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'TEID:1.Y, NOV IeN1I31E1110, 18ti3.
tC+oad Bye God Bloss You."
I like the Anglo-Saxon speech.
With its direct revealiugs;.
It takes m hold and seems to revolt
Way down into your Teenage; -
Tliat sante folks deem it rude, I know,
And therefore they abuse it;
But I have never found it so,
• Before all else I choose its.
I don't object that Wren should air
The Gaellio they have paid for
With "Au revoir," "Adieu ma claire,"
For that's what French is made for.
But when a crony takes your hand
At parting, to, address you,
Ire drops all foreign Lingo and
He says, "Good-bye, God bless you."
This seems tabs a sicred phrase,
With reverence injpassioned,
A. thing come down from righteous days
Quaintly but nobly fashioned;
It well becomes an honest face,
A. voice that's round and oheerful,
And soothes the weak and fearliil.
Into the porches of the ears
It steals with subtle unction,
And in your heart, of hearts appears
To work its gracicuS function; laden were like them we could hardly
And all day long with pleasing song
It lingers to caress you— , keep separate from on another, how -
that ell here shall have them .always,.
However kindly we may think,or some
of us many think of the United Staten,
suppose tbat 1 may assume that,
with your Canadian sentiment, you do
not, as a club or otherwise, want ash
nexation to that country. You and 1
do trot want to blot out forever the
nameof our Canada Frani the snap of
the world. (Hear, hear, and loud
applause), We alt want perpetual
f iendehip between Canada and the
*United States,end between the empire
of which Canada is part and the
United States, We all a ant, aloe, to
have as much commercial and other
intercourse with eur neighbors as we
can have consistently 'with our respec-
tive and 'varying notibus of national
v
u
a
interest and duty. Wahave natives
of that country living amongst us wbo
are arch good citizens and such good
friends that we want no better. We
pRraonally know others resident in the
United States v hour we like so well
that we should wish to make them
Canadians if we only eould. WH know
by other means that there ate multi-
tudes of others, natives of the great
Republic and residing' them', who are
so good and excellent in every way,
and so frii,ndly,that if the whole popu-
I'm sure no human heart goes myon
That's told. "Good•bye,God bless you.'"
I love the words, perhaps because
When I was leaving mother,
Standing at last in solemn pause
We looked at one another,
And I ---I saw in mother's eyes
The love she could riot tell me;
A. love eternal as the skies
Whatever fate befell me;
Sho put her arms°about my neck
And soothed theof leaving,
Pretnierofa(7onservatiire Government, Iconstitute nnother illugrafi( n of the
said sornethiug, in the Senate to the
same effect; and many of their respec-
tive followershave the same feeling.
Perhaps many of you present here to-
night like the idea. But both of the
distinguished gentlemen whom 1 have
named, as well as many others, have
pointed out the difficulty of devising a
satisfactory scheme for the purpose ;
and the absence of any satisfactory
scheme has prevented °anaktiens gen-
erally, of any party from taking kindly
to the project hitherto, hove anxious
they way be to retain British conuec,
tion in ¢cies forrn as may he.
Some, again, litre to look forward to
a federation of all the 1uglish epeak-
ing people of the world, including the
people mingled with these, but got
p p g
speaking English as, their mother ton-
gue. Thio idea is a grand one—a
noble inspiratiou—and, as regards our
own Canada, would not involve its ex-
tinction as a political entity; but the
creation of such a great federation of
nations seems very fur,ld.tho diatanue.
I wieh it were not.
The Oanadieu sentiment now and
then shows it3eif in r arding favor-
ably the independence 6f Canada—its
independence as respects both the
motherland and the great republic.
One thing I should life to emphasize
here, as I have donesewhere in ad-
dressing those who wait this indepen-
dence for its own sake, and not as a
stepping stone to ann fixation, namely,
that it is essential for their purpose!
to keep in mind that the time bas not
come for seeking or for working for
Canada's becornine an absolutely in-
dependent nation in this sense. With
our scattered population of et present
five millions, and on our t*orders a
somewhat aggressive and not always
o'ery friendly nation numbering 65,e
000,000 of people, Canada would he
independent at their Buff. rance only.
TLP clear policy of those who look to
en absolutely independent Canada as
the goal to be couteniplated is to cher-
ish for the present a sentiment for
British connection jest as eagerly as
we all cherish a Canadian sentiment ;
and so to wait erents.
ever much we shoutd. try. .But not-
withstanding all this,; we do not want
to give our country to another nation
—(loud applause) --a, nation too that
may be at any time in a coudition of
active hostility to the:fatherland. We
do not want to leave to any other
nation, friendly or n>ifriendly, the de-
velopment of our ootintry under the
flag of that nation, Ordered of its being
I soote pain b
And though her heart was like to developed ander our own institutions
break,
She spoke no words of grieving
She let no tear bedim her eye,
For fear that might distress me,
But kissing me, she said good-bye,
And asked our God to bless me.
—Eugene Field.
IR OLIVER TO CA.NADI.ANS.
EN FUTURE OF CANADA AND THE Pltl:-
SENT DUTY OF HER SONS.
The battle of Qteenston Heights
was recently commemorated by the
Canadian Club at Hamilton at which
gathering Sir Oliver! Mowat was the
central Beare and df'livered a stirring
,and patriotic address,. He gaid :—
You hours referred to my strong
Canadian sentiments; There has been
r fou otithe worle ao dear to me
no pot
from my youth up es'Canada has been:
them is no portion if the world's in-
habitants in whom Ji feel so great an
interest as I do in thdse to whom Can-
ada is home, whether; home by birth or
home by adoption, and I am glad that
1 have been able to devote twentyone
of the best years of nig life to the sere
vice cf such a country. At the. time
!received the invitation to this gather-
ing I was not up do my ordinary
vigor, bat 1 accepted, expecting to be
all right by the day named. That ex-
pectation has not ben quite realized ;
and a am told that i have been over-
working myself in the past, and need
now a longer rest thn I have yet had
from` care and excitement as well as
from work. But the Canadian Club
had been so kind, and 1 had been so
often before invited to its anuual
gatherings when othier public duties
prevented my acceptng,that I thought
1 must keep my ce)gagementi to be
here to -day, even though there should
be more or less risk connected with
my breaking into tlfle rest whish I was
trying to give myself. One thing that
1 cannot help saying is this, that if I
were announcing the end of my political
life, an event which in the case of a
man in his 74th year cannot be louq
deferred, there is no occasion on which
I should like better to take leave of
public life than at a great gathering
like this of Canadians as such—(bear,
hear,)— Canadians, irrespeetive of
party, nationality, creed or sex, bound
togetherby the one grand tie of at-
tachment to Canada, anti met to foe -
ter and promote Canadian sentiment.
That sentiment binds together fill here
whatever else may separate Us from
one another.
I understand the special eharaeteris-
tie of your club and its members to be,
love for Canada; and you desire es 1
do that our Canada shall exist as ()tw-
eak for a nation's life time, and there-
fore for many generations, and shall
so exist in some form as a political
organism. You desire as 1 do that
tragi Cauadlt Atli he a prosperous
and our own flag. We do not wish
our country—lialf a continent—to be
swallowed up in any other country,
however great the population of that
other country may: Ise, and however
rich, ani whatever good we may think
of guy of them. While you and I do
not favor anuaxatipn, I suppose that
on the other hand•1 may asenme that
you do favor l3ritilih connection as the
best thing for us, for at all events the
present. Whatever our varying views
may be (so far as }re bare any views)
as to the. more or leas distant future of
Oanicta,l believe that you Are all glad,
a• I tau, that Canada, is . still part of
thereat Empire,+ (Applause.) You
r e our
iu
resources and. eapabl.ltles of u C I
ttda and its people.
The fathers of English speaking
Canada may he said to have been U.
E. Loyalists, the men who, for the
love of British citizenship, left all and
came to Canada when Canada was a
wilderness. They wercpnobly courage-
ous in facing difpioulties and 1ltivations
in time of peace, and they were brave
ns lions in time of war and in the field
of battle, (Hear, hear ) The French
h
population that day, like theFrench
of all tithes and places, had like cour-
age and like bravery. So with the
men of every other nation then repre-
sented in smaller numbers arnong the
people of Canada. The Ca digin sue-
censors n£ th' early settlers have
shown similar qualities as they have
had opportunity or occasion. In view
of these things I ans proud of Cana-.
dines all, proud of what they have
done, proud of what they have accom
plished, and proud of what fie compar-
ed with other people grey are; told the
facts of our history having heeu what
know, and the aetualit�}es and possibil-
ities being what tht;v are. I am full
of hope, as yon all aro for the future
of our Canada and its people. Full of
that hope, and the wish that helps to
cherish the hope, I with all my heart,
as a Canadian, thank the Canadian
Club for what they l ave done and
what they are doing to I? manifest and
develop aCanadian sentiment through-
out this glorious half of the North
American Continent.
You See 1 have 'elle very definite
word for you as to ,Canada's future,
constitutionally or nationally. This
must be developed by the events cif the
future. But there are perhaps things
which as lover's of filanada we may be
are ;,,lad, se 1 ant,, that Canadians are doing meanwhile, iii addition to what
still
citizens of the Empire, and sub-
jects of lis Queen„ and as truly such
citizens cud suhjlcts as our fathers
were before they `or we crossed the
great Atlantic. You are glad, as I
nm, to know that all British history
is still our history ; tbat the civiliza-
tion and gioriee of Britain, and of the
three kingdoms of which it is compose
ed, England, Ireland and Scotland,
still belong to Canadians as occupying
part of the same great Empire. You
are glad, as I am, that the patriots
and statesmen of the old lands, the
soldiers, the philanthropists, the poets,
the philosophers, ' the creat and good
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land. Our constitation, whieh re- ministered.
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ligent lovers of British connection as
well as others is, that sooner or later
something must and will be done to
ave the anomaly of mire resented for rohlt nttd"reliabilit as moll
millions toeing in point of law subject, Pfiicirtiey. "re vran b
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mers, the best manufacturers, the best
mechenics,•tlie beats bankers, the hest
merchants, the beat judges and the
best lawyers, th. beat doetors, the
beat journalists, t e beat engineers,the
beet architects, t be found anywhere;
and so in every d, pertment of industry
and intellectual 1Qotivlty. We all want
Canadians of eebry Claes end condi-
tion to have Idle highest character
everywhere foil efficiency in their
work, whatever •that work nay be, and
rem p probity p as
country, and you want it to be some
day a groat country, as well as a pros-
perous one. You are satisfied as I am
tp has
a h. d a
Canada is
i coo and tAlna't .. g ,
uitdevelo feed resources enonb, to he.
1sMe a great country, and that iii has
filllnate and other 'characteristics
to develop end maintain a great
We have these aspirations federation was to flim alluring. I at Chicago w
opinions io common no I trope think that Kir John Abbott, white l Union and every nation of the world,
in legislation and government, to the specially noted
absolute will of the Parliament of the laweabiding, a
Fatherland across the Ocean, even aiid in nu re
th
.ttatigh the legal power may not be and honorable
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(CONIMCTP., 'x THE WINOIi1,b0 nn,tNOIL)
-' For Gott and Home and Native Land,"
Well call the attention, of the mothers and sisters
to the fact, that the Woman's Christian TOmpor•
ante Union meets overs' Monday at three o'clock
Sharp, for ono hour, at Mfrs. Floret's residence, Pat•
rink street. All ladies are made welcome.
We hold a monthly eospul meeting on tho last
Monday of every month, except when otherwise
advertised, to which meeting we invite the public
generally.
As the Editor has kindly given us part 01 his
space, for our work, wu ask friends of the cause to
vend Items of interest on all moral questions of the
day to any of our members.
Several brewers have testified before
the Comrnission that they sold more
boor in So?tt Act counties while that
law was in force than before its adop-
tion or after its repeal. If prohibition
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finer es their business, uslness, why do they
ask compensation for loss of property
and business should a prohiloitory law
passed, � the be 1 saed. 1 Scoot Act unproved
trade, why did they spend money in
repealing itl
In Nova Scotia a movement is on
foot to secure a plebisite on the liquor
traffic. Manitoba has spoken, and
shortly Ontario and Prince Edward
Island will pronounce upon the subject.
It was stated recently that the Govern-
ment of Quebec would soon he asked to
provide for a popular vote. It will
soon be possible to know precisely
what the people of Canada would like.
If prohibition be demanded with a
majority strong enough, and politicians
will be politic enough to bring it in op•
eration.
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The Royal Omrnission are get-
ting some evidence that ought to have
weight in the counsels of the future.
.A man who for fifteen years hae been
manager of the Waterloo County Poor
House, gave evidence before the Corn -
mission last week. .His testimony
was to the effect that theaverage
number of inmates inthe home during
his time was eight'five per yearend the
principal cause that sent them there
was intemperance. Further than that
the poverty of at least one-fourth of
the remainder was due to the drunk-
enness of relatives.
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The chief business in this plebiscite
campaign is to show that a prohibitory
law would greatly lessen it not entire-
ly remove the evils caused by the
liquor traffic. . The evils are admitted
by everybody amenable to reason.
Even many of the men who sell liquor
admit that the business is bad. Any
number of people, not total abstainers,
are willing to vote for prohibition if it
can be shown that a prohibitory law
will in all probability lessen the
amount of misery caused by intemper-
ance. The point to be kept steadily
before the people is that in an intelli-
gent well -governed, law abiding coun-
try like Ontario, there is no reason why
prohibition should not prohibit, or if
prohibit altogether, reduce the evils not
to a minimum.
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There is one kind of a temperance
meeting that all good people should
unite in stamping out. We mean the
kind at which sentences not any too
serious or refined ere punctuated with
laughter. The ;iquor business and
its consequences are no laughing mat-
ter. Two-thirds or three-fourths of the
crime of this country le produced by
the liquor traffic, the crime is not a
laughing matter. Much of the poverty
of Canada is caused by intemperance,
and poverty is no laughing matter. n
Hearts are broken and homes are
darkened by drink, and the man that
can laugh at a broken heart or a dark•
ened home is unfit to address his
fellow men on any serious question.
It is said that five thousand men go
down every year in this Dominion to a
drunkard's grave and a drunkard's
doom. The man, who with that awful
fact staring him in the face, can retail
Yankee stories to snake an audience
laugh, Utas as little moral earnestness
as the audience that laughs, at him.—
Canada Presbyterian.
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The immense expenditure of the
'nations for intoxicating liquor and
tobacco, is illustrated ley certain pro-
positions which the United States
Government is said to be entertaining
for inereaeed taxes on those articles
h
for
the purpose of increasing
re-
venue. pThe tax on distilleits spirits of
00 cents per gallon not yields a
yearly revenne of $95,000,000, A
tax oil f .N
rulnnted Iigtlors of $2 per
would
a
revenue fratia that
sourceebarrel+ instead of 1 as atpresent
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of $64,000,000. To restore the taxes
in tobacco to what they were prior to
revenue.
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would 60
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It is also proposed to crape some
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