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0‘. FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1904. N0. 34-. mere existence. It will secure the ma- terial side of life. It will give u: -it last the opportunity to take hold of the world, and to re-lashion it in its glory and beauty that have been visioned, but never realized. ~"i The Root of the Social Problem- (By Leonard D. Abbott.) The fundamental blasphemy of our civilization lies, in the assumption that it is right and natural for the majority of people in the world to be poor. What would we think of the biologist who seriously contended that it was normal for the majority of human be- ings to be deformed? What opinion could we have~oi the doctor who took the position that it was right and natu ml for men to be in a chronic condition of disease? And yet those conclusions are not more monstrous than is the point of view of the political economist who publishes lcarnedltomcs based on the assumption that it is right that the majority of men should be poor. “ The poor ye have aways with you.” How many times has this saying of Christ been made to serve as a buttress for every Conservative and careless view of social conditions! Many of us seem really to have persuaded ourselves into the fatalistic conception for which it stands. People argue gravely about the “ impossibility ” of abolishing poverty, â€"-as if poverty existed in the world as the result of a natural law, such as that which controls the sweep of the tides or the falling of the rain. Now of course there is no denying that in every age of the world there have been men lazy and spendthrift ; men who would always be poor because they lack restraint and prudence; men who squander what they have. Doubt less there will always be such men ; but these men are relatively few. They are c.. ..__._.._._. __ A Farmer’s Ideas. All wealth comes from the ground-â€" the farm and the mine. The farmers and laboring men produce it. All they produce is sold to the trusts. and the trusts put the price on it when they buy it back, after their wage slaves have changed its form. There is no compe- tition, except among the workers to get a job. The old parties are made up of one classâ€"fleecers. Take the directo- ries of the banks, the corporations and the companies, and you will find them composed of democrats and republicans. The working class keep up the govern- ment for the benefit of these men who . do no useful work. The working class ‘ have no representatives at’Washington, i but all of them are for the corporations. Some members give their occupation as farmers, but they never plowed a furrow. We farmers are in worse shape than the slaves before 1860. When the workers complain of their lot, the troops are used to shoot them into submission, as in Colorado. Republican and demo- cratic bayonets are just alike. They are used to deport people and confiscate their property. But we are waking up. , A neighbor rode twelve miles to tell me " of a Socialist meeting; his neighbor had ‘ ridden ten miles to tell him. The move. ment is growing fast here. There will Bank of British North America. Stylishness for the ladies, Comfortableness for the men, Ruggedness for the children. s is (gs-@i iii 7' 4‘ . 5.9? R. A. Robinson, A ' I -;Manager. We’ve picked our stock accordin to these ideas. ‘ ‘ g r - t. .. . c I‘¥§\ I( Q) ‘1 Andstyle doesn’t leave out durabil- ity. Neither does long wear sacrifice looks. It needn’t. and it doesn’t. t - I‘r \. I (9%: v‘. . .. a :7 .a A - I 1“. _ w ' - 6" ,n, i a _ so few, in r0 ortion to the whole, [hat , a, . it ~ ’7 . round Shoe gOOd' % , they need hardly be taken into account l)l(iisqt'all)ll.:3 surpme f0! the plumb F A MCDIARMID ness for every member Of :3 in the present argument. The problem Vici, Okla. OLD KILL. ARRIS TER SOLiorroa.ntc.,§FENE- every famfly, as low as wesare conildemg is m} D0 Sponq' "' ~ 8 F 11: Office Colbome, Street N , _, thiifts deseivc to be pom? but. Is it S . y S 0 oil); Pflosi:0fiice- W Moneyi'im 10M; lg ' a’ pan" as as its} right that whole classes of men, the ma. ocletu imme- pp 4 7 jom'y or mon’ Should be poor ? A city daily tells of“ how “ Poor old - $5.00, but all worth What you are asked to pay. to ,3": There exist all around 'us multitudes of men doing the most useful kinds of work that can be done, work which builds the very foundation of our social life. and so necessary that to imagine it 9 on real estate at lowest current rates. M/ M CLAUGHLIN & PEEL. BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, 8w. Money Mrs. Mary Shaughnessy wandered to the East 126th street police station last evening, having no other place in the big city to go. She is eighty years old. For four weeks she had slept in hall- ’5 @Eéeéfgi'z‘h I ‘L anger a: 3 c 3 real estate at lowest current We have, everything in I to loan on . rates. Office, KeMStl‘ceh 0139051“ Market, f. m. Stopped is to ima inc a'wo 1d pluiaed L'ndsa . s3” . ' ‘ . g . . r [=1 . . «m ' - RIIJ' MiLAUGHLm' JoiA. PEEL grocery. 11118 at close ' in chaos. They-are mining the coal that gzgztfigofeé’gfii bfrlefffyd; 31:21:32,539 . _ ,_ . . , i a G. H. HOEKINS, ‘ fflslmlumg the domes that we. weiu" up in a cell, where she went to sleep ‘ FOR in building the houses that we live in. with tears ofnmmude and a m er on .A.RRIS'1‘ER2 Sw- SOLICITOR 4:43 Surely if any man should be coniforta- - L " , ’ pmy ‘the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at r8; ble_a 8 should be rich_it iq these hir lips for the good sergeant. "- y ’ ‘ ‘ What do you think of a society that It may be true that other men are do- ing more original work, more “intel lectual” workâ€"work that requires a rarer type of mind and hands. But this does not at all alter the fact that the manual workers are furnishing the sus- tenance without which the higher life could not exist for a moment; it cannot blind us to the fact that the workers will allow its womenâ€"its frail old wo- menâ€"to walk the streets, sleep in hall- wars and ,beg .for food ? Are you so pessimistic that. you regard humanity as incapable of anything better than this? Mary Shaughnossy‘scondition is not an accident nor an exception ; it is a natural result of the capitalist system! If you do not believe this. go into any owest rates on terms to suit the borrower. Offices : No. 6, William Street South, Lind- say, Ont. STEWART & O’CONNOR, ARRISTBRS, NOTARIES, he. MONEY B to loan at lowest current rates. Terms to suit borrOWers. Office on corner of Kent and York streets, Lindsay. L. V. O’Conaon, B. A T.S1‘EWAET. , __‘ _ . Po the con3u1n6r8,,0f 1n Fenelon Falls are the really organic part of society. . . MOOREXLJACKSON, - d (1- And 13, the incomesmble fact remains large city and see how the women ct an surroun lng country : ' 3 the poor live. Then ask yourself what 7 that the workers, as a class, are very . H ’. - you mean when you pray . Thy king- ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c. Of- fice, William street,bindsay. F. D. Moons. A. J aoxson W AUCTIONEER. poor; that when their lives are not ut- terly squalid, they are stunted and bro- ken; that their environment is such as to shut out not only the beauty of the world in which we live. but also to rob them of all that finer heritage of thought dom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” Are you helping to make this prayer come true? If you are not, quit praying it. Only the devil loves a liypocritc.â€" American Eco. You are the judges of this commodity, and the best way to get you thoroughly sure that I have the TEPHEN OLIVER. a: V S ONT and culture, of aspiration and achieve- "i LINDSA: d ' 1 Auct'ioneer . f ‘ ment, which has come down to us thro’ He Shook HIS Head. ' Live 5‘00 a" gene”. . ' ' ' tl t I , d l ' l t d h - "â€" 1s or you to to: my Ceylons m black or green assassins... raisin a. a... I oi / Japans a-le Slftlngs OI‘ Salada, in all fades No thinking man, no man with a con- ” mdepende“ " farmers th“ the Y°P“b' MEDICAL S ’ g ‘ sciousncss of the integrity of his owa llgflntomii’ Chase.“ 3"" fillfajs muff"?! “5 M 111' . ' manhood and a sense of the duty he a 0“ '- e .9735 comp-310mg 0 P00“ 6 Wlnners at owes his fellows, can possibly acquiesce 01‘0951_l°w prices 0“ What he had ‘30 50“. and high prices on what he had to buy, in social conditions which produce such a result. He is driven into the revolu- tionary camp by the very deep-seated- ncss of the evils with which he would grapple. No “ reforms,” no superficial nostruins, will eradicate injustice so fundamental as this. We how a tree at its root. not among the branches. Soci- ’ . I - r O S i I ety is upside down. The obvious thing . I ' to do is to turn it rightsidc up. The working class is poor because it is dependent on a capitalist class. And the capitalist class is rich because it owns the land and machinery of the Socialism is simply It on ask an ‘ ~ . . 'ld’. -d - . y y partICUIall-y well-dlessed lthd prhgdsitiiiiiuiliat the working class, and all who sympathize with their cause, man in Fenelcn Falls or surrounding district . u ,7 . . 7 should take the world out of private Who makes your clothes ? invariabl he hands. and put it into public handS. . i ‘ y The evolution of industry, by massing W111 you capital in a. few hands, is every day ' making this task an easier one. c ' When once men decide to take pos- ' I < x 7 I I 7 session of their own property, when once _ society has become a unified and organ- ized association. the problem of poverty DR. H. H. GRAHAM. â€"-â€"1t. 1)., c. 11., M. a. c. 3. Eng, M. c. P. a: s., 0NT., r. '1‘. M. s.â€" PHYSICIAN, SURGEON 8: AOCOUCH- but vehemently insisted that he was a “ free " American citizen, and strenu- ously objected to my calling him a slave of the trusts. “ When you come to town with a load of wheat, I suppose you sell it at your own price? ” I innocentfy ask- ed him. He admitted that the other ‘- fellow set the price. Then I handed him this remark : “ I suppose when you i get a new plow or a new wagon you buy it at your own figure?” He looked suspicious and shook his head. “ No,” he said, “ 1 have to buy and sell at tho , market price, of course.” He snapped out his answer, and the look in his eyes seemed to say he pitied my dense igno- rance. “Of course you control the mar- ket?” I asked him mildly. A demo- cratic candidate for congress then can e to his rescue, and led him towards the cigar ciunter.â€"â€"-Jas. A. Wayland. 'W. L. ROBSON’S. eur. Ofiice. Francis Street, Fenelon DR. A. WILSON, , a s,, Ontario,â€" HYSICIAN SURGEON & ACCOUCH‘ eur. Office’. Oolborne Street, Fenelon DENTAL. M Dr. 5. .i. suns, DENTIST, Fenelon Falls. Graduate of Toronto University and R0 al College of Dental Surgeons. AlLL BRANCHES 0F DENTISTRY ‘diug to the latest improved methods at moderate prices. OFFICE zâ€"Over Burgoyne’s store, Col- borne street // DRS. liEELAllDS 8t IRVINE, LINDSAY. served. Crown and lty. Splendid fits in ess extraction. (Bias 9,009 persons with _.- Under Socialism there will be no cor- porations to bribe and corrupt public service. but the people’s corporation will be to perfect the public service and give will vanish. The world contains enough pleasure to the whole public. Be on of ~ 0 the numbel’ and can and See â€"and much more than enoughâ€"-for ev- ery human being. Nature literally pours what he is domg‘for the Spring and Summer. its bounty upon us. we simply have not yet learned to live together in at His Jrice are rio‘ ' ' 1 S c . bht’ .conSIStent Wlth first-Class sane way. Socialism will teach us how StYle and. WOTkHIEbHShlp, He [flakes no other. to live. It will end the struggle for great success- ' 1 4 4 . . . < Under Socialism machinery and or- 1 gaiiization will take from the housewife ‘ nine-tenths of her labor. She will cease ' i 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . DENTISTS ““ Natural teeth pi'e bridge work a specia artificial teeth. Painl to be a drudge, and the servant girl question will be a thing of the past.