Within twenty years, up to 188G, there were 338,766 divorces
and if we judge by last years report those astounding figures may
have been doubled in the past nine years, while in all Canada, in
twenty-five years, there have only been 203. If marriage be the
high estate assigned it by God's law, then, surely, there has been
a great wave of immorality through the Republic, directly affect-
ing more than a million of households and more than five million
of persons of all ranks and classes. No doubt we of Canada owe
our condition largely to our Roman Catholic friends, and I have
long felt that the United States would be deeply indebted to this
branch of the Christian Church for the resistance offered by it to
the great tidal wave of divorce that has deluged the Union.
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Then look at the foreign nationalities, then at the leprosy of
universal suffrage and an elective judiciary and all other officials
in connection with the administration of justice. We don*t want
unity with a people having such alarminc^ problems menacing
their national integrity. Besides we have unity with a greater
power. They have a United States of seventy millions. We
have a United States of

THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY MILLIONS.
Old England is the first in order, with Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
Australia, India, South Africa, the Isles of the Seas — and the
seas themselves auxiliaries — while we in Canada have half this
continent at our back with all its vast resources and a territory
in the Mackenzie basin larger than Australia, and equal, as Pro-
fessor Seeley says, to the support of a thousand millions of popu-
lation, and, to-day, acknowledged to be the great military high-
way between this group of Empires.
