nostrums of millennial doctors who think the plough-handles are a sign
manual of a new efficiency in government. We all know what is
happening to Russia. I'll be perfectly frank, and say that I fear this
young nation may be induced to scrap experience for experiment--which
above all times would at present be the inauguration of an economic
system for which the nation is not prepared, for which it has not been
educated, and because of which it cannot afford to take for its
education the bitter experience which too often succeeds glittering
experiment. What the world needs to-day is economic justice, not
economic revolution. No nation in the world has a better chance than
Canada for sound economic justice to all that makes her the world's
young leading democracy. But economics isn't everything. Good-night."

THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN PREMIER

RT. HON. SIR ROBERT BORDEN

Here is a modest, honourable man who saw his duty to the nation and the
emergency never more clearly than he knew his own defects. Canada
never before had a mediocrity of such eminence; a man who without a
spark of genius devoted a high talent to a nation's work so well that
he just about wins a niche in our Valhalla--if we have one. It was the
war that almost finished Borden; and it was the war that made him.

Canada has been governed by strategy, imagination, and common sense.
We have had Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden. The first finished his
work, the second wanted to, and the third had finished his work two
years before he resigned office.

Sir Robert Borden was the only man in the world Premier both when the
war began and when it ended. Of all Premiers of Canada he was the
least like a Canadian, and he achieved European fame with less title to
personal greatness than either Laurier or Macdonald. For the crowd
there never was an inspired moment in Sir Robert's life, nor ever one
when he did not try to do his whole duty. He never interested the
people and did not always hold the profound allegiance of his party.
Yet there never was a public man in Canada to whom the average
politician would as soon take off his hat in absolute respect for his
moral purpose, integrity, fair-mindedness and sense of honour. There
was enough morality wasted in the equipment of R. L. Borden to have
supplied the lack of it in some of his heterogeneous followers. But it
was morality that he could not transmit except by silent influence.

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