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«15’ .FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15m, 1904. START THE - NEW YEAR WITH A SAVINGS AGO GUN T. Bau'r.) 1? British North America. Fenelon Falls. Manager. Prol‘cssi 0 na 1 Cards. .â€"_.._..._ L3} \‘3. F A. Molil Aiiilli). ARRISTER, SOLICITOR.Etc., FENE- B Ion Falls. Office, Colhorne street, opposite Post-office. 31%” Money to loan on real estate at. lowest current rates. , Mol..-\UGlll.lN & PEEL. ARRIS'I‘ERS. SOLICITORS, rim. Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rules. Odiee, Kent street, opposite Market, Lindsay. B. I. Mthuonus. o. n HOPKINS. ARRIS’I‘ER, tho. SOLICITOR FOR the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at otveBt rntrs mt terms to suit the borrower. Ofiiees: No. 6, William Street South, Loud- uy, Ont. J. A. Pest. _._______________-_â€"-â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-v STEWART .2; O’CONNOR, ' ARRISTERS, XO'l‘AItIl-Za‘, arc. MONEY to loan at lowest current rates. Terms to suit borrowers. Oiiice on corner of Kent. and York sin-t ts, Lindsay q. Srswsur. L. V. O’Conxon, B. A ricotta a JACKSON, ARRISTERS, SULIUITURS, to. Of- fice, William :ttreet, Lindsay. I". D. blooms. A. JAcKSOs MEDICAL. ,.__â€"- Dl‘t. ll. ll (ill \llAM. ~l.n.,o M.u it c s Eng,n.c.r.hs., Orin. P 1' 1i 8â€"- IIYSICIAN, rUltGEth & ACCOUCIâ€"l- eur Ullice. i-‘rancrs Street, Fenelon Falls. M llll .v\ WILSON. -â€"u. n.. M. c. r. a 3., Ontario,â€" IlYSlGlAN, SURGEON dl. ACCOUCH- our. OtIit-e. Colhorne Street, Penelon Pulls. P_________.'-â€"â€"â€"â€":__â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"--â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€" DENTAL. M "I‘- s. .5. SIMS, DENTIST, It‘s: nit-Ion Falls. Graduate of Toronto. University and R0) nl College of Dental Surgeons ALL Bil. ’tflL‘HdS 0F DENTISTRY performed m-rnrtling tn the. latest Improved nn-thod~~ \1 moderate prices. OFFIUL zâ€"Urer Burgoyne's store, Col. orue street MM ~â€" Dl'. NEELANDS, DENTIST, LINDSAY, Estrat-ts teeth without pain by gas (vital- issd air) ndniniswrul in. hint ior‘zz Mars; He studied the gas under Dr.- 0 ton, (; New York, the origin tor oi gas for extlrnci- ing teeth llr. Holtnn writes Dl.‘N0‘t‘ an. s but he has given ll": gas to 136,417 per- cns without an ncctdc-nt. from thie gnsi Other pain nhtnnders nerd. A A gout set. 0 ' ‘ ' ' Dr. Neelnnds ~th inserted int .5”. ga- rihits Fenelun Pulls (.‘icArthnr House) the third Tuesday of every month. Lad secure an up unrn‘mn ASumlerlaml Lidy writes Dr. Net-lauds that he had made her a successful iii after uni-2M2“ sm- ot‘m‘h W“ ‘“ 1r"""‘“'lstylc and WOI'kltlatlSllip. go elsewhere- .._...._.......... | l Who ’8 Your Tailor? n.s.aonmson, 5.} F Tow Â¥ .NLEY...’ ‘ ‘Be one of the number, and-- call and sec van-"1V,tvhatlle is doing for the "Fall and Winter. l-lis prices are right, consistent with first-class tie makes no other.‘ This being the season of the your that you require ' the finest Fruits obtainable, we bought a good supply A Complete Stock of, Rubbers. .._ sunny As far apart as we can get themâ€":â€" quality as high, price as low. Knowing where to get good groc- eries and getting them there; know- ing how much they ought to cost and paying that much, makes. Arnold’s as good a. place as there is in the country at which to buy groceries. We invite you to call. Fresh goods _â€"-â€"prompt delivery. ” l. I.. Arrow. ""' \ . .., «.712: WO‘««O¢CMCOOO“O¢WW*NOMQ PRGE of them, and are having a big demand for‘our RAISINS, CURRANTS, FIGS, PRUNE S, DATES, Etc” Etc. Our Cranberries will arrive next week. w. i... ‘R03OM. It you ask any particularly well-dressed man in Fenclon Falls or surrohnding district, *Who makes your clothes?” invariably 1.10 will tell you oppressive air. . -_-_.__.__.â€"~‘~.._...â€"â€"J. .~_~.___. ._.__-. .._.__....â€"...‘..._ _..,-_.__ ARE YOU [STELESTKD IN NGS? I Engagement Rings, 1‘ Wedding Rings, Diamond Rings. WRITE GED. W. BEALL, THE JEWELLER, Lindsay, For particulars. [on will save money. You can rely on what. you get. (Socialism and the Child.) May Wood Simona. Chicago. It is a fact recognized by all who have followed the development of humanity, that the prolonged period of infancy of the human child has been one of the factors that has aided in the accumula- tion of the mental resources of the race. It is fully established in biology that success in life for the offspring of many animals depends on the care and pro tection given by the parents to their young. In every stage of society those tribes and nations that have given most care to the children have been the peo- ple who have been able to makethe greatest strides in aiding the progress of the rsce. In any given epoch it must be at once apparent that the care of the young is closely dependent on'economic conditions. Since the beginning of civ- ilized society, with the existence of Wu economic classes, one of which is able to control the means of life of the other. there has prevailed a disregard on the part ofthc ruling class for the Welfare not alone of the adult worker butoi the children of the laborer. These children represent to the employer but. a means lor realizing greater profits. How. then.- does present capitalist society treat the children of the great producint: class ? First of all. statistics show that fifty per cent. of the children born of this class die before the age of four years. Thousands of these little ones, pro- teczed in some states by a nominal labor law that is easily avoided by the cm plnytp' and in most states by no law at all. mil in the department. stores in fac- tories of every description. in the sweat shop and mines. until these great in- dustries have become monuments to the unlit-ring: of children. One has but to walk on a summer night through the ghetto or the district '~ back of the yards ” through the east side of New York or the east end of London, to see these dwarfed and aged little ones lying on 'he door-Fth and sidewalk asleep after their day's toil driven from the house by the hunt and Or on a wintry morn- ing one encounters these same wait? urns-fling throtuh the darkness in their thin. threadbare clouhing to their it'll or who hours of Work. Yet. this is the 20th century civilizninn. with its avowed huh ideals and its certain pow- er, with its new and improved machines to clothe and food the world! Asain. turn to the count Factories ol' the s utth that thrive on the " slaughter of tho innocents." 0 re cannot but ii't-l how'rfl'ete is our civil-zninn when it sul‘l‘nws for the children shirt in for off lands null ago-M and withqu a punt: ol cno~ciopcc draw-t d vi lends from the toil oi these helpless ones The avvraue length of the iil'e oi. the child who guns, in“. .he suntluyru cnmn mill is but iuur yours and Iheee are four years oi'uch- in; little b «line and bnnu-nbed brains 'l‘hr-nt.:h the ulnct'upulnlts conduct of politicians and law makers and eni'orc er- tne «unitary c {ltd timw oi the work mg nlaudinricta are such that on cer- ‘tnin streets oi Uhieazn for instance. the l ‘ . . . and erotic work in the lactortcs. The. b-ibicn are put in a uhuritv- creche. n a t after her ten hours of work the mother hurries home with her li tle lick of children to the desolate room or two that serves for a home. ' Let us sum up. then, the indictment of capitalism in its treatment of the ’ children of' labor. Should they live to enter the indus- trial lit-id, they begin often at the age of six years (in the. southern cotton mills as low as live years) to enter the corn~ pmitive strucelo. Because of their weaknesg industrially and their lack of protection by the law, they take the places of women and even men..-~ since modern machinery requires little human strength, 0an a guiding power. Cap- italism purchases the cheapest labor power, whether embodied‘in man, wo- l l 1 man or child, and where machinery per: mite its use, child labor is utilized. In many wards of the cities and in many aicountry district not one hali‘ of‘ the children of schdol age are to be found in school. ' Moreover, as pointed out in the‘_British Report. on Education. and the same condition prevails here, at those whodo attend school. many are so poorly fed and thinly clad that it is impossible to teach them. There are no red corpnsles in the child’s body. In short, the‘ most superficial observ- cr must confess that great. efforts are ' being put forth even by society toâ€"day to protect the children irom the brutal- ity of the present. industrial system. Truly, if Socialism could give to the children of the working class no promise of a better lile than capitalism con- demos them to, it. Would be a failure. What. then, does Socialism claim in re- cord to the future it. offers to the child '1’ First. of all. it will give to every child an equal opportunity to lire. To-day thcchild born into the labor- ingrclcsat is born into a class from which there is as little chance for him to rise as for the low caste Indian to become a Brahmin. will still believe. he may yet-become s" capitalist and that- his children have equal opportunities in-a'l‘ree republic. . How many children of laboring men will graduatethis year frotn._Ulticauo, University, where the minimum cost per year is $600? No! Equality of opportunity does not. to-dny exist. It is only with the removal oi the element of profit. from. production and vesting of the ownership of the tools of production in the _ whole people, that the children will be freed from the mine and i'actory and given an opportunity to live and develop their manhood and. womanhood. _ ' It. is then that every parent will know that there is work always for him to do i to enable him to care for his little ones. There will not always confront. him the horror that he may lmc his “ place" and be forced to see his babies driven into the l'actortm or starved. The most prejudiced must own that the hope of the child of the laborer lies in Socialism. o .' oâ€"~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"~ How The People Rule. The people of Pennsylvania elected men to the legislature with the general understanding that. they would in a measure represent the expressed wishes of the populace.» These legislators en- ncvcd a law which aimed to prohibit the chilzlren of that state from being mnplovcdin the mines under it certain , enze. This interfered with the mining opt-rations oi the ’operators. and the. on e was taken before Judge Shalet‘ at Pmshnrc. Alter hearing both sides of the question, the ittdzc comidercd that the luv imp mod n ‘lltll'ddllp upon the opt-rotors. and rendered a decision in which he stated that the law was un~ constitutional. ‘In other words, any law which interferes with the opportunity of the mine owners in wringing, profits from the lives of vonuu children isunconsti- unionnl. The l'act that the people of Pennsylvania. through their elected rep. reu-nnntivcs. wanted such protection («v the iuture citizens oi the commonwealth out no ice with the inlgo. \thu the working class get the nerve to demand that. their expresin whites be observed. tin-m will be some prospt'ct of improren meanâ€"Appeal to Reason. -0 .. For some of rim-.- the earth and the an”, mm M. chimp" 3,. 1,32,," um" iulness thereoi have bzlonued to men, the birth rate. This in due to the fact him too city garbage is " dumped " in the. miti~r ot‘a dwellin: hnu~e district and rh u nn-n - ditches serve tor sewers but Very few of them seem to have ‘ found it out yet. lln'n'm life has no exchange Value or eom-n-riity value under the profit sysâ€" Again, today, the panther oi' the tentâ€"only such things as hogs, pug working class is taken iron: her babies dogs, pot-noes etc. Yet many a laboring man I «of/Q-an- .91»;pr _M_ “M ., .... , . . .. -.._H.. T“ "m‘ifi’m ..~ 8': *4" i). ' n pl...” .. _, 'x ' / «f-aul‘-JA’W'V‘|-d.~w‘~nz,og‘rr «Mu-max» v yawn/5“ .23 ' a- £3 -;. ; .. l :. . .,,. ~|, - J A. riwrsofifimi: 2‘ as - ~33Mcmn 9e .oC' 3 941.22%“?(4- .s ‘a .":â€"“1/vc. sâ€"‘u l a who“, $541.4- .v- I. p I: ’ 'xé‘l ‘ =~ ‘\. . _ was“? \V_\l.,,‘,.\, he. .,,‘\-.r,,~../=\, :, . ~ \‘ w...» ' . ' W - ~ .,.. .»-â€" -,.-