a political and religious belief were bound to build of such belief
foundation for a sturdy nation of the future. It is easy to look back
and realize. It is hard to look forward with eyes that see; but one
must be a very opaque thinker, indeed, not to wonder what this latest
vast migration of Saxon blood portends for future empire. The Jutes
and Angles and Saxons poured into ancient Albion for just one
reason--to acquire each for his own freehold of land. Look at the
ancient words! Freehold of land! For what else have a million and a
half British born come to the free homesteads of Canada? For freehold
of land--land unoppressed by taxes for war lords; land unoppressed by
tithes for landlord; land absolutely free to the worker. That such a
migration should break in waves over Canadian life and leave it
untouched, uninfluenced, unswerved, is as inconceivable as that the
Jutes and Angles and Saxons could have settled in ancient Albion and
not made it their own.


II

For years Canada was regarded chiefly in England as a dumping ground
for slums. "You have broken your mother's heart," thundered an English
magistrate to a young culprit. "You have sent your father in sorrow to
the grave. Why--I ask you--do you not go to Canada?" That such
material did not offer the best fiber for the making of a nation in
Canada did not dawn on this insular magisterial dignitary; and the
sentiments uttered were reflected in the activities of countless
philanthropies that seemed to think the porcine could be transmogrified
into the human by a simple transfer from the pig-sty of their own vices
and failure to the free untrammeled life of a colony. Fortunately
Canada has a climate that kills men who won't work. Men must stand on