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None better. They are easy to handle.
You go in and give them some of our Canadian ideas of living and all that, and before you know they are striking for higher wages and giving no end of trouble." "You would suppress the school, then, in Western Canada ?" said Brown. "No, not exactly.
But if you educate these fellows, you hear me, they'll run your country, by Jove! in half a dozen years, and you wouldn't like that much." "That's exactly it," replied Brown; "they'll run your country anyhow you put it, school or no school, and, therefore, you had better fit them for the job.
You have got to make them Canadian." "A big business that," said French. "Yes," replied Brown, "there are two agencies that will do it." "Namely." "The school and the Church." "Oh, yes, that's all right, I guess," losing interest in the discussion. "That's my game too," said Brown with increasing eagerness. "That's my idea,--the school and the Church.
You say the big things are ranches, railroads, and mills.
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