They Will Not Hold Aloof From The Life Of The Land, Nor Pray In Unknown Tongues To Byzantine Saints; While The Very Tenacity And Caution Which Made Them Cleave To England This Long, Help Them To Root Deeply Elsewhere.

They are more likely to bring their women than other classes, and those women will make sacred and individual homes.

A little-regarded Crown Colony has a proverb that no district can be called settled till there are pots of musk in the house-windows - sure sign that an English family has come to stay. It is not certain how much of the present steamer-dumped foreign population has any such idea. We have seen a financial panic in one country send whole army corps of aliens kiting back to the lands whose allegiance they forswore. What would they or their likes do in time of real stress, since no instinct in their bodies or their souls would call them to stand by till the storm were over?

Surely the conclusion of the whole matter throughout the whole Empire must be men and women of our own stock, habits, language, and hopes brought in by every possible means under a well-settled policy? Time will not be allowed us to multiply to unquestionable peace, but by drawing upon England we can swiftly transfuse what we need of her strength into her veins, and by that operation bleed her into health and sanity Meantime, the only serious enemy to the Empire, within or without, is that very Democracy which depends on the Empire for its proper comforts, and in whose behalf these things are urged.

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