in the United States and Canada, governor of 

 universities, writer, traveller, lecturer and author. 

 His speech was both humorous and inform- 

 ative, as the following extracts will indicate: 



"Now, what I want to say to you Canadian men is 

 this. You have an immense empty country to fill up. 

 Now that the war is over you have found what resources 

 of manhood you have. You want to get rich quick and 

 grow up to a great population, a great populous country. 

 Gentlemen, for God's sake, go slow; go slow. What a 

 great calamity it would be when some national crisis falls 

 on this dear land if you find that all your people are not 

 of one mind and one spirit if you have not got one soul in 

 every part of this nation ! Go slow. You had better 

 improve the quality of your labor than increase its quan- 

 tity. It is better to have one thoroughbred than a hun- 

 dred mongrels. Pick your immigrants; pick them at the 

 source, pick men and women of character, industry and 

 thrift, men and women who are of your mind and of your 

 ideals, and don't permit an influx of those lunatics who 

 believe, for instance, that Lenine has ushered in the reign 

 of God. 



"Only have men and women come who are capable, 

 first of all of standing the winters, and secondly of becom- 

 ing Canadians. 



"A great movement has set in in the United States in 

 this respect. The thing I am anxious to see is this: to 

 have Canada take something out of the experience of the 

 United States. We are about one generation ahead of 

 you. When we had great quantities of empty land we 

 thought we could absorb any amount of alien peoples, 

 whether of American ideals or not, and that land was a 

 great deodorizer and developer of national spirit. 



Industry Chief Argument of Civilization 



"You have great quantities of the best land in the 

 world still available, and to that extent you can take care 

 of a huge immigration; but, gentlemen, as we are passing 

 from agricultural domination to industrial domination, 

 don't flood your cities with slums and half-nourished men 

 and women. 



"When the United States had three million people 

 she had more great men in literature, art, science, religion, 

 and, especially, politics than she has to-day with a hundred 

 and three million people. Greatness has no relation to 

 physical magnitude; it is the soul, the spirit of the individ- 

 ual, his moral resources; and surely Canada can measure 

 with any nation on these ideals. 



"Now I come to the close of what I have to say. 

 At different periods in the world's history, civilization 

 chooses some one great organ for its development. There 

 was a time when war was the chief instrument, when the 

 Roman Eagle carried Roman civilization through the then 

 world. In the Middle Ages religion was the sole argu- 

 ment. In the last century science was probably the chief 

 burden-bearer. 



"We have come to a new age when Industry is the 

 chief argument of civilization. You have in this country 

 at the present time some remarkable conditions I don't 

 know whether you realize them or not: in 1914 the manu- 

 factured output of this country amounted to thirteen per 

 cent., and the agricultural output fifty-seven per cent. 

 In 1919, five years later, your manufactured exports 

 amounted to forty-five per cent, and your agricultural 

 exports to twenty-two per cent. In these five years 

 Canada changed from an agricultural to an industrial 

 civilization, and it is the same in the United States.* 



"Note Dr. Eaton's figures regarding the value of agricultural 

 and manufactured exports for the year 1914 are correct, as are his 

 figures for manufactured e'cports for 1919; but in figuring the total 

 agricultural exports for this latter year, he apparently failed to take 

 into account the value of "animals and their produce." as he did in 

 compiling the 1914 figures. Including them, the percentage of total 

 agricultural exports for 1919 should be 44%, not 22% as stated in his 

 article. There is no doubt that the showing made by the manufactur- 

 ing industries during the period 1914-1919 was due to war conditions 



"What are we going to do with our Industry, or it 

 with us ? Well, I am thoroughly convinced that we can 

 make industry a servant of civilization if we put into it 

 some brains, character and wisdom, the same as we have 

 put into our other occupations in days gone by, but we 

 must remember that unless we take hold of the problem 

 and give the best in us to it, it will get away from us. 



Great Wealth per Capita 



"You have no idea how large Canada is. I come here 

 occasionally, and people say, 'You come from a rich 

 country.' Nothing doing; this is the richest country in 

 the world. You have a national wealth of over sixteen 

 billion dollars. You have an annual income of two and 

 a half billions. Your agriculture will produce this year 

 over two billion dollars. You have the greatest wealth 

 per capita of any nation in the world. Do you realize 

 that you have the greatest undeveloped resources of any 

 nation ? Canada, since her birth, has done more with her 

 population, as compared with others, than any nation has 

 ever done since the dawn of time. You have the 

 greatest system of canals and interior waterways. 

 You have on'e of the best banking systems. You have the 

 most tremendous agricultural delevopment a similar 

 population ever got in sight of. You have developed a 

 commerce and an industry that is amazing, measured by 

 your population. The American throws out his chest 

 and waves his flag, but the Canadian is the man who can 

 do that and have something to stand on while he does it. 



"What I ask you Canadians to believe is that your 

 nation and the United States, side by side, have been 

 given by God Almighty the greatest heritage ever given 

 to a people and a great outstanding, forward-looking 

 civilization. 



"You here have come, as we have come, to the great 

 test. Now the question is, shall we turn our backs on the 

 ideal that has come to us from out of the Anglo-Saxon 

 civilization of a thousand years to take up something 

 else ? My answer is 'No, we must go on as God began us 

 three hundred years ago; we must go forward and develop 

 those great ideals.' 



"A nation cannot be autocratic in industry and demo- 

 cratic in politics; you must have one or the other. The 

 time has come to test out your democratic principles in 

 your schools, your churches, your banks, your industries. 

 I have no fear of freedom; I have only fear of slavery. I 

 have no fear of putting responsibility on men; I believe 

 that responsibility will develop their undeveloped resources 

 and set them free. I ask my fellow-citizens, here and in 

 the United States, to believe in their principles and turn 

 deaf ears to socialism and all other such isms and get down 

 to brass tacks and remember that you can get no result 

 without a cost equal to it; that you cannot get the result of 

 work unless you work; that you cannot work by proxy 

 you have to sweat. 



Canada, Second Best Customer of U.S. 



"Canada is the largest customer, next to Great 

 Britain, that the United States has; our ideals of civiliza- 

 tion are one. 



"We have our differences; there are always differences 

 in well-ordered families; we are very opinionative; we will 

 give up anything but our prejudices those we hold 

 sacred but we understand each other. Canada and the 

 United States have lived side by side for over a hundred 

 years in perfect amity, and we will continue to live so. 

 Not because there is not difference of opinion and clashing 

 of interest every day, but we have the same soul, the same 

 moral standard, and when we have fought the thing 

 through and come to a conclusion, we are good sports 

 enough to accept the decision and live up to it. 



" I am not saying this as a partisan or a politician, 

 but as an observer of the processes and objectives of 

 civilization. I believe it is the sacred duty of every man. 

 I believe it is the sacred duty of every man to go back to 

 his industry and make it the servant of this forward move- 

 ment which we call civilization. It is your duty to take 



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