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i x [A | yus 4;§§ us T3 2 9 2e i CA 34 3. â€" RON.A.J. BALFOUR AT UTTAW! «* SPEAKS T0 GCOMMONS & SEMATE gen e Hon. As J. Balfour, head of the British Commission to United States, visited Toronto on Friday last, where he was given an enthusiastic reception by 30,000 persons in Queens Park. He was given an honorary degree by the ‘University of Toronto and was enterâ€" tained at a civic luncheon at the King Edward Hotel. On each occasion he was heard with great pleasure. On Monday he attended a joint meeting of the House of Commons and Senate at Ottawa.. Addresses from the Comâ€" mons and Senate were read in French and English. When the distinguished statesman rose to speak he received a welcome such as has never before ‘been received by any man. At the conclusion of the address on motion of Sir Robert. Borden, seconded by Sir Wilfred Laurier, the full speech was ordered to be printed in hansard and io become a part of the records of the acountry. Mr. Balfour spoke as follows: "I do not believe that anything more unexpected to the outside world has ‘ ever occured than the enthusiastic selfâ€"sacrifice with which the great selfâ€"governing dominions of this Emâ€" pire have thrown themselves into this contest. The calculation of the ordinâ€" ary foreign politican, and especially of the German politican, was that the British Empire way but a fair weather éevice, very imposing in sheer magniâ€" tude, but quite unfitted to.deal with the storm and stress of war, and desâ€" _ tined, therefore, to crumple with the first attack, and, like the house built on the sand, fall with a great ruin. "I do not think that was so foolish a miscalculation or so obviously idiotic an one as some of those in which the German people have indulged. Those w}]xo do not know the inner spirit of the British Empire could not conceive a great state less wellâ€"fitted to deal with a world war. "The very fact that the sun never sets upon the British Empire may be a proof of its magnitude but is no evidence of its strength. Moreover remember what these foreign specuâ€" lators about the British Empire must have thought before the war began. They said to themselves, ‘this loosely compacted state resembies nothing that ever existed in history before; it is held together by no coercive power; the Government of the Mother Countâ€" ry cannot raise a corporal‘s guard in Canada, Australia, New Zealand or wherever you will; it cannot raise a shilling in the Dominions.‘ Only Common Ideal.s "It has noâ€" power," said Mr. Balfour, ‘"Except the power which a certain class of politicans never rememberâ€" the power of common affection, aims, ideas and ideals. (Loud applause.) "Even those of us who most thorâ€" oughly believed that the British Emâ€" pire is not only what it certainly isâ€" a new experiment in the long history of world Governments, even we who felt convinced that it was an experiâ€" ment which was going to succeedâ€" those who, like myself, took the sanâ€" guine view of the futureâ€"even we must have felt that so loosely was it knit, so vast were the areas it covered, so difficult did it seem that this immense body could be animated by one soul, and that the electric thrill of common necessity would go from end to end and from pole to pole, even we might well have been pardoned for not expecting such acpievement. DEMOGRAGIES STRONGER As a Result of Victory Which Will be Won Over Tyranâ€" nical System of Military Despotism. 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Weston and St. John‘s Road "The One Incomparable Musical Instrument" Eie ught whom she keeps under her grasp and dare not, if they would, carry out their â€" own policy in their own fashion. The | greatest of these powers is Austria, |and those of us who have access to information know that Austria is not working with Germany as we are j working with France or as the differâ€" | ent elements of the British Empire are working with each other. Germany ;has so contrived her dipilomacy, has | so arranged her material forces that Austria has not a will of her own and if she has is quite incapable of carryâ€" wing it out. l "What is true of Austria is true, 'With qualifications and differences, of ,the other allies fighting on the side | of Germany. It is true of Bulgaria and true of Turkey. And all of these \ are animated, not by a desire of legâ€" itimate selfâ€"defence, not by a desire for freedom, not by a determination ! to carry on, in common, any great | civilizing work; but, one and all, they aresmere pawns in the German game, moved as the German Government land the German military party deâ€" _sire. They are not permitted to have ideals of their own and pursue them for themselves, but they are all | dragged into this vortex of German ‘ampition, all designed in the first ! place to supply the forees by which the war may be won, and if the war is wonâ€"and I presume there may still be some in Germany who think it may be won by the Central Powersâ€" they will fall into their ordered places as satellites of that central Prussian sun, as subordinate powers, destined to minister to her greatness, her ecoâ€" nomic wealth and control over the ‘other nations. coâ€"ordinated democracies, each conâ€" scious of its own separate life, and conscious of its common life with the Empire, moved forward with a spirit of selfâ€"sacrifice in a task in which, not cnly was their own security, but the safety of the Empire, the progress of civilization and liberity itself, at stake. Bond of Central Powers. "It is interesting to compare the picture I have just endeavored imperâ€" fectly to draw of these British demoâ€" cracies working together each .under its own institutions, each according to its lights toward a common end, a common and unselfish endâ€"to comâ€" pare that with what is happening and has happehed in the Central powers of Europe. They also have many communities, independent or nominâ€" ally independent, all under an alliance working together â€" toward objects which they conceive to be in their own. interest. But how . different is the bond which united them. How differâ€" ent the ideals they pursue.. At this moment, if the stories which reach us from various sources have at least a germ of truth in them,« you have Germany fighting for her own selfish interest encircled by a set of states whom she has brought under her conâ€" trol, who love her not, whose interests, are really not identical with hers, but "That," continued Mr. Balfour, "is the idea of the Central powers, and it is because the world has begun to discover that that is their idea, beâ€" inpu en Revsntes ce en dec. es eere ns o ie( eause the world now knows that the war was deliberately arranged by the Military party of Germany, that the provocation which was the nominal excuse for war was itself deliberately contrived, that the moment was careâ€" fully chesen. It is because the world has »discovered that, that: wherever you find a free democracy, wherever you find the spirit of freedom, wherever you find the spirit of selfâ€" development on national lines, there you will find friends of the allies, and there you will find enemies of the Central Powers, And ever more clearly as the months go on it beâ€" comes evident that this has become a world war between the powers ‘of democracy on the one side and the powers of autocracy on the other side. "And we are convinced that for huâ€" man beings who have reached the stage of civilization and development that has been reached by the great Western communities there is but one form of government, by â€" whatever name it may be called, and that is the government in which the ultimate control lies Witk‘v‘ the people of the country." (Applause). or who has looked with impartial eyes upon the present, for a moment deâ€" ceives himself with the idea that demâ€" ocracy is an easy form of government. Gentlemen, it is the only form of govâ€" ernment, but it is not an easy form of government. It has unsolved diffiâ€" culties. It has always had themâ€" and always will have them, and I am not sure that, for some races, they can ever be surmounted. But that these difficulties the races that represent western civilization not only can overâ€" come, but have largely overcome alâ€" ready, I think, is sure. Do not let us imagine that the task, however successfully it may have ‘been accomâ€" plished up to the present time, is one thai does not require our constant efâ€" forts. / to any great object. That could be done far more easily by a military autocracy, and, I think, in appearance, but only in appearance, effectively. But when democracy ceally takes the task in hand I hold the faith‘ most firimly that it will beat all the autoâ€" cracies in the world. "I am addressing a body of responâ€" sible statesmen who know how our institutions are ordinarily worked, who get their knowledge not from books but from experience, and they are the best audience in the world to deal with subjects which may seem almost too abstract for discussion on an occaâ€" sion iike this. 4 "I have seen the democ'racy of the Homeland at work since the beginning ef the war; I have had the opportuniâ€" ty of seeing on this continent another great democracy girding itself for the greatâ€"struggle for which it is now fiâ€" nally committed, and I now have the inestimable privilege of greeting this gathering of my countrymen in this greatest of our selfâ€"governed Imperâ€" ial elements. _ "After all when German militarists said that the democracy was not capâ€" aple’(-r.‘ vigorous coâ€"ordinated effort, they made a serious blundgr, but one which may be excused. They realized how hard has been f(;und the task of managing a sreat community of free men and directing all their energies and all their sacrifices at any moment ‘"We have staked our last dollar on democracy and if democracy fail us then we are bankrupt indeed. But I know that ‘democracy will not fail us." he declared amid a renewed burst of applause. ‘"I do not think anybody who has studied historyâ€"in the past, Must Have Parties "We cannot have a democracy withâ€" cut parties, because parties are after all but the organization of differences of opinion. The paradox is how this normal and healthy habit is to be got over in moments of important nationâ€" al crisis when the efforts of every secâ€" tion, every party, must be subordinatâ€" ed to one purpose. "And, having had these advantages I am deeply impressed with the power of democracy to overcome the diffiâ€" culties of which I speak. If those difâ€" ficulties exist, if they seem at any givâ€" en moment hard to overcome, do not for a moment let your faith fail you. (Loud dpplause). Representatives of British System ‘‘You are worthy representatives of those principles of constitutional freeâ€" dom which in their modern developâ€" ments are the invention of the British race, and which the British race has on the whole known how to practice at least as successfully as any other race in the world? "The message which you have askâ€" ed me to convey to the Motherland, the message that Canada is with the allies to a final and triumphant end, I shall certainly give, and in the truth of that message I firmly believe. I know that out of this struggle the democracies, whether of the old world or new, whether they ‘belong to the British Empire or whether they are outside if, whether they speak the Enegelish language or whether they speak some of the other languages of free nations, will come not merely triumphant in a military sense, not merely conquerors where victory is csâ€" sential ‘to civilization, but that, they will come out of it strengthened in their own inner life, more firmly conâ€" vinced than ever that true freedom is the only path to national greatness, and with the lesson fully learned that whatever be the dangers and difficulâ€" ties in point to democratic constituâ€" tions, patriotism will always overcome them, and that the strength which arises from. having the consent and support of a free people is greater than all the strength which can be given by the most elaborate and tyâ€" rannical system of military despotism. ‘I shall carry back from this meetâ€" ing the message that has been enâ€" trusted me, and I shall do more; I shall be able, I hope, however imperâ€" fectly, to convey to my friends in the Motherland that the spirit which aniâ€" mates their children here is not less ardent, not less resolute, not less firmâ€" ly devoted to final victory than that which animates themselves." (Proâ€" longed cheers). sUMMER CAMPS FOR CHILDREN Fresno, California, has secured the use of 15 acres on the shores of Hunâ€" tington Lake inâ€" the Sierra National Forest on which to establish a camp to provide summer outings for 11,000 school children and their parents. Los Angles was the first city in Caliâ€" fornia to establish a vacation camp in the national forests. Ajtract of land was rented and a large camp built, costing about $8,000 and consisted of a large log and stone lodge, 46 furâ€" nished cottages, tennis and croquet courts, baseball grounds and handâ€" bill courts.. Ten day excursions are run and thousands of city residents have been able to spend their vacaâ€" tions in the mountains. But One Form of Government WESTON CAMPAIGN DATES We ask your help and coâ€"operation. 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