Tuesday, November 4th, when the Prince made the most
impressive speech of the whole tour at Massey Hall.

This hall was packed with one of the keenest audiences the Prince had
faced in Canada. It was made up of members of the Canadian and Empire
Clubs, and every man there was a leader in business. It was both a
critical gathering and an acute one. It would take nothing on trust,
yet it could appreciate every good point. This audience the Prince won
completely.

It was the longest speech the Prince had made, yet he never spoke
better; he had both mastered his nervousness and his need for notes.
Decrying his abilities as an orator, he yet won his hearing by his very
lack of oratorical affectation.

He spoke very earnestly of the wonderful reception he had had
throughout the breadth of Canada, from every type of Canadian--a
reception, he said, which he was not conceited enough to imagine was
given to himself personally, but to him as heir to the British throne
and to the ideal which that throne stood for. The throne, he pointed
out, consolidated the democratic tradition of the Empire, because it
was a focus for all men and races, for it was outside parties and
politics; it was a bond which held all men together. The Empire of
which the throne was the focal point was different from other and
ancient Empires. The Empires of Greece and Rome were composed of many
states owing allegiance to the mother state. That ideal was now
obsolete. The British Empire was a single state composed of many
nations which give allegiance not so much to the mother country, but to
the great common system of life and government. That is, the Dominions
were no longer Colonies but sister nations of the British Empire.

Every point of this telling speech was acutely realized and immediately
applauded, though perhaps the warmest applause came after the Prince's
definition of the Empire, and after his declaration that, in visiting
the United States of America, he regarded himself not only as an
Englishman but as a Canadian and a representative of the whole Empire.

In a neat and concise speech the Chairman of the meeting had already
summed up the meaning and effect of the Prince's visit to Canada. The
Prince, he said, had passed through Canada on a wave of enthusiasm that
had swept throughout and had dominated the country. That enthusiasm
could have but one effect, that of deepening and enriching Canadian
loyalty to the Crown, and givi