manufacturers to buy the best machinery to be had-compels the distributing class to keep their expenses at a minimum; and its operation is beneficial, in giving to the world all articles at the lowest possible price. The operations of associations to protect this or that class always have, and always must produce the contrary effect. Protection, subsidies, Land Acts, are all Socialistic in their tendencies; the object is to "protect" the individual, to enable him to get his living in one branch of industry he has not the power naturally to obtain; they are the efforts of well-meaning, but misguided men to protect the " weaker members " of every branch of production and distribution against the "competition" of others better qualified to do the work. But man's efforts have always been, always will be, futile when acting in opposition to God's law of the "survival of the fittest." We may sympathize with the weaker brethren, but nothing can save them; if not equal to the requirements of their age in any branch of industry, they should seek another adapted to their capacities, and not attempt to "levy a tax" upon the community by making the people pay a higher price for an article, from their "incompetency." The law applies to employer and employed; competition shuts up old, worn-out, or badly-managed mills and warehouses. Whether as master or man, if you cannot earn your living in a trade, there is no alternative but to try something else. By this law the Creator compels men individually and collectively to do for the common weal the "best that is in them." It may seem a cruel, hard law, this inexorable doctrine of the "survival of the fittest;" it is so different to the