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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour 6tre reproduit en un seul clich6, il est film6 d partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche k droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 32 X 1 2 3 4 5 6 ADDRESS - BY - H. Spencer Howell, President Y. M. L C. A. In Reply to the Toast, -Young Mens LiberaL Conservative Association, of Gait;' • AT The Annual Supper, Qalt, November 20th, 1894. »".^*./ "«w.. \. i .'.. :f-*<^.,^t'' 1^1 National Library Bibliothdque natlonale of Canada du "anada + ■f Address by H. Spencer Howell, Resident Y. M. L.-C. A. Gkntlemex,-! thank you, vtM'y niiu-li, for tlio kindly niiuincr in wliich yoii liiivcicicivfil tliis tofist. Th()iif .sincci'c in our I'osponse to tho vail- ous sontinicnts, to tiie good wishes ex- pressed, tliis evening, I tiuist I may he permitted to say that I douht if tlu'ie is anytliing wliidi ajjpeals to us in a greater measure, tiiat touclies a more 8ymi)athetic cliord. than tiie welfare of our Young Men's Conservative Asso- ciation, This organization was formed to assist the older society ; and this evniing's ontertaiiunent was gotten up to assist the younger branch. It is not so nnich for the "inner man" that we ha\-.' assembled here.but rather for the higlu-r import— friendliness and fidel- ity. As the stranger in the desert who has partakc^n of the Arab's salt and bi-ead proceeds on his journey with a happy knowledge of greater security, so ought we, on leaving this room, to rejoice— to feel st.vngthened— in the fact that we are drawn closer together by social intercourse and nuitual con- fidence. I little thought, a short tinu^ ago, that I should be elected to the office of Secretaiy of the Conservative Associa- tion of South Waterloo ; nuich less did I imagine that the honour of being your President would be my happy lot. And I accejjted those positions with a sincere hope that I might pi-ove more useful to the coimnunity in general, and to the Conservative party in parti- cular, than I had been hitherto, I liave heard men remonstrate against this action ; some friends of mine have told me that 1 had better keep to the Howery paths of literature ; l)ettei- for me to mind my own business ; that I would make more enemies in political work in one week than I could count on my hands and feet, I replied that I would still continue in the thorny way of a magazine writer, that I liad no business to mind, and that I was not counting eneinles, "on my hands and feet !" One man, a f i lend, too, of our Association, wanted to know why I was flitting around with Commissioner Larke; what I knew about inter- colonial trade, commercial affairs, etc, and suggested that I had "ulterior motives." I said tluit I entertained no Idea of personal benefit ; that, in fact, I did it just-/ora lark 1 I am not suf- ficient of a Presbyterian to ))elieve en- tirely in predestination ; but I do believe in what we Anglicans may call "fate." There is a destiny for each of us; and it has its incipience in the cradle. Dickens well knew this ; for how often does he refer to the idea— in Little Dor- rit ; not once nor twice, but many times do these lines occur :— "And thus ever, by day and by night,under the sun and under the stars. climJiing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and to re-act on one another, move all we restless travellers through this pilgrimage of life," I will not take up your time In pre- senting to you a retrospect of the his- ADDRiESS BY II. SPENCER HOWELL. tory of th(i Conservative purty in this Riding : with its many hattlt's, its greater defeats, and its single victory ! I will not tell of the local heroes who fought— and who were bled ! I might get "dropped on", like the American stump-orator who was haranguing the masses, during a recent election period. He told his audience how he had tought and fought, how his family had fought, liow his forefathers had fought for his party— and free trade ; and at the close of nearly every sentence he made refer- ence to his ancestor who came ont with the other Pilgrim Fathers, in the good ship Mayflower, and landed on Ply- nu)uth Rock, so long ago. When he had concluded his speech, his adversary got up and said : "Gentlemen, I do he- lieve that it would have been better for this here country if, instead of the Pil- grim Fathers and this nuin's ancestor coming out in the Mayflower, and land- ing on Plymouth Rock, so long ago, I believe, I say, that it would have been better for this country if Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrim Fath- ci-s !" So, were I to inflict you with a lecture I might receive a longer one in return. The ol)ject of our Association is to gather our young men together in the club-room ; to make those evenings en- joyable, to make them instructive ; and, by nutans of the debating society, to constitute ourselves the fitter to enter into political strife— armed with a knowledge of ciurent events, protected by confidence in ourselves and in the purpose we shall strive to maintain. It is essential that we educate ourselves in those lines of the work in which we ai-e lacking strength ; a man who is thoroughly posted on the subject before him has an advantage over a more fluent speaker who ts not so well in- formed on the matter in ipiestion. A (piick-firing gun will hold the enemy in check, but a single well-directed slu^ll will cause greater disaster. If I read the jM'npflr construction of the word "politics" aright, I do not in- terpret its meaning as implying viiulic- tive abuse of our opponents ; they have the right to do in accordance with their own opinions— mistaken though they are ; and I believe.in alls^incereity, that the life-long friendships which have existed between some of my Reform friends and myself will not be broken because I have determined to take a more active part in that work in which my party is engaged. In the lanks of the opposition we see some men of ex- cellent parts ; fine, whole-souled fellows who would be a credit to any ])ai-ty— were they but weaned from the worsiiip of the false idols of free trade. Some- times, I find myself lookingat these men, studying their faces, marvelling that such outward, visable appearances of in- tellect should disguisesuch an utter want of common sense 1 I have wondertul if they met with accidents, in their eaily youth : did their nurses drop them on their heads ? For it is incomprehensible to me that men, mentally sound— ap- parently, should live here in this town of Gait- this "Manchester of Canada" —and help to compose a majority who vote against the Government that supports the industries that support the town ! What would our country be without its conmiercial indnsti'ies ? Whatwouldourtownbe ? Whatgreater calamity could befal us than that a par- ty determinedly opposed to giving the needful protection to the manufacturer, to the workinginen, should gain tlu; reins of power ! The silent loom ; the idle hanuner; the motionless wheel ; these would be object lessons— learned too late. The industries of the land have ever been of paramount impor- i ADDRESS BY H. SPENCER HOWELL. S taiu-e ; this fact has vouw. down to us through countless ages ; it was as true tliousauds of years ago. We have it from tlie highest autliority. When the Lord (h'nounced those who would not hearken to His word, He did not threat- en with the plague, with ttre, nor with flood ; hut to those He said (in Jer. 2.'>) : —"I will take from them the voice of gladness, and the sound of the. mill- nfoncH, and this whole land shall he a desolation." It is our duty to demon- strate to our townsmen, to ourcountrj- nien, the great advantage enjoyed he- cause of the government's policy of protection ; and, at the next genei-al election, we nuist reverse the majority in this Hiding. We have hegun early and well ; let us contiime the work in the |)roper spirit ; h't us not fall asleep, but keep a lookout on the times, that we may not he misled hy any false issue that may crop up in the near future. Always ))e prepared for something new, oi" a new mask on an old face. The well-known political writer of the last c(Mitury, Joel Barlow, once said :— •'The science of politics is not fixed and unchangeahle,like a system of abstract truth, but is progressive of civilization, and fluctuating with the exigencies of society," Therefore, we should make ourselves conversant with the chart of public affairs ; watching the compass on the ship of state ; guarding against the sunken rocks that, ever beset the track of the political mariner. The day after to-morrow will be Thanksgiving Day. All nations re- joice and offer thanks for mercies re- ceived, for victories of war, victories of l)eace, for inununity from pestilence, and for bountiful harvests; the abori- gines have the instinct to acknowledge lo theii- gods their gratitude for such as these, and crowned lieadsof civilized lands bow low with feelings of obliga- tion to their Maker. In this year of grace, eighteen bundled and ninety- fovn-, no country under the sun has greater reason to show a recognition for the privileges it enjoys than our Canada. Looking backward over the past year, we see the sombre shadows of misfortune hanging above nearly all countries; in that so-called "golden land" of the south, Australia, we see our sister colonies plunged intt) a state of financial distress hitherto unknown; we see, there, immense tracts of coun- try devastated by fire and by Hood, and what the Imsh-fires spared the strikihg shearers Hnished with the torch. We find nmch the same thing in the neigh- bouring Republic,— aiigmented by the disgraceful abuse of nnmicipal and state power. In far off India the mut- terings of disc. t affairs is so difficult, so intricate, uvving to their varied ramifications, where there arc so many confiicting elements, so nuiny classes holding oppt)site opin- ions, where— at such a tim»> as this — we might expect to find a nujch worse position of circumstances, we find that (according to an editorial pai-agraph in the Gait Reformer, of the date of .June the 22nd, of this year): "We liave evi- dently come thi'ough a period of world- wide depression with exceptionally small disturbjince." If these were mv words, or did they come from the gentlemen on my right or my left, ADDRESS BY H. SPRNOKR FIOWKI.L. thoy inif,'ht he douhtcd, hut coiniiif? from the icHcctcd j harder times, a Httle closer l>inching in certain (piarters; this is hut a residtant from tlie universal dull- ness of the markets; theie have heen no panics, no starvation stalking through the land, as in other parts of the woi-ld. (The civic authorities in Melhoui-nc, that nuignilTcent cai)ital of Victoria, were obliged to feed the un- employed with fish and with loaves of hread: I have illustrated papers de- picting the soi-rowful sceiu's). No, there is no fairer land than ours; no country hetter governed, nor where the Coju'ts of .lustice are i)nri'r; no l)i)i-tion of an Kmpire whose history is gi-ander, whose future ap])ears hiighter; tlnis, we can feel a pride in being Canadians, -(Canadians who are not ashamed to own theii- allegiance to the mothor-lai)d, from whom they de- rive such glorious heritage! Knglish- nien may qualf the flowing bowl to: - "England, Home, and neauty!" We rei)Iy with: "Fair Canada, and her Happy Homes of Industry!" We are all Canadians, in the fullest signifi- cance of the term; the fishermen ply- ing his trade along the shores of Gaspe, the habitant of Quebec, the merchant in his comiting-honse at Montreal, or Toronto, those who live by the great waterways - the inland seas, the farmer and the hunter of the North- West, and our people on the coast of British Columbia -pi-ote, ted by the English men-of-war, these .•u-e all Canadians. We do not all recognizi> one creed; neither do we trace our ancestral lines to one country, to one people. The man whose birth was re- corded within the sound of Bow-Bells, in old London; he who first saw the light of day amidst the fragrant heather of the Scottish Highlands; with him w^ho has spent his early lif(> on the green shores of Hihernia. oi' along the reaches of the Khine, who has come am»)ng us to build his home under the spreading maple trees,— these unite with us, native-born citi- zens, in loyalty to our comitry and to our Queen. The Jlose is the end)lem of England, imu- bodying sweet ness, i)urity, and beaut v; the Thistle is of Scotland, ajul though seveie in form and armed at every point, nevertheless its (h)wiiy ci-est is soft as a baby's silken tresses; and the little Shanu-ock-vine of Ireland has tiny clinging sprays that seem to speak of the tender hearts in the "Ould Isle;'' while the Maple-Leaf, in its autunmal glory, is symbolic of the i-osy future of oui- country, of the golden treasures of the field and the mine; and the led veins ill that leaf tell, as it wercs how the life-blood of Canada's sons would flow in ciimson sti'cams in defence of her national integrity. I shall never foiget the 181 h of Octo- ber, this year, (the anniversary of the great battle of Qiieenston Heights)! when I stood on the platform in To- ronto Park, at the unveiling of Sir .I()l:n Macdonald's monument; when I sawtheUnionJ.uk fall from the pe- destal-exposing to view the face and figu.e of our late chieftain; and when I heard that mighty cheer f.-om ten thousand throjits, and the ins|)iring strains of oui- ((Canadian) n;itional song- "The Maple-Leaf P(,rever;" for I felt my heart beat as it never throbbed be- fore. But as the cei-emony proceeded, my thoughts drifted far away - back to the past; in place of the gilded statue I saw the quiet grave in (!ataraqui cemetery; instead of the vast throng, I pictured the Legislative Halls at Ot- i f ADDREKH BY H. SPENOER HOWKLL. i •k tawa,— those Halls uithiii whicli tluit (j^ivat statcsinaii and his ))arty did ho iiuu'li towaid iiiaiviiiK tills laud the of our fncuds, and the rcsiwct of our o|>poU(>uts. Two hundred years a^o thijt y«'ai', John Tillotson, Aiehhishop hiixhtest jewel in th( Inipei'lal diadein! ; of Canterbury, wrot*- these words "Sineeritv ei'eates eonfidenee in tiioso I think it was Dean Hole, of lloches- tt«r, who once said that it was "almost iuipossihle foi- a man to he a jjolitieian and a j^eutleman." Hut I ht^lieve we may take exception to the renuirk; for there is nothing to hinder each one of us from enterinj^ the political arena, 11^1)1 ing in iin honorable mamier for tla^ cause we deem Just, and at the same time being a living cDutradiction to the worthy Dean's statement. In fact, oiu' first car»' should be to wjitch ovei' our act ions; to guard against do- ing aught that would bring oui'selves, and the oiganization to which we have the honoi' to belong, into disi'ei)ute; if we jiause to lemendier that that which we may be tempted to do might j)rove hurtful to our friends and to the Asso- ciation, we might be restramed from acting imprudently. The individual ei-ror is oft-times laid at the door of the political i)arty ; mistak<'s of a pub- lic natui'e are hard to eradicate ; and it is easier to do that which is right than t«i cover uj) a wrong. We cati always improve ourselves, I hohl it true, in the words of Tennyson, that: "Men may rise un stev)ping-stone <>f their dead selves to higher things." If we make it a rule — no matter how pi'egnant with success the result may appear — to espouse no (piestion, no is- sue, that has not first the sanction of OIU' conscientious sincerity of piirpose, we shall receive the greater confidence we have tf) deal with, saves the labour of many imiuiiies, and brings the speedy despatch of b\isiiu'ss to an issjie in a few words; it is like ti-avelling in a plain beaten load, which coiumouly brings a man soonei" to his jouiuey's end than by by-ways, in which men of- ten lose themselves. ♦ * * * When a man has once forfeited the re- putation of his integrity, he is set fast , and nothing will tln'n seive his turn, neither truth nor falsehood." liCt us cast away all selfish desires ; let us perfoi'iii oiu- api>ropriale our in- dividual tasks— for each of us has a cer- tain share of work to do; and fis the personal effort is successful, so shall tht' general organization reajjaprop r- tiouate benefit. As t>ui actions are the passjKirts to society, so should we live that we shall not feai' the face of any man, in all the world. And when that time comes when all things of a mun- dane naturtu-eases to intei-est us ; when matters political, soiial, private, and public are fast becoming as but the grey mists that gather upon the silent i'iv<'r; when the Veil is falling : -we shall not, then, accuse ourselves of faintlu'arted- iiess nor of failure. "So. when tlie AiiKcl of the Diirki'i' Drink At lust sliiill lliul you on tlu! Itiver l>rink, And, otl'LTiiiK his Cu]), invito your iSoul Forlli to your lips to ijuatl',- you sliull not sliriiik."