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h‘i . ’ \. ‘. . Ar, @hc gcantata Ehalls (hart i a. r.’ The Bank of British North America lends money to enable cattle to be properly finished, or for other purposes. can in and mu; it WW LEGAL. 'W F. A. MCDIAHMID. ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Etc.,‘, FENE- B lon Falls. Office, Colborne street, opposite Post-office. WMoney to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. M McLAUGHLIN & PEEL. ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &0. Money to loan on real estate-at lowest current rates. Office, Kent street, opposite Market, Lindsay. Ft. J. HOLAUGHLIN. J. A. PEEL / G. H. HOPKINS, ARRISTER, 8w. SOLICITOR FOR the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at owest rates on terms to suit the borrower. Offices: No. 6, William Street South, Lind- STEWART 8i: O’CONNOR, ARRISTERS, NOTARIES, &c. MONEY B ‘to loan at lowest current rates. Terms to suit borrowers. Oflice on corner of Kent and York streets, Lindsay. T. STEWART. L. V. O’Coxxon, B. A ______________..__â€"â€"â€" MOORE a JACKSON, ARRISTERS, sonioifrons, &c. or- B flee,William street,Lindsay. reduction in the price of @111 lines, Wmter Fovctvvear. _ A YOUR GOOD MAN’S BREAKFAST,_Q - guns does'not need an arsenal as part of ’been the "chief means of conquesit. and .take the hindmost.” This rule of self- FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH17TH,‘1905.W The Struggle Fior Existence. 2 V (By Rev. W. Vrooman.) -:In endowing liim.~witli reason, nature denied man the physical weapons, tools and defences of other animals. Physi- cally ho is, the most helpless of all ani- mals. He has neither the speed of the horse, the horn of the ox, the ear of the door, the eye of the bird, nor the strength of the lion; but he who has reason requires not the rude weapons of the lower,creature_s. He who can make clubs, axes, swords, rifles and machine his anatomy. He enters into the con- flict with intelligence to subdue and use all the forces of nature in his service; and,cast upon his resources, he becomes an inventor- and makes weapons and tools for himself. Men b'eganlifc by starting upon a ca- reer of fighting. From boomerang to battleship, from plowshare to blasting furnace, their history has been one of universal warfare._ In the. battle for bread and luxury, force and fraud have the weakest havebeen ruthlessly, crush- ed.‘ This" has been so in every depart- ment of life. in politics, industry, coni- mercc,.societyâ€"and even in religion al- soé-tlio»c0iitrolliiig maxim has been, “ Every man" for himself, and the devil ishness is proclaimed in every hoof and horn, evaryfang and claw, every club and gun of all creation. . * Thc'brutish selfishness in human na~ ture is evidence of blood relationship withthcjungle. ' Whether man has ac- quired this by a Fall from primeval goodness, or finds it as an evidence of his-pedigree; whether orthodoxy or ev- olution give the time explanation, the ugly fact remains. This spirit develops under the conditions of social strife into the many malignant types~of rapacity and cruelty which characterise the hu- man struggle for existence, for wealth, _ for ppv'vcr add for pleasure. , There ,are some who'.still contend that this ancient method is the divinely ordered law for society. They dignify it‘by calling it"‘compotition." “In the jungle ritris ferocity ‘aLnd brutality, but among men it is only “competition.” The. defenders of this system say that this method-has for ages wooded out the biologically imperfect, and tends to the survival of the fittest. The method has been good for. beasts; why should it not be good for men ? It does not seem to these biological sociologists that a. moth od which might improve brutehood and make the lion king of the jungle, might brutilizc manhood and make a Bona- parte king of men. If it be the divine order to subjugate the weak to the strong and to cheat the innocent by fraud; if it be the divine order to l arena upon equal terms. Not one siif‘ fers a disadvantage through _thc legal documents of another, or the legislative blunders or crimes of the past. Not one comes into the tournament with any royal prerogative or special privilczc3~ with any monopolies or any hereditary wealth. No salmon can produce a title- deed to the mouth of the Frazer or C0- lumbia river, nor a mortgage on any of the tributaries. No Sir Pelican Otnnivn 'orous, distinguished capitalist from Sal- monopolis, ever by political pull or pubâ€" lic grant secured a monopoly 0f the free waters of his race, with power to exact tribute to the full paying ability of his serfs. The free competitions of nature are not restricted by any of the laws, precedents and traditions of civilization. Whatever natural advantages there may n be found in universal competition can be secured only in the fairiield-of' on. ture. The conditions for securing any such advantages'are ab‘s'ent'fi‘oni human society. Competition among men is not upon fair and equal terms. The battle of naked Indians with American- machine guns is not' a fair: ‘fight.’ It can only be a‘massacrc'.‘ Nor is commercial and indusrrial competi- tion to-day upon any fairer terms. What chance has one poor working man in a conflict with a corporation ? What: hope of success has a' small capi- talist in' cOmpetiticn with a Trust ? The strong, through natural ability or by fortunate speculation, or by purchased. legislation, or by private control of col: lcctive Wealth, are given unfair advant- ages which destroy fair competition and establish a new kind of serfdom. _.-’l‘ho centralizationof wealth which is pro- needing with such amazing rapidity shows how rapidly real competition is being destroyed. The cnd'of the pro- cess naturally‘is the co-operation of the powerful in the subjugation and esploitv ation of the powerless. A civilization developed on this prin-‘ "ciple of struggle for existence and com? petition for the benefits of life cannot be Christian. Injustice and inhumanity " must result. .- Thelaw of the jungle and the sea works ill among men. We have tried it for along time, andnmany na- tions have perished in the practice of it. The results are now seen in the slums of our cities, in drunkenness and crime, in' poverty and fallen women, in the strife between labor and capital, in com- mercial frauds and political corruption, in the increase of wealth and in anxio- ties which eat out the heart and happi- ness of nine-tenths of the human race. According to Christ, the ancient law which was in force through ages of ani- mal evolution must not be obeyed by men. The social philosophy of Christi- auity is spelled with only four lettersâ€"â€" L-O-V-E. According to this, human Society can reach perfection and happi- as well as your own, should in- clude a: good cereal. We have ncss only by dropping the military and lungs societ into universal warfare . , p ‘ y ' industrial methods of warfare, and by p . Ly“,sz . . _ social, military'and industrial, and to , , _ , F' D‘ MOORE ' breakfast foods in almost infinlte crown despots as the favorites of Godâ€" }‘°‘““‘=’5qf‘[” maid”; the '08'9pfmuoub0f M . - - ~ ove ic wor earns iis esson ut: . ~ . ._ then let the maddening struggle eon- J ' , , , . ‘AUCTIONEERf VarletY' N0 -ma’tte1 What-Pal mum, Lt,h the apostle. a‘ud magi“ pep slowly. Experience is teaching men the Mfr”; STEPHEN OLIVER. , , LINDSAY - ONT- Live Stock and general 'Auctioneer. Write for dates before advertismg. MEDICAL. ' DR. H. H. GRAHAM. -â€"n. 1)., c. M., ii. a. c. 5. Eng, it. c. P. a 5, ON']‘., r. 'r. M. s.â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON a ACOOUCH- ‘eur. 0flice.‘Francis Street, Feuelon Falls. I _________'____,___..'â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"‘ DE. A. WlLSON, â€"n. 3.,11. c. r. a 5., Ontario,â€" YSICIAN SURGEON 8; ACCOUGH- Print. Otficej, Colborne Street, reneion Falls. M DENTAL. W Dr. S. J. SIMS, DENTIST, ticular grain or combination you prefer,rwe have it here. ' wisdom which they refused to learn from Christ or any social philosopher. The experience of men is driving them to Socialism as a means to escape the evils of plutocracy. Indti'Strial democracy is following .fast on political democracy. Liberty seems only. aphan'toin tc,:multi- ' -t-udes without it. Christianity theoret- ically proclaimsBrotherhood, and Soci- ~Â¥iism would make it an industrial-fact. ,s..... ish and the poor swelter in the. Slums! Let Nero reign and monopoly control ‘ legislation !‘ ‘ ‘ > But in the "evolution of theflhnimal world there-are no moral problems for the brutes to solve. rT-here are no, com. - punctions’ of! conscience.- "The '-sti'-uggle is immoral. All enter into the warfare for existence “upon equal terms of free-I. .dom from moral. law., “The unscrupu- lous shark meets no conscientious whal er. In the jungle and thence no vision ‘of’moral law, no sense of- sin', no heroic" . - pursuit of aspiritnal ideal for a‘m‘om‘ent , In an address delivered at theNation- - paralyzcspsw _or flu in the pursuit of al W. OCT. U.’_in Buffalo, N. Y., in prey. The morally superior are notvdis- 1897. the late Frances F. Willard said : armed by their high principles and sac- “ Ibelicve that competition is doom- rificed to the fury ofthc wickedp Evo- ed. The trusts. whose single object it lution' niay'procced according to more is to abolish competition, have proved - ,, You can have the cooked, the .‘ h.pr cooked ,or' the nincookedg.‘ i the pro-digested, the: half organ, ed or. ‘ji'i'stfthe‘ plain" cereal. ‘vat. . is for you to select, us to supply; ‘ It isyChristianityl applied; 7. Who is Your , Tailor 9 If you ask any particularly Wellâ€"dreSSed' letitless law of competition, for moral elements have not. yet entered to com, plicatc the problem. This same method, however, may work only disaster and calamity in human society. Social evo- lution, conductedup'in lines of strife that we are better without than with it, and the moment corporations control the supply of any product they combine. What the Socialist desires is that the corporation of humanity. should control all production. Beloved'comrades, this is the frictionless way; it is the higher ' . ‘ . . and com etition. may crush these higher i Fenelon Falls. man In Fenelon Falls or Surroundlng dlStrlCt, elementspof character which distinguish. way; it eliminates the motive fer a sel- ‘3 . t Un'versity find . -, . ' ‘ men from brutes. Moral confusion and fish lifc ' instils into our every-day liv- l 3.;ll3udll2gggf ggh‘iEISurgebns. “Who Intakes your Clothes ? ” Inval'laibly he degradation must result. The practice ing the Zithics of Christ’s gospel. Noth- l‘ Elm BRANCHES 0F DENTISTRY t ' .- . of the same methods amongst men and i‘ng else will do it'; nothing else can 'V t‘ med according to the latestimprcved W1 6 you brutes can only result in brutalizing bring the glad day of universal brother- ?" or methods at moderate Pl‘ices- - - ‘ men. This is precisely what we observe. hood. Oh, that I were young again, OIFICE 1â€"0V9‘ Burg°yne,s Store’ 001- c ' In universal. competition a tender con» and it would have my life! It is God's “we street . I I I I I E : 2 ' a science or a sensitive heart is a disad- way out of the wilderness and into the k/ I- vantage to be sustained only by the ox- promised land. It is the very marrow ercise ofa devout religious faith. That of Christ’s rrospel. It is Christianity BBS, & Be one Of the number, and call and see cannot be the divine order of human Applied.” a - LINDSAY. - . a _ society which sacrifices the weak to the o» ‘ DIITISTS d C n and What he .18 d01ng for the and Wlnter. strong, ailde gives 311p inhcpritance of the Under Socialism the“ will be no my, Nimml team plesewe ' r-ow ' ' .' . .' . ' - r {with to 01‘0qu PM“ - ~, ' porations to bribe and corru t uhlic m... workfispg‘fggfi fxglggfggmfitu‘; His piices one light, conmstent With firstâ€"class Another a... should be noticed.- I. sew-we, bu, ,he peopm 003,033,,“ ‘ “finial teeth. in h the jungle and the 59“ minimum“ 19 ‘0 will be to perfect the public service and administered to over 9,000 persons with and workmanship. He no other. , “we”. the open field. All creatures enter the give pleasure to the who“, 990,316.,