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Toronto, Canada, Aug. 20. Toronto
BeentB to have solved the question of
municipal government about as well
as could be expected in this day and
ago. The Canadians seem to harbor
the Idea that laws are made to be en
forced, and as a result the laws and
ordinances of Toronto are carried out
to the letter. ' Toronto has the saloon
under control to a remarkable degree,
and a degree almost unbelievable by
the average American who is a resi
dent of a large city. Here the bars
close at 5 o'clock on Saturday even
ing, and remain closed until 6 o'clock
Monday morning. Anil they are
closed, too. The first infraction of
the excise law means a fine of $500,
and the second means a revocation of
the license. As the laws are enforced
without fear or favor the result is a
wonderful amount of conservatism on
the part of the men who retail liquor.
The mere suggestion to a liquor dealer
that he disregard the law almost
scares him to death.
any decrease in the flow of water over
the precipice.
The saloons are not saloons as ".ve
across the line to the south understand
them. There are no saloons in
Toronto they are all hotels. In other
words, in addition to selling liquor
the dealer must also serve meals and
have conveniences for lodging not less
than fifteen people. The number of
licenses In Toronto is limited to 150,
and a license once revoked is not re
issued. When the Kings hotel the
finest in Canada, and one of the finest
in North America was opened, the
proprietors had to buy out a little hotel
In order to get a liquor license and
they paid a bcaus of $13,000 for the
little bit of paper. The closing of the
bars at 5 o'clock on Saturday was
brought about by the labor unions of
the city, and it has had a beneficial
result. The Saturday half-holiday is
well nigh universal here, and Saturday
afternoon great crowds of worklngmen
and their families may be seen hurry
ing to the boats intent on getting to
aome of the many pleasure resorts
that abound in this section.
The street car problem that has
bothered so many American cities does
not bother Toronto people. There is
no immediate demand for municipal
ownership, the reason being that the
owners of the street railway here
seem to deal fairly with the people.
Six fares for a quarter is -the rule at
all times, save between 6 and 8 a. m.
and 5 and 7 p. m., when a 3-cent fare
Is allowed. This was made at the
behest of the working men and women
of the city. On school days school chil
dren can buy ten tickets for a quarter.
The cars are the best that can be se
cured, and the service a revelation to
one coming from a big city on the
American side.
The worklngmen of Toronto run it
politically. They do not divide on
political lines, and they do not insist
that their candidates be worklngmen.
But they do insist that the candidates
represent, the interests of the produc
ing classes, and woe be unto the suc
cessful candidate that betrays his
trust. From the labor union stand
point Toronto is the best organized
town in the country. There are 153
trades unions here, and they have built
and maintain a labor temple that is
a credit to a city possessing many
splendid public buildings. The temple
has been opened a little less than a
year, and has already paid a dividend
ot 7 per cent on the investment. Xo
one is allowed to hold more than $100
ot the stock, and the temple is man
aged by a board of trustees elected by
the stockholders.
For the past ten days Toronto has
been full of union printers and their
wives, the fifty-first annual convention
of the International . Typographical
Union being in session. The printers
have come from every state and terri
tory in the United States, and from
every province in Canada. A few years
ago the word "printer" was synonym
ous with liquor. It is not so now. The
writer has been here over a week, has
met and communed with upwards of
2,500 printers, and during his whole
stay in Toronto has not seen one in
toxicated man. The organization of
woman's auxiliaries and the introduc
tion of the typesetting machines have
worked a change in the printing fra
ternity that makes the feat of Alladin's
lamp seem tame by comparison.
At first view the falls are disappoint
ing. This is due to the fact that the
human mind Is incapable of grasping
their immensity 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
a 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.
It is only when one takes a closer view
that the difference is manifest. In
the American city of 300,000 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 a
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 a week
It is easy to understand their reluct
ance. It 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
waiters never think of putting a piece
of ice In the drinking water.
On Kings street the principal thor
oughfare is a street intersection that
la 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.
When one who has not visited
Niagara Falls for fifteen years visits
It now 'the only thing he recognizes
is the falls. Everything else is changed.
The vociferous and greedy hackman
Is no longer in evidence. For 15 cents
one may ride In a reservation carriage
all around the falls. A few years ago
It cost all that the hackman could
make the visitor pay. So notorious
became this nuisance that Uncle Sam
stepped In. He made a government
reserve out of his side of the falls, and
Canada performed the same service
on the Canadian side. As a result
one steps into a government carriage
and Is freed from extortion. But tho
souvenir dealers are still here, and
the men who hove various concessions
are very persistent. Speaking of per
slstence, the revenue inspectors take
the cake. Coming to Toronto the writer
crossed from Niagara to the Canadian
side, and was met by an inspector who
opened his grip. Uolng down the
Canadian side of the great gorge he
crossed to Lewiston on the United
States side, and was met by another
inspector who had to peep into that
grip. At Lewlston he took a steamer
for Toronto, and before he landed that
inoffensive grip had to be opened once
t more and thoroughly Investigated. The
Inspectors spent not less than an hour
with that grip, and if their time is
worth 30 cents an hour and all grips
yield as little revenue as this particu
lar one, then Uncle Sam and Canada
are losing money by the policy.
The Cave of the Winds is something
that a majority of visitors at the falls
must visit. No one knows why, unless
It is because the average man and wo
man likes to stare death in the face,
The writer made the trip, and wouldn't
take big money for the experience. But
ha wouldnt take it again for twice as
much. It retailed the story of the
man who became a proud father
But there is one thing that the
Ing a friend, exclaimed: "I've
got a boy at my house and wouldn't
takn 11.000.000 for nim. Ana
wouldn't give a quarter for another
one."
This Is a utilitarian age. After gaz
ing with awe at Niagara Falls for 300
years, man has gone to work and har
nessed it and hitched it to his machin
ery. Thousands of horsepower are
now utilized, and millions more are In
sight. Practically every wheel in
Buffalo and Niagara Is turned by elec
tric power generated by the falls. But
up to date no one is able to detect
The Typographical Union conven
tion has been full of Interest. The 190G
session will be held at Colorado
Springs, Colo., the seat of the Union
Printers' Home. By unanimous vote
the convention decided to "stand pat"
on the eight-hour day proposition. The
chief incident of the convention was
the unseating of a delegate, who, as
editor of a labor paper, dared to criti
cise the executive council of the union.
Without commenting upon this inci
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
ous figures In iron, oil life insurance
and other activities to whom he al
luded, as will be seen from the fol
lowing extracts from the address:
"Not very long ago a little man sat
down amid the hills and built a Are
that burned for days and years and
when the smoke went up and the fire
went out he raked the ashes and
found $300,000,000 melted In the heat
of sweat and toll. His footsteps fell
upon a continent of iron, his cun
ning brought a conquering army of
brawn 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, would 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 nature's hoarded treasure
In deep rich lake of liquid wealth, and
with a privilege government given
and with a protection government
guaranteed, he put a plant together
whose boundaries baffle all the skill
of men and whose powers stagger
all the resolute nerve of a nation.
"Mistaking the decay of nature for
the grace of God he turns a trivial
stipend to the church, a paltry con
tribution to the schools and in return
he expects the pulpit and the chair
to apologize to God and all the world
for the system by which it came. Bet
ter than colleges crowning campus
grounds; better than churches im
pliedly pledged to put the case in
colorless discourse; better than all
these would be the plain admission
briefly made that all his gain was got
against the laws of God and man.
"A few decades ago a man began
to guarantee his fellow man against
the grave, and since that time the
men who loved their wives and chil
dren bent their backs in loving labor
to fix it so that want would send no
specters to their simple board when
they were dead. Men hold
ing the highest' place in the integrity
of finance; men moulding the cus
toms of the times into law for those
who come after; men called brave,
honest, American men, v charged to
hold this treasure In the name of the
born and the unborn these men ex
ploit its fullest power for selfish gain;
expend its substance in the debonair's
debauch; create fictitious bonds and
trade them for the real gold, exchange
the lithographed promise of a lie for
the sacred f ind. The collapse comes,
and-then contending captains of the
craft and giln play high to win the
prize. The, game is finished and the
fund of millions for millions is or
ganized into a gambler's roll to bet
the street up or down" the sheet."
Petroleum' , Gazette.
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Is that it is of no definite duration the end of time is bound to
come. A good time always ends too soon the same in regard to
a good opportunity. Some people are always a little slower than
everybody else. The man who plans all his life lives to curse fate
because he has to die.
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which is the mere scrapings of former price and of actual value.
ARMSTRONG CLOTHING CO.
GOOD CLOTHES MERCHANTS
THE LABOR PRESS EDITORS SPEAK
(The following proclamation was issued at
Toronto by the undersigned labor editors on
August 17, 1805.)
To the Delegates and Members of the Inter
national Typographical Union, and to all
Members of Trades Unions Everywhere :
For the first time in the history of trades
unionism a gag has been placed upon the press,
the written constitution of the United Mates
and the unwritten constitution of Great Brit
ain have been overruled and nullified, and the
editors of labor papers served with notice that
the laws of lese majeste shall be made to apply
to their collective and individual cases. The
signers of this paper, by accident of birth, are
citizens of the United States, and by reason of
training and inclination are thorough trades
unionists. We yield to no man or set ot men in
our fealty to the principles of trades unionism,
and we prize more highly than time or space
will permit us to tell our union working cards,
because they evidence our unionism and our
devotion to the principles of unionism. But
much as we prize our cards there is one other
thing that we prize more highly, and that is
our guaranteed right as citizens of the United
States to free speech and a free press, being
amenable only to our own consciences, to God
and to the laws of our beloved republic.
We protest, individually and collectively,
against the action of our international conven-J
tion in threatening with expulsion a ny member
of our craft who may be editing or publishing
a labor paper who may exercise his right of
free speech. We deny the right of the interna
tional convention, or any of its delegates, or
any of its officers, to exercise a censorship over
our publications, and we insist with all the
emphasis at our command that we will oppose
the claim of the executive councils of our in-
tetrnational that it is the state, and therefore
above criticism. We stand ready at any and
all times to answer to either the civil or crim
inal law for all that we say, but we do strenu
ously object to being hauled before a jury ap
pointed by the prosecution and having our
cases tried before a judge owing his place to
the complainant s favor. We emphatically ob
ject to being tried by a jury selected by our
prosecutors, and in addition being denied the
right to face our accusers in open court and
put them on the witness stand.
The Smith case was tried in the local union,
where evidence could be secured and where the
witnesses could be met by the defendant, face
to face. The trial resulted in an acquittal, with
but two negative votes in a meeting of 300
members.
Had the charges against Mr. Smith not been
susceptible of proof, and had the executive
council not been fully conscious of that fact,
the published statements constituted criminal
libel, and the criminal courts of Pennsylvania
are open six days a week. But President
Lynch and Secretary Bramwood knew that,
going into the criminal court, the defence
would have had the privilege of summoning
witnesses and requiring them to testify under
oath a tribunal they did not see fit to seek.
We demand for ourselves only that which
the infamous criminal is accorded a fair trial
before an unprejudiced court and jury and
we further demand that the law of our land be
observed, namely, that we be not tried twice
for the same offence, and that a fair vedrict of
acquittal be the end of any and all proceedings.
We protest against having the cards of our
fellow unionists jeopardized because of any
offences we may commit, and we further pro
test against the idea that fellow craftsmen shall
be vicariously sacrificed in order to satisfy the
vengeance of men made drunk with fancied
power and dazed with elevation to office by
efforts of men now gagged and bound and
made powerless through the votes of men who
profit more than any other men by the boast
ed liberty of our press.
We disclaim any intent on our part to use
our papers to further personal or selfish ends ;
but we do claim the privilege of being put up
on the stand to testify to the intent of any
language we may use, holding that in law we
are the most competent witnesses upon that
point. The idea that accusers shall also be
judges and jurors is so utterly wrong and fal
lacious, that we are surprised and pained that
union printers should deprive a member of his
card upon a verdict rendered under such con
ditions. We regret the intemperate and unwise lan
guage of President Lynch in referring to labor
editors as ' vipers,' and we demand that he be
tried upon the charge of maligning fellow
craftsmen, many of whom carried union cards
before he arrived at manhood's estate, and
many years, apparently, before he arrived at'
the age of discretion. We charge that when
President James M. Lynch declared before
the convention that the labor press was seek
ing to discredit the eight-hour movement, he
was guilty of an act unworthy of any union
man, and an act immeasurably more heinous
than any charge of language made by Shelby
Smith against the executive council. We
charge this for the reason that labor editors
are not salaried representatives of our union,
and are not beneficiaries of dues and assess
ments placed upon the membership at large.
We here and now declare our unalterable
purpose to defend our rights, not only as union
men, but as editors of labor papers, and at no
time and under no circumstances will we sub
mit to the gag. As long as life is given us and
we are permitted to act in an editorial ca
pacity, we will stand upon our rights as guar
anteed to us under our constitution and bill of
rights, and we defy any man or set of men to
apply the pag to us.
The so-called 'Smith case ' embraces more
than Shelby Smith it embraces every man
who dares to think for himself and according to
his own best judgment. If Shelby Smith can
be expelled from our union for exercising the
right of free speech, then also may any or ali
of us; and this being the case, what becomes
of our boasted free press and what assurances
have we that our cards shall hot be taken
from its at the whim or caprice of men who
may imagine themselves aggrieved?
When the officers of our union become so
exalted that they are above criticism, when
members of our organization, beneficiaries of
a free press, seek refuge behind a gag law,
when a union printer s card in endangered if
he speaks freely and fully, when, these things
come to pass, then is unionism tottering to its
fall and fraternity and mutual interests only a
memory.
In conclusion we, and each of us, hereby
declare that no gag law shall rule us, and if
the ax falls upon one, then shall all of our
necks go to the block to satisfy the vengeance,
of individuals -who dare not face us in open
court upon the issues drawn and in conformity
with law and established custom.
Warren C. Browne, ex-editor Union Printer;
Will M. Maupin, editor Lincoln, (Neb.)t
Wageworker; F. A. Kennedy, editor Oma
ha, (Neb.) Western Laborer; George Wi
Harris, editor Winchester, (Tenn.) Truth;
Labor Herald; Harry F. DeGour, editor
Reading, (Pa.) Labor Advocate.
Charles W. Fear, editor Kansas City, (Mo.)
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hall, parliament building and colleges, and the usual photograph
taken. All told, it was a week of unalloyed pleasure, and its inci
dents will be remembered until Gabriel calls "time" and the forms
of life are closed forever.
Did the convention back up on the 8-hour proposition? Not for
a minute. The gage of battle thrown down by the president of the
United Typothetae was picked up instanter, and the convention voted
unanimously to stand for the 8-hour day on January 1, 1906. If it is
going to be a fight the Typographical Union will be found up on the
firing line with plenty of ammunition in the lockers and every gun
ready for 'service. But there is not going to' be much of a fight.
There may be an occasional skirmish in cities like Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia, St. Louis, Omaha and Pittsburg, but no big battles.
The session of the convention were unusually interesting. The
celebrated "Smith case," the Philadelphia situation and the 8-hour
day business served to keep the interest keyed up. . The convention
had the appearance of a gathering of business men. The delegates
were all earnest, conservative and thoughtful men, and even though
a majority of them "went wrong" on the Smith case, they reflected
great credit upon the splendid organization they represented. Some
of the speeches were gems of oratory. The speech that' was not worth
listening to was not delivered for the reason that the convention had
a very gentlemanly way of squelching the perfervid orators who
tried to do the "hot air" act.
From time to time The Wageworker will refer in detail to dif
ferent phases of the convention. Just now the editor is striving to
recover his breath and catch up with his work. He has lived forty
eight hours a day for the past two weeks, and as a'result he is short
of breath, of time and legal tender. W. M. M.
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