VICTORY OR NOTHING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 26 July 1918, Page 5

VICTORY OR NOTHING

FROM A HARRY LAUDER SPEECH. The following is from Harry Lauder's uppsal to the Canadians in tlio War Bond campaign: Some say that I should not bo speaking in Canada. I say that if thero is a man in Canada ivho has a right to speak it is I. Ky lx>y fought side by side with the Canadians; ho died side by side with the Canadians; he's buried si'do by side with the Canadians. Haven't I a right to epe.akjn Canada? Men, until this war we were asleep on the pillow of self-satisfaction. Ah, you know it, men, you know it! How we sat down at our well-filled table and gorged ourselves till we could eat no more. Then how we would walk to the mirror, pull down our waistcoat, look at ourselves in the glass, and say: "Ah, I'm looking well!" But tho 6cene is changed, men—the scene is changed! We need to be inoculated with the serum of service and sacrifice. It is not gloiy and riches wo aro fighting for. but tho finest word in tho English language —liberty! The world is on lire, libertyloving people have been called to put it out, and we must not leave it until it is out and blackened, never to break forth again. If Prussia can cement herself together for everything that is hellish, surelv tho En»lish-'speaking people can cement themselves together for everything that is good and noble. Let us not be war-weary. We aro what our forefathers made us. We can't quit; it's tho blood that's in ns and tho resolution—victory or nothing!