rar and his
followers any policy that will open the gates for the United States to
walk in and walk over this nation as twenty years ago his _Free Press_
associate, Clifford Sifton, opened the doors to let Europe inundate us
with a polyglot, un-national flood.

No Canadian journalist has shouldered so perilous a responsibility.
Dafoe knows what a struggle it is to preserve national identity on a
basis of one to twelve against us. Born in Ontario and experienced in
the East as few editors have ever been, he surely knows the value of
not surrendering our national birthright for a mess of free-trade
pottage.

If he knows this as well as we think he should, will he uphold the
_Free Press_ as the constant critic of Mr. Crerar if he attempts to
denationalize this country; or will he accept a portfolio of Minister
of the Interior in the Cabinet dominated by Messrs. Crerar and Drury,
and in his haste to establish the new Liberalism of the National
Progressive Party help to strike out the meaning of the word "National"
in the label?

Can a man who fought a Direct Action Strike because it aimed at
revolution, consistently endorse, lock, stock and barrel, a movement
which aims at a revolution by Indirect Action through Parliament?

Is government by a "National Progressive Party" Agrarian Group with a
business-farmer Premier and a farmer-dominated Cabinet any less of a
group government in principle than the One Big Union, even though it
does not tie up the nerve centres of the country by a minority general
strike, but merely throttles Parliament, which is supposed to be the
national brain, by the use of the group minority in voting?

Mr. Dafoe has already begun to answer. Again we see him sweltering in
his sanctum, his hair like a windrow of hay, as he dictates something
like this to his stenographer:

"Your logic is good except that your major premiss is a case of being
off to a bad start. The National Progressive Party is not a group; it
is a business majority. It contains the people who produce the
majority of the nation's wealth for consumption and export and
therefore enable the nation to pay its bills. It is Liberal because it
advocates free-trade and is opposed to big monopolies, and there is no
other Liberalism in Canada left worthy the name. The N.P.P. is the new
Liberalism, not for the West alone, but for the whole country. It
depends upon the franchise of the people, not upon the strike action of
revolutio