The Red Watch

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ill throw in her lot with the United States," so laughingly spoke an Am

u will hear the drums beating and see recruits foregat

have difficulti

dian. They marry young and may be a trifle slow in volunteering on that account. It requires a great effort for a man to tear himself awa

pend on the Monro

just the same as you do. We are going to

Canada is going to take a

tain

y ever thoug

rican colonies, Turgot, the great French economist, coined a phrase which has been accepted by the chancelle

nd the Colonies had grown in wealth and population to such an extent that they were ready to drop from the parent stem if ever they would do so. Would Great Britain risk civil war at home and the loss of her Colonies abroad in order to vindicate her

y much on what we would call Imperial lines. The Navigation Laws of Cromwell gave her virtually c

despot. Such was not the case. The constitutions of the American Provinces were most democratic, more so than many colonial constitutions of to-day. All the provinces in America possessed a parliament elected by the people, and three of them, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, elected an upper House or Senate. Rhode Island and Connecticut elected their own Governors, and these two provinces, along with Maryland, could enact la

it that in a decade the Empire was shattered and the major portion of the Colonies were busy building u

ble for this gre

some in

old Colon

petty paris

sition of a bit of landscape from barbarism to civilization, the hunter giving way to the shepherd, the herder to the farmer, cities and towns springing up over night with factories and banking established in a few months, seldom arrives at the same political conclusion as the theorist who tries to conjure up the genesis of political econo

er political union between the Colonies and the mother country; in fact, he outlined an Imperial constitution. He pointed out that there had always existed two lines of thought among English-speaking people. One

ford Darling,

on, or into an even greater union such as he was pressed then to do

ing carried on in Germany, and the Colonies were f

ern Germany cherished the delusion

ial policy from the policy of Pitt. The navigation laws had been repealed, prot

nklin and Hamilton, and through their efforts a political union of the Colonies was accomplished. It took the better part of ten years to do this. It was part of the policy of reconstruction. Later on, the Colonies in Canada followed suit. They united under a constitution which, at the same time, guaranteed the autonomy of the provinces within and solidarity in e

e, not the harness, that pulls the load. The Imperial harness is an aggregation of shreds and patches, not yet even a conception, bu

on sown in various parts of the

not used the Irish right, but we will forget that for the moment, for we will n

e. There is the record of India, Canada, of Egypt and of South Africa to point to. No person unless steeped to the eye-brows in pro-Germanism can, in the face of that record, assert that Great Britain ever used her military power to oppress the weak, or tyrannize over the people she, of necessity, had to conquer. Why then should Britain be asked to disarm and turn over the business of maintaining the world's peace to the Hun and the Turk? To preach anti-militarism to a British people is to insult their intelligence. Britain alone of all nations has brought peace with he

the best policeman is the man who wea