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Nome, Alaska, September 11, IS)Hi.
MILITARISM BY MAIL.
The Industrial Worker has re
ceived a circular from a house tha!
has established itself in New Jer
sey, for the purpose of giving mili
tary instruction by mail. A corres
pondence school of militarism is
(juite an idea. Now if the various
nations could he persuaded to war
by mail, this thing would be dead
easy.
THEY KNOW IT.
The Milwaukee Leader comments
upon a statement by President Kip
lev of the Atchinson, Topeka and
Santa Fe railway system. Ripley
welcomed a strike and he said that
the reason why he wanted to see
the strike called was if a small num
ber of men can block tiie country's
business the country ought to know
about it. He referred to a small
number of railroad employees; the
Leader rightly infers that the shoe
should be on the other foot, and
that it is the presidents by their at
titude who would block the coun
try's business. Says the Leader “It
a small number of railroad presi
dents can block the country’s busi
ness the country ought to know
about it .
If the country does not know that
a small bunch of men can now or at
any time block the cuontry's busi
ness. then they must have been very
uuobserving for past few years.
HOT AIR OR OAK.
A newspaper comments upon the
fact that Charles Evans Hughes In
his campaign speeches can say more
and mean less than any person that
ever went on a presidential cam
paign. At least, then, his gas
bombs are harmless.
MAKING AMENDS.
The Gods are kindly. There is
no doubt that the politicians were
finely favored in an opportunity be
ing given them in the closing re
marks on the Revenue Bill of squar
ing themselves with the German
American voter. If the textile in
terests were forceful enough to
make themselves felt through south
ern solons on the Child Labor Law,
a higher phase of politics displays
the fact that the "hyphenates” have
also some pull, even at *the closing
hours. Death bed repentances are
as good as any—in politics.
PORK DEFINED.
Legislative pork may be defined
as an appropriation for any pur
pose, useful or ornamental, outside
an army and navy appropriation.
Army and navy appropriations are
never pork, however the money is
spent.
TO BE CONTINUED.
In an extension of remarks, which
means that such remarks were
never delivered in Congress, Sen
ator Fess said that the real issue
before the country is the tariff
question. When everything else
failr, the tariff can at least be re
lied upon. It is a serial story.
KTORM IN A TEAPOT.
Even radical organizations are
inclined to dogmatize and the per
son who will not conform has to
get out. Thus Victor Berger was
subjected to a recall in the socialist
party because he expounded his
views on the preparationist ques
tion. He held that a citizen’s army,
something more radical and demo
cratic than the Swiss Bystem, should
be adopted. He believed that such
should have the support of the soc
ialist party. Because this idea
seemed at outs with unadiulterated
radicalism of the socialist partv, a
recall was started to pull Mm oil
the executive board. Of course that
will not succeed. Berger is as safe
oil the executive board as a Tam
many boss is safe in charge of his
position.
But why should he be fired out
for that reason anyway? A man can
certainly believe in the socialist
form of society and in the present
advocate some sort of national pro
tection, whether right or wrong. It
is a poor thing to be proclaiming
free speech and to be inclined to
officially decapitate a man for being
at outs with a minority or majority
on some question.
Any time any party or association
of persons insist upon a general
conformity of belief in certain defi
nite principles, and penalizes any at
tempt to maintain a different view,
it shows that those who would pen
alize that belief are none too sure
of it themselves.
The man with good sight is not
going to take a tomahawk after the
scalp of the color blind man who
says red is yellow.
Haywood’s scalp ought to be
enough for the comrades.
WILSON'S POLICY.
President Wilson has had the in
structive experience at any rate ot
observing more strikes in the indus
trial world while he has been in of
fice, probably than ever fell to the
lot of a United States President be
fore. And these labor troubles
loomed up more threateningly and
upon a larger scale than ever be
fore.
Now it is announced that he will
strive to have some sort of legisla
tion passed to prevent strikes.
That of course is possible. Back
of such legislation will be the courts
and the military forces of the na
tion, and they can for a time at
least suppress any such open mani
festations of economic discontent as
are strikes. We say for a time, but
eventually, the strikes •will begin
again and the law will be defied.
It is no use legislating upon ef
fects. If there is a constantly re
curring cause for a certain condi
tion in society, common sense sug
gests that that cause be handled
first of all. Any doctor may re
move certain symptoms of a serious
disease, while the disease all the
while thrives amazingly within the
victim’s body. Such a treatment
would be foolish.
Yet that is precisely what Presi
dent Wilson suggests.
The various methods tried in
other countries to prevent strikes
have all of them been abject fail
ures. They did temporarily secure
industrial peace, but they did not
secure a permanent condition of
peace. To use Hughes’ phrase, they
were poor stabilizers of society. On
the contrary they led in almost all
countries to an extensive agitation
open or covert which still continues
and which leaves those who have
to endure it worse off and things
generally more chaotic than ever.
There is no question that the
common enough viewpoint on in
dustrial questions today is the capi
talist viewpoint. Outside the wage
workers and even among many of
them that view prevails and is ac
cepted.
This view holds that the employ
ers’ interest is all that is worth con
sidering. That society was made for
industry and that Industry was not
made to be the hand maid of socie
ty. It holds that industry must be
organized in such a way that the
flow of profits must be uninterrupt
ed and steady. It holds that the
highest function of government is
to assist industrial expansion and
to aid it in its development. It
holds that only those things and
those policies are efficient which aid
in such development and expansion
and promote the constancy of pro
fits and dividends.
Hence, reasoning thus, strikes are
a social evil of the worst type. The*
evil that strikes endeavor to remedy
are unavoidable industrial necessi
ties. Low wages, long hours, labor
disorganization—all these things in
various places contribute to the de
velopment and expansion of the in
dustry. Take the steel trust. It
has made magnificent millions by
long hours and low wages. It lias
accumulated profits by totally dis
regarding the interests of its em
ployees. It has secured its steady
Row of dividends by carefully extirpa
ting any individual effort upon the
part of the workers to organize and
when organized to fight.
This view of society sees in the
achievements of so grand a corpora
tion as that presided over by Elbert
H. Gary something no less wonder
ful than admirable. This view takes
no stock of the social degradation
that has followed in the wake ot
profits around its mills: the poverty,
the squalor, the filth, the misery,
the ignorance and the superstition
to be seen everywhere. But this
view at the same time would hold
that a strike, stopping as it would
the wheels of such an industry,
would be nothing less than a social
disaster. And in order to prevent
that obtaining in the industries of
the United States, some sort of le
gislation is held to be necessary.
Now strikes are seldom regarded
as successful. As a general rule the
strikers seem to go down in defeat.
As a general rule the strongest or
ganizations of the workers are
crushed in defeat. Isolated cases oc
cur where they are victories, but
taken all in all, the unions appear
to gain little by strike action. That
is the superficial view. What is not
seen is that almost all strikes seri
ously affect employers. They take
note, where they never took notes
before. They change some rules and
effect some improvements and there
has been something gained which
is not wholly evident to the casual
observer. Every strike brings the
workers of the world closer to
gether.
For no matter how many defeats
have followed strikes, the workers
by their position know no such thing
as defeat. They are being always
spurred on by such conditions as
they work under to strike. They
are always being prevented by eco
nomic conditions from accepting the
condition of things as permanent
and unimprovable. And they are
ready to strike again.
Strikes are off-shoots of capitalist
industry. They cannot be prevented.
You cannot prevent the cloud from
dropping its rain or the waves from
creeping in to break upon the shore.
Strikes and the conditions which
cause strikes are inherent in the
capitalist system of Industry and
will prevail. If legislation is pas
sed to prevent them, it will only
cause a general revolt against such
legislation which would be in its re
sults much more serious for those
passing such legislation, than were
the strikes which it was soughT, to
prevent.
Abraham Lincoln thanked Go-.t
that he lived in a country where
strikes were possible. And he spoke
wisely. Where legislation seeks to
repress an inevitable social conse
quence of anti-social economic cau
ses, such legislation is bound soonei
or later to have most disastrous ef
fects. It may not have such imme
diately, but it will have sooner or
! later.
THERE'S A REASON.
Since the Colorado Supreme
Court gave its decision in the fraud
ulent election cases, showing the
infamous manner in which the coal
companies had trampled upon the
constitutional and political rights of
the people, the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Co. is sending another batch
of circulars showing its fine up-lift
work in those counties affected by
the decision. This may be termed
deodorizing literature.
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