Mar. 2.
We seem to recollect reading in an old school text book, on moral philosophy or-some such dry subject, a sentence which warned us against saying that every effect had a cause for that was more tautology; the correct formula was thal every event had a cause, Reflection assures us that the correction is right. For everything that happens funder the sun there must be a cause, and one may go a step further and say that the cause must be adequate to the effec! it produces, This maxim should be kept in mind by politicians, writers and all those whose duty to attend to. matters of public moment, For effects, *|thrust themselves on our notice but the causes that brought thi to existence are almost always den and hard to find, But if there is to be any permanent, Jor radical cure for an evil its cause must be searched out and the palliative applied there, ake, for instance, the ease of the unemployed miners at home whose miserable plight has had 2 searchlight thrown on ity recent events, There are, it is said. two hundred thousand miners whose occupation ix gone, never to return. This la a the magnificent total of more than a million pounds subscribed to the Lord Mayor of London's fund, will more than provide " temporary easement of the situation. For, though the brightening prospects of a revival of trade provide a gleam of hope, it in unlikely that the miner" will ever it once we be as prosperous 'The causow of the depression jate various, but, some of them very clear. 'The Commission that under' the chairmanship of Justice Sankey in 1919 showed that the mine-owners were working the mines antiquated methods, 'They' paid no heed to the Commission's recommendations and made fow [chances so that when continent~ fal countries, with up to date plants, began to compete with them they were unable to stand the strain, Then came the deplorable strike of 1920 which showed that the men, ao more masters. had read the ing on the wall, Tha ste Tasted six months and astrous effect on trade fs, almost incaloulabl and the effects will continue for sears to come These were direct causes but there were others such ax the reckless extravagance of the when men thought first, in hundreds, and then in thousands, of millions. The ease with sehich mone? or, more cot its paper equivalent, was seemed to fof wealth somewhere from whi funds would flow ux water di from the rock at the stroke of Moses' rod, There were mutual and antagonisms, men suspected that the masters were making: huge profits, The masters claimed that men were deliberately lingering and shortening output that they might bring higher wages out of the nation's agony, These were the Aleeper and more real causes that led to the present disaster, These, or similar causes, lie at the root of all industrial unrest ard it is the duty of mon of erywhore to minimize or eliminate them.
We turn from this rather tie mal study to think of the
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