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V OL. XXXIII. ._- , 1.,_~._,_ , r. ' $2,000 A Year P er Worke “ You state in your paper that, under Socialism, each worker would get 32.- .000 a year for an eight-hour day for his share of labor performed. This does not look reasonable. Can you make it any clearer? ”â€"â€"â€"A Reader. “:Soicntific methods of production have advanced so far that this amount of re tail priced wealth can be produced in a year for each individual workerâ€"and 5; sea as sense sears serene. ESTABLISHED 1836. much more than that. Ten to tWenty iii . times as much wealth is the product of '2} machine methods as in the old days of 2, hand methods; in some instances a. A GENERAL BANKING BUSI-. thousand times as much. Under Social- NESS CONDUCTED. ism, when all labor will. be applied un- ‘5 der the very best conditions, With the very best machines and the best possible direction, there will be a still greater increase. The trust methods have shown how much more effective labor can be made than by small factories. Imagine still greater factories, supplied with even greater machines, owned- and oper- ated by the public, and' you can readily M SfllliiiGS EPAR‘iiiiEiil. Interest allowed on deposits of $1 and upwards. ‘he?Sirflefittiflxfisdiifififfiifle 8138012311,;1222133211;13%;;611 to understand how this can be done. Be- l ' - 0 sides, the pay-rolls of factories to-day have many people on them who do not ' SS. _' c f produce, but whose mental skill is used n ' O 1 e to divert trade, by advertising, outwit- : y p O ting other factories, and by complicated methods of doing things to prevent oth- ers from knowing just how things are being done. All these will become pro- ducers, because there will be no need of their calling under a system in which cunning and deception and fraud will not be needed. Two thousand years ago, with the primitive methods thenin use, the working clans made a living for themselves, and kept up a horde of ru- lers and servants, and armies and ships. 'l‘c-day any one knows that we can pro duee fifty-fold more in day than the serfs on the feudal estates; and yet the working class to-day only get a livingâ€"â€" a better one, it may be, but still only a living. There is no workman to-day who can keep up twenty families as i ell as his ancestors of two thousand years ago could keep oneâ€"yet (in a factory) he can produce more than twenty times as much wealth. When system sup- plants this planlcss. anarchic method of industry, the workers will be able to havu all the good things of life in such profusion that want will disappear from the earth. If they could reason this out, not one of them would vote for anything but Socialism; but their teach ers have kept this from them, and they have no idea why it is that they are poor, while the useless members of soci- ety are rich beyond the wildest dreams of an Aladdin. The masters do not want them to know this. They want them to be contented with their misera- ble condition: They talk to them of prosperity, of glory, of patriotism, of tariffsâ€"of everything under the sun to getting 3. Shoe that does, not fit the foot or wear well, buy the Slater. We have all the new- est shapes in tan and black. Price $3.50, $4.00 and Professional Cards. LEGAL. F. A. MCDIAHMID. ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Etc”; FENE- lou Falls. Olfice, Colborne street, opposite Post-office. 11%" Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rates. . . McLAUGHLTN St PEEL." ARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &0. Money to loan on real estate at lowest current rateS. Olfice, Kent street, opposrte Market, Lindsay. K. J. MCLAUGHLIN. J. A. Peer. M ' e. u. HOPKINS, ARRISTER, 8w. SOLICITOR FOR the Ontario Bank. Money to loan at owest rates on terms to suit the borrower. Gffices : No.6, William Street South, Lind- say, Out. ___________'____.____â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"' STEWART & O’CONNOR, ARRISTERS, NOTARIES, lee. MONEY B to loan at lowest current rates. Terms to suit borrowers. and York streets, Lindsay. Ollice on corner of Kent T. STEWART. L. V. O’CONNOR, B. 1‘ Lu A FIT F63. .A. KZNG to wear are the shoes to be had MOORE «Sb JACKSON, ARRISTERS, sommroas, &c. or- B fice William street Lindsay. ' . , _ _ I ran. M’oonn. , AJACKSON here. They are royal in quality keep “1011‘ minds fl‘Pm,tl11"1<"lg of “he _________,______._â€" and Style but very democrmtic real causeâ€"the capitalists taking what W' '“ONUER . . ’ L the workers produce, and using it for AUCTI ‘1 i In prlce' their benefit, instead of having it used & for the benefit of those who produce it. STEPHEN OLIVB‘R’ Government statistics of cost of produc- LINDSAY - ONT. in its himhest developnlent is tion. substantiu.-, all the claims of the b Socialists; but the common people nev- Tjive Stock and general Auctioneer. Write for dates before advertisrng. WM” . MEDICAL. . M DR. 1-1. H. GRAHAM. --ai.'n., c. M., M a. c. s. Eng., M. c. P. & 8., 02m, F. 'r. M. s.â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACOOUCH- cur. Oflice. Francis Street, Fenelon Falls. I ___________4_____â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€" DR. A. WlLSON, -â€"-M. B.,M. c. r. .t 3., Ontario,â€" HYSICIAN, SURGEON &. ACCOUCHâ€" eur. Office, Colborne Street, hcuelon Falls. W apparent in every department of this store. The shoes represent the acme of style, comfort and durability. You cannot fail to be interested if you call. or read any of the govornment statistics. â€"â€"Appcal to Reason. What Means This Rumbling ? That capitalists can go on combin- ing monopolizing and extorting forever, while labor must how its neck to the yoke, is inconceivable. We all know that, even if both go on, there must come a time when there will be a crash that will wake up this sleepy old world with a start. If capitalists continue to combine, while denying labor the same right, then will the crash come soon; for human nature will stand about so much, and even in Russia, with an army and no law to restrain them, the capi- DENTAL talists find themselves facing conditions Mfr-cf; . ' before which they tremble. Do we wish MS DENTIST you aSk any paltlculally VVGll-dl’essed to invite such a condition here? Yet m' s' J' 5' ’ ’ that is just what is coming, the way man in Fenelon Falls or surrounding district, “Who makes your clothes?” invariably he ‘ will tell you, 5' TO W“ NLEY-” Be one of the number, and call and see things are going to-day. There can nov- er be peace between the capitalists and their slaves. Their interests are diam- etrically opposed to each lother. Har- mony is impossible. The workmen Want the shortest hours and the highest pay, and the masters want the longest hours and the poorest pay. That is their ma- terial interest, and men are moved by their material interests. The public conscience was apathetic about trusts until recently. but the Whole country Fenolon Falls. Toronto University anti R val College of Dental Surgeons. gill BRANCHES 0F DENTISTRY erfcrmcd according to the latest improved p methods at moderate prices. OFFICEzâ€"Over Burgoyne’s store, 001- borne} street _______’_______..__. f . DES. llEELllllDS 8t IRlllllE, LINDSAY. What he is doin Graduate of DENTISTS I d Crown and g for the Spring and Summer. seems to be talking about them now. 1 teeth PETER?” ' . i ' .' . .‘ . ‘ - W! .. tl‘ .cie ce is full :wake Hidemiigorkkll‘Sllgcitflgés fgggfpmfits “I; HIS prices are tight, conmsteut With first-class theihnwilllbecgdfnctliing doingy 1:... us w‘fioialteel- ~‘ . n1 , - .1.‘ 1 blltb . TI 8 'I- “dimmed to 91°09 “‘“lstyle and WOIkmanshlp. He makes no other. £3,333.32 it? jlsfice°fnd ...I§..°.°.‘“.o just the same. The public here is a» ruining the same attitude towards the capitalist that the public in Russia is assuming towards its oppressors. Sever- al years ago you could not have induced the millions of Russia to do what they are doing to-day. Nor could you have aroused interest in the trust question in this country as it is aroused to dry. The capitalists here are just as blind to what these portents mean as were the capital- ists of Russia one year ago. They thought they could go on forever as they had beenâ€"but they are finding it diff-rent today. So it is with the Am- erican capitalists. They are blind to what the social ferment moans. "hey think they can rely on controlling the government, but they are leaning on a. weak reed; for the people are fast com- ing to the conclusion that the govern- ment has been left long enough in the hands of the men of wealth, who have ‘made its every function subservient to their private interests, using it solely to exploit the wealth producers, as so ma- ny slaves to build fortune: for them, and to bribe public officials when they could n’t bamboozle the voters directly. Yes, there’s things to be doing in this country before the young become gray» hairedâ€"lb. ..m-.-â€" The Future Belongs to Socialism. There is a good deal of nonsense in the daily press' about the “ evils of trusts.” Just now there seems to be a. wild, untamable desire on the part of the lpublic to “smash ’em.” This feel- ing is being tanned. by such papers as Collicr’e, Everybody’s and McClure’s to a white heat at so much per fan. Inci- dentally, the daily press is addingr fuel to the fire. The rabble is loudly shout- ing for the blood of a Rockefeller, and is being swayed hither and thither, a. sea of upturned faces, distorted by hun~ gar and anger. But like a rock stands the Master of Finance, his lip curled in scorn, conscious of the tremendous pow- er of his wealth. The storm will pass. as the fury of the Weavers passod with introduction of the first weaving mach- ines. There is no evil in the trust; in is here to stay, and, later on, when we get wise, will spread its benificent arms and take in the multitudeâ€"~tho people who are now being ground beneath its. iron heel. The evil comes because the trust is the private property of a few in- dividuals who absorb all the benefits, to the exclusion of the balance of the race. It will be made common property in a. short timeâ€"after the pressure has been made a little heavier. The leavcn of the Socialist philosophy is at work, and the logic of events is rapidly forcing its. acceptance. The Socialist can afford to smile and work. The future belongs. to Socialism l-â€"Ib. h“ A Real Religion. “ Would it be possible to maintain a. Socialist state and yet to believe in re» ligiou ? ”â€"â€"-M. Schancr, Toledo, 0. It is impossible to have any good re- ligion in any but a Socialist state, and for this reason : Under a capitalist soci- ety every man’s interest is against every other man’s, and each is trying to make all the profit possible out of his fellow, while his fellow is trying to keep him from making that profit. Thus antag- onism is necessarily produced and her- mony is destroyed. Now, Christianity is assumed to be a state ot justice, hat" mony and good-will. These things can‘ not be while the conflict rages for ad van- tages one over the other. Under Soci- alism there will be no conflict of inter“ ests, no gain by deception; and open- ucss, frankness, confidence and love will be the virtues most approved and sought for. If I have the right conception of the character of Christianity (there are many religious, and you evidently mean Christianity instead of religion) it seems to me that it could flourish better under a Socialist system than under one made up of conflict and inhartncny. Socialism and Christianity (that is, the'teachings of ChriSt) are in harmony, while cupiâ€" talism is opposed to the teachings of Christ. Churchianity seem to be flour- ishing under capitalism; but churchian- ity is not the questionsâ€"Wayland. o+c Socialism declares war against the wages system, which demoralich the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingmnn Complaint is made that the capitalists are being tll‘chn out of Australia by radical working class legislation. \Vell, what. of it? They can’t take the com» try with them.