AFTER searching for some time for a topic for this address suitable to Winnipeg, I finally made a choice which may not commend itself at first as a happy one. It is not a topic of immediate local interest, but at a distance of nearly 4,000 miles I was not in a position to discover the economic problems the treatment of which would immediately arrest the attention of the people of middle Canada at the present time, and had a wizard's wand disclosed to me such problems I should not have been able to solve them on paper from the other side of the Atlantic. And yet my subject has a direct reference to Canadian affairs, though the extent of this reference is not apparent till we look ahead and view things in perspective. It occurred to me after a cursory examination of some recent examples of that remarkable modern crop of Utopias and anticipations which apparently are appealing to an extensive public. If only these" new worlds" represented what existed somewhere among human beings with passions and infirmities like our own, how much more instructive they would be! one was naturally led to reflect. You will see now the train of suggestion fired in my mind. Clearly, if the gaze of humanity is repeatedly drawn to its future, a visitor from a land of advanced industrialism who had made that industrialism his study, in speaking, in a country as yet thinly populated and young in industrial experience, of some of the most urgent problems which industrialism brings with it, might expect a hearing at least as patient as that which a very minor prophet would win. Now among the most insistent root problems to be found in our great industrial