Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.