I have been talking school to them, but they won't have a school as a gift.

My Church, the Presbyterian, you know, offers to put up a school for them, since the Government won't do anything, but they are mightily afraid that this is some subtle scheme for extracting money from them.

But what can you expect?
The only church they know has bled them dry, and they fear and hate the very name of church." "By Jove! I don't wonder," said French.
"Nor do I." "But look here, Brown," said French, "you don't mean to tell me,--I assure you I don't wish to be rude,--but you don't mean to tell me that you have come here, a man of your education and snap--" "Thank you," said Brown.
"To teach a lot of Galician children." "Well," said Brown, "I admit I have come partially for my health.
You see, I am constitutionally inclined--" "Oh, come now," said French, "as my friend Kalman would remark, cut it out." "Partially for my health, and partially for the good of the country.

These people here exist as an undigested foreign mass.
They must be digested and absorbed into the body politic.

They must be taught our ways of thinking and living, or it will be a mighty bad thing for us in Western Canada.