In characteristic fashion, Mr. Roosevelt went on to declare that
"the man who would not fight was not worth a vote." We are further told that he commemorated in the most glowing terms the gallantry and prowess of the Canadian troops at the battle of Langemarok in Belgium, the magnificent heroism of the Australasian forces in the Dardanelles, and the splendid services rendered by the loyalty of South Africa and India. The writer in the Navy, who was evidently present at the speech, adds the following comment :— "He forgot nothing. The words flowed from him in an impassioned stream, oarrying his audience along with him. The concluding words of his address, uttered with eager vehemence, were Good luck.' One carried away the memory of an historic speech, delivered at an historic crisis. It is a thousand pities that the speech was not taken down verbatim and sown broadcast over the world. Mr. Roosevelt spoke, as we knew that he would speak, with a burning sense of the injustice of neutrality in a war waged on behalf of humanity. It is the personality of Americans like Mr. Roosevelt which brings home to the English race their kinship with their cousins across the seas. Mr. Roosevelt merits the gratitude and admiration of every Englishman for his courageous defenee of the rights and freedom of humanity, and his generous tribute to the love of the English overseas who have rallied to the Motherland in her hour of need." Mr. Roosevelt knows good men and true when he sees them, and we do not wonder that his heart went out to Canadians and Australians, men of very much the same type as his own beloved Roughriders.
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