T'he Days of a Man 



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The sane 



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Governor-General, Earl Grey, with whom I had dined 

 the night before, invited me to take a sleigh-ride, 

 but as the thermometer ranged thirty or more below 

 zero, I soon begged to be allowed to return to the 

 hotel! 



During my stay Laurier invited me to speak before 

 the Dominion Parliament on international peace. In 

 my address I referred for the first time to the long 

 boundary between their country and mine, a 3800- 

 mile frontier of peace, for a hundred years without 

 a soldier, a warship, a fortress, or a gun; where no- 

 body is loaded, nobody explodes! But, continuing, 

 I asserted that the boundary failed to be ideal in one 

 respect — the presence of customs houses, symbols of 

 suspicion and greed, relics of the time when it was 

 thought good economics to make foreigners pay the 

 taxes. Referring to my talk, Colonel (now Sir) Sam 

 Hughes, a prominent Conservative, said: '*Dr. Jor- 

 dan is the sleekest politician that ever invaded 

 Canada." Which words of flattery, though coming 

 from "Sir Hubert," were hardly deserved! 



President Taft having sent our report to the Senate 

 on February 2, 1910, after many months of delay 

 that body accepted forty-nine of the regulations, 

 leaving the others more or less in the air. Some of 

 those omitted referred to minimum sizes of mesh 

 allowed in the Great Lakes. This matter I regarded 

 as of secondary importance, for we had also indicated 

 a minimum market-size in the case of each important 

 species, and many fishermen argued that one limita- 

 tion was enough. That is, we should either prescribe 

 the net and allow the sale of anything caught, or 

 fix the size of fish and let them use any netting they 

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