Wheel back your guns, your howitzers melt,
Forget your World Power's cursed plan,
And sign in peace and not in blood

Dread Sinai's pact 'twixt God and Man!

By the way, I cannot fully agree with the opinion expressed some time ago by the distinguished lecturer Mr. Cowper Powyes, that if Schopenhauer, Heine, Goethe, and Nietzsche were living to-day they would not be ranged with Germany in this war. Schopenhauer was a very prince of German pessimistic philosophers, and pessimism makes for barbarism, which is the very keynote of the German strife waged to-day. Heine, of Jewish extraction and German birth, turned his back both on Judea and Germany, but he had no love for England. Goethe, it is true, refused to write war songs when Napoleon was devastating his native country, alleging that he had more interest in humanity than he had in war. As to Nietzsche, he was a moral anarchist, and would have put dynamite any time under Noah's Ark. The havoc of war would have delighted his heart.

We fortunately who have been reared amid English institutions can well distinguish the English ideal of freedom from the German ideal. We know and appreciate the privilege of living in a "land where girt with friend or foe a man may speak the thing he will." With us the doctrine of the divine right of kings is no more, for, in the words of Tennyson, we reverence both our conscience and our king.

But to return to Belgium, I have forgotten to speak of the greatest figure in that brave little land to-day. I refer to Albert, King of Belgium. You know the history of this bravest and most democratic of sovereigns. When a young man, and little dreaming that he would ever ascend the throne of his uncle, King Leopold II., he made a tour of the world, and spent some time in the United States, and it is said did newspaper work as a reporter on a Minneapolis paper. No need to depict his character here. As an American journalist said to me some time ago, no matter what great generals may accomplish in the field King Albert is sure to emerge from this war with the greatest glory. May I then close this address with this tribute to the brave, noble, and fearless King, who at the head of his people is fighting for the preservation of his Kingdom.

I TAKE OFF MY HAT TO ALBERT

Albert, King of Belgium, is the hero of the hour;

He's the greatest king in Europe, he's a royal arch and tower;
He is bigger in the trenches than the Kaiser on his throne,
And the whole world loves him for the sorrows he has known:
So I take off my hat to Albert.

Defiance was his answer to the Teuton at his gate,

Then he buckled on his armour and pledged his soul to fate;
He stood between his people and the biggest Essen gun,
For he feared not shot nor shrapnel as his little army won:
So I take off my hat to Albert.

King of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, Count of Flanders all in one;
Little Kingdom of the Belge starr'd with honour in the sun!
You have won a place in history, of your deeds the world will
sing,

But the glory of your nation is your dust-stained fearless King:
So I take off my hat to Albert.

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DEMOCRACY VERSUS MILITARISM

AN ADDRESS BY N. W. ROWELL, Esq., K.C., M.P.
Before the Empire Club of Canada, Toronto,
April 29, 1915

BEFORE the address, the following resolution was proposed by J. M. Clarke, Esq.:

That the Empire Club of Canada has heard with the highest satisfaction the official report of the gallantry of the Canadians in the field, and, further, that it expresses its deepest sympathy with those who have suffered bereavement in the Empire's cause.'

Supporting this resolution, Mr. Clarke said: "We all fully knew that the Canadians at the front would act in the most heroic and skilful way, but I think it is fitting that this should be put on record. The deeds that we refer to will live in history. We refer only to the 'Empire's Cause,' it only being necessary to say in this club that that cause is the cause of honour, liberty, and civilisation."

Captain Perry, in seconding the motion, said: "I can only repeat what General French gave us to understand, that the Canadians saved the situation, and as I have often heard Mr. Justice Riddell say, Canadians have frequently saved the situation, and we are all proud of the boys that saved the situation on this occasion. It is not the last occasion, I am sure, when we shall witness that the Canadians have saved the situation. The boys to go forth yet will do their part; we are all very proud of them. At the same time we are sorry in our hearts for the families that have been bereft by the consequences of that brilliant charge.

The resolution was put and carried by a rising vote.

MR. ROWELL: Mr. President and Gentlemen,-There is one thought uppermost in all our minds to-day, in the