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try, for soldiers. shop windows were
, full of uniforms. guns. automatic p.s-
tots ana travelling cases. But IN all
my stay in Canada | heard but once the
, tune OF "T!pperary," and that was
, when dapper. callow youth, who
looked as though he would not 20 to war
! until Lord Kitchener should come and
pun him ont from under the bed de-
manded "T!pperary" of the orchestra at
! the RitZ-Carton Hotel In Montreal
II was at tea time. The young man
and his companions set down their cups
and applauded Violently. by far the
larger portion of the tea time crowd,
/ however. sat sun after the piece had
been played. showing In then. attitudes
and In their fares signs Of cold dis
approval.
IL was then. somehow, that | seemed
4 to begin TO catch the present point
| Of view uf Canada. Those people would
have thrilled at hearing "Tlpperary"
played by It band as Il marching tune
/ for men, but 20 hear /. lifted off by
a hotel orchestra at the request OF
/ young fop, 10 hear &c applauded 10y
hands too soft To hold gun--that OUT
! ragged their senslbities II s!Ck-ned
/ them in the same way Conly more) that
! il sickens some Americans TO hear
! 'DiH!e' cheesed by half drunken
( crowd in a Broadway cabaret.
There is very little OF the cheap lingo
spirit. Canada IL past the cheering
point, she is too deeply stirred to enjoy
superficial demonstrs tons. That gay
popular tune which. by mare 90. moi
I a. = 81
has come TO mean 50 much more than
the sum of its words and music sounds
in the ears OF the British Empire as a
sort Of anthem. Instead OF making
people cheer and clap their hands. Il
makes them think OF men on battle
fields far away.
The several hotel orchestras 7 heard
in Canada seemed 20 avoid patriotic
tunes. Not until returned to New York
did IL occur to me that | had heard no
brass bands. 7 had been where war
preparations were at their height: /
had seen men drilling for war; yet
had not heard so much az a bugle drum
or fise.
My attention was directed to this fact
by the sound OF martial music on Broad
| way. | fastened to the corner, and
pushing through the LITTLE fringe OF
people at the curb, bcheld ranks of
marching men arrdyed in the snowy
white of peace. The street cleaners were
on parade-the infantry ~ the brush
and dirt pan, the artillery of the dump
cart, were passing like victorious SOL
dlers over the pavement which IL the
field OF their daily battle against dung
and dust. Fresh from Canada with my
mind full of war, the picture struck me
as supremely grotesque.
What are they marching ror?" 7
asked hystander
lie didn't know Noh.dy seemed TO
know. Suddenly, in my minds eve. |
saw the Champ de Mars in Montreal
and the raw recruits drilling there in the
cold. and thought to myself: "It is a
good thing to live in a land where, when
you see ranks OF men in line behind a
band, you may smile and ask: What
are they marching for?'"
Early in August, when the other ma
lions had already declared war and the
, / attitude OF Great Britain was still in
some slight doubt, there was no lack OF
agitation in Canada. The streets in
front OF tho newspaper offices were
packed from morning until midnight
|, With the news that Great Britain would
uneXampled outburst OF enthusiasm Es-
pecially in Toronto. which Is a more
, mercurial city than Montreal or Quebec
, there was singing in the streets, and
bandsmen were routed out of bed to fur
nish music for Spontaneous might street
parades
Mlltarists and pacfcists alike were
united for the war. Party lines were
, obhterated. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. former
Prime Minister and leader of the Oppo-
sitlon in the Dominion Parliament, who
, at the imperial conference OF 1911 advo
Gated the doctrine OF colonial neutrality
, declaring that Canada would not neces-
sarily consider herself bound to take
, part I'm wars in which Great Britain
I might become Involved, Immediately for
I got both his doctrine and his opposition
, throwing the weight of his influence
; to the uniting Of all factions in tho Gov
; eminent and offering TO raise men.
3 "In Canada" said Sir Wlfrid, there
= is but one mind"
a Parliament Immediately voted a pre-
0 liminary war credit of $50, 0000 900. The
Canadian Government made a gift IN
/, England of $4,000 900 pounds Of -four
land each individual province came
= forward with swift offers of supplies
l Ontario gave 100000 bags NJ hour:
r Manitoba, $4,000 bags; Quebec, 1000,
. 900 pounds OF cheese; New Brunswick
r 100000 bushels OF potatoes; SasSatc che
! wan, 1900 horses, valued at $3.50 900
, Alberta, 100000 bushels OF OATS Prince
I Edward Island. 100000 bushels of oats;
British Columbia, $4,000 cases Of
salmon: Nova Scotia, 100 600 tons of
= coal 1ater committed to CASH.
= In the uakne way 6ownh corDorati ans