who argued against himself and won at Three
Rivers might be able to put up a more convincing argument to Ottawa
Farmers than Lord Shaughnessy did to the Union Government when he
offered to amalgamate the C.P.R. with the Government roads providing
the management should be C.P.R. and the dividends guaranteed.

But of course this is a merely hypothetical argument. There may never
be a Farmer Administration in Ottawa. And if there ever should be, we
may trust to conservative and progressive old C.P.R. to do its share of
injecting a "sense of responsibility" into a Farmer Cabinet to help it
measure up and settle down, even if some farmer should buy C.P. shares
enough to get himself elected as a director. As it stands to-day in
the estimation of the travelling public, who may or may not care a
copper about the personality of its rugged and efficient lawyer
president, the Canadian Pacific is the one greatest proof that Canada
needs no revolution which will interfere with the morale of that
system. In fact so long as the C.P.R. holds its own an economic
revolution in Canada is impossible.

A BOURGEOIS MASTER OF QUEBEC

SIR LOMER GOUIN

Early in January, 1917, a remarkable dinner was held in Toronto, the
first of its kind ever held in that city of Orange Walks. Protestants
and Catholics sat side by side. They applauded the same sentiments.
Orator after orator dug into the mines of national idioms. They
cracked jokes and told stories and worked up climaxes. The three
hundred rose again and again with glasses of orangeade, and
Apollinaris, toasting--Quebec, Ontario, and United Canada. They waved
napkins and cheered and sang again and again "For he's a jolly good
fellow". A Methodist minister sat at the back of the room next a
Congregationalist preacher and pretended to unwrap a _de luxe_ cigar.
Orangemen sat at the same table with Catholics. Macs hobnobbed with
'eaus. They autographed one another's menus. The books of songs were
bilingual--French and English. "God Save the King" was sung in both
languages. "O Canada" was done in French. Methodist orators vied with
French speakers. Col. George Denison sat next Gen. Lessard. They
fraternized as soldiers. The Methodist local-preacher Premier of
Ontario sat with the Roman Catholic Premier of Quebec. Sentiment ran
high. But no French-Canadian was so emotional as N. W. Rowell, who
glorified the heroes of Courcellette; and no Anglo-Canadian was quite
so st