New-York tribune., 1917-07-24

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"Suneruan,p NO French Canadian having one
of these names was credited as being part
Of the "habtant class" and has not been IN
cluded bv the Ottawa authorities IN the iis'
given above. when one judges by the inter
views given and the stories published IN thiS
country.
As | said before, the movement agains,
conscription is nationwide, and no amount
Of knocking Quebec will change the facIs'
The whole of the organized trades are
against it. Mr. J. T. Foster, president OF the
Trades and Labor Council, told the news
paners that he had received letters all the
wav from Victoria, B. c., TO Moncton, n. l.,
saving that the workingman simply VIII not
have conscription unless a referendum mas
sanctioned the act or a general elec.!on
has been resorted to, so as to permit the ex-
pression of the will of the people themselves
"The Toronto Globe" one OF the Few de-
cent organs in Ontario, daily publishes iet-
ters from readers who seem unanimous III
saying that the "French Canadians speak OUT
loud what everybody in the rest OF CANADA
/ thinks" THE Ottawa Citizen also prints
letters from correspondents in the same Veih'
one of whom, Mr.. J. Roger Chippendale,
closes thus: "The people of Canada ought at
! least to have the right to say if, yes or no,
more thousands Of it's citizens, and that Is all
+ that the people demand"
Other Directors to Conscription
| Mr.. A. Renesson, of Arnprior, Ont, Is for
! the conscription of wealth equally with the
| conscription Of men, and his stand on that
! point was the cause of a terrific howl from
| the profters by army contracts, among these
/ the famous Sir Herbert Ames, the imperiahst
Cesar of Canada, president, and so 1t is said'
/ the largest stockholder of the Ames-Holden-
/ McCready Shoe Manufacturing Company, a
company which has just lately published the
results of its operation for the year ending
April 80 last Little more need be said,
/ and. although Sir Herbert Ames wants the
man on the street to enlist or be conscript-
/ ed. he and his sort scream desperately when
the fatness of their pocketbook is threatened.
/ Hundreds of other prominent men all over
! Canada are on record being opposed to
the bill. To name a few, taken from the
English-speaking portion: The Hon. Sydney
Fisher, ex-minister; Senator Cloran. the
! Hon. w Pugsey, the Hon. W. G. Mitchell, R.
| C. Smith, X. c.; the Hon. J. J. Guerin, ex-
! Mayor of Montreal; Mr.. Devlin, member for
Wright County; ]. C. Walsh, K. c.; the
Hon. Sir Thomas White, Mr.. A. H. McCoig,
member for Kent, etc. Like their French
Canadian co-eitizens, they are stoutly against
conscription, great many of them claiming
that Canada at large, and Quebec in particu-
lar had done its full share for the empire
and humanity.
A Popular Demonstration
At a huge demonstration held in st. AIMS
/ Hall, Montreal, Tuesday July 3, 1917, the
! following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved That we, electors speaking the
English language, do associate ourselves with
our French speaking fellow citizens, as we'll
as with all liberty loving electors, in order to
protest against the arbitrary manner in
which legislation is being enacted at Ottawa
at the present time.
Resolved, That our allegiance to the King
and our patriotic love of country compel US
to manifest our feeling on matter of such
vital Importance to Canada, to every true
Canadian, as the passage of this bill entitled
military service bill
Resolved, That we consider that this bill
| is violation Of our rights and of our dear
! est liberty, as by it We are deprived of the
privilege of free men to pronounce our will
/ on a question of such moment to our country.
! "Be it resolved, in conclusion, That we con-
slider the government is ignoring the
will and the intentions of the Fathers of the
/ Confederation in placing upon the statute
/ books a law such as this without having
previously submitted the question for the ap-
proval of the electors of Canada
( Signed by En-. Devlin, Member for Wright
/ County; J. c. Walsh, X. c.. P. +. Lamarche,
etc, and presided over by the Hon. J. ].
| Guerin NJ. @. NJ. P.
| The Hon. Mr.. Graham, in the course of a
! remarkable speech in Parliament last week,
/ in which he strongly came out against con-
| scription, said among other things: "The sys-
| tenn of recruiting, which throughout Canada
! lacked all intelligent organization, even
worse in Quebec, where the campaign was in
! trusted to Methodist minister, who had no
knowledge of the French language. He adds
that even in Ontario, il the proper efforts
! had been made, the results would have been
/ % per cent better.
Correspondence between Sir Robert Borden
and General Sir Sam Hughes and a speech
I in the Canadian Parliament by the latter on
! July 6, last, established the fact that Sir
Thomas White, Minister of Finance, was Of
the opinion that Canada had done much
more than was expected, and that both he
and Sir Robert Borden thought it best to cur
tail recruiting. Sir Sam even added that in
the end of 1915 the Premier had spoken of
I completely stopping recruiting.
All of which goes to show that there is
something not uttered behind Sir Roberts
attitude in 1916 and the early part of 1917
and that of to-day The French element, per-
laps more so than their fellow citizens, when
confronted by conscrption imposed on the
country by a government without a mandate,
ask nothing more than that the cards be laid on
the table, and fatty refuse to be ordered about
in the well known Ontario "prussian" way.
On the other hand the recent events in all
parts of Canada prove plainly that the French
have only been pioneers in the policy of
fairness to all" IN insisting that the whole
population be consulted. as has been done in
Australia, and the measure voted down, as in
the latter country, without any portion of the
population being branded as slackers and
traitors, both of these countries being under
the impression that they have done their