published by the Alpine Club of Canada

“ It is difficult at a glance to grasp the full significance of the proposal to establish an unbroken chain of state-owned cable-telegraphs connecting all the self-governing British communities in both hemispheres, but by those who have studied the matter, it is regarded to be of immense Imperial importance. ”

“ He believes most thoroughly that, when eventually consummated, it will, by bringing all the autonomous units of the Empire around the globe into one friendly neighborhood, electrically and telegraphically, become the indirect means of quickening trade, making more effective the ties of sympathy, more enduring the bonds of sentiment, and thus add strength and stability to the great sisterhood of British nations—the development of the new century we have entered on. ”

“ In the centre of the address there is a diagram intended to illustrate the world-encircling Imperial Cable project, respecting which the public mind still needs educating, and no doubt publication of the address with the forthcoming Journal and a reference to this feature of it in the text, would have an educative tendency, productive of good. ”