It was moreover highly probable that, had they tried the game, they would not have even succeeded, in two-thirds of the constituencies, in inducing citizens of sufficient standing to accept their nomination and their political program. Once engaged in such a hopeless electoral contest, they would have had either to humbly retire from the field, or to await the doomed day by nominating men of no weight whatever. Both alternatives would have led them to an equally disastrous defeat. UNJUST "NATIONALIST" GRIEVANCES AGAINST ENGLAND. At the end of the very first page of Mr. Bourassa's pamphlet, entitled:--_What do we owe England_?--in French:--Que devons-nous a l'Angleterre?,--The following lines are found:--(_Translation._) British Imperialism, in its concrete and practical form, can be defined in ten words: =the active participation by the Colonies in the wars of England=. It is almost precisely the definition I gave of it as early as the days of the African war. It is exact. Considered from a larger point of view, from its profound causes and far reaching consequences, British Imperialism calls for a more ample definition. Its object is to have Great Britain dominate the world by means of the organization and concentration of all the Military Forces of the Empire--both Sea and Land Forces--; it means the gradual annihilation, or at least the enslaving of all the divers nationalities constituting the British Empire, in order to bring about the World's supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race, of her thoughts, of her language, of her political conceptions, of her commerce and her wealth. Its object is to crush all competitions, all internal and external oppositions. It is the German Ideal; it is the Roman Ideal. It is the Imperialism of all countries, at all times, enlarged to the limits of the monstrous pretensions of Pan-Anglo-Saxonism. All the propositions of the above quotation do not bear, for one single instant, the light of historical research, of reason, even of common sense. I challenge Mr. Bourassa, and any one else, to read the speeches and the writings of all those who have studied the great question of the future of the British Empire, and to detect therein one single word to justify the assertion _that the organization and concentration of all the Military Forces of the Empire have for their object to help England to dominate the world_. I have already abundantly proved that England never aspired to dominate the world. I answered Mr. Bourassa's unfounded propositions as follows:--