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Miyor W. T. Tassie's Reply to the ast to the Memory of Dr. Tassie, fcrmerly Principal of Gait Collegiate Institute, at its Semicentennial, i8th July, 1902. If I had no other duty before me than to ezpreu my gratification at the manner in which the old scholara of the Collegiate Institute have exhibited their loyalty to its traditions, to the present and former masters, and to the memory of Dr. Tassie, I should merely have to perform a service that might very properly devolve upon any of you, and yet it wonld be as presumptnoos for me not to acknowledge my inability, compared with any of ^on, to do jnstioe to this toast, as it would be ungracioua in me not to recognize your loyalty to the memory of Dr. Tassie in proposinjit, and your extreme courtesy to myself in associating my name with it. Bu!;, while I desire to thank yon most sin- cerely and heartily for thns honouring ,.n3 memory of Dr. Tassie, I feel in a measure precluded from passing any eult>gy upon him by reason of my relation- ship to him. Nevertheless, if in touching on the vocation he followed rnd its associations, and in presenting a plea for a Great Cosmopolitan Newspaper as the educational need of the world, a thought shonld escape me, the genu of which was sown by mv kinsmar and teitcher years ago, let it be received as an unpremeditated tK>»':te to him, for I i.m well assurM in my own mind that such a thought will be a worthy one. As the son of DsedalTis handled the wa:: and the feathei-s not knowmg that they were for his fntave flight, so we as boys pursued studies here not knowing their future signif canstt. But we must now acknowledge that we were taught by the high standards of all of our teachers that the objects of education are to reach rational conditions of life and to set up some Bt"ndard for ourselves. That is its object with us as it was with the ancients. Greece borrowed idoas from the different myth- ologies of her colonies which culminated in difierent philosophies intended to be the standards of life and the bonds of society, as Britain is borrowing ideas from her colonies to-day '-ith a view to Imperial Federation, and it is worth while remembering that the early teachers of the world placed humanity under obligations centuries before the Christian Churoh, which founded the monai- teriw Mid WM • great edno»Uoii»l force, did Miythlng for Uie race. It U to teMhen like PytLgonui. 8ocr»te«, PUto, and ArUtot e th»t mankind owei the stupendooi tran»ition from barbaric orembryonlo life to newpriuciplee, to ipiritual reflection and ethical thought. But, however broad or comno- poUtonareformer'B ideal may be, the ever changing condition of society render new remedies necewary. So that while we mu«t acknowledge our obligation! to reformers and education! its of the uast as each has done Bomething towarda elevating mankind from a stote of slavery and social prescription to self-reliance and social freedom, and in maintaining the standards reached or in reaching out for loftier heights, the question for us is what should we do to meet the dangers confronting us. ^t j . j _ »« *v. While H IS true that nearly all reforms have met with the derision of the learned and ignorant alike, it is, neverthelens, true that no great movement in the history of mankind has ever taken place unless under the inspirataonot some grand ideal. Even in fable Minos could not restrain the flight of a mortal, and the far-famed sons of Neptune piled Ossa on Olympus and Felion on Ossa to reach the heavens which they would have accomplished had they not been cut off in their prime, and the launching of a great non-partiswa paper on the world and carrying it from one country to wiother until It OT^les the globe is not by any means a small idea, although it is not without favourable economic aspects. But what are the dangers existing or the dangers that threaten? In some cases, but not in all. the modern Trust is one— the modern Trust which stretches out its greedy arms through every pubUc avenue, the assaults of Labour on Capital where municipal and national interests are threatened, the combinations of Capital where tHe natural rights of humanity seem jeopardized, the issue by half a dozen Governments instead of one and that under the most rigid inspection and safeguards for the public of charters to public corporations, the abuse of tne Ro5»l Prerogative at the behest of scheming and audacious coteries, political thugs who are unworthy of even the name of politicians, the aJienation from the Crown of vast properties of unknown wealth to poli- tical partisans (not that I am attacking any particular party) and, »n short, the worship of wealth, power and place by the human family, for, notwitn- standing all we may say to the contrary, we really deceive ourselvefl when we assert that we hold in the highest honour those who fand aatislaction Ui moral action. If Epicureanism added no new element to cosmop^tan life or to the education of Greece, its bond, at least, was friendship. But what does this materialistic age of confusion and despair offer tave unlvereal antagonism or universal apathy, instead of univerpil sympathy and an aUe- Kiance to a religion many regard as a system of philosophy, and many use as a political laver which they hawk in the marts to the highest bidder and accept the awards thus secured as symbols of personal merit, while the great leaders and their followers, loudly proclaiming their patriotism and purity, openly avow in private conversation that they have secured, by venal pro- rnises, a large section of the electorate, apparently ignorant that they are announcing their own corruption? What is to be gained by guiding children into spheres of morals and religion and teaching them high problems m ethics and theology if we make no practical provision for their future guid- ance that the exigencies of the times demand, when we see that after all the toil and struggle the awards of life are given to those who repudiate the very principles taught in the schools and universities? If our education is not to servo us in our relations with each other in practical life it is like water drawn from a well in sieves. In my day at this school, as at Kagoy, Westminster and great schools in England, a Court of Honour existed which preMribetl temporary o8traoiBm •tfainBt boyg guilty of «h»bby condaot, and are we to demana a lower standard from the man than from the boy 7 I think I am ju»tified in assertinK that a formative power for honour, truth, Kenero»ity and courage prevailed here, and that the old Bcholara of thia Bchool and of the man whoae memory you honour by this toaat, aa a claM have been diRtinguished as gentlemen in their relations with their fellows in after life. . ^u Among the ancient Greekn it wan only those who cmiin contemplate the ideal as the end of life who were regarded as gentlemen, and we saw the result of their education scarcely leinH in the fact that their athletes travelled long distances to win a simple wreath of olive, laurel, ivy or pine, than in the equity displayed in the great Hpeethes of their lawyers anil statesmen, and at sterner moments, by Miltiades at Marathon and ThemiHtocles at Salamis. It is true that this school has contrit "^eu several thousand men to t*— ^.liferent voca- tions of life, but where are the scholars of the man whose ni. ^ fou delight to honour ? Would that I could compass all who passed beneath e lintel of his door, from that first priest who sought the secret in the crypt oi Time, to that supremely-gifted man, his last matriculant, who caught the mtisic of a far-off shore-some old forefather on a sunlit hill Nature had dowered with legacies of song— and in the melody of marriage psalms brought back in that old church tiie half- veiled past, till strong men proved once more love is divine, but not too sr- f;t for tears.* Many who ci)ent the balmy days of their fresh youth amid Vi se scenes have sailed with well-trimmed craft the voyage of life's sea, and passed to shores from which no record comes. But many are still to the fore. Twenty-two years ago Crozier rose as a star of the first magnitude in the literary firmament and won the admiration of such illustrious observers a neaa of the people nor to the strength of the State. Is there no Prometheus desiring the welfare of mankind who will carry a torch through the mists that surround us and scale the unexplored heights of a new Olympus, luminoi.8, unclouded, radiant? We leave the school a, and anhecribe to a materialistic code which holdn all in bonds, for we have no great, independent, daily, non-partisan paper to enlighten us from day to day, but a presa that is slavish to party and chained to it with links of gold. Be- hind that preas, behind that party are the great monarcha of finance, who can and who do drive men homeless when they raise their voices against cor- ruption. Editors should be the high priests of the twentieth centaty, carrying the credentials of justice and liberty and proclaiming the highest standard of ethics, encouraging agriculture, commerce and science, establishint;^ an authentic taste in art and architecture, advocating c<)mpulBor^ arbitration between a aubatantial number of strikers and corporations using the public franchise, encouraging discussions on the d fence and commercial federation of the Empire and not preaching one doctrine in one province and another doctiine in another province, defending the rights of the public, of public servants and officials— civil and military— the rights of labor and of capital, and supporting the beat men at all times, in all places, under all circumstances and at all hazards, independent of praise or blame, gain or loss, cliques or factions, sectionid or class prejudices, hiaih priests rendered independent b^ permanent and adequate salaries, who will investigate "ith the zeal of antiquaries, and who ha>dag only the right to defend will defend it with the faith of Crusaders and the courage of Paladins, high priests who will pull down our idols of gold and silver and replace them with some ideals that shall thrill the heart of humanity and carry "s on to a new cycle. Ever since tL <'\ys of the Cavaliers and Roundheads who ultimately merged into the Toneb and Whigs in England, the Conservatives and Reform- •n In CaokI*, i»e have had two partlen and a greal Third Party vibrating and oMillatinR between the two, but never lUMwing permanently to either becanw both are extreme. Thi« great Third Tarty ban never had any beacon to look to, never had any paper to inv.^«ti«ate for them or pr«f«ent iU viewe to the pnblio. Why •houM one-half or all the neople of thi« or of any other amutry be without a paper that will present to them the plain unadorned truth they wiah to Me ? rtere ban been no nuentlcm before the people of thia country for the laec half century that could not have been ducuaeed without parti»Mi viewa and approached aa an ordinary Board of Trade would have diacuaaed it and no queetion need ever arUe that cannot l>e dUcuased in the aame manner. The invention of printing waa a great educational force, but the party nrera aa auch la oa d*ad aa the Uhapaodlata of Greece or the MinatreU of Ireland and Scotland who iwrformed the functiona of teaoheraand moulded the oharactera of '.he jjeople ; it ia aa dead aa Feudaliim and the Order of Chivalry which were founded on principles of obligation and dlncipline, and out of which aroae rightb and dutiea ; it Is aa .l.ad as the lleformation which atirred the apiriU of men to aelf-reliance and civil freedom ; for It is aa dead aa the dead themaelvee, not that I think theae forces have entirely ceaaed, for I believe you cannot w aked aoroaa the atone-pavecl street without leaving the impress of y .ur feet to all eternity. And the life of thia man whose memory you have honoured by thia toaat, ia not confined to the theatre in which it waa enacted It la not confined to you or to me who were hia scholara, but extenda itself to those relations with which we are brouwht In touch and continues in an endleos and expanding continuity because the principles he taujiht had the fundamental eaaentiala of excellence and permanence. . , ,.« Time will not permit me to take a survey o* the different crmntnea demanding a cosmoiwlltan paper aa an educational force, from It^jr where ■ince the days of (favour and Stella and the great men who made that kingdom the derided Socialist is fiKhtIng th. battle of liberty for the lower ordera of Boolety and demanding the abolit" on of bribery among the upper claaaee, aorosa Europe tr. r -nerica where the \narchlst, the offspring of misrule, baa raUed hia ghaatly ! ad. But If it ia not estobllahed bv private enterprise— and im- mortality awaits the man who does eHtablifh it— the time w-ll come when tne Nations of the world vill de.oand, in the name of liberty, economy and educr- lion, its eatabliahmeLj and maintenance at the public expenae, absolutely and permanently free from Government control or interferpnce, like our Coutta of Law, and It will be the sreatest economic meaaure any Government cm adopt. For if the Apostle Paul could revisit the earth to denounce the iniquitiea that Partyism wallows in on this continent, Trom the selling of public honoura, emoluments and contracts, to making cowatdice, poltroonery .vid mendacity - so groea that it cannot receive any accession of infamv from porjnryitaelf— a precedent for military command and power, he would be driven from our churches for want of sympathy and be received with the aame contempt he met at Athens and PhiUppl. It is our only defence, our only aalvation. Trampled and defrauded humanity from the beginning of the world has cried out for justice, and Justice is aa immutable and as imperishable as Tiit. itself. She is as fair and as exempt from decay aa at creation's da«n. In her immortality she Is secure from any wrong that man can do, no tongue can defame, no hand pollute her. She is not wooed by blandishments, nor won by flattery, nor brlbwl by feasts, nor does she follow the rich, for she followa none that all may follow her. The child of the ragman and the child of the king are given her benedictionwith equal fervour, for honour and truth are cherished by her and dwell in her temple. ^ . . . Shall she who reigned ip the early tt/ilight of the Ohnatian era, m the lofty tmnplw of GrMo* and Koine, in tb* ahadowy raalma of anoient f»bl« and in (feldi unknown to song or itory, m the ftUKUat, invisible being under whoae Uwi »•" life upon the lihoree of time muHt aeelc reward, not flonrleh here? Hnve . *")ur, jtutioe nnu brotherhood lost th«ir power over the lonli of men ? Hnve we .orgotten that we rouit riae with the sun in our daily etrife againat corruption, ipoliation and wrong in public and private iervice? Have we for- gotten—have we forgotten the dream -the viiion— the magtiifioenoe— the ■plwdour in the paat ? I thought we were freemen ! I thought we were Britona who claimed kinship with those great pillari of the Bute who laid the keystone of Britiah libertiee— Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Csttterbury, and William, Earl of Pembrokf>! I thought w« weie freemen who claimed kinship with thoee great Englishmen whi«e namex are linked with the fortitude we claim ao mnch to admire- Hampden ard Pym ! I Ihougbt lt"wa«~onlycreaturee with the pajeiveness of sheep, who would tamely submit to arbitrary spoliation, either in private or public eer- ice, "^ permit others to Are we so unmanned that we will kiss tue chains, so dispirited that we will munch the husks of unrequited service either in public or private? I thought that the era of vassalage and detrraded citizenship had uassed, and that under the rising sun of the twentieth century we might see the dawning light of a new day <» enlightened aims that should usher in some prophet. priest or king among men, filled with the viiiiou of a more perfect Rtate. who would set up some standard for the people and touch the sublime realities of individual and social life, and give to this land some Rrand ideal as a heritage —some example of self-sacrifice that shall remain for us, some example of devotion to truth and duty for car posterity, some example of the courage that glorifies itself in the dtiev:. >f our rights— the matchlesti, crowning cour- age that defies the hatre''. anJ contemns the friendship of the wrongdoer and of all who sympathize with him till the wrong at least is effaced— some example of toe wisdom that conforms to equity and reason, and holds no law, no institution, no decree, no ordinance of man too sacred for criticism, and no restriction tolerable save where it involves the equal rishts of others — some exaiaple of the spirit that sweeps aside assumption and prerogative of inane and autocratic dSques and awards the palm of merit to the most worthy— some example of the pride, the luminous pride that evinces itself in exalted patriot- ism and consecrated jtutice— the only divine and imperishable guarantees of our liberties.