The Archive · 1901

A Great Strike Inevitable

'Tae Masexs' Cosrenesce asp tie Tax Before the effect of the recently imposed coal tax had been considered by the Westminster Miners' Conference, no fewer than 423,545 miners were in favour of a general strike, and less than 180,000 against the proposal. But the conference, "which—represented 750,000 miners, decided that, provided the miner's wage was not allected by the tax, there should be no strike.

big mine owner has now expressed conviction that the miner will have to bear a share of the burden after all, and so we may shortly expect the most' calamitous coal strike that the United Kingdom has e witnessed.

What shall we do for coal? knows prices tovlay are high enough There is wood, peat, and bilin. © All three of these substances burn. Wood, however, is scares peat is unobtainable: ant bilin (which is found in the bile, and which is manufactured by the liver) might enable us to go without fires altogether if only we could store sufficient of it in our bodies.

Bile, it may be said, is the natural physic of the body, and bilin is that part of bile which gives heat to the blood.. It burns, in fact, like coal, and in this way supplies the body with the necessary heat. Seeing that bile is the body's physic, it can readily be understood that if the liver (which makes bile) is disordered there is a serious danger threatening you.

No better case could be cited than that of Mrs. Carter, who speaks in plain English:—"I had always been a very poor eater, exercising much judgment in what Late aad drank," she says, ' but about four years ago I knew, for the first time, what indigestion really tried to cat everything and anything, like other people, but indigestion soon pulled me up. A mere potato caused me to gas and fight for breath until I thought that should die. I would be a whole hour suffering from its effects.

"The feeling was as though I were being choked or stifled to death, aad if a doz-n knives had been driven into my chest I do not think that could ye suffered greater After that E became. more least bit of solid food -severe pul ished me.

A piece of bread and butter would give me pain, and consequently T dared not eat much food. My strength ebbed slowly away, and after'a time, owing to the weakened state of my health, I grew to be very constipated and was troubled with severe, rac ing pains in the head.

No medicine did any good until I first bottle of which Lemtinued takin ite aul powers ined Syrnt, which in Lime ea plete "IT ive better in anything without fear.

Syrup ist still may" stand-by in time wonderful remedy.

Carter (Mes.), 40, Land Street, Ly Tane, West Bron April 10uh, 1901.

Given out of a de lo good.

There is no need for anybody to ask is the greater necessity, coal or bile. answer is obvious, Besides giving heat, bile is a regulating the bowel induce and maint normal flow of bile. A health the stomach, liver, and kidneys: These three organs strike. when neglected or overworked.

great strike is inevitable if you omit to guard against the inroads i health of house and business worries. enables the system to resist these influences and, by maintaining full vigour, avoid strikes in every organ. There are 10 better arbitrators thin a clear head and a healthy body.

What would a householder think of the coal merchant who delivered him kitchen cobbles when he has distinctly ordered the best drawing-room Wallsend coals? Put yourself in this position when you ord Scigel's Syrup. 'That is to say, eniphatically and firmly refuse any substitute. Seigel's Syrup has a thirty Years' reputation and bears A. J. White's steel engraved label the substitute has neither.

People are not apt to think that the men who secretly practise these acts of dishonest substitution are at the root of some of our great labo.r evils. Substituters undermine the legitimate sales of well-known products whose preparation on a large scale is responsible for the employment of thousand well-lighted and sanitary factories, prospects are sound and wages are certain.

(3) 18, 25se & 2oe

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