Mr. Baldwin returned on Wednesday from his three weeks' visit
to Canada. He is the first British Prime Minister who has visited Canada during his term of office, and there is ample evidence of the extraordinary success of the venture. Many people here are not aware how little news of the every-day life of Great Britain reaches the average Canadian. Mr. Baldwin perceived his opportunity for acting as an interpreter, and he promised those who listened to his interpretation that when he returned home he would invert the process and interpret Canadians as he understood them. If to-morrow we had to choose someone to send to Canada as a representative visitor, we should be quite content that Mr. Baldwin should go again—quite content that Canadians, after observing him, should say, " This is an Englishman." Mr. Baldwin's sympathy, his love of tradition, especially local tradition, and his humorous tolerance made the task of presenting a recognizable picture of Great Britain safe in his hands. He is incapable of distortion through partisanship. Perhaps the most valuable of his speeches was that in which he described the British wage-earner as he is in the mass—solid in habit and reason, moderate, loyal and fair.
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