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are to make pecuniary sacrifices for the Empire.
Their point of view is for the most part an extremely
 rough and ready military one, and no one
therefore is worse qualified than they to deal with
the difficult and delicate problems which must
arise from difference of race and divergence of
interest. Their views are shared by a certain
number of men who, although not themselves
United Empire Loyalists, yet sympathise and form
the remainder of this small body. They, too, are
willing to experiment with the policy at whatever
the cost, and they give as the reason of their faith
the inherent grandeur of the scheme rather than
any specific advantage to be gained from it.

3. THE LABOUR PARTY.

Labour cannot be said to be organised in Canada
0 anything like the extent that it is in either the
United States or Great Britain. There are, however,
 two organisations, the larger of which, the
Dominion Trade and Labour Union, is the more
important. Labour flows freely to and fro across
the frontier, the conditions are identical, and
organised labour has the same aims and objects
on both sides of it. It is not surprising therefore
to find that this Labour Union is attached to the
labour organisations of the United States for the
purposes of obtaining similar conditions and wages,
but the national antagonism existing between the
two countries absolutely prevents the United States
organisation from exerting any political influence