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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 10

UTOPIA.

AND HOW TO GET THERE ' Sir,—Dr. Fi-n<Uay.'s" platitude,.coming from a memter of;,.tihd Government; "areriustruc-.. tiyo iii: a- cei-fcaiii.'sense.j -'they' 1 serve' to' .imv/preachiri'g,'aiid'- practice' differ/-.'. Plato,. Sir T.:.:Morc, and. many .-others 'litvvo':.taken us' to. .'ytwia;'J»cfore.^..•lS(^»oread. , that, among',• tJhoothor foniefictajremedies;. axa': (2). V'reskibtions ; on drinking and • gamb,;How thoughtful of.Dr. Pindlay!'■ ,W«' nb'W. .have 1 ' /and.'.the. Gororn.mpnt Spielers. AcV-So'wp are a long way -on,•.fie' .'raid . already ideal, oondiItionsU. t)r\ Findlay .gave-,us 'iii-' ' iqui'tbps, legislation, - a-nd ho'.is providing, tho. aiitidofe ' of which the tuniingj out" wioJcsalb.'" This may seem' '.to.' {toTunin-;' itiated—-like • "sinning ---feat —grace —may abound,'', as the Apostle puts it, but let-, u4-. bb{ tMiikful for>;tho„ abounding thai ■Dr. Vl' , iudLaj r gamg to provide to remedy tihe evil- has , producing. .: •.; MdjVtilioii;' ahoiit': w'aGtel/W'ho. better qualiified' iopimpi'- than: a member. the' last • 15yeatg • awl -!has ; so greatly; tssisfced: - to.-. prccipiiw&' unem-' ploym(»o>y. of -labour , from. its legit'fma'ie . diain'Sfels to serve ; poli- : tica.l and : ; •'Vf;.- / And. then '^|i:'iSM r ; W<fMur eye',' of. the' industrial /that Dr.' Findlay.; speaks of; '. on. tlhe; Govern-, I jiMjffiti 'And--;(4)i ;.*•> already: have' ai'ihiimheir -'ofrtfefciex'ce lle-nit • in r . stiixrticaw. So. that': wo rcay /soosi 'oXpect to see the consummation: of - gbqd I government.., The ■ t3io s capitalists, tie. vieiousj the idle, the '-incompetent,-: amdi other undeSrablosJ' oonvbrt6d imo good i citizens,; 'and "when tho: qbstor's finished jumping, on. 'his mother," they-Awi-ll; all lio a-basking-' in_. the sunshine o-f'Dr: good govern-, meat 'together,l—l am, etc.,