d in favor of upholding the tradition,
while it is dead sure that if we were living this year in a panic, a
business depression, with hundreds of thousands out of work instead of
a general prosperity, the third termer would walk in over the decision
of the previous year. The dangers in this campaign are these, the third
termer is sure that the nomination has been stolen and that the country
and the job belong to him, therefore if he gets honestly defeated in
November he will again yell that the crooks of both parties have stolen
the election, and should he carry a solid West, he and the hungry
office seekers would not hesitate to take up arms to take by force what
is denied him by the people, then we face a civil war, and it was Ab.
Lincoln who said that war is hell and that he who wilfully invited war
deserves death. We would then be compelled to wash out the sin of
violating the third term with the blood of our sons. Yet, this is not
the greatest danger we are facing. We have allowed an adventurer to
circumtravel the Union with military escort, with the torch of
revolution in his hands to burn down the very house we live in while we
should be aware that we are surrounded by a pack of wolves ever ready
to jump on us. Does anybody think that the European powers would sit
idly while we are disunited, would a certain power hesitate to help the
third termer and make good the gravest mistake that power has made in
1861 by not keeping this country disunited and separated while we are
just getting ready to become their greatest competitor on the seas
after the completion of the Panama Canal. Our strength is not in our
Army or Navy nor in our Money power, our strength is in our Union. In
Union alone can we uphold the Monroe Doctrine our second unwritten law
so much hated and dreaded by all the world. The sister republic's
Transvaal and Orange Free State were not destroyed because it was the
connecting link between Egypt and the Cape, not because gold was found,
no, but because Great Brit. could not allow a second United States to
establish a Monroe Doctrine on African soil. Reciprocity would have
profited both the Union and Canada but England fears a too close a
relation between the two nations and Premier Leurier's sin was that he
was first a Canadian, second an American and third a Britisher, he had
to be replaced by a man who is in the first, second, and third place a
Britisher. The outcome of the present campaign interests t