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E well remember those ominous and t days preceding the war. 1 M en on a trip out west, and never # ‘,. forget the shrill voice of the iWab@ys on the streets of the city of Innipeg, when, on that fateful day, k broke the news to the people of ‘elty, in the early hours of _ the pÂ¥Aing, that England had declared n Germany. Sir, you can readâ€" g rstand that war between Engâ€" m gml Germany had a terrible «n g for me. Hon. members in ‘.-;v se know my ancestry. I am‘ ‘enly one. of the 221 members in ‘House whose parentage is Ger-‘ ®, and 1 wish to take this opportunâ€" ! toâ€"night, realizing my position â€" € I know that the members of the h will appreciate my position â€" t every member of the House, xktlve of party, and the Govern: ®#, for the many acts of kindness have been extended to me, and to le, since the war began,. . I a COnStituency, Sir, where ter majority of the people German ancestry, and the war inly produced changes in the ents of the people of that ridâ€" But 1 am happy to state that, atâ€" thereâ€"were some differences of and these, Sir, 1 am sorry to were greatly exaggerated by the : Ts ‘of this country â€" toâ€"day is umity of purpose on the part people of North _ Waterioo. is only one thing that lies beâ€" them, Mr. Speaker, and that is duty, and they are going to do the very limit. have heard several hon. gentleâ€" 1h the House refer to the volunâ€" tment. 1 shall have someâ€" to sayabout that. The results have been quoted by other speakâ€" wAll I wish to say is that, in my the Military Service Bill is a ;uned effort to win the war, ) the referendum, on the other , means delay, and, as one of the know whete he is for twentyâ€" ata stretch, because condiâ€" mre upside down. The Russian although â€" it has cleared , during the last week or looks ominous to most of us, $ the submarine menace, as we now, is just as grave toâ€"day and dangerous, so far as the integâ€" ztfi. Empire is .concerned, as it weeks ago. These conditions apâ€" to me, and therefore I am one of immboru of this House of Comâ€" $ who toâ€"day feel their responsiâ€" f in a crisis such as we are passâ€" through. And, therefore, to cut matter short, I am going to vote iwor of the Bill. There are two ers pointed out the other day, us nowhere. _ We have had refâ€" ums in the past, and they have teen a farce. For a few minutes me to refer to some other matâ€" efore 1 take up the consideration ianls before the House, and we amiliar with both of them. We heard them discussed by a good ‘ members since the debate beâ€" We have heard from the Prime essary for me to quote figures ht, and I do not wish to occupy time than â€"necessary. . The figâ€" ter. _ He has been across the . _ He has met the men in the nd. _ They, no doubt, have givâ€" m information which has caused 5 come back to his native land, 6 ask the Parliament of Canada i8 the Military Service Bill. The proposal is an amendment movâ€" the right hon. leader of the Opâ€" gonditions as they appeal to us l To meet the situation is serâ€" Im-‘lfllllookuthompl bpe, he will see that the responâ€" Bs of Great Britain and ber Alâ€" ; ; this great struggle are very ‘ and that the obstacles to be , that a referendum be taken matter. Sir, it is neediess and @uring the course of this deâ€" clearly and distinctly is the of purpose which bas characâ€" the debate from the . very ig. ~1 feel that right conclu garding great national and viâ€" tions as they concern _ our at the present time can be Only by conscientiously and ‘striving to understand _ exâ€" before this war is won are address was delivered on und will be of interest to and veryâ€" grave. Many eport of the address deâ€" . W. G. Weichel, M.P. erloo, in support of the "(Taken from ’ What is expected of a representaâ€" tive who has been elected by the peoâ€" ple to this House of Commons? 1 bave travelled considerably throughâ€" out the country since the war began, and the conclusion 1 bave come to is that there is a wholeâ€"hearted purpose among the people ‘o day, that of winâ€" Ring the was. As far as 1 am conâ€" The Military Servics Bill appeals to me because men are not to be conâ€" scripted for a singl> purpose. It was a wise move on the part of the Government to provide that the genâ€" eral purpose of the Bill should be to fulfil every requirement necessary to the carrying on of the war. Agricul tural interests are not to be deprived of farm help. ‘The farmers have been urged to greater production. Would you toâ€"day deprive the farmers _ of their help, who are doing such magniâ€" ficent work in producing foodstuffs to win the war? Would you cripple an industry which is so essential to the lvlunlng of the war?t _ Some _ hon. gentlemen have sald that the Bill does not provide forâ€" this _ particular purpose, _ but I believe that it does. 1 believe also that any amendments brought forward by any member . of this House, irrespective of party, will be warmly weloqmed by the Govâ€" ernment. I was surprised to hear a stateâ€" ment made by an hon. gentlieman who, it is supposed, will be the next Minâ€" ister of Laborâ€" the member â€" for Maisonneuve (Mr. Verville). He said â€"and this, no doubt, will go broadâ€" cast through the country toâ€" morrowâ€" that if this measure passed, a genâ€" eral strike would be declared by the labor unions of Canada. _ I consider that a rash statement to make _ at this time. Suppose the boys in the trenches should oragnize a _ general strike and refuse to fight for us beâ€" cause we declined to send them help; what about. our institutions then? What about all that we _ hold dear? Statements of that kind are absoluâ€" tely out of place; the people do not want to listen to them. The people want their rejresentatives in this House to discuss these matters in â€" a manly way, not to spreadâ€"sball J call it sedition?â€"among the people, or to speak as my hon. friend spoke a few minutes ago. * Coming down to the Military Serâ€" vice Bill Mr. Speaker, I might say to youâ€"and 1 am honest and conscienâ€" tious in my convictionâ€"that 1 was always opposed to compulsory serâ€" ‘vlco. I do not like the word "conâ€" scription." I am democratic in my ideas along those lines. But the sitâ€" uation, as it has been presented to me in this House, compels me to sideâ€" track any opinions I may have bad in the past on this question, and to cast my vote in favor of this Bill because 1 belteve it is in the interests of our common country, _ After reading this measure, I prefer this Bill to the Milâ€" itia Act. I think it is more compreâ€" hensive and more busienss like in its terms, I think selective conscription is better suited to the best interests of this country than the system of choosing men in a haphazard manner. Besides it will enable every kind of labor to be included. ‘ the whole Dominion of Canada thar the Mennonites of Waterioo., But Bir, let it be understood by the House ‘toâ€"night that we could not get any velunteers from those people who are exempted from military service; and !theretou our enlistments came enâ€" tirely from the city of Kitchener, the town of Waterloo, the village of El mira.and two or three smaller hamâ€" lets near by. I think 1 am quite safe in making the statement that we have ruluted over 1,000 men in North Watâ€" erioo. And of that number nearly luo were boys of German ancestry. 1 do not wish to apologize for my peoâ€" ple, because ! think they have done [nu. They did very well as far as the Patriotie Fund was: concerned. They stand very high in the estimaâ€" tion of the chairman of that fund. They worked night and day to make the Belgian and Red Cross Relief Funds successful We have heard a very great deal about patriotism and oyalty in the Dominion of Canada durâ€" ing the past two or three years, and I wish to say that loyalty and patriotâ€" ism, as I have leurned to size it up, count for naught if not backed up with something more than flagâ€"waving and loud tal. Grand river, settled in the county of Waterioo. They are Godâ€"fearing, sim ple and loving people, and I pay the tribute to them here tonight, that no fAner set of people can be found in Called the Mennonites, who ate ¢%â€" empt from military service, as Aare other classes of congcientious objecâ€" tors. ‘These people came to Canada over & hundred years ago from Penâ€" ‘The rural population of my riding inâ€" gludes many of the class of people in my riding were fair. I am voting for this Bill because 1 feel that it is a necessary expedient during a grave crisis that has over taken our Empire; but while I am doâ€" ing that, 1 hope and trust that militarâ€" ism will never reat its a@ly head in this country. Militarism is a cold code. _ My ancestors knew something about it, and what I know about miliâ€" tarism makes me abbor it from . the bottom of my heart. Its unwritten laws are as unchangeable as the laws ‘ol' the Medes and Persians. Under this code the end justifies the means â€"any act is entirely all right because it is done to serve the end. It is against the doctrine of "ltve and let live," and against the individual himâ€" self, be he English, French, German or any other nationality. 1 In this war, democracy as we have it here is forced by autocracy as they have it in Germany to accept temporâ€" ary conscription in order that _ the issue of this great struggle may once for all be settled. Why I know hunâ€" dreds, yea, thousands of men who i left the Old Land to live in democratic ‘eountfles in North America. _ These people preferred living under British Institutions and they continue to do ‘¥o toâ€"day because they are guaranteed freedom of speech and liberty of conâ€" science, and they much prefer to live on the broad acres of Canada to passâ€" ing their future existence inâ€" conâ€" gested Europe. , "It is the nation, not the land, which degenerates, the land becomes only a ‘monument, not a dwelling. Let the nation rouse itself, and the country may be a uh:{n/a a temple once more." scenery, tame or bold, charming or awful, has been the inspiration of galâ€" lant generations may, as the wheel of thme turns, fall to indolent savages, listless slaves or sordid moneyâ€"getâ€" ters. ) â€" I was across the international bounâ€" t t * daÂ¥p line a few Gays ago, and 1 met h ba _l 9 several prominent gentlemen in New O 4 e rgaln o York City. I never was prouder in d h h ay Iift ha I s wee l imese «»|@ and share in the ‘ what these men had to say â€" abou* * * Canada‘s heart in the war. . It would CIty has ever kno‘ do your part good, Sir, to hear what they said about what Canada did unâ€" der the voluntary system. Canada‘s TGpmrmncmncniiyfmantmemeninannr omm annnnnanntpanimameemconmmennmenmenemes effort is one of the grandest spectaâ€" MEN‘S SUITS WORTH 'I. To Oll FOR cles ever presented to the _ world.|. 311 90â€" With a population of barely $,000,000 she organized, equipped, and _ sent This .:‘n h‘o\:' v:c “:n boutvg our business overseas a force of between 300,000 away ahea year. ours is the adâ€" V& . _ See that take ful i and 400,000 men. And Canada . has c ome and tor." The wer P ieg i avom y ol every reason to feel proud of _ the ahead of you. 6 nchlevgwnu of her sons at the front. We have heard a great deal about en C amn ame csnls Wvc n meccte e nne s camea nndneccm n ane. patriotism. 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Sir, the men at the tront are waiting to see what we are going to do. ‘The hon. gentleman who has just taken his seat (Mr. Verville) said that there were many labor men in the trenches. 1 think that these labor men who are in the trenches do Tmmnum respecting this matter from the 200,000 or 300,000 other men who are fAighting the batâ€" mumum 1 beliéve all our soldiers are united on this question, and that they expect tho‘ Pariiament of Canada to )ultNl] measure without delay. 1 take my bat off to the woldier. I know many a fine fellow who exchanged a remunâ€" erative position for the paltry little sum which he receives toâ€"day in uniâ€" form. As a citizen of Canada I canâ€" not help appreciating the great work that is being done toâ€"day by the men at the front, and I am the last man to deny them the reinforcements which they so badly need. We have often seen the soidiers pass by. We bade them Godâ€"speed, sent them to the &râ€" Ing lineâ€"and then quietly settled back are toâ€"day in France; they are workâ€" ing for us; they are dying for . us. What are we going to do for them? That is Â¥he @uestion that is now beâ€" fore this House and before this counâ€" try. in our easy chairs and waited _ for onceâ€"stated that while France ruled the land and England the sea, Gerâ€" many ruled the clouds. 1 am fully convinced, Sit, that there are two Gerâ€" manys. _ Old Germany is the Gerâ€" many that gave the world Boethoven‘n‘ Ninth Symphony, the Goethe‘s Faust. It is the Germany that gave the world the Fairy Tales of Grimm, and that gave to the world Humperdinck, Schubert, Schumann, Schiller, Heine, Hauptmann, Brahms, Mozart, Lisst, and Wagner. That Germany still lives toâ€"day. 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I come to the conclusion that the prejudice against my race must be of a different brand from that against theirs. Discrimination along _ the lines of religion, of birthplace, of race, or language, is unâ€"British and absoluâ€" tely wrong. We must not forget that this is a cosmopolitan country. For years, you have let the bars down and have invited hundreds and thousâ€" (Continued on page 10.) ht K af 3