An Address Delivered by E. M. MacDonald, M. P., at Chicago, November 30, 1915 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered by E. M. Macdonald, M. P., At Chicago, November 30, 1915That. My friends. Was the feeling which animated your great nation when your men fought and died to save the Union. And that is the feeling -which is animating the young Can adlan boys today, they are going out because they believe that that free ('om which i have outlined to you. Those rights that we enjoy. Would be imperilled if Germany succeeded in this great contest. That is why. My friends. The Mayor's boys and my boy have gone on: they owe no tribute to any man, if anybody would tell them to go it would be my friends. The mayor. Or myself. But 1 want to say to you it was a matter of the greatest possible pride to us when our sons said they wanted to go because they thought that we were right and they thought that right should win. And so it is just as you sang in this south ern land fifty years ago. We are coming. Father Abraham. Three hun dred thousand strong. So we Can adians today say. We are going to the aid of the old land. We are going three hundred thousand strong. And we will be there in the day of victory.I have ventured to dwell on this subject because i felt that speaking as a representative of the Canadian people here in this great center of your country. It is but right that you should know something of the aspirations. Something of the feel ings which dominate the people in that great nation to the north. I re member that in the olden days we were spoken of as a colony, the daysof colony status have long gone, under the process of constitutional de velopment which came in the Vic torian Bra. The status which Canada enjoys: today in the empire is not that of a colony. But is dust of a dominion in an empire. Sharing in equal rights and privileges along with Anstralia. South Africa. And the mother land it self. All those rights and privileges which go to make up a combination which forms the empire of which we src inst as much a part as are the islands of Great Britain and ireland. From which our forefathers came.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.