The Navy, the excellent official organ of the Navy League,
gives in its October issue a most interesting account of a speech made by Mr. Roosevelt at Government House, Victoria, British Columbia., where he was lately a guest. The speech, we are told, was like the man—burning, direct, and to the point :— "First of all, he made it clear to his audience that he was, in no feeble manner, heart and soul with the Allies and their just cause. That which seemed to have impressed him most of all in the history of this war was the splendid élan with which the people of all the Dominions over Seas had rallied to the Mother Country. 'The people of Canada,' said he, and, indeed, of all the Dominions beyond the Seas, have advanced immeasurably in the affection and respect of the American people because of the way in which they have rallied to the support of the grand old Motherland in the hour of her trial.' With tremendous vigour Mr. Roosevelt declared that there could be no more speaking evidence of the solidarity of the Empire, no finer tribute to the statesmanship of Great Britain, no more impressive vindication of the justice of her muse than the unswerving loyalty and devotion of each and every part of the Empire in this great crisis. It seemed to him that the magnificent spirit of self-sacrifice and co-operation evinced by the whole Empire at this hour was at once tho highest expression of a free people fighting in a just cause, and an unanswerable reply to the allegations of the enemy."
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