d a certain victory.

Prime Minister Lloyd George gave us three words over a year ago that
are still the beacon-lights of the army, and we shall not reach port
unless they are our guiding lights. They were _reparation_,
_restoration_, and _guarantees_, and anything less would be a betrayal
of France and Belgium and an insult to the wounded and a defaming of
the dead.

The army and people of the allied countries have already paid too much
not to have the goods delivered.

Do you think, for example, that we Australian boys are going back to
our country without having gained that for which we came these twelve
thousand miles and have fought so long, and lost so much?

Do you think that I am going back to Australia well and sound to face
the mothers of my scouts, and when they come and ask me how their boys
died, I will have to say; "Well! Here I am, well and strong, still
able to put up a fight, and your son lies over there, his bones rotting
on a foreign soil, and all in vain. The blood of him who to you was
more precious than any prince or king that ever lived has been poured
out like water and uselessly"?

Listen! Here is something of what Australia has paid. There has never
been a day for three years that hundreds of Australian wives have not
been made widows. There has not been a single week that there has not
been more than a full page of casualties in our daily papers. Every
woman in Australia if she has not seen there the name of her near kin
has seen the name of some one that she knows. I know a father and five
sons that have all been killed. Within fifty miles of one town that I
know there is not a man under fifty years of age. There are ranches
and farms that will go back to the primeval wilderness, the fences will
rot and fall down, and the rabbits and kangaroos will overrun them
again, because the men who were developing them are gone and there are
none to take their places. Never was there a country so starved for
men, and sixty thousand are gone forever or maimed for life. Tell me,
where are we going to replace these men? No country in the world could
so ill afford to lose its young men, the future fathers of the race,
for we have still our pioneering to do, a continent larger than the
United States, with about the population of New York.

Outside our Australian cities there are some large cemeteries, as we
mostly have only one for each city, but the largest of our cemeteries
does not lie