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Show AFTER TME7 SLACKERS. Demonstrations against the proposal to enforce conscription in the Dominion of T'anada, in the province of Quebec, are reported, and in Montreal fiery ora tors addressed crowds of men who should have been at the front long aqo. Ontario and the western provinces have done their part in the war, but the French Canadians, sad to relate, have not measured up to the high standard set by the gallant men in other portions por-tions of the country. The fact has been notorious ever since the outbreak ot hostilities and the visit of .Toffre to Montreal wss for the sole purpose of ' trving to arouse a patriotic .feeling among thD voung men who have refused re-fused to voliiVteer and are now rjeconi-inf rjeconi-inf riotonr. for lar they will be drafted. It is. nn loubtediy for th p purpose of remliing fhee s'aclsers that. Premier Bordrn hns proposed that parliament pass a cons' i'iption act. and it was for the .purpose of preventing their escape to fhe United States that an order in council was issued "making it illegal under benvv penalty for any male person per-son within the ases of 18 and -to years, ordinarilv resident in Canada, to leave, tjn- counti'v without (he written permission per-mission of' the authorities. " Enforcement Enforce-ment of this order will leave no loophole loop-hole of escape for those who have so fur shirked their duty, for it is practical prac-tical certain that the dominion parliament par-liament will pass the conscription law and put it into effect at once. ' |