22 CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

population at home. Outdoor relief is not wanted
by the Canadian farmer at the expense of the
British taxpayer, and his loyalty can only be
acquired by an appeal to his pride and his honour,
and not by an appeal to his pocket and his
industry.
Even when a tardy attempt is made to point out
that England will receive something in exchange,
he replies that whoever pays it will not be he. So
far as he is concerned (dissociating himself from
the manufacturing East), it is an attempt to purchase
 his loyalty and an insult to a respectable
industry. He refuses to contemplate being asked
to buy what he wants except in the cheapest and
best markets.
This is a perfectly reasonable attitude adopted
by the intended beneficiary, and it is markedly
different from the attitude of the politician or the
loud-voiced and of course disinterested manufacturer,

The French Canadians in 1go1 numbered
1,659,352 in a population of 5,371,315, and the
majority live together and dominate a large part
of Eastern Canada. They support the Liberal
Government mainly because of their unbounded
faith in Sir W. Laurier. They value the British
connection because it has given them freedom,
peace, the best of order and the best of law. It
has guaranteed to them their nationality, their
religion and their language, and they are grateful.
But they value their independence as Canadians so