old people to wander in loneliness and die; who in her raids upon England
slaughtered three hundred and forty-two women, and killed or injured
seven hundred and fifty-seven children, and made in all a list of four
thousand five hundred and sixty-eight, bombed by her airmen; whose
trained nurses met our wounded and captured men at the railroad trains
and held out cups of water for them to see, and then poured them on the
ground or spat in them.

Disagreeable England!--whose colonies rushed to help her: Canada, who
within eight weeks after war had been declared, came with a voluntary
army of thirty-three thousand men; who stood her ground against that
first meeting with the poison gas and saved not only the day, but
possibly the whole cause; who by 1917 had sent over four hundred thousand
men to help disagreeable England; who gave her wealth, her food, her
substance; who poured every symbol of aid and love into disagreeable
England's lap to help her beat agreeable Germany. Thus did all England's
colonies offer and bring both themselves and their resources, from the
smallest to the greatest; little Newfoundland, whose regiment gave such
heroic account of itself at Gallipoli; Australia who came with her
cruisers, and with also her armies to the West Front and in South Africa;
New Zealand who came from the other side of the world with men and money-
-three million pounds in gift, not loan, from one million people. And
the Boers? The Boers, who latest of all, not twenty years before, had
been at war with England, and conquered by her, and then by her had been
given a Boer Government. What did the Boers do? In spite of the Kaiser's
telegram of sympathy, in spite of his plans and his hopes, they too, like
Canada and New Zealand and all the rest, sided of their own free will
with disagreeable England against agreeable Germany. They first stamped
out a German rebellion, instigated in their midst, and then these Boers
left their farms, and came to England's aid, and drove German power from