a sample of Canada's contribution to the British forces 



One might recall, again, how its scheme 

 for insuring cargoes and hulls gave in- 

 stant confidence to the shipping world 

 and went far toward maintaining that 

 regularity of our food supplies which so 

 far has been one of the wonders of the 

 war. 



One might recall, too, how it bought 

 up some $90,000,000 worth of sugar and 

 succeeded for a long while in keeping 

 that essential commodity cheaper in Eng- 

 land, which has to import it, than in Ger- 

 many, which produces it. 



Similarly, it got a not less effective con- 

 trol of the refrigerated meat trade ; it 

 made enormous purchases of wheat and 

 oats without any one, even in the Chicago 

 pit, suspecting that the British Govern- 

 ment was the buyer ; it bought up the 

 whole of the Norwegian fish supply ; it 

 has regulated the price of coal ; it has 

 overridden not less successfully the ordi- 

 nary laws of supply and demand in the 

 case of wool, flax, and jute, to the im- 

 mense benefit of the State, of the textile 

 trades, and of our Allies. 



It is now, under Mr. Lloyd-George's 



leadership, branching out into a far more 

 minute scheme for controlling the pro- 

 duction and distribution of the food of 

 the entire country. It is taking over the 

 shipping trade, the mining industry, and 

 most of the liquor trade. 



It is feeling its way toward a system 

 of compulsory civil service as a comple- 

 ment to compulsory military service, so 

 that every man not wanted in the army — 

 and every woman, too — may be set to 

 work where his or her labor can be most 

 useful to the State. 



There is not the smallest doubt that it 

 will prove as efficient in these as it has 

 in all its other business enterprises — as it 

 proved, for instance, in devising and in 

 inducing Holland, Norway, and Denmark 

 to accept its plan for rationing those 

 countries more or less in accordance with 

 their ante-bellum needs ; and as it also 

 proved in the very complicated arrange- 

 ments that have to be made with the cot- 

 ton, metal, and textile trades in the 

 United States. 



Even our press censorship, for all its 

 stupidities in the opening months of the 



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