Mr. MACKIE:

Well, you can have it

your own way; I say it is not. If the hon. member will repair to my room.some time to-morrow or on Monday, I will give him a number of volumes on the subject and he *can study it for himself. When a country is at war there is only one object in view and that is victory. Citizens whose individuality is so strong that they will not submit themselves to restraint must either be compelled to accept that restraint or they should lose their citizenship. If the German people have to give up their individuality for the sake of the collective whole, then their opponents must necessarily do the same or else go down to defeat.

(Mr. JOSEPH READ: Sure; that is democracy.

Mr. MACKIE:

It cannot be a democratic principle, and, Mr. Speaker, because the moment that you impose a military organization upon a country, you must necessarily do away with democratic principles. Every man is ordered to take his place in the defence of his country and there is no alternative for him.

Mr. MACKIE:

Yes.

Mr. MACKIE:

That democracy which we had before the war, that democracy we had during the voluntary system, we would

have right now, if you people of the other provinces had done your duty as well as the people of the province of Alberta. But Sir, I say that the only alternative-