Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech Delivered by the Hon. Albert Sevigny (Minister of Inland Revenue) At Westmount on Thursday, Nov. 15th, 1917
These brave men went from every part of Canada, have crossed the seas, have lived in the camps, and when their turn came to go into the trenches they went without a moment's hentation. What have they done at the front during the summer and fall and winter for the last three yearsf Have they ever yielded before the shemyf No. Have they said that they had done enough and that they wanted to come back? No. Have they been afraid to die side by side with the soldiers of France and England? No. They have given us for Canada's glory the brave deeds of St. Julian, Lange marck, Neuvechapelle, St. Eloi, Courcelette, Givenchy, Festubert, Vimy, and they have wquired renown, bestowed by the Germans, who volunteered the testimony that among the Canadian soldiers there was no prisoners. These soldiers who have made Canada great are my brothers, and to those who tell me today that I an. A traitor because I have voted in favour of military service, I answer that the traitors are those who are abandoning our boys in the trenches. To those who call me Judas, I answer that Judas betrayed Christ after having promised to be his faithful disciple against those who had come to fight the Saviour. The Judas of to-day is the man who has promised our soldiers to never abandon them as long as they have fight against barbarity, and who.
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