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Mr. Haultain was the Rosebery of Canada. Both 

 statesmen are endowed with most attractive qualities 

 of voice, both possess the power to see and the 

 courage to look round a question, and both seem 

 subject to the possession of the larger vision which 

 carries the man who dreams himself a party-politician 

 far past that particular degree of distinction which, 

 in the mind of mediocrity, bears the label of success ; 

 but here the resemblance seems to cease. Lord 

 Rosebery is a perfect and complete medium of 

 expression ; the inspiration of his thought not only 

 strikes home to the least complete and most languid 

 of its relations through his voice and his word, 

 but even through the newspaper columns of his 

 reported argument. Mr. Haultain has not this 

 gift ; one collects the evidence of his greatness 

 bit by bit in the development of the Prairie Pro- 

 vinces, in the lives as well as the hearts of his fellow 

 men, those whom, in the old pioneer days, he pulled 

 through hard times by sheer force of determined 

 thought and prompt action. One divines that, in 

 spite of unquestionable ease in speaking, with Mr. 

 Haultain expression lags behind thought, but one 

 feels that the British statesman might have thought 

 so much further had his power of expression been 

 less easily perfect. Lord Rosebery is great through 

 what he has said : Mr. Haultain is great through 

 what he has done. 



On the night of the Lipton meeting he talked 

 of the National School of Canada. An admirer who 

 seemed to be located very near the platform, and 

 to have drunk not wisely but too well, to the success 

 of the meeting, punctuated the speech frequently, 

 and a Httle informally, with the protest, " Say, 



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