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Volume 9 September 15, 1911. Number 37 
Poise. 
Poise is a sign of greatness. Deep 
rivers move noiselessly to the great 
sea. Shallow streams go pounding, 
surging, roaring, gurgling over the 
stony bottom of the exposed river- 
bed. The boiling pot, nearly empty, 
sizzles, crackles, sputters and bursts. 
The light, broomy shrubbery whisks 
and whips itself to destruction 
against any obstacle in every puff of 
wind, while the great tree gently 
gives to but withstands the moving 
powers of mighty winds. Weak 
men are always nervous, irritable 
and restless, easily disturbed, weak 
in their neurotic action and never 
gaining power through repose. Such 
men lose their nerve, unloose the 
tongue, break the bindings of the 
will over tempers, moods and emo- 
tions and abandon themselves at the 
slightest pretext or occasion to 
nerve dissipation and life destroy- 
ing anxiety. The weaker the man 
the less difficult it is to disturb his 
repose. The stronger man cultivates 
every virtue that weakens his fellow 
sufferer. This quality of poise in 
character ought to make the strong- 
est appeal to the modern man. 
Never before in the history of the 
world has there been such a mad 
rush, such unrest, such mental dis- 
turbaneces and such brain storms of 
nervousness, even to the breaking 
edge of insanity. It is the age of the 
telephone, the telegraph and adap- 
tive electric energy. Men wish to 
do what they have to do when they 
want to do it. They are not content 
to wait on time. Time must wait on 
them. The stage coach, the canal 
boat and the sailing pack have gone 
and the automobile, the steam rail- 
road and the ocean greyhounds have 
taken their places. 
It is an age of commercialism, 
restless energy and perpetual rush. 
The sign of the Elevated railroad 
‘‘Please-move quickly’’ is the motto 
of the age. This is due to the awak- 
ening consciousness of the value of 
time, of the real value and conser- 
vation of energy and the laws of 
productivity and adaptability which 
are written on the very face of na- 
ture. Men of other ages went insane 
from inertia and ennui and broke 
the monotony of their existence try- 
ing to solve the perplexing enigma 
as to how many angels could com- 
fortably dance at the same time on 
the point of a needle. The present 
age has learned its lessons too well. 
It must learn the pleasures and joys 
of rest, of leisure and of repose. 
Professor Palmer in one of his 
lectures at Harvard University suc- 
cinctly puts this truth in this 
thought, that the work of the world 
must be done, but the provision for 
rest, recreation and change is as vi- 
tal to the career of an individual 
and his true success as the provision 
for industry and labor. A man may 
live to work, he ought to work to 
live, but he will discover very 
quickly that the life work is more 
quickly and profitably accomplished 
when provision is made for weary 
nerves and tired muscles. It is la- 
bor which makes repose sweet. It is 
labor after rest which makes the 
rest valuable. 
Let the age seek repose after la- 
bor. Time moves on slowly and will 
grind the restless spirits of men be- 
neath its juggernaut wheel. Be not 
deceived. You can not mock na- 
ture; for a while the man may break 
her laws but-eventually her laws will 
break the man. The strong man has 
poise, symmetry and restraint be- 
cause he reads and obeys nature’s 
great law. 
The Canadian Side on Reciprocity. 
The fact that the United States 
government has committed itself to 
a reciprocity policy does not end the 
controversy. It looks as though the 
plan may be defeated in Canada. 
The campaign is being conducted 
with unprecedented zeal. Unfortu- 
nately the economic feature is not 
the basis upon which the plan has 
«=. G EB. WILLMONTON ... 
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
‘Willmonton’s Agency 
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been assailed. National pride, re- 
ligious prejudice and other other- 
wise unrelated arguments are being 
used with the greatest vote getting 
expedition. The United States has 
been falsely accused of ulterior mo- 
tives and those of annexation. It is 
being argued that reciprocity is but 
a step toward national acquisition of 
the United States of Canada. Many 
of the statements of our representa- 
tives have been equivocal and mis- 
quoted and misconstrued. As ecare- 
ful a speaker as President Taft has 
been some of his most harmless ut- 
terance are and have been twisted 
and turned by the ‘‘insurgents’’ in 
Canada against reciprocity. Many 
newspapers have printed editorials 
on annexation and Boston has been 
a great sinner in this_ respect. 
These have been used and are being 
used with tremendous results. The 
hospitality shown by the ‘‘ins’’ to 
the representatives of a high poten- 
tate of a religious organization has 
been used to arouse the element of 
religious antagonism and effectively. 
Certain yellow journals in America 
have interfered in the campaign and 
it has aroused consequently an an- 
tagonism which would have re- 
mained latent. In fact, the owner of 
one American newspaper syndicate 
has been invited to appear at a mass 
meeting in a Canadian city and give 
his reasons why he has interfered in 
the campaign. This has damaged 
the pro-reciprocity party. On the 
economic side the problem of a uni- 
form American tariff ‘‘made in 
Washington’’ has been advanced. 
It being claimed that with a differ- 
ence of tariff on the coastline with 
Europe there will result a system 
of wholesale smuggling along the 
border between the countries which 
will only be obviated by a uniform 
continental tariff. So the battle 
goes on. Students of the situation 
are puzzled and to prognosticate a 
victory or defeat for reciprocity 
must be a guess blindly made. It 
ean be said, however, that affairs 
look dark and doubtful. Reciproe- 
ity will be a great help to New Eng- 
land and its failure will be a loss. 
New England is interested in Reei- 
procity and not in Annexation. 
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