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pledges and who ascended to its platform 

 •up the steps of pyrophorus oratory that fills 

 to the brim the gullibility and credulity of the 

 masses ? Or, are the " We " the sentimentalists who 

 would give self-government to subject races, whose 

 line of evolution demonstrates their incapacity to suc- 

 cessfully perform the responsibilities attaching to it ? 

 Or, are they the people who are demanding that in 

 the National Elementary Schools we shall have an 

 army of " State nurses to bind up cut fingers " ?■•• 

 If these are the people involved in the " We," let 

 us infinitely sooner go back to a Nature that would 

 eliminate every Anglo-Saxon and Teuton to-morrow, 

 than we should any longer disgrace our manhood 

 by crying aloud for help because a few school 

 children of the " People " have cut their fingers ! 

 Is this the type of selection which the " We " are 

 going to adopt for the citizens of a nation whose 

 forefathers won on bloody battlefields, ice-bound 

 coasts and dense tropical jungles, at the cost of 

 cleaved heads, battered limbs, and disentrailed 

 bodies ; who crossed the arid deserts and reached 

 the verdant slopes and plains beyond ; and who 

 have made an Empire on which the sun never rises 

 because it " never sets " ? 



* In view of the agitation for the enfranchisement of women, it may not 

 be amiss to state tliat this demand was made by a woman. Also that at 

 a Suffragist meeting on Wimbledon Common not long ago, another feminine 

 advocate demanded that the State should i^rovide flannel " which was 

 expensive " for the children of the poor, because flannelette was inflam- 

 mable, and would easily catch fire when mothers left their children alone 

 in a room with a fire while they went out. presumably to the beer shop. 



