by Germany, over there. What would happen to French Canada? Do
you think you could stand alone then, to defend your home and your
church? Are you big enough, you French-Canadians?"

"M'sieu', I have never thought of that. Perhaps we have more than
a million people--many of them children, for you understand we
French-Canadians have large families--but of course the children
could not fight. Still, we should not like to have them subject to
a German Emperor. We would fight against that, if the war came to
us here on our own soil."

"But don't you see that the only way to keep it from coming
to you on your own soil is to fight against it over there? Hasn't
the English Government given you all your liberties, for home and
church?"

"Yes, M'sieu', especially since Sir Wilfred Laurier. Ah, that is
a great man! A true French-Canadian!"

"Well, then, you know that he is against Germany. You know he
believes the freedom of Canada depends on the defeat of Germany,
over there, on the other side of the sea. You would not like a
German Canada, would you?"

"Not at all, M'sieu', that would be intolerable. But I have never
thought of that."

"Well, think of it now, will you? And tell your priest to think of
it, too. He is a Christian. The things we are fighting for belong
to Christianity--justice, liberty, humanity. Tell him that, and tell