THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1910. __ shay rorymn. importance. The spread of the By BERNARD THE CANADIAN CLUBS juvenils court idea Iz largely dye to {the facilities they have presented, The converaation commission is now co- operating with the mew astociation of Casadian Clibs with a view to a great educational campaign for the] K. SANDWELL. Copyright 1910 by Publishers' Press. The Canzdian Clubs of the various citiés of Canada, which to-day con- stitute the most effective machinery in existence for infliencing and ex- pressing public opinion upon ail gene- ral questions of national concern save those of party politiés, began their history in 1862, when the Canadian Club of Hamilton, Ont, was founded by Charles R. McCullough, originator of the idea, with the assistance of W. Sanford Bvans, then a) Hamilton newspaper man, but laterig resident of Winnipeg, and now mayor of the western metropolis. To-day there are forty-one Canadian Clubs composed of men and eight composed of women, scattered all over the land inm-every city of any importance in the do- minion, to say nothing of the Can- _ndian Clubs which have grown up in Canadian colonies In the great cities of the United States and of Great Bri- tain. The resolutions of these clubs rank among the most important ex- pressions of public opinion in the country, to be invited to address them fa one of the most notable honors that can be extended to any Canadian or visitor, and their membership, which by no means represents the scope of thele Inflaence, 18 over 15,000. South Afiiea and Australia have both begun to imitate the model set in this great- est of the Britsh dominions beyond the neh. Kach «lub is a purely local and autonomous organization, and until a year ago all efforts to form even a federation 'had falled entirely. At Es \ \ BE. AGAR, President St. John, NB. Canadian Club » TT present there Is a central committee, which ia more or less advisory, and does not in apy way trammel the free- dom of the local bodies. The ex- treme breadth of the movement, the simplicity of its ideals, is one of the chief regsons for its widespread suc- cess. The favorite form of meting is a "business mon's lunch," a light and | ve meal, followed by a 'by some recognized basiness man to get back to his vocation almost as early as ordinary, It is this unique device for lang the time when city men are collectéll together in the commercial explains how the Can- are able to assemble so her Of the most active in the country. had in the meantime re- Hamilton, that Toronto and of the Canadian pdy of the institu- arts, literature and re- mda and by endeavor. yadians in such work and progress of the ay be desirable and ex- r. John A. Cooper, then pedi / } editor ofthe Canadian Magazine and now of thi sadian Courier, was the first pr "1% wns here that the luncheon dea was rst developed, about 1900, and immediately gave an {aimense impetus to the membership, which by 1907 had risen to 1,200, and was i Se 1d large for comm. ( Accomm on. e - : FE ence still continued working, and among the charter members of many of the clubs which followed close upon the Toronto success may be'seen the names of Mempbets of the 3 had that city, such as Lieut-Col. EB. W. B. Morrl- DRO, of Ottawa; Mr. James Forres, Moutreal, and many others. g luence of the Hamilton club nn Toronto club, its enormous ly schools. The Canadian Clubs afford an in- suppression of forest fires, excessive destruction of game and fish, and, many other evils which threatem to} eat up the national resources, Nearly! all of the delegates to the imperial press conference of last year made, known the results of their irfp to the! Canadian Clubs, and the Inlluence thus exerted was perhaps the largest; part of the fruits of the conference.' The clubs have enabled the men of, the extreme east to talk face to face with the men of the extreme 'west,] and have contributed immensely to, bership, soon bégan to appear in & more couspicuous manner. It was able to call upon very distinguished persons to deliver its addresses, and Dr. Goldwin Smith, Mr. C. M. Hays, Earl Grey, Rudyard Kipling, the Rt Hon. James Bryce, and President Eliot were among its earliest guests. In November, 1903, it afforded an outlet for the expression of the pro- found feeling of 4 tisfaction over ! the award in the an boundary arbitration by téndering a great banquet to Mr. Aylesworth, the Can- adian arbitrator, who had refused to sign the majority report. Ottawa and Galt were then the only other cities with Canadian clubs; but the follow- ing year (1904) saw the rapid exien- sion of the movement to cities of all sizes and in all provinces. The idea was already a proved success. ot While devoted to 'the development of Canadian nationalism, and looked } THE VERY REY. BE. C.'PAGET., DD. | President Calgary Canadian Club the better understanding between the! different parts of Canada. i The chief limitation that now| faces the Canadian Clubs in this day| of their great prosperity is the diffi- culty of getting good speakers for the smaller elubs in the more out-of-the way cities, It Is easy to get distin guished men to address the big clubs, | for there is no better way of reaching] the people of Canada as a whole, and morcover the honor of addressing a club Mke that of Toronto, Montreal! Ottawa, Halifax, St. Johns, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, London or Victoria more than compensates for any trouble involved, But dis- ngiished visitors to Canada do not 47% stop over in the smaller cities, ! and "men with a mission" are apt to! think that when they have spoken In| Tovento and Montreal and been fully; reported they have done about all MAYOR W. SANFORD EVANS, President Winnipeg Canadian Club and president of Federation. at askance by many in the early days : as institutions of dublous "loyalty," the Canadian Clubs have ag a matter of fact never done anything that was in the least degree calculated to weaken the Dritish connection. They have listened to speakdte' of all shades of conviction as to the destin. {es of the dominion from Mr. 8. Ewart with his "Kingdom of Canada" and Mr. Bourassa with his anti-naval pro- paganda to Dr. Stéphen Leacock, the chosen imperial apostle of the Rhoaes - - we te og MRS, R. C. FISHFR, PRESIDENT MONTREAL WOMEN CAN. CLUR. Trust, to Earl Grey, to Dr, Parkin, they need do. To remedy this is one and to Col. (. T. Denison himself. | of the chief alms of the new assocla- Occasionally single clubs have taken | tion, of which Mayor Sanford Evans action of a markedly imperialistic t and Mr. R. Wilson Reford, nature. The Toronto and Ottawa ontreal, vice-president. The plan clubs refused to hear W. T. Stead on o- "book" speakers whenever account of his attitude during the for a series of ges, in- South African war. Tha Calgary club 0 only the big cities, but a last year demanded the floating of} yp of the little ones. the British flag on the Alberta The Women's fan Clubs are Fone of the most interesting phases of this 'movetiient. Owing fo the nature the mes the original Canadian d not adapt themselves to the pars pation of women; and ia g valuable machinery for educatio work among the Canadian people on the topics of social and econ ---------------------- iy ------ LA RT - the autumn of 1907 Montreal took the lead by organizing the Women's Cangdian Cidh of that city, with Lady Drummond as president, Madame Dandurand as. vice-president, Mrs Walton as treasurer, and Mrs. R. Wil- sau Reford as secretary. Almost at the same time 2 similar club was Ss % BEENARD K SANDWELL formed in Winnipeg with Mrs, San- ford Evans as president. Both clubs, together with the half dozen others which rapidly suecdeded them, found immediate employment tor their energies in the pushing of various patriotic projects aid social reforms, notably the institution of juvenile courts, in walch Winnipeg took the lead of all Canada. Many eminent women became officers of the new clubs, among them Lady Tilley in St. John, Mra. H. A. Falconer in To- ronto, and Mrs. C. 8. Douglas in Van- couver. The present president of the montreal elub is Mrs, Roswell Fisher, Under the title of Canadian Clubs hould properly be included also some mention of the numerous organiza- tions of Canadians in various cities > * WM GODFREY, President Yantouver Canadian Club, outside of the dentinion. These have, however, in the nature of things, a somewhat different purpose, namely that of keeping alive the ties uniting the expatrinted Canadian to the homeland. Some of them, such as the New York and Boston clubs, are very large in membership and power- ful in influence. Their number Is constantly growing, and they are found in places as remote as Yoko- hama, Japan, and Mexico City, Mexico. POEMS BY FATHER RYAN. Comment on Volume by the Sweet Singer of the South. Prof. Paul Denys. A friend who loves what is sweet and true in poetry and prose lent me a volume by Father Ryan---the sweet singer of the south---which 1 perused not without much pleasure and pro- fit. And in examining its inspired pages | wag at a loss as to which 1 should admire the more, the deep reflections therein contained or the enticing manner of their presenta- tion. Another sentiment akin to the first surged fn my mind as to how so many will wander from the delect- able fountains of ehelcest thoughts and terms to seek the perilous pro- ductions of unauthorized, nay pol- luted pens. Beauty, in nature and in art, in_soug and verse, will be de- gerted for tht which oftentimes is nothing more than degrading de- lineations of character and life, turn- ing, as it were, their back on a sumpt- uous repast to feed their intellect with debasing, decidedly injurious nourishment. in reading Father Ryan's poems I was vividly impressed with not a few of his sentiments, and it occurred to me that perhaps some 'observations thereppon might prove of interest to those of your readers who, Hie my- self, may have missed an earlier peep By into its treasures. The one. thing you experience after closing the book is a feeling of regret that the feast is over. Not that the author at- tetupts to make you laugh; far from it, the permeating tone of his entire work being that of sadness and soli- tude, loving as he did to sing in 23 minor mode, as witness the follow- ing: The surest way to God lonely streams of tears, neallh the rod hy Years up the That fiew when bending And THI the tide of eart And again: Go list to the voices of air, th ear and SER And the voices that sound in the sky eir songs may be joyful Lo some, but to me There's a sigh in each ¢hordl and a sigh in each key. Yet, let it not be supposed that the Th WM. TRANT, President Regina Canadian Club confidence blessings gifted poet-priest lacked in Him from whom all flow. On the contrary; but fully convinced he was of the truth so beautifully told by a writer of re- pute that--"If you twine a few gad cypress leaves around the brow oi any land, be that land barren and black, it becomes lovely in its con- secrated coronet of sorrow, and It wins the heart Crowns of roses fade--~crowns of thorns endure, Cal- varies and crucifixions take the deep- est hola of humanity." All going to show that his was a rich, ardent nature, inclined to weep with these who wept, rather than rejoice with the happy, anxious at all times to cast on the gloom of earth a gleam at least of heaven, It is claimed that poet y they please, that g 10 may roam | thus we la of the sufferi in his responsive See how quickly and prettily, one idle hour, when "night was digging the grave of "day" and his boat * adream of rest' lay still ous calm sea, a mile} or so off shore, he traced the lines: On the ( v altar of the dark i by OTHE, § y sh 8 & { : : mhied fa tke a mother's The moon tight 11 ur bark { a talismanic He touch-} touched bid-; every; No wonder his was power to move multitudes ed othe Auge he Was himself Jding the feeble, ding sad hearts be glad, his word and act clothed with con- sideration, To others he left the! questionable privilege of wielding thunder. He knew that might, with} injustice for a throw, is but a coward-} iy kind---that row which he has | caused will rise some day and, armed | vith the jewdlied rapier of right, will] smite tyrant, and be shall sink, | as he ought, into a grave ignoble and | ignored. : But enough, © Men of whom Abram | F Ryan a type honor entire} humanity. They belong net to al nation or creed, but to mankind, and} y this imperfect tribute at rs was ii wn i IF. MACKAY, President of Toronto Canadian Club his feet, thanking the while the good] friend to whom we¢ owe the oppor-| tunity of spending a moment, how-| ever brief, with such a delightful] author. increases he a noise the manufacture groans man's I Ag a to, make OT Zins in world Some the } i CHARLES R. McCULLOUGH, ORGY IDEA, PRESIDENT'OF THE NATOR OF THE CANAMIAN CLUB HAMILTON, ONT, CAN, CLUB. be tied down, but mast, lke the eaglé, mbunt up at once to the.sky and soar ever .boldly aloft, feeling confined in all bat the Infinite" Well, there musi be some verity in this, or else the zealous young priest whose parochial dutfes called him to the homes of the poor, the slek and the dying could never have found time to tread with such ease and grace and masterliness the craggy, steepy heights of Parnassus. But to his lmpressive mind a stream, a flower, a leaf, a very blade of grass sugested something Divine. Hence it is, the murmur of the sea, the sighing of the wind; the moaning ls a pi a ona ' No Chance for Free Trade, Orange Bentinel Free trade will not be possible until a new party is formud, There is ng | free trade party today. The conservy { tives wav they stand for fair trade, | god the liberals who have been ig {power for fourteen years, far from | abolishing duties so that; the eon | sumer can buy where the goods are cheapest--which ic ong of the free traders' hoobiescdevisad the damping cluuse ad a more effpctive mensury for protecting home wdusteies. Thy als put duties on iron gad steel, and paid hountes amounting to millions a yer for its manufacture in Canada md a ready echo) sympathetic soul. } : { cov. PELEATT SAID "SIR" TO THE | manoeuvres of the { has enjoved any sort of inthoa ! fou | majesty' is { res : AND HE WAS RIGHT ° KING. ------ hb Marquise De Fontewoy Defends the Colonel From the Criticisms of London Press, Col. Sir Heory Pellati, tim mander of the Queen's (wn fl Canada, who conveyed the #uthe nn gimbnt al his own expose England to take. part in the English army, taken to task by several London news papers for having addressed King ticorge frequently as "sir," on oecaston of the reception of the of and a squad of the rank and bil his regiment, at Balmoral by the ereign, writes the Marquis de ¥o New York Tribune, Ti papers in question describe thi over to annual k the of address as emphasizing democracy." Phev are evidently unaware ti i the entirely correct form of King of England, has lived at court or ing the A body who vy the reigning house of England foctly well knows, The phrase ravely used in ordinary or en i yesarved for cop ersation ov current off cial business, being v ceremonial odeasions, and formal The king nnd all the pris house imvanably addy while not "madam, "ma'am the form of addn in speaking to Queen Mary, to Aosandra and to all the princess {the reigning family, The nurses men x, of his ax sir," d but wed {Jueen of and Bre A, Lethbridge BUCHANAN, MPV Alta, the omly nm ary 128] "Prince Mary." know her so govertnesses of laughter of Kins Georg: us Lome ad fut well am' nit sped prin her us people who do not are obliged to address her as "min and there have been oo hav sounded guite odd Lo hear an addressing toddling "man'am."' is a pity under the the English newspaper have made sure of their fact attempting to criticiee { ol Pellatt, and it only goes show how little know matters, Their by no means confined It extends to maay other profs even to that of "law, for when Fdward, as Prince of Wales, in the withess box at the famous caret trial, Sir Edward Clarke, former solicitor-genceal, excited amusement during his crose examina tion of his future sovereigh hy his con gant repetition with much unction, o the phrase, "voar foyal highni wherens Sir Charles Russell, wards Jord ehiel jastes; Hwouphout his examination of the prince used the words, "your royal highness," only once, addréssing him throughout all the asfons whe dowager n as tances houhd be aGiream that not fore Henry She fo about much i, to themselve they ighorahee however, fons, King appeared ba the much fi flea of the prince's was a member of the hs and one friends. Simpson is Cast Off, Hamilton Herald Jimmy Simpson, of Torom lorigrer an official setlabist, thou it will a socialist in priscipl loeal socialist organization to whiek he belonged 'pande a demand that he, 'ax a metnher of the dominion commission on technical educatio submit to the society of the work of the commbssion any report was mele the ment. Of course Jimmy could comply with this Jdenand, and has guit the secipty. 14 look Ww thotizh the démnnd was intended a notice: 16 hia that be had better withdraw. The soviety res comlemuing technical eduextion device to wirensthen the elab bind the "wage slaves" 16 the capitalism, was vietoally sion of want ol confidence on him 8 wpcrel to s tation, " that of Cre RIRRERY, Canadian Club, by ' COMASORW A GREBRBACH, 4 t Edwopion Canadian Club.