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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

I Have Seen Your Country, I Like Your People

I Have Seen Your Country, I Like Your People.

Many of our folks at Home would be better here, and some of your folks would be better if they had a month or two in the Old Country. If I may be allowed to give a little advice for the benefit of any cautious persons here, for heaven's sake get the Government to arrange page 23 for them to be landed in London to look after themselves for six months. They would come back red-hot agitators. It is not only the extreme person you want to cure, it is the cautious timid person you want to cure. (Applause.) We in the Old Country have many little fights, but we fight against greater odds than you do. We want to see the music in the hearts of our people, we want to see the colour in the faces of our men and women, we want to see the spirit that is not servile, we want to see the women of our country full-bosomed, majestic and happy, we want to see them the mothers of a great people, we want to see the men able to become the founders of a great nation. We want to see the labourer's finger touch the land with his magic