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 No. 28. 
 
 irwo VISION'S. 
 
 1 
 
 A Goodly Land Destroyed by the Grit Blight— How 
 it was Restored to Prosperity. 
 
 THE FIRST VISION. 
 
 I had a tIhIod aa I slept in mj ohalr, and 
 in tbtt TlsloD I aaw a land of magoiflceDt dts- 
 tanoea, watered by rivers of noble propor- 
 tlona, gt rt with wide acreage of fertile coan. 
 try. It had a sea coast of 6,000 mllM in 
 length. It was grandly placed among the 
 nations of the world iur commerce. Oreat 
 iiUies afforded wonderfol facilities for internal 
 oommunication.lt had within its broad l>orders 
 ooal and !roD, gold and many valuable econo- 
 mic minerals. Vast foresU of splendid timber 
 ooTered hundreds of thousands oi square miles. 
 It< fisheries were equal in proiifloness to those 
 of the famous Oerman ocean. Its climate 
 was well aditpted to derelop a hardy , enter- 
 prising people. Its inhabitants were sprung 
 from thu best woraing and Qghtiog stocliH of 
 the world's familits of nutious. Crerytbing 
 conduced to give the people a grand chance 
 in the battle of life. 
 
 Yet throughout this land, as I looked, I 
 law distress and suffering. Its cities ooo- 
 tained hutidreds and thousindf of vacant 
 houses. They seemed, like a boy with bis 
 fotber' 8 trousers on, too big for the number 
 of inhabitants. In the market places stout, 
 muscular men were louDgin^t about, with 
 grief stamped on their faces, and puverty on 
 their clothes. They were ready and will- 
 ing to work, but of work there was none. 
 The various charities of these cities were be- 
 sieged for doles by applicants, upon whose 
 manly ooanteoances shame at having to beg 
 •nm-pMnly visible. At the railway stations 
 were crowds of peu|.le wailing for *be south- 
 ern-l:jund trains to carry them away from the 
 laTid tb&t vofused them work. At the 
 leaporti every vessel going away 
 was crowded with men anJ women, 
 girls and boys, leaving the country. 
 
 At the Capital, bands of workingmen vainly 
 besought the Oovernment to provide public 
 employment till times got better. The in- 
 vai iuble answer was : ■ ■ We can do nothing 
 for you ; spend less on yourselves, be indi- 
 vidually economical, and in time everything 
 will come right," advice which sounded like 
 mockery to men who were feeling the pinch 
 of penury in their very souls. 
 
 Entering the banks, I looked into ledgers 
 which showed business of ail kinds impidly 
 decreasing. Up the savings banks steps a 
 constant stream of people moved with savings 
 books la their bauds, drawing out their little 
 boards from former better times, to keep the 
 wolf from the door. The fitilores in business 
 were appalliog. Confidence had disappeared. 
 Bach man aimed to do the least amount of 
 business be could. 
 
 Entering the stock exchanges I found ail 
 values had shrunk. Stocks of all kinds had 
 dropped. Beal entate went tor a song, if it sold 
 at all. The factories were silent. Indiutry 
 was a corpse, dead as Julius Ctesar. The only 
 cheerful sound was the " Qoiug.goiug, gone" 
 of the auctioneer as ho sold out bankrnpt 
 stock, or sold up the remains of the household 
 goods of distrained tenants. A, black cloud 
 bung over the land. The richer people fonod 
 their incomes sadly curtailed, and. In many 
 cases, swept away. Penury had invaded the 
 land and driven out Plenty and putCumfo.t 
 in chains. I asked what is the matter with 
 thia land? and received as answer, "The 
 Orit blight. It has made this country a 
 tramp among nations. The iron of war never 
 entered the soul of a people as this blight has 
 entered our souls. The country is as if a 
 civil war, like the war of the Buses, had de- 
 wtated the land." 
 
 As I looked, I saw the people with one ac- 
 cord tncniog In their distress to one old man 
 who, surely, at a glance one could see, loved 
 bis country as a woman lovoa her first born. 
 I awoke, hoping that the people would obtain 
 help, for never did I see in any land a people 
 more grievously borne down by calamity or 
 enduring distress more bravely. 
 
 THE SECOND VISION. 
 
 Again I slept, and another vision passed 
 before me. I saw the old man of wise 
 counsels pondering ever the problem of life 
 as It presented itself to the daily experience 
 of the people he loved so well. He was 
 ituiylnfr the conditions of the country and 
 the d n'lopment of other countries. His 
 careworn brow was • furrowed with 
 tbongbl-lines. Be saw the tiemendooi 
 
 Itruggle going on among otlicr nations tor 
 Indnstrial supremacy ; the cheapening af 
 transport to enable American t« compete with 
 Indian wheat fields la English homes ; the 
 crowding and crushing of natioas to pasb 
 each other to the wall. What could he do, 
 amidst this Titanic struggle, for his country f 
 Out of the nettle danger he plucked the 
 flower safety ; with a statesman' J eye he took 
 in the situation and evolved a remedy for the 
 ills of the people who, in their hoi r of sorest 
 need, had turned to him for aid. He had 
 searched toe difficulties through and throngh. 
 His remedy was : 1 st, the development of 
 railways in order to aid Ije farmer to get hi4 
 products to the markets oi the world as 
 cheaply as other nations ; 2nd, protection 
 to homi.' iadust.ies, to give the meci.anla, the 
 artisan and the operative a chance for con- 
 stant employment at iucraased wages. The 
 people gladly placed their destinies In bis 
 hand. 
 
 The brave, wise old man buckled 
 to the task; instead of taking well-earned 
 rest, as one of his years might, he sprang to 
 work for his people with the vigor of a 
 young man, buoyed up by his love of the 
 land he lived in. His efforts were successful. 
 Slowly at first, then more rapidly, confi- 
 dence, that "plant of slow growth," grew 
 into strength. Eight years roiled away. The 
 country could hardly be recognised. The 
 cities were no longer too large fur their in- 
 habitants. Their bouo'^i were increasing 
 year by year at rapid rates. One great city, 
 notwithstanding a visitation of pedtllenve, 
 Ikad increased in povjulation nearly aa much 
 in five years as i> bad before increased .a ton 
 years. Its new buildings for the elghtt; 
 y«ar weie nearly 1,000 more than for the 
 Irst year oi the eight. 
 
 From out their tills the prosperous 
 manufacturers, rapidly multiplying la num- 
 ber, paid $26,000,000 a year in wages 
 where bsfore they had paid $14,000,000. 
 Labor and Capital band in band, 
 brothers as they are, bad transformed 
 the face of the country ; it was bathed in sun- 
 shine. The gloom, the long faces and the 
 soup kitchens had disappeared. Agriculture, 
 manufactures, commerce were all prospering. 
 Busiiess failures bad greatly dimiuiabed both 
 in number and amount. The adjacent country 
 no longer affucted injuriously the condition 
 of the trading community ; instead of failures 
 being in the one country 21 to every 100 in 
 the other country, they were but 13 to every 
 100. The fire and life insurance oompinies 
 were doing a rapidly Inceasing business. The 
 once dwindling savings deposits were ac- 
 cumulating by millions of dollars. The coal 
 mines were pouring out black diamonds as 
 ftst as they could^bavioK more than doubled 
 their output. The railways were pressed 
 with business, and had not cars enough 
 to carry .ho freight offered. In the eight 
 years the coasting vessels sprung up Ir^m a 
 tonnage of 8,900,000 to a tonnage of 1S,900,- 
 000. The banks were doing a lively business, 
 their discounts having increased in the same 
 time $60,000,000. The people were doing 
 their part to make the country prosperous. 
 
 The Oovernment in the meantime had done 
 it« part. Slowly at first, and then with 
 a rapidity which arrested the attention 
 of the civilised worlil, the bright bands of 
 steel rails had pushed their way through the 
 rocky regions of the great lake. Tbe old 
 man's faith bod removed the mountains of 
 the fat West, and Che two oceaiis em- 
 braced each other The intervening 
 country was brought within hailing 
 distance of the capital. Along the line 
 of railways built under the masterly aotivity 
 of the plutfky old man tbe value nf the city 
 assensmeuts increased twenty millions of dol- 
 lars Id a single year, while through their 
 whole length the luoreaas in tbe value of 
 rural property was in five years great enough 
 to pay ftjr the whole cost of the railways. 
 
 Every test applied to tbe condition of any 
 country applied to this country Ihowed great 
 >leveliipmtiut, solid piosperity. This was the 
 more nmarkable because the neriod cf this 
 marvellous development was a period in the 
 world's iudustrial history of greater trade 
 depression than ever before known. A trade 
 blUiard devastatedjother ocuntrles. This couu- 
 try merely felt thu Bicker of the bliuord' a tall. 
 
 THE APPEAL. 
 Then in my risioo I saw the wise old man 
 — who had by his wisdom saved the country, 
 protested it from rutbhss foreign In- 
 dnstrial invasion and changed everything 
 as if he liad possessed an enchanter's 
 wand — sending out a proclamation to the 
 people, in which he askni whether they were 
 contend to continue him as guide and coun- 
 sellor. Then immediately there began a 
 hubbub and oonfasion. "Bbe wise old man 
 had enemies. They oovled him his place in 
 the affections of the grateful people. They 
 bad denied that his remedies were good ones. 
 They had called him "humbug," "char- 
 latan," "quack" and "robber." H.« 
 remedy was declared a "monstrous blunder" 
 by one of the chief ol his enemies. No epithets 
 were too strongly vituperative for their use. 
 They burled all kinds of abuse at him for hia 
 
 "FOOLISH, WICKED PROTECTIVE 
 POjMCY." 
 
 They had kept up tbe fire at bis deveted bead 
 for ten long years. Then, when the pro- 
 clamation issued, and the people were 
 asked by the brave self-denyiug old man to 
 judge between him and bis enemies tbe lat- 
 ter began to ■ ■ hedge.' ' Some of them said : 
 " The old man's remedy has cured the ills of 
 the people." Others said : " We don't know 
 about that, but turn tb» old mau out and we 
 will appoint a commission to decide the 
 point;" while still another lot maintained 
 tbatbti> poHiiy w»»« "treoi'^nilnii'" h'u""lerJU(4„_ 
 mistake." Then they asked the people to h«l;) 
 them turn out tbe wise old man, the roui) < 
 of tbe policy under which vhe couuirj . ■. 
 prospered— becauad while litihad been aeanjfh' 
 lug into the case of the people and applying 
 successful remedies, a few hangers on had 
 been looking after themselves and securioj 
 what, in the language of tbe day, was called 
 boodel (boodle ) 
 
 Others sail! : "See what a debt bos 
 been piled up in consequence of this 
 ■ monstrous blunder* called the National 
 Policy. The railways are good things; we 
 apprave of them. But he shauld have built 
 them without runuiug the country into debt. 
 We want our cake and we want to eat it, too.' ' 
 
 Others said, " He is a bad old n; u. Turn 
 him out. He built the railways \.^j rapidly. 
 We like to take two bites at the cherry ; this 
 rapid piogress takes our breath away. Turn 
 him out. Put us in ; we will be anything 
 and say everything, only put us in power." 
 
 THE PEOPLE AND THE OLD MAN. 
 
 In my vision I saw the people look upon 
 these men and then upon luu patieut old man 
 they were peltiog with coarse words and foul 
 slanders " What have ysu ever done ?" tha 
 people asked tbe old man's enemies ; " 7ou 
 are ten years l>ehiod him in appreciation of 
 tbe necessity of the National Policy. Half of 
 you in your hearts hate it because he 
 devised and carried It out, («nd hate it 
 for this reason worse than } ^u do the 
 devil. Some of you declare to-day that it la 
 a monstrous blunder which has greatly 
 injured the people. Your leader does not 
 know his own mind on the subject, and 
 would, If he gained power, be bounced 
 about, like an applicant for initiation in a 
 snowshoe club, by the contending fao'ious 
 ready to tear each other's eyes out. Yon 
 are combined only because of your hate of 
 him. He did what you declared an impos- 
 sibility. We stand by the old man who has 
 stood by us. He linked'bis arm In ouis andL. 
 helped us through the dinmal swamp, wbil* 
 you sat in your seats like Egyptian mummiea 
 in their tombs. You drew your salaries and 
 declared you were like flies on tbe wheel, 1 a- 
 potent to prevent disaster or promote pro- 
 gress. Ingratitude is not our besetting 
 sin. We are grateful to tbe wise old 
 man, and don't Inteoil to desert him at the 
 bidding of his enemies who have never 
 showed any of his wiliingDeaa or any of bta 
 ability to help us." 
 
 THE END. 
 I woke from my viaion impressed with tha 
 Idea that the people of the country were 
 level-headed, that their hearts were in the 
 tight place and that the wise old man would 
 reap as be bad sown— receiving the gratitnd* 
 and continued support of tha people he b*A 
 ■erved so well. 
 
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