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Nome, Alask*. May 15, 11)17.
THE WHEAT GAMBLE.
There is certainly nothing more j
spectacular since the United States
entered the ranks of the warring ,
nations than the extraordinary j
gambling in wheat. It is just as ;
significant as spectacular, and with j
wonderful distinctness reveals for.
us all the Utter indifference of the |
system to the social needs, and:
hence the complete anti-social na
ture of capitalism.
These brokers are all respectable
business men. They are prominent
in the social and oftentimes the
church life of the city. They are
prominent in the community and
are men whose words and opinions
nave great, weigui. I
Yet as far as filling any useful
function they might as well not ex
ist. They are merely businessmen
who make gambling a business.
They add not a cent to the world's
wealth. They do not produce one
quarter cent of valfles, They per
form no useful function whatever.
Yet they can buy wheat which
they cannot pay for. from men who
have no wheat to sell, paper bar
gains all of them, and shunt up the
price of the food that the people
eat away above the cost of produc
tion, and away above the actual
values.
The procedure whereby it is un
derstood that deliveries of wheat
must take place as a result of buy
ing and selling fictitiously, does not
justify this gambling in jvheat. It
only signifies that such brokers can
sit in at the game who have money
enough to cash their checks when
called upon. It eliminates men with
out money enough to pay when
they lose, a very reasonable provi
sion in any gambling game to be
sure.
But it is all outrageous just the
same. It is without a particle of
justification. Its harmful effects
are so obvious and so serious that
it is a wonder it should at all be
permitted. •
Bread is still the staff of life.
Wheat is as necessary today as In
the time when Joseph’s brethren in
the lean years came to Egypt to buy
tlieir needed supplies. Buying and
selling, speculating and cornering
wheat is today an infamous transac
tion. It is however this very trans
action which shows us the entire
' inefficiency and insufficiency of the
capitalist economy.
It is essential that human beings
be fed and the obtaining of bread
is a most important part of that. It
is essential that the food be distri
buted among the people as effect
ively, as fairly and as rapidly as
possible.
It is essential that the producers
raise a sufficiency. It is just as es
sential that the sufficiency reach the
consumers. There are farmers rais
ing wheat. There are.railroads dis
tributing wheat. There are millers
grinding wheat.
These processes are necessary.
These functions must be filled. But
why should, in the wheat reaching
the railroads or from the railroads
the millers, there be any gambling
in wheat at all?
Why should speculators be al
lowed to enter into this matter at
all? They do not. improve the pro
duction of the farmer. They do not
quicken or Improve the distribution
of the railroads. They certainly
do not grind the wheat more effi
ciently nor better the grade of flout
in a small degree.
They are simply parasitic ele
ments. They are highly respected,
highly prominent, leaders In social
and other affairs of the community,
but In all respects parasitic. They
are distinct nuisances. They im
pede the regular distribution of
food and they are an anti-social
menace of the first degree.
Yet capitalist economy will jus
tify them. It says that this eco
nomy exists first of all to make pro
fits. It is not concerned at all with
the satisfaction of human wants or
the increase in human welfare. It
has nothing to do with feeding the
hungry or clothing the naked or
giving drinlc to the thirsty. It will
do all cr none of these things for
the money may be in it. If there
is no gain, then it is none of its
business. If all the people clamored
for wheat and if the farmers lost
money raising it, the farmers would
raise turnips or alfalfa or timothy
or rye or barley or oats or some
thing that there was money in,
never wheat. If the railroads lost
money lending cars for the trans
portalion of wheat, the wheat could
roi in the elevators until it became
profitable to move it. If the mills
cannot pay making flour, they stop
grinning mu uuui. i nir.' uu nunc
of these absolutely necessary social
processes for the sake of human oe
ings, but for the money that’s in
it.
Hence the wheat broker is in the
gambling business for profit. If
you only grow, grind and distribute
wheat for the money in doing these
things, then there is just as much
social morality in buying and sell
ing, long or short May or September
wheat, for the money that is in it.
That’s the position taken. The
law says so far it Is all right. The
law says that the owner of the field
over which society has given him
properly rights, the owner of the
railroad which has got a govern
mental right of way and which by
virtue of paying them enough to
live upon could take the whole ot
men's day's labor to construct its
permanent way, its cars, its steel, its
engines, the owner of the mill who
has control of the machinery ot
Hour making, need only suit himselt
what he does with it. If one or all
of them stop operating, they have
a perfect right to do so.
It is very likely that the people
will denounce in a especial manner
the wheat gamblers. They hale to
see it. It strikes them as particu
larly vicious. But it is no more
vicious than the whole system.
The system itself Is vicious be
cause it is uot the human need at
all but the matter of profits which
is the incentive.
Every person knows full wq?ll that
since the European war began pri
ces have greatly increased in all ne
cessaries. The reason for that, as
every one also knows, is that the
exports increased so much that the
domestic supply relative to the de
mand decreased. Those exports to
Europe were shipped out of the
country quite regardless of the re
quirements of the people here. The
money made in selling to Europe
was greeter than would have been
the money made were the products
retained here and sold to meet Am
erican neidc. So away they went.
It was and it is immaterial that
people suffered here in consequence.
Business activity, productive and
distributive activity ts not concerned
■it all what suffering follows those
activities. But these activities arc
concerned, it is their Hfe blood,
with the rate of gain that owners
art able to extract from eiueh ope
rations.
Everyone is complaining about
the combines, the warehousemen
the speculators, the business inter
ests, the high prices and everyone
ts saying that something ought tc
be done.
But what is happening to excite
all this agitation is nothing new
It is what has always been done
It is what is being done every day
It Is what has been done fron
time immemorial. The fact is tha'
today, because the time is a little
more stenuous everyone feels it
Today the shortage is a little more
marked. Today speculation is s
little more frantic. Today the rusl
for profit seems a bit greedier. To
day the purchasing power of the
dollar is shot to pieces. But the
economy is the same. The systen
is the same. The incentive is the
same. The fact that human welfare
and human need and human happi
ness have got nothing to do with the
various business transactions, with
the various industrial activities,
with the various commercial move
ments—except as any or all oi
these are money making proposi
tions—is today the same as yester
day and a century of yesterdays.
We want to get that quite straight
The gambling in wheat is not a bit
more vicious than the occupation
that is not so evidently parasitic.
Every occupation and vocation is
parasitic in the sense that it is be
ing entered upon not for the benefit
of society, but to make money there
from.
So we say that the fault is not in
little local maladjustments to the
social requirements but it is the
anti-social nature of this capitalist j
economy which is to blame.
This is to blame all the time. It j
is to blame when it sets a man to
work by right of ownership amt
after giving him sufficient of his
product to live upon, steals the rest.
It is as much to blame in that as
when it drives the necessaries ot
life beyond the reach of us who
need it.
It is to be remedied. The thing
has got to be remedied or it will
destroy us all It is doing its level j
best to destroy everyone in Europe j
just how, and if it gets a fair shake j
will quite soon decimate the world. ]
Not by wars alone, but in peace j
just as effectively as in war. Fam- j
ine is not the skinny concubine of J
wars alone. It is the promiscuous i
bedfellow of Peace as well. It j
thrives upon capitalism and in the
richest country are oftenest the I
hungriest and the sickliest and the i
greatest number of starving. j
The remedy is to come.from the j
workers and to come by organize- j
tion. That organization must spread jj
to all corners of industry and all 5
corners of the country. It is t.ht jj
only hope that those who are the j
victims of the system will unite S
to rend tHeir chains. Organization |
is the only means whereby that re i
medying process is possible. Hail- j
ing at conditions does no good. It is
up to each and every individual ti
do his share towards laying this :
system low and instituting a better ■
and a saner system—the respons
ibility for labor organization Is
each mans supreme duty—he fails
in it at his peril.
CARRANZA PLACES EMBARGO
ALL MEXICAN FOODSTUFFS !
DALLAS. Texas, May 14.—Ship
ments from Mexico have now ceased
according to advices from ports
and Mexican border towns having
been prohibited by the Mexican
government.
A Mexican city dispatcli in res
ponse to a question on this head
says that the President of Mexico
! by executive order has proclaimed
! an embargo on the shipments of all
food stuffs from the republic ot
Mexico.
As the food supply is short, the
Mexican government had become
concerned over recent efforts of
shippers to buy corn and other food
supplies for export.
TWO STEAMERS LOST
HEAD ON COLLISION
SAULT ST. MARIE, May 14
Just ouside the final lock of the
canal today and within sight ot
shore two freighters collided head
on. They both sank, but slowly,
and no lives were lost.
The crews on both steamers
launched their boats in time and
assistance came also in the form of
NOTICK OF FORFEITURE. i
To Geo. Marshall, G. R. Jackson
and W. A. Oliver, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the suiu of
one hundred dollars each year of
the years 1913, 1914 and 1916 on
O K Association, a placer mining
! claim situated on right limit on
' Hobson creek and recorded and
more fully described in Vol. 194,
page 142 of the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska.
The above amount has been ex
pended urdcr the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you fail to
contribute your proportion of said
expenditure within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under sec
tion 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
JOSEPH SLISCOVICH.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb., 6, 1917.
Date of last publl., May S, 1917.
tugs. Both boats turned turtle
just before going down, a remark
able coincidence say Lake mariners.
Both steamers were laden and
both are fully covered with insur
ence. The captains, each one, places
the blame on the other.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. REAS
THE WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Chris Frantzen your heirs, exe
cutors, assigns, or personal re
presentatives:
You a e hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hundred
dollars each year for the years 1911
1912, 1913, 1914, | 1915, 1916, on
No. 28 Above Discovery, a placer
mining claim situated on Osborne
creek and recorded and more fully
described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording |
District, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest In
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
P. A. DICKSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 6, 1917.
Date of last publ., May S, 1917.
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