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5 most tremendous question in Canada's history, is to be Jigs Qur_ answer involves Canada's honour, her freedom and her future. Old-time party questions are being advanced to obscure the gravest 'issue ever placed before a nation. Canada is in real danger. The clouds that obscure her vision must be brushed aside so that the great issue stands forth clear and distinct. «Is a United Quebec to Rule All Canada?" To-day, in our nati crisis, Quebec alone among all the public meetings throughout that Province. The Unionist minority provinces stands more united than ever before. She knows what in Quebec are the victims of organized obstruction. . she wants: . : - To be successful in her determination to rule all Canada, 1) Withdrawal from the war. Quebec has but to secure a few seats in cach of the other Provinces. 3 'Bilingual schools everywhere. ; Quebec leaders now seek to divide the rest of Canada into factions " (3) Weakening of the ties of British connection. by insidiously bringing into political discussion old-time party ques- (4) Political control of Canada. tions, to divert the public mind from Quebec, her purpose and her From the Ottawa River to Labrador and the Gulf, a com- ambitions. mon purpose actuates Quebec in her determination to profit United in her determination to quit the war, Quebec would By the factional divisions of Canada and to impose her will upon 'compel a divided Canada to do likewise. By union only can the all the people of Canada. ; English-speaking people prevent this c~lamity. Within the last few weeks, Quebec has mobilized all her However well-meaning Laurier ¢ -didates in Ontario may forces to dominate Canada under the unified leadership ot Boufasea be, they will be helpless against a united Quebec. and Laurier. Canada knows that these two men in their earlier - s . Si . days were personal friends and political associates. Canada knows : Wr Oe ot hw small Taglish spanking how in recent times they gradually drew apart--until in 1911 POpUa LIOR: DA Red: Lross, has, jaled tae : 4 Laur y 4 hel Bri out his defeat. at Patriotic Fund, has failed in recruiting and has failed in the Bourse Sppose : Brier an Je ped 10 rc Sa 33 Victory Loan. Dare we trust our soldiers, their wives, their e polls. nada ny we t - 2 ils 9 idoned until children, their pensions and their allowances to Quebec, that will weeks ap the on a Hp t - Sten ie wo f hf neither give, enlist 'nor invest, and which will resist taxation for 3ad.hath ps 4 his de dy ea 2 3 So Sa ° ; the support of our men and their dependents? Should not the people of Canada ask themselves, before it is Canada must decide whether she will become a deserter too late, why these two men have suddenly agreed to bury the past, and quit with Russia, or fight to the end for liberty with Belgium. * why this sudden embrace each of the other? If we will but let the This decision must not be dictated by the only Province which ey drop from our eyes the answer is obvious. The all-compelling has shirked its obligations throughout the war. influences of Quebec have combined to fouce the pion of Laupier All Canada knows that Germany has been working through and Bourassa in the. common purpose ¢ agents, spies and bribes in every country in the world. The latest ination. evidences are the revelations recently made to the world by Presi- We concede the right of French Canadians to make com- dent Wilson. Do we Canadians think the Kaiser has overlooked mon cause of anything they think it is in their interests so to do. Canada? If we do, what a fool's paradise! : "This is a free country. But as the French Canadians have already combined to assert their views, it is the duty of the hour that we 3 ofish speaking Canadians get together and present to Quebec a united front in the defence of our rights. This is imperative. With sixty solid seats Quebec is about to accomplish V7 HOBBY Iv FEHB I VIE - BEFFFFISFEIEE. \ benefits by division among her enemies. Upon ey : or whom would she look in Canada as furthering her designs? Not ~~ her designs. Bourassa, the real master and idol of Quebec, is in Sir Robert Borden, Mr. Rowell and their colleagues in the Union sight of his goal 4 0 Government. That is certain. But can the same' be said with To attain her purpose, Quebec has not scrupled to ignore respect to the leaders'in the Province of Quebec whose attitude British traditions and to suppress freedom of speech. So thor- in this war is against Canada's continuation in 'the war. We onghly organized is her campaign to prevent even the discussion regret to be compelled to say these things, but we must not shut of the war that Unionist candidates are prevented from holding our eyes to facts. The Citizens' Union Committee, anxious for the maintenance of British ideals and traditions, wHeE 3 5 BR By R R Ry IS Ba IS R 2 R BR g. 5 'with alarm the menace of French-Canadian domination with its inevitable influence a i yon the home, the school and the state. : e. therefore, -all upon all English-speaking men and women to realize that--Canada, +d by political factions d old-time party questions, is at the mercy of a united Quebec. nent alone can save Canada from the menace of French-Canadian domination. ~The Citizens' Union Committee 5 A Noo-Pastisan War-Time Organisation to Support Uion Goverment . x