucli accusations would h.ive ])roved hard asiaiiist the Conservative .■.imiidatP. .\nd here he is. returinKl by the majority , of tli"> peoi)le In a coi Itnency which was repri sriitcd last sr.sxi: :; b.v his oii;Ki::et!t, a worthy and hoeorrable citizen no doubt i popular in his rldinj;. fS wA-'J, I«ii iM'ic |g a c'line itMI clcurer. l»r WrI- doii. who ri.,,reM,.,itwl the .I.IImk of All.frt, .VI... Ill this Hou«.- from iS-.n to I81KI. Is a lau III th.. lojal city of Halifax, uu ,ii». niMH-oviil of Mritlsh iM.llcy In Houth Africa was wlildy known, lie wiit as fur as .IihU. catiii« one of liU lectures to the liiterpretn- tloii ol llie conventions glsnc*! between J.rcnt llrltain n.nl the South Atrlc.n reiml.- iic: uKl lis conclusion was a tlioroiu-h con, e,„n.itlo„ of Mr. Chainberlalirs attitude. I ^^.ls tohl that he evni .lIssiniil.Kl his son from startlnK lor South Africa aiul takin:; '•'".' 'L' « "■•■"• "hlch he consl.Ierivl unjii>l .Istli.' ■ l',"'l '"■")■,•'"' "'"' Ix^nourahle nn,l „ r- ' ''•' >-'""'l<'""i" from helm; chosen Of M jr'V"/'"' •■"'"'i'"^'"- 1» till" <'ounly ot .\l ,ert and from I.cIuk .icfcptcd as «ucl, I.J the very men who nearly fell i„to tits or n|io,,Ic.Ny In this Mouse when I save ex pn-s-llon to similar sentiments. True r)r Ucldon was defeated; but In a contest Kaliis In that province, he r.xluced his min- ority of liJ.'l In LSlMi to ll.l In V.tm I hose are the only three cases where It tZ In H,e' l^'^VT" ^"^ « "lUrM mSlca w ,t >, I->'».' Isli-spenklnK provinces, of wloit Jlnjio prophets call pro-Boer feellUL'S think n'""'* 'I' '•"»'"<'««'■ And I do not think the results .show that to dilTer ou tils •' '7'"" "" ' -^f- <'lmmberla:., and even «!tl. the h>a.iers of both „artl,«, in Canada n,/"''''; ••"'"'"''■'•'^•l ••« national frtonv. tM -v iin. ■^' "V""" 1'' '■'''"•""" nP«l»»fm!ll- V, Ml- 1 ■'! '"""'' '"'''" '"""ifi^sted In our hMi.-I .1, provln.cs sin.o the election. Oi> a previous o.Taslon. the hon. leader of the on- P<.sltion (.Mr. nonlen) s,K,ke of the enthuslas- tic reception te.nlere.1 a Halifax to volun- a.tlii IX to be very sentimental. Kven Its 'Irv ns 1, .,nd hardware .jeaiers ca no -. ,,?,"; .'"■": '""^*''"" ""1""r and In rodtice patriotic rhymes^-not home-mn.le. I nu,s^ s;.y u, their i,o:,rd of trade report' Ru elsewhere, the enthusiasm was n,V ,„, t, so pronounced, rommentln,- on tie arr 1 Of our bny. In the metropolis of Ca.ntd.n tl . Montre..|I (in^otte of December 2.- h ]. said very philosophically: '' Trr Fcon-l clrtuMirnent of the Oanndian in **£. hi' uTrrf.""^^^ modorately warm welcome or coil -e this w.ns In .H.^^Ioynl Quebec. But let us TOSS the Ottawa river and i.enetratc to the heart of the c„<>,i old siiter pro- ^incc. (he bulwark of loyallsm. Woods'tfock is an Ontario town, and If 1 am c iis- takon. not larirely peoiiled with .soup nif'^V',",''''''' "'•''■ ''""• '■'•''''"' from Xort h Oxford .1 on. Mr. Sutherland) has educate!! fo^r 'it "'7' '" l'"' ^""^'^ "•■ that healthv fooitw. there ceulj hur.lly have win - .■ai.;..<,iil,. !,„.,., „t a funeral ccremonr. Have ».■ f,,ri;olli.n h )w lo ihi'rr? I could contrast that funeral reception with the warm welcome which Kreete.. ,„,,I,e^ i- ,.!,!^,r thai all that occurred wa, ,he refusal of some li e evD -ed iron to Ro on .Iiity wl-cn or ler^,! "e do ^o c.vpl.ed if they PTC no! wiMin? to serve anv l.,nir'-r' thev ■""rr'.-i vM-.'.''''";''- ""'"""^' ""' ■">' "-" -ho Acrc .in. hit,_' I. .-, rve at nil. . Taev verc 111 »».-. CM t,.f..rn th- ,• i v ■ ,1 .hi Houiehold Cavnlry. and 'hey have .een f .:• la-'-er return homo rot witho'K suspici >n that ■t.Al] inn.irn,- had v,-, i,;ht In •».,> profer-n^e "" It has (virtenMy t^iken some of tho t!,.].i„!; „«, ' .cr^ ,1 leUK lime lo learn how the col .nlai troona "ihould be hanllpd. ... The oathu'ii/.,, fS! T^rj [I ^■';"'"^- "'"' 'h- n>en ire pr ab?; right in the bollof that the rest ot the cam- ^rm't^iik 'juwi' palKii will lio maluly pollii- work iipliiloii that \Atri\ W»«llliitrtiin'« liumnn* Thry liiivo done nil they promUrl lo J";^*^'* i letluHlH ol wiirliil'i' will rrmiiiu In lilntoiy iiioi'i' (.'li)rliiu>i lo 111"' iiiiun- of Cifiit Bri have ilone It In a way t.i mnli'- n» iiroud of them Hut till' lii'st exi..e»««lnii or Mfiitln -iit lii tlmt m-iiHc WHO u'ivoii liy tlio Kv«mi1: 'rl '• ttraiii. ol' Toi'oiilo, oil (irtoIxT i% in I. I' n|)|M-iii'iMl ii H llio Iciiiliii',' i-ilitorliil. uiuli-r ... tUlo : •Did Well ■-' Cornn Home." It «u« not exactly Col. Otter's duty to aocepl on bi'hulf o( the Koytl Cnnadlan KeKlmeot Lonl Ri birtK' cordial Invltatli n to remain in Africa until the war wa« technically uver. Tho instincts of u priifCRalonal «oUlnr like Col. Otter, do not leeiii lo b.! In line with the Incllnatlona of all th- vo'uuteera under his comnmnd. They have their rlgnta and did well to exerclae these rights. «"d not be browbeaten Into staying In Africa when they wanted to come ht iie. They gave the eai- plr ■ K' od service In the hour of danger, and could well afford to leave professional soldiers to complete the •.■e",alnlng stages of the cam- pnlKii. Tltix L'eiii of comnioii «fii«i' iiiunt have bwii II caU!"' of niniizfiiieut to nil those who heard {^.^j vtian then'i a hero its rosit.msililf nntlioi'. Ilit- l.'itf iiiPi'i- this country oduci biT for lOiiKt Toronto. Mr. .John UonH-ltobiTi- young men t»^- :. n. ' Hoii. lectiniiii; tlu' Bovcnmu'iil for not votlii ; i tcr ones than^we HUtflcioiit money lo piiy for Ihu toliil ninla teniiiiio of our troops In South Africa, even i; Kiitrliiiid refused our iiliiis. Kvery niiin ol «ood la!' will mliiilt tl^.r we iii-i" f:ir from the frniit . appeals ol' Oei o'oer. IStKt, for troops and horses, for guns nnil i'artrlduoH ,111 than Lord Klteheiiei, liinn...ed >y^tein. viid. perhap* uIho. the iiillllary ul'»'y "f the wise tartUlau of the Torres Vedia^ ami of WateiliHi will Uol lie I. .tally eelipsed hy the ferry trade of Sir Uedvers H lUer. .Viiyliow. svlieii It was Ided to raiHe Caiiadiaii reiinds for tli. .•^..ulli .vfLea'! (itistaliu'.ary. tlie exploMlon of erithiislasin was not defeaiiliit;. I Mi lleeeiiilier ."11 lasi, the Teioiilii Slji- pilliliHlied all artlele en- titled : ' We need our liie'i al linliie.' Ill whieh 1 read the followiiii.' Hues ; This country cannot thorefnre regard ai • favour that a thousand of our y.iung men are to be accept! I as volun'vrj for pdlce duly Id Africa, Asia, South Amerlcn. England, or any- where el"" We nceit to lie, one native li '■urth a waRon load of Immigrants. .\t till- rlsli (if aim III': the p;illMie- >'•' the House. I will also c|Uoie iwo artielrs whleJi at home. ThU 'der a klndneaa, •red our young .bete are prlie tasks for which Wo need more griiw bet- My <'oneluslou to all this Is that loyalty , „pp^„red In tlie Canadian Mililnrv (iaxette. Is almost as elastic as a politieian's eon j t„|jp f„r ^^riinted that tills puliliealion Is geleiiee. At the start of llie war, when no nelilier an anti-inilllailst or^'.iii imr :• V'leneli Imdy In Canada expected it could last mor- ,i|„]„y|,] iii„ulli|iieee. The dist arlii Ic was than a few weeks : when the llrillsli gos ,,„|,iis|ied on .Tanuary ITi last, and r.-nd as ernineiif waiite v' ■ Now that recruiting depots for the South etl as a traitor becau-e 1 wanted llu Ko> ^^^ ^^_ ^^ es.abllshed In different eminent to pause a few wei'lis and nive i" ■^^,.^^„„^\, the Dominion, mu.ti unMvourable the representatives ol the |ieople an oppor n,„n,n|,.,n i^ heari" Surely th - Canadian povem- tuiilty to discuss the cimstHiueuces of tli.s „,,,„( ,,|^ n„t g. .pp„ „ d».«lre t i the Imperial new niilitarv policy. A year later, when the I authorities that such should be done, and If the dituation was darker than ever, when tli' latter acted on their own Initiative, they cer- Britlsh nriiiy found it hard lo hold Its few positions, ami could not prevent the enemy's Invasion In British territory, the very men who put i:ie under the ban of Itritlsli opin Ion, plainly said to their beloved niothei we have enmi'jh of the Kann- home, boys; Cod ^:;\•c tl:' land can : lor ns Come 'lack Oueen ! ' .\t the end of rtecember Inst. It was an iionni-ed that some more raiiadlaiis would have a chance to po to .\frl<'a. and this tine- talnly took a s'ep that was tll-advlscd. Our aim in this country la to ftct population n.it to send our yoiniR men abroad. It app ars that ranchers and other of that class, to be found mainly In Manitoba and the Territories, are the men pre- 'erred and by hnldinir out the Induf^oment of big C.et out of the mess the best ynu p;,j, j, i, hoped to entice away one thousand or iiorc of the flower of our manhood. Canada can :'l spare tt-o e 'nen, and as a term in the South Afriian police means. In the LarRe majority of rasis, that they will ultimately settle In the roiintrv. the Demlnlon Is actually belnc denuded to nopu'ate another portion of the empire. 'I he Impcriiii g iTernno nt should be plainly for a loier periixl and a irood pay ; with full \,^,\|^ ,i,Ht. if it is solutely iicceesary to bay* opportunities to loot cattle. In burn houses and farms, to steal clocks, mirrors, lewel lery nml nmney. to chop pianos Just for tin' fun of it. to turn penniless, on the veldt, ■women and children at the mercy of bar- barous and liistfui natives. I tako .":! those words from letters from Can;i dian volunteers. At the risk of belni; called a 'little EnRlander," 1 venture the min frnm Canada to liKht for British supremacy In the dark continent, this country will send not l.oon, but at least 10,000, but we have no men to spare for dr.lnK loutinc police duty, while millions of acres of the llncst hand in the world lav '.irtille-l for want of population. Until the nur are urgently requir d, the Can.idian nuthor- Hir^ should not hold out any Inducements to rer; its ill the country. Canadians wishing to Join the police of their own free will should be .-vji -^ -^ VkSS^uW 'S- permitted to do so, but it ta not fair to the Do- minion that they should be encouraRed to enlTat On F.-i.ni.uy i!>. the same paper came again to the iront and said : The S. A. Constabulary. According to the Army and Navy Qaietta nt IxjndonEug usually one of tho besT-lnfomed service journals published In the United KinI fnTh^'lo'uT^' Afr""' ""'"'-''"'■'s foymembe^hfp in me bouth African constabulary is tak»n fo sette^ln's'rth'Tr'?* '°/''^"- °^«» ^-''"^ o force • '"* *"""■ """'^e "'"> the Such has bcpn strongly suspected in Canarta Cns"f^ rn^ "TIZ"''^ "^^^ '""•"^ the utmost the r. ,.u^ '?,' "" '5"' """^ -"« public, and tne Gazette, after reading the article ref»rred to in our English contemporary, is more stro"ng!v mnmr^uZrTtl',"? "" ''^■""^ «'?heVan"dfa'J fe'oVLir "f/J^l^^ou'r" cou"X™«ra l^V'n^Lm^! X;.'"[nTh; lo'?,r^'* ^^"'"» obtalnXTn?- thfs' Wn«T°.'^'^°°J*''''""*' Pi-evlous occasions, mis Journal is not by any means ODDosed tn «endh:g men to fight the empire's batt?M if they are renu re.3 for that purpose, but In thf instance ,i } ""■''-"'^ Pretcnaed that such Is the case the Piatement being that they are required fo^ nhi^^r'";^ ^"'? '" '"« conquered co2n ry the »! , .? ^"" '""^ °''J-c'' doubtless, being at the exp ration of their three years' term of^4rvlel t?f .'.'■r,,,'"" ^^ ''"'"'=«<' " settle in Afri^ to the e: needing great detriment of the DomS In this connection. It may be said thflt f i,» government of New South TV'ales%efn| evidently better seized o' the fact, than nurs at Ottawa have eiTtphatlcally refused to permit an ImperTal officer to recruit for the force In that portion rerlnl T^^?' ^"^ "« ^^''^''^ <« <" opinion that recent developments Justify the course. i^et a 1 who desire to Join the force of their ow„ volition do so Without throwing obstlclis In he way b„t to cajole and encourfge "en to enlist IS not fair to the land we live in xf'^ 5*"^', '];V" ^"*^^' "" February 25th the --,'-< - tho wh;„r-tb.,^v^;;:;ci' X With r.'jr.Tffl to tli(> .nttitnde nf tho cnv ornmont of Now Sonth Wales. I h.ave go, o thronsi, ti,o i.o,„ion Times to n.™„^t e tru.,: nn.t the first thin^ I n'vMs a des- folio;.,':!!" ''■^''"''•^■- ''"t^" f"*""-"--"-.^ "-as ^;.;r^tjj;^,^\,.-^,----^7;i^-;;^ stiibulary, the government has replied tha iia ^ colony objects to such a proceediSg Xt d^o V';"cr.^'-'„5e„'-fn' A^trX^lnd^r; objectctl ^""'^ ^^'"'^^ government uZd {••or those who have followed the course of Inperial a„thoritie« on this war questU. t is easy to read between the lines of the.se espatolies. it is now said that no appfica- tions were n.ade in Australiti or New Zea- and for recruits ; but the fact seems to be dof/tii 1^ ^1^^^^ government, having confl! dentlall.v asked for the opinion of the gov- orninents of those colonies as to the feasi- bility of recruiting, and learninK that they Tr/IfM.,""""? »" ^"^ P'ayed upon by sir ill M *^"°"- "'* statement was put forth that the request had not been made. I may c'ari'rtrrnlh'^i^Sa^^^""'' "^'^' s^Ti^t^iL-oi^eio^fi!^^:-'^- only oOO or so were selected as sultabl" ,„.,"■' i '^'"s perfectly Justified in the open- luf, of my remarks in sayin- tliat the British authorities, having f6und that they \T^ ,r* "''*'"" '" South Africa or in ^^r^l*''""!^ Z''*^':""" '■'''■ tbe constabulary organized for the protection of South Africa, they oa me to this rich land of Canada to TiiJl M *°. f *• """ ^''"t the only colony Jo give ^''''''''^^ '" "^'« ^ar 1« not able I may add that the attempts on the part of Imperial authorities In South Afrk-a to keep our youns men as settlers is not a -Z f^"*«■•V^t'"« war. As early as the -4th November Inst the .Afontreal Herald's sppcial correspoiident with the Strathcona llorse wrote fron, Potehefstrom a letter which appeared in the Herald of .Tanuary 5 It begins as follows:- .muaiy o. Thncyeotihe Tanadian volunteer is turnlnir tywnrda Rho.lesla. the mo.st northern i, her"[ancf of the Bri ,s!, South African Companv a" a Pros! P'-Olivp plan> or settlement, a' tI^^ ^ - hv thl exceptional inducpme.its ofTorea bv fl o Chir .ered Cnmpany, ;,„,l ,l,o laK-s hoarl ,,, -h; march or by the camp-Pre. of the minei-l inl Africa. In the ranli.s nf r.„r,i strathcona'^ corns nre twenty or thirty Canadians who are at pre^ ent deeply Interested In the countrv anrt ^X yet mal of tlie Toronto Star and of the Military Gazctto which, I think, cxpre.xsed the gen- ■. eral opinion. And It cannot be pretended ; that tliis Is another case of urgent nei-es- ; slty. f)ii the 8tli of .January last. Lord Rag'aii. Under Secretary of State for War. i said to a representative of the Assoeiatod j Press : | The ciindllion of aftaira in South Africa abso- lutely forbids prophecy. You cannot call It war, yet i:i some respccta this Is worse than wir. . . . The secrpt of ihe whole thing coajista In h vscs. We have enough men there, but not en-ngh mcunted men. A strange war Indeed ! At the outset. ; the defeats of the British army were attrl- . buted to a lack of strategic science on the part of the mules ; nnd now we are told | that the Imperial forces being unable to \ conquer this remnant of a handful of peas- ants, horses only 'in do it. Anyhow, since horses only were required, why did not the governuK at offer to the British authorities all the horses they wanted, and told them ! to leave here where they are badly needed | the men they do not want. I I go further : I say that the moment the i government were convinced that the war , was over— and convinced they were as early ' as the 7th of .Tune last when they congratu- lated the Queen on the end of hostilities— it was their duty to notify the British gov- ernment th.1t Canadian soldiers should be sent back here at the expiry of their fir .1 period of engagement, that is, after six montlis of service. That duty became lmi)erattve when Lord Roberts annexed tlu' two republics and every minister in Eiif-iand boasted th.at the war was over, and that the few Boer desperadoes who were still foolish enough to keep on lighting should not be considered as belligerents. If I utiilerstood well that popular voice which forced the hands of the government, otir soldiers went to Africa and we paid them for the defence of the empire. Bnt on'- purpose W!is not. 1 presume, to kec]) there at the expense of Canada a loi-ce of men to loot farms and do police work in a war which Is not a war. as Lord Raglan ternu'd It three months ago. or but a ' technical war.' !is Mr. Ross-llobertsoii, of the Even- ing Teli'i;i'ani, Would qualify It. Coming back to those articles of the Toronto Star, of the Military Gazette, of the Montreal Witness. I am most happy to observe tlie revival of that robust common sense and of that practical spirit which every true observer of modern nations ad- mires as the backbone of Anglo-Saxon strength, and to which tlie Anglo Sa-xon shall have to come bacic If he does not want to see his power vanishing. Hut, to be Impartial, I must point out the weakness of reasoning which characterizes those articles. If we admit tlie desirability of militaty expedllions outside of Canada, even scarce and accidental, we must prepare for them. Not only must we go in expensive purchases of weapons and ammunitions, we must also develoi> a military spirit in our peaceful community. If we make ours the quarrels of Great Britain ; if we wish to have iit least 10,000 young men ready to start at England's first call in Europe or Africa, in Asia or Oceania, we must pre- pare the youtli of this country for such emergencies. troiii tlie cnidle, through the kindergarten, the school, the college, the university, the ear of the Canadian boy must be'inade familiar with tiic clang of arms and the strident appeal of trumpets. He tnust be taught to drill and to shoot and to love camping and loafing with spurs at his boots and a sword at his belt. Instead of war being painted to his eyes under Its true colors as one of the chastisements of God over a sinful humanity, as one of the worst social s< ourges", more cruel and detrimental to the welfare of nations than cholera or famine, hi- young enthusiastic mind must be im- bued with the barbarous, antl-Chrlsttan no- tion that war is the true path to glcry, the most healthful and noble Him of a strong people. .Vnd the result will be that, not only by loyalty, not oidy in cases of Imperative necessity, not' only to defend the flag and the land, but simply to follow Its new Instincts, the • flower of our manhood ' will be ready to st.'irt at any time, lor any cause, good or I bad. In time of peace, that new marllal education of the youth will lower to ' tlieir mind the ordinary but fruitful occupations of life. .\nd thus will be ' lest to our country the best of its blood, of its lutelligeme, of its vital ; strength. Military passion is brutal, and cannot be controlled easily by reason. I am glad to find out that some organs of the English-speaking community are begln- nitiir to agree with tiic : but wltiiout any desire to discourage their honest and well- directed efforts. I niiiy be allowed to say that if they want to avoid the consequences tliey must "try to extlriiate the causes. They liave iH'lped In throwing a bad seed to the iMtloiiiil griinnd ; if they dread the harvest. l.'t them go and unroot the crop ; cutting a few of the heaviest ears Is but a dilMlsli and useless game. Coming now to the province of Queliec. the attempt made by the London Tlmos to Interpret the almost uiianlnious vote given to the government in that province as an approval of the war, or of the participation 10 of CaiuKla In the conflict, Is simply prepos- terous. 1 rejirot that some members of the c-ahl'ict liMve contribnted to propound that false iiiiiiresslon. They may liave done It with a Kood purpose ; but what Is the use ? Not only sood Intintlous, but honesty, cleai'- slKlitcihu'ss, and frankness, are the best policy always. At a l.anquet whicli was tende-ed to him at Toronto, on the J 1th of December last, the hon. Minister of the Interior (Hon. Mr. Slfton) was reported by the Toronto Globe as havin.i,' said ou Imperial Issues : In the iirovhice of Quebec the main uUack thai waa made upon (he government was on account of the Imperial policy which wa.s fol- loweJ ty c;ur rislu ho-i. Irientl. (Hear, hear.) The IssL. ihat was iiialnlv ral.sei th-!re betv,-"en the Prtpic .Minister anl his supporters and their oppnni'n'b was a.s to whether .Sir Wilfrid J^au- rler, the French Canadian Prime Minister, who had ir.an.HnruieJ tUe British preference, who had sen: the tro.ips to South Africa, whether he w;is II, be supported in tailing that action ; am; u, ;,^;ve e il.v to loolv at the newspapers whifh \,-eie lirculated by our C inservative friend.s ii: the province of tjuebec, at the litera- ture whi h was circulated by those gentlemen In Qutii'i. to see that that w.ts the main issue upon wliicfi they appealed to the province of Qje- bcc. .\:,d their appeiil was that the people of Quebec should declaie against Sir Wilfrid Lau- rier bee.ijse he was an Imperial statesman, bc- oau.se he had thrown in his lot with the Brit- ish enplre. (Hear, hear.) What did the peo- ple of Qiieliec deide? What was their verdict? Was It for the men who attacked our hon. friend? No ; It was an endorsement of everything he had dene to cemeiu Canada more closely to .'he British Ettipire. Tlie lion, pentleman appealed to the Prime Minister iKt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Lanrier) and to the Minister of Public \Vori;s (Hon. Mr. Inrto) to uphold his views. But these two jrcntlemen remained perfectly silent on tbtit jioint. and for (rood reason" : botli of them wern too iwlite to contradict their col- loiiijue linn too sincere to strentrthen lilin in his in (be same wtiy as a friend of iiiiiu> v.lio WHS once visltliis the London docks : iii>;t by jiassin:.' (Iirou^'h tlio Iniw Wiirehoiises where nil stM'ts of lii|uors are stored, be was nearly into.xictited by the nleohidic emaiititioiis which tilled the air. In Tnnmto, .|iiii:o microbes are sucli in qutility and (piantity that even when stiinu- lateil only by .Vpoilinaris water, I hey can nfl'crt iii(. niost solid brain. 1"he ease of my hon. fijend the Minister of Iiil.iiid Ueveiiiie (Hon. Mr. Uernier) Is harder to dlairnosticnte— unli'Ss I cull it tin outimrst of .juvenile enthusiasm. Not that I don't acUiiowIedire and respect the ex- porieiiee and solid mind of the hon. Kcntle- man ; but In every m;in there are two men. and In every minister there are at least three— unless the man Is pt^rfectly null by himself and takes all Lis brains In bis port- folio, which is far from beiUK the case with the hon. minister. So that a member of the cabinet may very sincerely entertain I and express quite opposite views ou the istinie subject, accordlnpr to whether he uses 1 his personal brains or 1iI.m ministerial mind. i In spite of his keen experience and sound [ jnd.u'ment as a man and as a politician, the , Minister of Inland Revenue Is otBcially the ! Ben,jiimin of the cabinet. I thinl; he relied ' exclusively on his young and fresi, iiilnlster- i inl brains, naturally excited with the joy j of victory, when he jrave his opinion of the ! (Jueliec vote on the !»th of November last He was reported as follows by the Ottawa coires|pondi-nt of the .Montreal Herald : It was not at all a question of race or con- tingents. Even .Mr Chauvln, who vnteJ in the House RKainst sending c .ntingents, was defeat- ed by .Mayor Prffontaine, who supported their going, while the ni.ijoritles of both .M>'. Bourassa and .Mr. .Monet were materially reduced. -Vfter having referred to the ^lanltoba school question as one of the most import- tint Issues in the contest, he added : The second topic of most opposition speakers was the increase of debt resuliiiij; frnni sending snidiers to South Africa at a cost of Jo,000,000. This was the complaint against Lnurior- .Mr Chauvin's defeat was the an.^.ver of the people! -Vnd by the Ottawti Evening Journal The two great Issu. . which the cppnaitl,,,- lad put forward were the Manitoba school quv ion and the sending of the troops to South A ica. The opposition asked the ^le.^lirs to CL^nrtomn the Laitrier adriiinistration becaure the school question was not satisfactorily settled by the government, and also because the premier had sent the eontinsents to Soutli Africa. It was Sir Wilfrid particularly whi w.is hold respon- sible f r this. The vote h.ii shown that the government has been endj;-sed for Its action In rofiurd to these qiiesti )n=!. Mf. ("hiuvin. Conservative, who voted agiiinst sending the contingent, was d»-feated. The majorities of Monet and Bourassa were reduced. . . . I reirret. or rather I rejoice, that in my ctise, the lion, minister spoke under mlsiti- forniation. My majority was Itirtrer bv a few votes that in ISIlC. in spite of the fact that the lists were much less ftivimrable and especially that l.fKK) voters at least were absent from the localities where I took the strongest vote. Mr. COWWX. You were lucky. Jlr. BOUUAS.SA. Yes, I was lucky to represent an intelliiretit constituency. " My friend frmii I.aprairie and X:!'i|erviile (.Mr. .Monet I. whom I am so hapi to see here a«ain. retidy to fiRht with nw for the Cnn- iidiaii tl.-iir. sliould we even remain for some time yet hi a nlorions Isohitlon. could tell to the House that the rediK'tiou of his majority \\;is due ro catises eiitaclv foreivrn to the war question. In fact, his oiiponeiit took the same view as he did of the war question and stild he would have voted lih II in the same wny as my lioii. friend I ilo ii.it know If my lioii. frliMuls whose ma on ?Si8 mn ter. I conlU a^o p -Ini native ton.^.e Is Kn^Ush ..uite understand o t the ^^te the counties of Two the meanlnu- of that wonl. It "'*;""■; "-f M mmtViUis Batrot Charlevoix and Mas- merely a eapltulntor. but a eowaid cai.itu- Uinon«^. where .uVmlnrs who voted wUh lator, one who capitulates without reason. us on this iiuestlon were nil returned by iuereased majorities. I do not think that any of those Kentlemeu receded, during tlie electoral campaljjn, from their former iios;- tlon on this question. 1 know that in Char- levoix and MusklnonpC especially, the mem bers-eleet (Messrs. Anders and I.e^-ris) Mr. Adclphe Chauvln himaeir. At Dpauharnols he declared th.T.t he was fol- lowing Sir Charles Tuppar's flag with the whole Conservative- yellow-blue-Tory party united as cue man .... Ha ! Mr. Chauvln ha;i tried to play the man of character at Ottaw.x with the Douras^Fas. the Monets and the Ethlers ; but our rtprcsentative was really rot built to keep up fou'-'ht the battle straivrht on our lines. And ,i,at role. He has capitulated ! N^y^^he^haa sur- 1 kiu)W as a matter of fact that before goiiiK ' to his i)olitical death In Maskinon:i<'', Sir Adcilplie C:iron vainly endeavoured tor s.-v- eral weeks to Ket the nomination in his former constituency. Three Rivers and S:. M.Miirice ; and if ho c-ouid not succeed, his position on the war question was to a ter- tain extent an obstacle in his way. Since the Minister of Inland Kevenue has nienlioiu-d the defeat of Mr. Chauvin in Terii'iionne as the result of his vote on my motion of the 13th of March last, and .'is .in evidence of the sentiment of tiiicliec in favour of our military expedition to tlie Transvaal. 1 feel bound to stive a few de- tails about that election. 1 have here th rendered without striking a blow. He does bel- ter • He goes back with arms and baggage to the cai'ip of the militarists and the mountebankj of Britishism. In the next Issue l,'.\venir du N;)rd |ni'i- lislied an article on Mr. Pr.'>fontalnes can- didature. After a well-deserved eulogy if our worthy colleaKUtN it noes on as fol- lows : ony may tell us : ' All wh.it you say ts verr true, but Mr. PrCfontalno Is an ImperltiUst.' What evidence on this point can be given to us ? No. we do not believe that Mr. Pr*tontalne, who has In the past given so many striking evidences (if patrliHsni and of natloml zeal, may have, as a wish in his he.irt and as an ar- political manifesto of the present member ,,^1^ o{ i,|'s programme the participation of Can- for Terrebonne (Mr, Prefontalne), who re- ada !n the foreign wars of the nntlsh Empire ^.resents at the same time the riding' "f No, we d.. mt believe that J^r. ITffontalne ad not a pnrafrrapii. not a line, not a word ^vh;(■h would afflict our peaceful country with about the war. or the sending of eontiii- the horrible wound of militarism, and this for the Rents, or Imiierialism. It nppenretl in benefit of another natior.. L'Avenlr dn Nord. a Liberal paper imb- 'p),(.„^ ..,ft,.r proving tliat tlie jioveriuueMt's lished at St. Jerome, and lar»;ely circulated ,,„li'y on that tniestion was less dangerous not only in Terrebonne county, but throu.!J:li- ; than Sir diaries Tapper's, il s.iys : out th^ whole district. This l>ai.er ably ' , Pr^ontalne who. as a supporter of edite.l, has not a little contril.uted to the the government has approved the sending of liber.iiizinjr of tlie counties of Terrebonne ^o^ti^gents. but under the condition that this and Two Mountains, those old fortresses of option shall not commit us In the future. Is yet the Conservative party. It Is one of the („ ^g pr-ferred to Mr. Adolphe Chauvln, who. stronKCSt anti-Imiteriaiistic publications in after havlnR prononn conli-iiry. Fir-'t. In the same copy annotmc- im; tiiat Mr. rrelontaine had been chosen i ns the Liberal candidate. Mr. Chauvin w.is deiio\inced as a cowardly c-apitnintor on tlie ipicstion of Impeilaii>;in. The article dated September 1.1, begins as follows : Mr. Chauvln. Capltulard. The county of Terrebonne is represented at Ottawa by a ' ca!>!tulard ': Then, on ( Ictober I. aiipeared an artii'le, tiie tliird of a series, in wliic'.i llie Imii.Tialistie tenilencies of both parties were i>|evc'i;y analvsed-tlie conclusion being that Tory Iiviii'riallsiii is worse than Liberal Iin- Iiorlalism. that between the two evils the less should be chosen, and .Mr. rr«''foiit.'tine preferred to Mr. Chauvin. Then, on (Ictober 11 : Is Mr. Chauvln of the same ' ilon as Sir Charles Tupper, his leader, who solicited the government to send contingents to Africa— or Is he not ? Then, on October 2,". appeared a lea?eiits.' The three following p:iiM;.'ini>lis ^:ivc nil cxai't idea of the whole : The responsibility of the military expedition to ttie Transvaal falls entirely on Sir Charles Tupper and the whole English Conservativ- press .... The respon.Mble authors of the cou tingtcts are Sir Charles Tupper, Mr. Bergeron and the Conssrvative party .... The great cul- prit In the contingent question is Sir Charles Tupper, of whom Mr. Chauvin is now the can- didate. And. fiii.illy, on November 8. appreclatlii:,' the re.siilt : Mr. Chauvin is defeated and he deserved it. Men who denounce Imperialism and who brand themselvps as the moat faithful supporters of declared luipeilallsts, cannot expect their electors to accept to be laughed at more than Ave con- secutive years. One can hardly And in all the.si" quotations any mu-e of tlie slightest approval of thi- sendinir of Canadian troops to the Tri.us v;ial. AikI 1 do not believe tliat the present nieuilicr lor Terrel)onne iMr. Pn'fontainei will claim his victory as i triumph for Im- perialism. Spealiiiii: now of the province at large, the truth is that the (luestion was minimized almost to the point of annihilation in most of the constituencies. On September 21, there was a large meeting at St. Hyacinthe. the residing i>lace of the Minister of Inland Revenue (.Mr. IJernler), the county sent of ills coiLsiltueiu \ , and the centre of an e.K- teiisive !ind pr:)sperous district. The Prime Jllnister was there and addressed the meet- Ir.ir in 'jis usual eloquent and convincing m.inner. He dealt at length with all the Issues of tile d.i.v. including the school ques- tion ; but not a word fell from his lips touching the African uiluate i cabinet, which had consented but reluctant- ly and meanly to so to the rescue of th • empire, and when forced to do so under tlie powerful and patriotic pressure of Sr Charles the Great. I may have hurt the feelln;.'-' of the minls- terialist.s in showlUK the .sohiewhat double game they have played on thi.s (juestiou : they have undoubtedly shown throiisu all this crisis a lack of nerve most painful to all tliose who had been attracteU to the olil Liberal party by its moral courage, Its dis- interested attachment to principle and Its joyful disposition to prefer truth to success. I "leave to my friends on this side of the i House to decide for themselves If this soft- eninfj of their temperament must be attri- ! buted to the effects of la grippe or to the | sweets of power. I hope the former cause | is the real one ; because the latter would , prove that their stern virtue, like that of 1 certain vestals of old and modern times, siniplv waited for a propitious occasion to fall. ' I But, the government and their supporters ■ may tind some solace for their weakness i by " contemplating the perversion of their i rlVals. While the Liberals had the excuse of being ou the defence, and only played i that double game with a certain timid and ' blushing indecency, the Tories threw them- selves soul and body Into the abysses ->i' sin. Members of the late parliament will remember the very patriotic attitude of the member for Montmorency iMr. 'asgralni. his speech on tlie war. and his noisy hand- clapping' when the Prime Minister refuse! to accept my motion ratifying the consti- tutional i-esei-v!!tlons contained in tlie order In council of October. 18vl'.). I would re speotfnlly advise the richt hon. srentleman. when he is applauded from the other side. to repeat, silently if he likes, what I say openlv when I am afflicted with the same evil : ' Tlmeo danaos et dona ferentes.' I say silently, tiecauso, or t'ls question of Iraperiallsiii. tlie right hon. j. ?ntlem!in would be more exi»osed tli.ui I am to beeoni;- fastidious at nuotlng the VIrgiilan verse. Now. I will quote n few words of the speech of the hon. member for Montraorencv on that war question ; It was an eviilence ih.\t all tlic colonlia wore united with each other to ;)rove not < nly Ihnlr pairlotl.^m and their 1 lyalty to thp Drltfah Crown, but to i>rov.> thit ilu' foiiiire caiiii a be attacked in any ov >>t Its parts wlfiyut all ii other parts lOiiii- u Its redouc. Some hon. MEMli S. Hear. hear. Mr. ROt'ltASS.\. i; it wait a little to see whether yon will approve the second quota- tion : Sir, the peop;- of «" he provtnoei or the Domini n are laniod away by this p.itri mIp concept!, n of their Junes, and F aa a Fivneh Canadian will not r;and alonf and remain an indifferent spectator of i'k' tremomioiH B'l :•.:- gle which the British Empire Is ensaged In at the present time. .Some iu.n. MKMIJEUS. Hear, hear. Mr. HOUItASS.V. I now invite hon. gen- tlemen who say ' hear, hear ' to Usteu to another declaration from the same gentle- men whom they applauded last session as one of the patriotic French Canadians standin:; for a united empire. A few days after the session was over, there was a big Conservative rally at Kamouraskn, where Messrs. Casu'rain, Chapais. Bergeron and other pontine of that dying worship once calleil the Qnel.ee Conservative party, gathered and fulmlmui'd their first excommunication decree's ol' tlie se.Msoii. The meudier for Montmorency made an appeal to the electors of Kaniour- aska acalnst the Imperialistic tendencies of tiie Liberal party, and In a most pathetic display of paternal sentiment he cileil out to the people : I am ready to .s ■,• !ay only son (ly at i.h ) de- fence of my couiitry; bill I refuse to saeilfice him for the quarrela nf England, chough jugt Ihey be. Why do not hon. members opposite applaud now ? They are silent. But I need not go out of my own con- stituency tc give an illustration of the tac- tics of the Conservative party. Of course. ill Labelle. the ground was much clearer than iu most of the otlier constituencies. I fought the battle on that (luestlon, though I had great trouble in keeping my opponent ' on these lines ; he wanted to do as all the straight party candidates in Qneliatlon in tiie war. Hut his eloquence dealers were tiw^re decided in their opinions. In the Engl-h-spenking section ; of the county, the Tor -ommittee xent a young p.itrlot. who sai.i tliat in Labelle It "was no question of Liberals er Conserv.* tlvps. of Lanrler or Topper, of good or ba : 14 ' Down with B4>rrawin, who opposed the Canadian coutlugeuts to South Africa ! ' lu the noitliern extremity of the county, all Freucli-Bpeaklug, .Mr. Nautel, an ex-proviu- ciul minister— the same geutlenian who, for over a year, in his organ, Le Monde C'aua- dien, and in his pul)liu utterances, hud ijeeu denouncini.' tiie war, tliu contiuKeuts, and the Inii)eriallstic uioveiueut— came lull o( ar>lim;- ;i:d denounced me as a hypoerlt-:, bccaii.sc. altlioui;li 1 voted asainst tlie war and declared myself ready to oppose any future military expedition. I still cnlle't myself a Liberal and a .supporter of the governnu'Ut on its administrative pulley. Uj aiimitted that Sir Charles Tupper liad some sli^iht Imperialistic tcmlencies, lint almost imperceptiide comjiared u. the deep Im- perialism of Sir Wilfrid Lnurier. Tlie former was only in favour of commercial Imperialism, based on reciprocal urms ; whilst tlie latter was in favour of couinior- cial Imperialism, all in favour or England : of political Imperialism, swamiiiiiL' our lepris- latlve indi'iicndence ; and of millt.iry Im- perialism. i-ommittinK us to partici|)ation in all Impi'r:::! wars. In M letter to his constituents, published shortlv after the criislijiii.r defeat of his party and the downf.ill of liis dynasty, the S"!dor meii'.ber for Pictou 'Sir cliaries Hib- liert TnpiK-rt said : .\'o (ne wouici be -urpvif «.l. still le3.s 0"inpl.iln that r.ati:ml iympatUy r-iii'iyl in Q'iebco for a Frf'n<-1i Cana'Uan Ipal'^r, bii' wh.-i the Frcn-^h ranarllans hiivt> almo'-t to a man ril'icl arntjr 1 him, can we believe that this result has been iuo to any nhir c- ni?.- :li:i:i iai> f.^^'lin.-;, so fostered, manipulated and developed by Messrs Tari«\ I'rrnier, Uoiir.issa, .Mjnot, and othfr.<, .s:..ii:,;iy jiiiiyetl :]p u by [he l'rt:a» .Mini:;-or ' hin..:L.f. At any rr.ip -jr F.-enMi (J.na'lian i friends whi have boon ^m-npel bv this tem- ' P rary erase of Quebec, tell U3 so. ' i I am re.idy to cive to the hoii. gentleman the beiielit of e.xtenuatins circumstances. A convict is allowed twenty-four hours to i curse Iiis Judjros. .v defeated leader, hurt not only In his political and personal nmbi- ■■ tions. but also in his filial sentiments, for which I can Imt admire the lion, gentle- man, m.'iy be sivcn a few weeks to exhale liis bitterness, lint that natural explosion of had temper shoidd not have sone to the point of s^landerini; liis opponents nnd a l.Mrp^e proportion of iiis f.dlow-citizens. As ' to the jreneral accusation of racial appeals made by the Mberal party to the French • •anadians. and as to the reply ixlveii to those ajipeals. I will say a wf» ■ later on. As to my personal position. > .on. gen- tl(>maii s|ii>uld apologize to at h aeoftlie i.'eiitlomcti with whose iiaiU' he coupled mine in his letter. I mean tlie hon. illn- Ister of Inland Hevenue (Hon. Mr. Bernier). I have for the lion, minister the sreatest personal esteem and friendship, and I trust he entertains the same feellnss towards my humble self. But to put him and me In the I same canoe, as far as this question Is con- 1 cerned. Is rather grotesque. Why ? Ever ■ sluce the hon. gentlemati entered the cabinet, we pad4leU in the very opposite direction. He wanted to run down the stream, and 1 persisted In facing the cur- rent. The chief French Conservative organ In Montreal, Le Journal, even announced one day that I would accept the candida- ture against hlni In St. Uyaclnthe. I must say, however, that this was a pure Tupper- Isiu. As to my appeals to the electorate, I defy the hon. member for Pictou here and now to quote one sentence of my public or private utterances justifying his accusation. Let him search all the newspapers lu which my speeches throughout the whole province were reported— and I give hhu free access to respectable organs of all shades of opin- ion, both English and French ; let hlui un- earth any witness, French or English, Scotch or Irish, Italian, Cierman or Belgian —all those nationalities are represented in my constituency ; let him pick the man, credible umler oath, who will say to my face that I have resorted to any racial ap- peal In my election or previous to it, with- in or without my county. He will never Hnd that man ; because such appeals I never made ; and I could not have made them for two excellent reasons : First, the idea that the Transvaal (luestion and all its Ircidents and consequences In Canada could be di.-cHssed on racial lines, always ai»pear- cd to me as most foolish and absurd ; sec- ond, nothing Is more repugnant to my heart and conscience as that basis of political argument. And what Is not in my heart has never reached my lips. I do not expect to ever be a minister of the Crown or a Knight of this or a Comin.inder of that ; but I cherisli the ambition tiuit my humble name shall never be used to enrich the Canadian glossary with a synonym to Tup- perlsm. True, racial prejudices were arous- ed In my county durlm; the last campaign ; they fermented constantly from the day I resiprned my seat to appeal to my constitu- ents on this question in October. 180!), until the very last polling hour of the 7th Novem- ber, l!)oO. But they were not raised by me, nor on my behalf ; they were set against me by a small group of Kuilish-speaiiing Liberals and Conservatives, who denounced me for a year as a French rebel and a traitor, and thereby gave votes to my op- ponents, the candidate of gentlemen oppo- site, in all justice to tli.it geiitiem:iii, 1 must .say that if ho profited by those tactics, I do not tliink he was respon.slblo for iliem. That campaleti was started long before he was a candidate. I could have retaliated and nijide counter appeals to my P'rench- s|,iiiking constituents, wlio represent at least two-thirds of the electorate of La- bclle. But. I did not, and I would not have done it. had even my success depended on those tactics. Sir. It Is my pride, my legiti- mate pride that the position which" I took on this question. I kept It rigidly on the solid ground of rpRpect t" the constitution ih 15 1 II and of true devotion to Canadian Interests In prefereuce to Mr. Chamberlain's poli- tical alms : uml lu doiUK so I remained all along faithful to the trne traditions of British Llbenillsm. I am happy to say that my attitude was well understood by the free citizens who sent me here. Although I lost a good many Engllsh-speuklug sup- porters, the true old Liberal Scotch stood by me. I never lelt prouder in my life than at a public meeting held in a thorough Scotch settlement of my county, two days previous to the election, when two of the leading residents, one t'ouservative and tiie other Liberal, tol.i me with the approval of their fellow-citizens : ' We iiro especially satlsfled with your position on tho war ques- tion. You stooti independently for Canadluu rights. England is rich enough to look after her quarrels ; let us mind 'lur own business and live peacefully in Canada." Speaking now of the general position taken by the Conservative pirty on iliis question : 1 hold In my Iniuds two electoral pamphlets which were largely circulated by Tory heelers in Ontario and Quebec. Thi former is a leaflet entitled ' The Case of Bouras.oa and Monet;' It contains extracts from our speeches carefully stripped of the context whicli only could give our correct and complet. views on the war quest'on. and it denounces the government for not having excommunicated us. The copy I have lia.s liccu sent to me by an elector of the ridiiii;- of West York. The other document is the famous panii)lilet So. li, being one of a series of brochures prepared, printed a.ul sent broadcast to the four Cornells of the province of Quebec by the Central Conservative Committee of .Mont- real. This pamphlet Is well known to all the raenibei-s of this House. Apirt from the school qucKtion to which it refers. It arraigns the Liberal government for having dragwd us in Euiilisli wars : It repriufs my motion of Jrarcti 13, 10ilpo- sitiou as well as of a goo«t It was not a pve.^M ? J fh i""" '"t^^"' ""^,'^. a"? <^","- and that the Tories were more to be dreaded ru- ? , nf, I?'-, ""^"J"" ';« .^"r*" '^°'^""' °" that question than the Liberals. (..Ii-. (liiultou). Is not a sulHcieut guarantee There la a fact a irr..m- nntini.nl or •■III' iiirnitv „ RriH»h o.n,.niu„r, i„ .»,.„i ....^*' '* "'""•.'' 8^81 uatiouai of our loyalty, a British garrison in Quebei woulil not ninlie It any better. A few rtnl coats would just he the proper thlnjf to UJMkc us, not pro-Hoers, but real Boers. Hut to Interpret the French Canadian vote as an jii)proval of the special action of the goveriiiuent In sending Canadian soldiers to the Transvaal, and further still, as an ex . feature which our Enxllsh-speaklng neighbours do not realize perhaps, but upon which they should open their eyes. While they have been wandering between narrow provlncial- Isui, whence we all started, and unbounded Imperiall.sui, we have been developing quiet- ly but constantly on the solid groumi of Cauadianism. We may be from their stnnd- ?h n Hi„^ '"V^^""'/'"' sentiment. Is so point less British, but we are more thor absunl tlat nol.oily from that province, I oughly, more exclusively and, 1 may be al think, will venture to make tliat assertion lowed to say, in all good spirit, better Cana^ here-UMless one cares very littl.' for truth dluns than they are or aec racy. O the contrary. I mrm cate- i have quoted the IvOnJon Times previous goncally that the strenrth of the Liberal to the election and Its false dednctlons of the vote ; II Quebec was largely inereasixl l.y vote after it was taken. 1 will now com- quest side Issui ( Of anti-war feeling, thongli. I repent, the mend to the attention of the members of the stinn was kept as much as possible as a House a series of letters written from Can- lUie Issue. As the Minister of Public Works ada to the Manchester Guai-dlan by a dla- Hon. Mr. Tartei said In France, 99 per cent tingulshed English Journalist, Mr Harold If the Irench (•anadians detest tills war, as .Spender. That gentleman came" to Can.ida the whole civillzeil world does, as nearly and remaliiMl here during the electoral con- oue-half. If not more, of the Unite.l Kingdom test In order to study by himself the real does They think that it could have been sentiments of the Canadian electorate and averted by arbitration: they believe that the especially of the French Canadians He P"iil!(al dllllenlties In the Transvaal did not veiy soon grasped the true situation "l mav justify it : tiiey are convinced tiint Mr. he permitted to quote a few extracts from Kliodes's rapacity, that Mr. Chamberlain's that interesUng correspondence • aiTogant and brutal refusal faithful may call them pro-Boers. They are waving the flag. iJu't behind aTf tho3e p.irty pro-Boers, Just as Mr. Brvce, Mr. Morley, appearances Is the solid, .som')re fact, which Mr. Courtney, Sir Robert Reld, Sir Edward DfUher party can conceal, that the French Cana- Clarke and millions of Englishmen and 'i ,?,^ ^'"! S,*"^ "^'' *°'' "^ "sing most of their Scotchmen. They are not pro-Boers be- P°""'^' \T'^Z'rt Hke^Tp'tr fVlL.*"^ ''^"'''; cause they are anti-British. But their in- Britain,' the Clos out'he'rf arT'ju tWlln^f^ stinctlve sympathy goes to a small nation crush the Liberal party by the cry of •nro-Bocr" struggling for independence. Their fathers Anether bond of empire, indeed! But under have been forced to rebellion and led to ">i3 Ihere are tragic pos.-ilbliitles, for by all exile or dragged to the scaffold bv a policy l^^^ ^^^^ are gradually alienating the French similar to Mr. Chamberlain's, and" a repres- "anadian.s ami dividing race ilrom race. !, -1 similar to Lord Kitchener's : they still In another letter, speaking of the lack of n .nember of Lord Colborne and his farm Interest which the war question as it was burnings at St. Eustache and St. Benolt. discussed in Canada, would offer to his Eng- Peace and lil)erty were restored here by a lish readers, he says : policy the kind of which Lord Orev and ~,u Mr. Ohuistnne Inaugurated In South Africa ^.T.^T ^"''5' "on prefer that the Canadians and his true disciples are urging now to be should re5;crvc to themselves the rieht of dla- ,, , -„ ... - niis.sinc;, :i year after the event, whether Sir applieti anew. Supposing their feelings Wilfrid Laurier sent away the Canadian con- went as far as rejoicing at the sureess of tingent a month too late or too sr.on. It is Boor arms, they sliould no more be taxed "ot fir us to enter into that domestic quarrel, with disloyalty than William Pitt when he which Is really the only form in which the war openly vowed for the triumph of AinerlCTn I'lelHn hns be-n seriomly rai ed here out- " " side the constituency of Mr. Bourassa .... I have said that the Canadians have not fully considered the issues of the South .\frlcan war. .Tnd if any Canadian reads these words I sliali nrohnbly be fiercely blamed tor this nplnl.iu. Well. [ have tnlked to manv on the subject, .".nd I could number on the fingers of one hand ih-ie wli.m I have found rnmililar with ihe rebels, because, in his opinion, that triumpli wiinld open the eyes of the British nation and crush down that spirit of arrogant domination which had seized at that time the rulers and the people of England, and was leading the kingdom to Its perdition. Now. a.s far as the eontrllnitlon of Canada In this war is r. -icerned. It Is no use to '■'""'^''^ "f the quarrel or the details of the des- - patches Of course, the majority of Canadl.ins support r.,!iurler in the ' contingent ' policy. But It e opposition ot the make any mistake alwint It. Tnasmnch as It was discussed liefore the people of Que- bec, the ^,et!e.T> of thp govPrnm^nt b.tg not , TuppeV had been i'uTo'wer"t'h t 11 French Canadian*, wboaa irmpatblei ar* with the Boere, would have made It Impossible. As it la, Laurlor persuaded Quebec, and Ontario had alreuily lakea llie lead la urgency. BuL though ihe Krtuoh Canadians follnw their Mil, oven in his South .African policy, their real mind Is voiced by Tarte. with his ' no preceileni ' cry. That is the issue of the future— Is th<< South Afi-liuu war to be a precedent? Tlie Imperlallits of Toronto are ralalnc It by preu- Ing that arms should bo stared and barracks built In order that Canada may become a military power ready to support the empire In any ven- ture, (juebec Llberali are sullenly but ob- stinately oppo.sed to all this But men like to know what they are fighting about, and thus the war has raised the profoundest lssue.i of Imperial government. How Is It that n ne of these issues have been raised In the politi- cal warfare here? I have already noted that there Is no discussion and no real knowledKo about South African questions In Canada: the war Is now scantily reported, and no Interest Is taken In the settlement. This Is partly parochialism I draw tlie iitteiitiou of my hoii. coUeaKUt-s to tlio followliiK woixls : — but partly also due to a certtln lack of courage that runs through all Canadian politics. As In the States, so In Canada ; politics are much dominated by electioneering. Perbaps we ought not to preticb, hut there Is In English politics a tradition banded down from men like Bright and Cobden, and sometimes dimly followed, that principle Is more important than party or place. Canada sflll wants thit tradition of political martyrdom. I will eiul these quotations by the followiug rcinarka on the subject of ImperiallBin as viewed in Ontario. Tliey were written from Toronto after the elections : The majority of business men know that peace is the most Importani asset to Canada, and many look askance on the whole Imjwrlallat move- ment as dangerous to the progress of the coun- try. ' How do we know,' said one to me to- day, ' that we may not be drawn into trouble any day? One never feels safe.' This is an e.xpressiou of opinion \vlth regard to Canada; and the other day the statement was published that the New Zealand gov- ernment were urging the British govern- ment to use their Influence in the Asiatic sea to acquire a couple of Islands in the neighbourhood of New Zealand, because of that swelling sentiment of aggrandizement which is now seizing the whole Britisdi world. New Zealand also wants to form Its little confederation; It wants to enlarge and expand. Suppose the British govern- ment acceded to that request, and suppose on its way to realize it, it came Into con- flict with the interests of some other Euro- pean power, and war were declared, we Canadians, in pursuance of this new policy which has been entered upon, might be called upon to expend money and send soldiers to help New Zealand in her schemes of extension and aggrandizement. I have dealt with military Imperialism at some greater length than I wished to do. But. I felt bound to set myself right, at the opening of this parliament on that vital B— 2 j qiltwtiiin of tlie fi'liitloili Ix'tWfoll (Jrfllt ' Britain aiul licr cidoiilex. in spite of tue cCtorts (,1 scared iinlltlclaiis m shift the Issae or to convince tlnMiisclvi's tli:ii Hie qiifstl'm is not at stake, tliis is to be llie gri-iit |>nll- tlcal and national prolili-ni uC Ilie lu'iii- rmiii-e throiiglioiit the fuiiiic The sd-ciilli'd siatcs- uieii ami tliclr I'oIIimvim's who sinrii Ili>> id >a and pretend to believe tliat this Is only « temporary movcnieiu of opinion, mo slnijily imitating the ostrich In the desert, wlixn bfiiiu chased by the liuMlci-. it conccjils Its ' head under its wing and thinks it is sa.^e because, it does not see the danger. I tliouglit it my duty also to tell the trutl - not the |K>litical truth, not the p'lrty trulti. but the plain truth about the real reelin..n of the Frencli (.'anailians on that (inestlou. Tlic eccentricity of my p '■■m in this House allows nio that freiMiw of speech. ! (1;<1 not do It with the purpose of arousi'ig racial feelluKs; on the contrary. The bmt way to avoid national frictions is not '■ 'j imagining tiiat all sections of this count ly entiTtnln tin- same opinion, should even that opinion be tlic best; but by looking thorough- ly tl)rough t!ie minds ami hearts of all the racial grouiis which form the nation in order to prepare a sound public opinion baseti on miaual ri>spect and conciliation. My utteninccs have not been inspired either by a sentiment oi animosity or iMilllTerence i towiii-ds the Hrltisli (lag and British con- nection; on the contrary again. It is Ije- : cause I prize highly the advantages of Brl- I tish institutions which we have made ours — i in spite even of British autliorltles— that I I believe it is an Imperative duty to us all to prevent any danger that might threaten them in the future. Should we leave the British government and tlie British people under ; misapprehensions as to what they can ex- pect from Canada— not in a time of en- i thusiastic ferment, but when tlie popular mind will set again on Its normal basis the moment might come when they thought they could rely uiwn us for more than what we would be ready to give. A mistake of : that kind would be the cause of serious coni- : plications which for my part I wish to be , avoideii. j I go furtlier. This war and Its bearing ! on British and colonial cimcerns have led ' me to a new and deeper study of British I history, of British institutions, of British politics, of British character. .Vnd the more I have analysed the vital parts and the solid limbs of that splendid body politic, ! its strong nerves and its rich blood, the ' wider has grown my admiration for Great Britain. I used to be a contented British '■ subject, as most of my countrymen are ; 1 ; feel now the full pride of British cltlzen- ! ship. But the Britain that I love and ad- I mire is that n^ble, progressive, industrious, i peace-loving nation which has done so much for the development and the welfare of ! hnmnnlty: that mother of true libernlism ' who. from the time of Simon de Montfort IN down tu till- tlu.vs or Willlaui Ewart Ulad Btoue, tliroiiuli k<'*xI <>i><1 li'xl fortune, under the NUii vf lior {(luHuux diiy^ »» wl'II lut In the miilitt 1)1 iiolitU'Hl Htoruis. worki-d slowly, but stfiullly. to the b'tti-riiii-nt iiiiil tlie re- form of her laws, of her constitution, of ber polltk'iil unit Mociul life. The Itritalu tbnt I love is that Kreat apontle of liberty, who preached and practiced the worshli) of free- dom for herself, but who ri-wpeeteil also the risfhis of othera. The Hrltalii tluit 1 love Is that steady, laborious, perseverluj? com- munity of workers, of settlers, of trades- men, who while euricliliitf tliemsehi-s have thrown open to the world so many hidden treasures. The Britain tliat 1 love was boa-stlul of ber (iiuilities, but she did not re- fuse tu listen to the vclee ol' her conscience ami never hesitated to correct and to expiate he" crimes and her weaknesses. And the uioie 1 h.ive known to love that Britain, the true Britain, the more I have hated and cursed tiie vamjiires wlio are m.'v tiyiUK to smk ;niil to pi>ison ber blooil. Under the guidance of lier statesui"]i, that great nation iiad exteudetl ber power on nil Seas. She liad lound on tlie i,'lobe tbi' space reiiuired lor the natural growth of her mai,'nitade. Her petty tyiauts of to-day. like that of the I'alib-. are torturing her body either to shorten it to tlie size o; their patriiitisiii or to len:j;tln'n it to the measure of tlieir anibitiiiu-; luadness. When ruled by true Hritisli statesmansjiip, England may have excited tlii.' jealously of other nations: she was at least ri'spccted, admired and feared. The eanlier worms of to-day are endeavouriiiK to make her ■•in object of hatred, of derision, of contempt to the world. liefusinir to accept tlie patriotic and clear sij;iited wiiviiliii,' u( (i<'tieral Butler, they iiavi" been forced to ininiobilize on the uii;;ia[i liii si)il of .Vfrica llie liest of her armie-i .inl to send her l>ravest sons to die of fevr under tlie conimandineiit of In- capable iitiiccrs. Ill tlie meanwhile, (iieat Britain w.is obliged to bumble liei"self under th" lulclaze el (ie.uiaiiy and of the United Stall's, and to biH.om.' a silent .■iccoiui)lice of the moiislrous liarb:irity of Russian Coss.mI.s. in order tli.it iier name should not be totiil'y forgotten in ("hiua. where she ruled for half a eenti.ry iimler tlie wise policy of tlie so-called Little Knirlanders. If I were the .Vniiloidiobist tli.it so many charge me with belnc. I could not wish for better means to be taken for brinv;iii«; the downfall of British power. But al- thousli some of my words may have fallen hard upon those who look at tbinifs from a dilTerent standpoint, they should at least have the Kood faith to admit that my vebpnience or my bitterness or even. If they like, my rudeness is not caused by disloyal sentiments nor by racial animosity. Now. I think my motion should receive the support of all fair-minded men In this House — whether they neree fully or par- tially with me on the merits of this war. or on the Im|)crlall8tle movement, or wbe- they we differ totally on either of thoM i|iiestiotis. This resolution doi , not deal with the causes of the struKulc ; It does not revive old and IrrltatlnK coniroverslcs ; It does not dlscuMs the political constKiuenceA of our contribution to the war ; It doe« not treat of Imperial federation or of Cana- dian Independence. It leav 's to every one a free hand and an uncomproinlsed i>oBltlou on all those matters. It does not even trace a rivrid line of conduct to the British gov- ernment on the settlement of the war ; It simply lays down the principles upon wblcl: that settlement should !«> eflfected, leaving to tile British parliament a lUll sway of action as to the jwlnt where such principles can be carried under actual circumstances. It Is simply Intended to e.xpress the wisii of a peace-loviii); British community, pray- Ini; that a long and cruel war should bo slopped, and that this new century, which has seen the deatli of a noble and kinil- heartiil t>ueen. and the accession of ber worthy son. should not be a century of race batieil and struggles In His Majesty's pos- sessions in South .VfrlcH. .\s (Uiiiadlans, as loyal subjects of the British Oowii. we are all interested in the pen<'e of every part of the empire. If peace can be nmde in South .Vfrica, let peace be. And the only peace that can be made to Inst must be of such a character to cure the deep wounds jntlicted to tlie heart of the Afrikanders, not only those of the Transva.i' and the Orange Free State, but those also of Cape (Colony and Xatal. Such pence is not the brutal .and pagan crushing of the vanquished by the conqueror. It Is the kind, generous, Chrls- liaii treatment of the weak by the mighty, the forgiveness of offences suffered so that committed offences may be forgiven. For the last sixteen months l have been branded, not only in Canada, but throughout the empire, as a dislo.val sub.|oct. as an un- grateful beneficiary of British favours, as a traitor and a rebel. I have been hissed and hooted In this parliament because I re- fused to throw ridicule upon the British Crown b.v celebrating the end of a war which is yet raging : because especially I refused to slander our noble Queen by mak- ing ber responsible for Mr. Chamberlain's policy. Nine months have passed since we declared that the war was over, and the struggle is fiercer than ever. The death roll gets longer and longer every day : the stream of bloml Is overflowinj; ; the public exchequer of Great Britain is neavily strained, and we may feel here before Ion,? the effect of financial depression In Eng- land. It Is no more a war between com- batants ; it is the beginning of n savage conflict of races. Should even General De Wet aud his heroic followers be cap- tured to-morrow, I say the war Is not over. The Rotuni fight may be ended, but this is i only the first act of the tragedy. For every 19 It Afrikander homestead burned by order or Brittili commander*, one hundred brands of hatred buvt- been lighted up ; they mny be covered for lome time with the aahoN of defeat and repression. But let a bluHt come from the Orient or the Occident, from the north or from the south— a retx-lllon In India, a conflict In China, a war In EuruiR' ; and, the occasion may not be far awuy. If JIURo rule U to be left a free hand foi- son-e time yet In EnKland-and the b>nz>' will aKuiu be lighted ; and once more shall the decimated compatriots of VVllllani the Silent astound the world. Do you wiuit to extinguish that Are for ever, go to thost- stern, ignorant, fanatical Boers— give them the epithets you lllte— but make them ti> understand that Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Rhodes, that Lord Kitchener and Sir Alfroil Miluer are not the British people ; that behind and above the unscrupulous pollti clans, the money-grabbers, the brutal sol- diers, the bureaucratic martinets with whom they have come in contact for the lust ten years, there is a broad, generous nation, upon which they con rely for the safeguurii- lug of their national and Individual exist- ence. ' Oh, but Mr. Chamberlain is in power, the empire It, safe,' cry out the jingoes ; " let us teacli those brigunds a lesson they shall never forget.' Take care only tluit they do not remember It too lonj; ; you may pay later on with your own blood the cost of that bloody education. Yes, Mr. Chamberlain is in power, an.l the war Is not stopped— but Queen Victoria Is dend ; and the public rumour, and tlic public conscience, and the public sentiment tell us that her days have been shorteiieii by that disheartening and unglorious war. Up to the day of her death, two thoughts had always kept me lighthearted in the midst of insults and slanders. I knew that I was actuated solely by the pure love of Canada ; I felt also that I wos in no way responsible for the bloodshed on the veldts of Africa nor for the tears shed In so many Canadian homes. Now n new thought flll-i my heart with happiness ; 1 am not an ac- complice of murderers of the Queen. I sincerely believe that in urging the House to support this proposition. 1 nm limply asking the parliament of Canada to respond to one of the Inst and most heart- felt desires of her lote .Majcnty. 1 move It as a tribute of homage, of admiration, of love to her memory. It is uxHlest, com- pared with the magniHoent aiul |)om|M)Us necrologies that have fallen from the ll|>8 of kings and Ntatesmen. But. it Ih fr(>i> and sincere ; it has not l)een paid and do«>s not exp«"''t to be rewarded liy any prize or honour : It Is pure of all spo<-ulation u|ioii the name of that noble and vpneral)li' woman. It Is simply tlie wish of a trui- Canadian and a true British s •lect, an the fuuda- ni«nt«l principle of t^nadlan uutoaomy. siiil re- tUBlng to admit that tkr Intervention nt Canuda In South Africa haa couimltted thH country to any future participation In thf wars and policy of Great Britain. This House tbinks that thi> contrihutlun of Canada In tb« South Afrlran war. both In armed help and public expenditure entitles the Canadian people to express an opinion on the matter. This House, therefore, humbly reminds His Majesty, King Edward VII.. that cbe glorious reign of his august mother. Queen Victoria, whi »t> memory shall ever b • cherUhiMl by Canadians of .'.I origins and creeds, was Inaug- urated In blcidshed ard n'belll.iu in this part of her dominions ; that peace and prosperity ♦I'ere sulwoquenlly restored for evor when Her Majesty's advisers understoo?nt will en- deavour to conclude in South Africa an honour- able peaco founded upon tho law of nations which gusranteeij independence to all civilized peop?a» and ■•-• t the true British traditions of respect tc -'al and religious convictions and to tl colonial autonomy. I This H i.er declares that there Is no I necessity . »,« ing any more Canadian troops 'to South Atuc*. and that the enlistment of re- ■ emits for the South African constabulary should not be allowed to take place in Canada, '1 4 ^^