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be proud of the institutions you yourselves have 

 trained with due regard to your local needs and 

 requirements, and when the slender tie which still 

 binds you to the Mother Country, and which, like the 

 electric cable, exerts no force or pressure, yet still 

 maintains unity of sympathy and of interest — when 

 that becomes an intolerable strain to you, then it will 

 be time for us to consider necessary measures of 

 relief. (Cheers.) In the meantime I cannot but 

 think that, in the working out of the great problem 

 of federal government, which seems to have been 

 left in charge of the English people, we shall the 

 quicker teach the perfection of our free institutions 

 by diversity of methods, and that these will be more 

 fertile and sturdy than if modelled upon a general 

 view of a single and stereotyped form. Rest assured, 

 if you desire to remain an integral part of the vast 

 Empire of the Queen, your interests will be main- 

 tained, your rights will be respected with all the 

 influence which that Empire can wield. (Cheers.) 

 Your fellow-subjects throughout the world will 

 rejoice in your prosperity and take pride in your 

 ceaseless activity and look forward with confidence 

 to the steady development of your illimitable re- 

 sources. It is only a short time in the history of 

 nations since Confederation. Less than a generation 

 has passed away, and yet a new Canada has been 

 revealed to us. (Applause.) Not the ice-bound 

 desolation which imperfect information formerly 

 pictured, but a vast stretch of fertile territory which 

 assures homes for a teeming population of God-fear- 

 ing and industrious men and women at no distant 



