"With the most inspiring unanimity and admirable courage, all the British Colonies have rallied around the flag of their Sovereign Metropolis to share the glory of the triumph of Right and Justice. At the very front rank, Canada has nobly done her duty. Her decision was most spontaneous and decisive. She was not deterred by fallacious subtilties, deducted from pretended conventions, out of age and opportunity, to hinder her laudable and patriotic course. Throughout the length and breadth of her vast territory, all minds shared the same view, all hearts were united and beating with the same powerful sentiment." "The decision of Canada to participate in the present war was taken by the constitutional government of the country, sanctioned by Parliament, approved by public opinion, glorified by the hundreds of thousands of brave volunteers who courageously answered the call of duty." "Views with which I cannot concur have been expressed and given full publicity. They challenge discussion. It is my undoubted right to criticize them." "Since the beginning of the present war, Mr. Henri Bourassa, in addition to the daily publicity of his journal "_Le Devoir_", has developed, in two principal pamphlets, the theories of his "_Nationalism_". They are respectively entitled: "_Que devons-nous a l'Angleterre?_" "_What do we owe England?_" and: "_Hier, Aujourd'hui, Demain_" "_Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow_"." "In earnestly searching out the real causes of the war, the responsibilities of the belligerent nations, their respective aspirations, the duty imposed by the irresistable course of events upon the British Empire and consequently upon Canada, I was incessantly called upon to consider the very strange propositions contained in those pamphlets." "It was with great surprise that I read, for instance, as the heading of one of the chapters, the utterly false proposition that: "_The Autonomous Colonies are Sovereign States._" "And these most extraordinary affirmations that the _King of England has not the right to declare the State of war for Canada, without the assent of the Canadian Cabinet; that Canada could have participated in the present war as a Nation_." "It is my bounden duty to affirm that almost all the propositions contained in the two above mentioned pamphlets are wrong according to international law and to constitutional law, erroneous in their historical bearings, contrary to the true teachings of the past." "Mr. Bourassa persistingly trying to convince his readers that the precedents of the Soudanese and the South-African wars have forced the British Colonies to participate in the present one, I considered it my duty to make, in two separate chapters, a special study of those military campaigns which, in both cases, were so felicitously terminated for all parties concerned."