. Review of reviews and world's work . not wantthe office. He has not sought ofiice. Allthrough his leadership of the Opposition, theofiice has sought him. There is an old proverb: The dog thatbarks never bites. R. L. Borden neverbarks; but there is a suspicion if he gets aquiet bull-dog grip on anything, he will neverlet go. To begin with, he comes into thepremiership at within two years of the sameage as Laurier when he assumed the reins ofgovernment fifteen years ago—that is, a littlepast his fifty-sixth birthday. Like all theother Bordens of the Maritime Provinces, heis a descendant of the
. Review of reviews and world's work . not wantthe office. He has not sought ofiice. Allthrough his leadership of the Opposition, theofiice has sought him. There is an old proverb: The dog thatbarks never bites. R. L. Borden neverbarks; but there is a suspicion if he gets aquiet bull-dog grip on anything, he will neverlet go. To begin with, he comes into thepremiership at within two years of the sameage as Laurier when he assumed the reins ofgovernment fifteen years ago—that is, a littlepast his fifty-sixth birthday. Like all theother Bordens of the Maritime Provinces, heis a descendant of the United Empire Loyal-ists, who were driven from the Eastern Statesafter the Revolutionary War. If you tracehis genealogy back, you will find he has com-mon ancestors with the prominent Bordenfamilies of New York and Washington andBoston. Yet in spite of the fact that R. is a descendant of United EmpireLoyalists, he has never to my knowledgeuttered one word of anti-U. S. cantingnonsense nor made use of the fact that he is a. HON, ROBERT L. BORDEN ADDRESSING THECANADIAN ELECTORATE (From a photograph taken at Ottawa just before- therecent election) 555 556 THE AM ERIC AX REVIEW OF REVIEWS United Empire Loyalist as campaign ammu-nition. This is typical of the man. In fif-teen years of parliamentary practice, he hasnever once let his tongue babble, nor openedhis mouth to put his foot in it. This is apretty good record to begin with. Thatmany of his followers in the present cam-paign went into the hysterics of street bulliesand scattered firebrands and made big stage-barrel thunder—is not the fault of R. His first words on coming to officewere to put a stopper on this canting non-sense. His second act was to visit his agedmother in Nova Scotia and share his victorywith her. ^ He was born at Grand Pre in 1854 and wascalled to the bar at the age of fact that he is a Conservative while theother Bordens are Liberals is probablyascribable to his earl
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