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“.r- ,. ._ VOL. X ,ifijE-NELQN FALLS, ______g . ' England’s Problem of the Unemployed. (From the Mail and Empire.) England’s problem of the unemployed dwarfs all other problems at the present time, and quite cvershadows evon Mr. , Chamberlain’s imperialistic propaganda. In London the‘qucstion is espscinlly momentous and extraordinary meas- ures are advocated to deal with the sit- uation. In the meantime people are starving to death. Free trader and Pro- tectiOnist are fiercely quarrelling, one trying to convince the other that a cer- tain" set of theories is'responsible for the distress; the other fiercely refuting the claim. The papers bulge with con- tradictory statistics. Veteran disputants take pen in hand. The clamor is loud and increasing; and, as has been said, there are people dying of starvation in the meantime. ran POOR MAN’S omens. The first cause, as we seek to unravâ€" el the dreary tangle of all this suffering and despondeney, is lack of work. There are millions of people in the British Isles who want employment, but cannot get it. A large percentage of these mil- lions, as has often been pointed out, are small wage earners at the best of times. When they work, all their wages go to buy them food,. so that they may have strength to work to buy them more food, .so that they may keep on working. There is no surplus. When work stops. simultaneously stops the eating, and here we havelthc obvious explanation. The following table we cannot vouch for, yet it professes to contain an unex- reduction in the price of all lines or” Professional Cards. ' fin aggerated synopsis of the situation re- ' gardiug the unemployed : . London ..... 750.000 F. A. M CDIAKMID. RRISTER somorro a, Etc; rnsn- Alon Falls’. Office, Colborne street, opposite Post-office. 11%“ Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. MOLAUGHLIN & PEEL. ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, 8m. Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. Oflice, Kent street, oppomte Market, Lindsay. RJ. MCLAUGHLIN. J. A. PEEL ‘ fl/ 0 , ' g, H. HOPKINS, r; “t _ l " BARRISTER, V 8:0. SOLICITOR FOR England (outside of London) 1,400,000 Scotland 200,000 Ireland ...... 150.000 Wales 40,000 In the cities.....‘.......‘......... 2.200.000 In the country.................. 340,000 Deaths from starvation and want.................... 100 per Week. CAUSES OF THE DISTRESS. ' To account for the unusual distress of the unemployed millions, we can cite the crop failure in Ireland, which has had the effect of making the necessaries of life scarcer. and therefore harder to buy, and the unusually severe weather of early winter. To account for the un employed themselves, we are referred to the generally had state of trade, and here we find ourselves in the wrangle between Free Trader and Protectionist. The trade returns of England for the past eleven months show that never before were there so many arithmetical reasons for general prosperity. imports have increased by nearly $40,000,000, and exports by nearly $32,000,000, over the corresponding: period of 1903. Nor has the expansion of trade been confined to a few months, but has, on the contrary. Footwear. the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at to suit the borrower. t rates on terms . ow" Street South, Lind- Olfiees : No. 6, William lay, Ont. / STEWART & O’CONNOR, BARRISTERS, NOTARIES, 8w. MONEY to loan at lowest current rates. Terms to suit borrowers. Office on corner of Kent and York streets, Lindsay. T. S'rswaar. L. V. O’CONNOR, B. A MOORE do JACKSON, ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, 85c. Of- B lice, William street, Lindsay. EVERYTHENG, GOOD . ‘ e ‘ ' " â€" . ,in groceries can be found here. You can search the F. D. Moons. A. JACKSON fl '_.. store over and not, find a been spread evenly over them all. E . g ' ' - Stringer enough, trade appears to have AUCTIONVL‘ .._ Slngé'le arthIB to WhICh‘eX-I expanded as the distress of the unem- ‘ cep 10n- can be taken- ploycd has increased. There .s no con- MI.” STEPHEN OLIVER, LINDSAY - I ONT. Live Stock and general IAuctio'neer. Write for dates before advertising. tradictionin this, for it is obvious that people who are neither producers no:- consumers can have absolutely nothing to do with trade. They affect it only You will admit if you . look over our stock that , we keep track of the prices #Mfl ." too, never them in that they become burdens on those of ' - their neighbors who do not participate MEDICAL I i get too under any in trade, as parasites afiect the organism circumstances. w. L. Ro Maw/lg DR. H. H. GRAHAM. â€"â€"n.n., c. an, M. n. c. 5. Eng, M. c. r. .tâ€" 5., Own, F. 'r. M. s.â€" HYSICTAN, SURGEON 35 ACCOUCH- Oflicc. Francis Street, Fenelon to which they cling. . CHARITY ANS\VERS THE CALL. Charity blindly and nobly shuts its ears to every sound but the cry of the destitute people, and rushes to the res- cue. In the twenty-eight boroughs of son; ‘ Falls. ; MM London the councils-have started extra DE. A. WlLSON, works. Outside ofLondon many niuni â€"â€"M. n., M. c. r. a s., Ontariorâ€" polities have established free soup kitch- ' ens. Newspapers have opened penny subscription funds, and the appeal for help has met with a response from the uttcrmost corners of tlic'carth. In Lon- don all thc workhouscs are crowded. ICIAN SURGEON & ACOOUCH- IiiirS Olficc’, Colbornc Street, l‘cnelon "he: ’8 Your Tailor .9 JM‘Mfl/b 1 * The Salvation Army and the Church ‘ { . ~ ' . , , Army are doing a wonderful work, and you ab any paltmlflarly Vveuâ€"dl essed between them ward off starvation. The ENTIST Dr. SI J' Sims, D ’ Mansion House Fund, familiar in all such emergencies, is booming along. The king has sent a cheque for $750, Lord Iveagh, the brewer, $25,000, and the Messrs. Rothschild $15,000. Yet if London, the wealthiest, as it is the most charitable, city in the world, were men in Fenclon Falls or surrounding district, Maw“, Town... University and “who makes ' your clothes ? ” invariably he A'LL BRANCHES 0F DENTISTRY Will tell you ding to the latest improved methods at moderate prices. , orricn zâ€"Over Burgoyne’s store, 001- c ‘ ~' ‘ borne street I O R I I I E : 2 m3 NEELANDS &IRYINE, Be one of the number, and call and see- nnKTISTS - LINDSAY What he is doing for the Fall and Winter i t 1 i. .' d. Cro and - - . . ~ .I I I . mm W mlmesrh‘“dfl‘s “1 HlS 131'1093 are fight, conmstcnt With firstâ€"class ' rk a specia ty. ’ :ilftifiulvotooth. painless crimction. Gta’s} r I 1 1' g 5 _ .tmsg ant W01 smansnip. Holmich no other. 5 ~rx.. -‘3') 7,399”: hunklA - more weight of money would not blot spread like a poll over the land; SOCIALISTS TO THE roan. ‘ Naturally, the Socialists and all other members of society whose discontent with existing conditions has crystnliscd “ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10m, 1905. to give ten times what it will give, the out the problem, nor in any way consid- erably afi'oct the dcstitution which ,is ed the present :is‘ an opportunity to prm claim their theories anl off-r their solu- tions. No matter that to hundreds of thousands the price of a penny roll is prohibitive, something of incalcii‘ably greater importance is as free as air. This is speech. There is free spa-sch in England, and there are scores of doma- gogucs in London daily denouncing the institutions and officials held responsi- ble for the situation. Jack Williams is typical of his class, and his style is somewhat as follows : “ If you had any pluck in you, you would n’t stand it; you ’d revolt. Dâ€"n Balfour and all his class of politicians l They ’d revolt in twenty-four hours if they were in your position. Do n't hide yourselves in your garrets. Bring ter- ror into the West End, and they ’11 lis- ten to you yeti" , .. The thousands who listen cheer the speaker, and then disperse scowling at the police; but they do no more, des- pite these incendiary speeches; Their real labor leaders in Parliament and out, John Burns, J. Keir Hardie and Will Crooks, are wise enough to make no such appeal. They trust to accom- plishing their ends by constitutional methods; but there can be no doubt that in these men the great mass of working people, employed and unem- ployed, .havc the utmost faith, andtliat, should they choose to become fiery dem- agogués in this crisis, there would be riots which the police alone would be powerless to control. It will be remem- bered to their credit. STATESMEN WANTED. ‘ After all, the root; of the trouble seems to lie in the fact that such large tracts of English land are productive of nothing but sport for the gentry. The population, through the centuries, has been slowly alienated from the land. More and more attention has been given to manufacturing and less and less to agriculture. There hasgrown’up the theory that the land in England is too valuable to merely raise food upon. Factories are consideredits best pro- duct. So. last year, England paid out $244,000,000 for butter, cheese, eggs and bacon, while there are millions of acres of land lying idle, now,,w|iicli might have been made to yield some of these products. Into the huge problem thus raised one cannot go in any limited space. Enough has been said to show that the need of the hour in England is not loose change, but brains; not phi« lanthropists, but statesmen. Behaving Like a Lady. What society needs today is not charity, but justice. There is no greatâ€" er iinpcrtinencc and fraud perpetrated upon the disinhcrited poor than that which is known as professional charity. The following anecdote from one of our English exchanges :llliS off the situation finely : “ A little girl from an East E-id slum was invited with others to a chari- ty dinner, given at a great house in the West E'lll of London. In the course of the meal the little maiden startled her hostess by propounding the query : ‘3 ‘ D ucs your husbtnd drink?’ “ ‘ Why, ,no,’ replied the astonished lady of the house. 7 i “‘ After a moment's pause the minia- ture qncrist proceeded with the equally bewildering questions : “‘ How much coal do you burn ? What is your husband’s salary ? Has he any bad habits?’ “By this time the presiding genius of the table fcit called upon to ask her humblc guest what. made her ask such strange questions. “ ' \Voll,’ was the innocent reply, ‘ mother told me to behave like a lady, and when ladies call at our house they always ask mother those questions.’” â€"â€" The Vanguard. o The Great Truth. “ The great. truth of the importance of man,” said Henry Ward Beecher, “which God is driving through our time with a. chariot of fireâ€"yrhen this truth comes up to the Church. does the Clmrclrwelcom'o it? No. The Church is busy dusting tho flitohes of old truth that have hung for years in the smoke- house of theology.” That was an in- dictment of the Church.made in the midst of the struggle against negro sla- vory fifty years ago. Shall such au'in- dictincnt be made possible in this great- er contest against wagc slavery? 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