The wageworker., 1905-08-25

At first view the falls are disappoint-
ing. This is due to the fact that the
human mind is incapable of grasping
their immensely all at once. But the
| longer one gaZeS at the tremendous
spectacle the more impressive it be-
| comes. Man with all of his wonderful
ingenuity, his wonderful opportunities
and his wonderful resources, has never
been able to create anything so grand,
so awe-inspiring, so awful. No other
power than that of Omnipotence could
have torn those giant rocks asunder
and sent the waters rushing over with
noise as of thunder and a power that
can not be measured by finite minds.
The very roar of the cataract is as
the voice of the Almighty calling upon
man to witness the infinite power.
To all outward appearances the citi-
zenS of Toronto do not differ from the
people of cities on the American side.
II is only when one takes closer view
that the difference is manifest. In
the American city of 100000 the
] strenuous life is apparent. Here the
people seem to take things easy, and
they seem to make about as much
money, too. They walk the street
leisurely, they do business leisurely
and they take their pleasures leisure
ly. Your average Toronto man is
family man par excellence. He never
thinks of taking a holiday without
sharing it with his family, and the
dozens of pleasure resorts in and
| about Toronto are always thrOnged
with crowds of picnickers. No intoxi-
cants are allowed to be sold at any
of these resorts.
| for the first time, and, meet
Canadian does not have--good coffee.
| They are tea drinkers, and coffee is
among the impossible things. Many
of the restaurants do not serve it, and
those that do serve it at all do so
reluctantly. After trying it for week
it is easy to understand their reluct-
ance. 1t is no wonder that pople who
make such excrable coffee do not like
to sell it. When they do they lay
themselves liable to arrest for obtain
ing money under false pretenses. They
are tea drinkers, and when they do not
drink tea they drink 'arf-an''arf or
porter, or ale. This is a cold country,
a fact that may explain why the
walters never think of putting a piece
OF ice in the drinking water.
On Kings street.-the principal thor
oughfare-is a street intersection that
is famous throughout the provinces.
The four corners have been named
Education, Legislation, Salvation and
Damnation." On one corner is a school
house, on another the premier's resi-
dence, on another a church and on the
other a bar. The application may
readily be seen.
The Typographical Union ccnven-
ton has been full of interest. The 1906
xxrfn hn hn16 OF G0l0 do
Springs, Colo, the seat of the Union
Printers Home. BY unanimous vote
the convention decided to "stand pat"
OH the eight-hour day proposition. The
chief incident of the convention was
the unseating of a delegate, who, as
editor of labor paper, dared to criti-
else the executive council of the union.
Without commenting upon this Incl
dent it might be well enough to remark
that it seems queer that printers. of
all tradesmen, should be the first to
limit the liberty of the press.
At the recent annual commence
ment exercises of the New York law
school the principal speaker was Mar
tin w. Littleton, ESQ.,, president of
Brooklyn Borough. He mentioned no
names in the course of an address in
which he scored greed and dishonesty,
but his audience would experience no
difficulty in identifying the conspicu-
Gus figures in iron, oil life insurance
and other activities to whom he al
luded, as will be seen from the fol-
flowing extracts from the address:
Not very long ago little man sat
down amid the hills and built fire
that burned for days and years and
when the smoke went up and the fire
went out he raked the ashes and
found $30O,OO0,O0O melted in the heat
of sweat and toll. His footsteps fell
upon a continent of iron, his cum
ming brought conquering army of
Drawn and grit, and with the two to
serve and sleep not he rose to be a
monarch crowned with steel. But
when at last he saw the shadows
lengthening toward the east he
turned away from grinding metal and
golden greed to set up once again his
lost ideal. Granite galleries hung
with art and color, marble structures
stuffed with books of cult and greed,
rose upon this base of solid gold. But
all the granite in the undiscovered
earth and all the marble massed in
, unmined mountains, and all the books
born of hate and love, of thought and
passion, you'd fail to teach one half
as much as the calm confession COM
ing from this little man that his gain
was wrongly got and his ideal lost in
, the getting.
Another man holds hard in check
, the surging commerce of the age He,
, too, found natures boarded treasure
in deep rich lake of liquid wealth, and
! with privilege government given
: and with a protection government
. guaranteed, he put a plant together
r whose boundaries baffle all the skill
! of men and whose powers stagger
3 all the resolute nerve of a nation.
e "Mistaking the decay of nature for
e the grace of God he turns trivial
d stipend to the church, paltry con
r tribution to the schools and in return
{ he expects the pulpit and the chair
r to apologize to God and all the world
/ for the system by which it came. Bet
e ter than colleges crownfng campus
e grounds; better than churches i'm
If pliedly pledged to put the case ir
IS colorless discourse; better than al
IS these would be the plain admission
J. briefly made that all his gain was go
a against the laws of God and man.
"A few decades ago a man begar