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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
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Nome, Alaska, January 5, 1015.
Some was among the newspaper
correspondents worked up a “do
cument” purporting to be plans &g
gested in Europe for a settlement
of the great strife across the At
1a ii tie.
To quote from this dispatch “the
"tentative idea to satisfy thus the na
-tional ambitions of the European
countries at war was broadly out
lined as follows:
Great Britain is to occupy New
England, Maryland, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.
France is to get the French
parts of eastern Canada and the
slates of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennesee and
Kentucky. Germany, is to occupy
Uie states of New York, Pennsylva
nia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, III* -
aiois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota. Japan is to take the
Pacific coast states Washington,
Oregon and California.
Russia will receive Alaska.”
To enable the nations to get a
place in the sun the corre pondent
Invented the idea of an intention to
jostle Uncle Sam oc the map.
It will be admitted that the idea
has some rays of humor in its very
impossibility, but at the same time
it suggests considerations quite
oilier than the correspondents in
tended.
A financial expert has estimated
that almost two billion worth of
American securities: industrial and
financial, were held in Europe be
fore the war. This signified that
(European proprietorship did actu
ally extend over enormous and vast
interacts in the United States. For
eign capital had enormous holdings
in railroads, in mines, in factories,
in land, throughout the American
continent. .
Without a doubt the smart Alec
who penned the notion of such a
basis for a European peace had not
taken stock of the fact that during
peace, under the capitalist system
of internationalising wealth such a
distribution as he believed ridicul
ous had actually almost taken place.
So there is nothing vary funny
about the idea; the funny part Is
that such a condition does actually
lake place . while the people sleep
in peace, and Americans among the
working classes actually pile up pro
fits for the European owners and
were, in many industries, the indus
trial serf of those owners.
It will be urged that without con
trol of the government such owner
ship amounts to nothing. it
amounts to everything. Through
tho accredited agents or bankers ot
these owners, influence has time
and time again boon brought to
bear upon thQ legislatures and til?
courts so that what they wanted,
•lias been done.
Rovclations connected with the
munitions trust revealed that many
of those firms engaged in tho in
dustry were foreign owned, and
where they were not directly con
trolled had made themselves prac
tically and indirectly subsidiary of
foreign corporations.
When the idea of floating a loan
occurred to the belligerent nation?
the American financiers demanded
American securtlcs. There was
was no doubt as to owner
ship in the minds of th<
dear-seeing American money mag
nates, and they Knew what wa;
what.
There is nothing so extrgordinar
ily visionary about the supposed
treaty at all, for during peace It
has been partially accomplished.
Economic control without am
doubt gives political control in i
l^rge measure ,and there 1b alwayi
the possblUty tUfit a foreign pa'll
Heal control may follow from i
preponderating economic control o
any country. Mexico before Its re
volution was a fine example of this
And there wap no way gottim
around it or disputing abopji 11- For
dgn capital bad actually taken poi
session of the country; of pours
$
through perfectly legal investments
or through Investments which were
made legal later, which is the same
thing. And the revolution became
necessary in order that the people
might emancipate themselves from
this yoke that had been forced upon
them during the industrial evolu
tion of their country whereby own
ership became foreign, and nativity
practically meant dispossession.
Now during the piping times of
peace when conditions in industries
came intolerableth ncla 1 f shrdrf
controlled by foreign owners, or
conditions in tenements rented from
absentee and foreing landlords be
came intolerable, be it marked well,
the entire resources of the United
States are placed at the disposal of
these foreign proprietors. Such an
instance was seen in the great coal
strike in Wept Virginia. Treaties
confer such rights upon ownership;
readily recognize the international
nature of commercial, industrial
and financial undertakings.
None the less, real control inevit
ably results from such proprietor
ship. It is a fact that political con
trol is merely the manifestation of
such economic control, and undeni
ably and unanswerably it Is that
class which is dominant industrially
that is also politically dominant.
Mere geographical dominion cuts
but little figure a3 a general rule.
The real dominion rests In proprie
torshlp, acquired no matter how.
It matters very little to the man
who has no land that it is his coun
try, when another nationality owns
the land whereon he labors.
We get mixed up in matters of
this kind, so complex is the appear
ance of the capitalist system. But
a little penetration will reveal dis
tinctiy wnere one is ai.
Take a local application of the
question involving no foreign mat
ter. People In Alaska know well
enough that as soon as outside ca
pital comes to Alaska and invests
and controls from, say New York
city, domination of Alaskan affairs
will ultimately remain with those
investors.
The economic factor is the all
powerful factor. When efforts aro
made to control in some measure
certain industries in Alaska by the
residents herein, who own not a
tithe of these industries they desire
to handle, they find that they are
powerless to do so. They cannoi
touch it. Thus have the Alaska
fisheries been immune from' everv
effort which a territorial legislature
has made to cnntrol them. Indeed
it is now come to such a pass thai
so powerful are these fishery com
bines that even a conviction for c
violation of the fishery laws, such a'
they are which have been establish
ed, is nex^ to an impossibility, an:
elicits from a District Judge i
scathing rebuke for lack of Integrit;
upon the part of the jurors.
What is the case with ajt Amer
lean industry controlled by Amer
leans, is exactly the same as in ai
American industry controlled b;
European. It is stated that thi
Treadwell is more or less controllei
by English capitalists. Everyom
knows that the influence of such ;
company is supreme in Juneau, o
its supremacy ’is only questioned b;
a Similar corporation, the Alaska
Gastineau.
We say it is incontestable tha
the iiterepts, home or foreign
that contrpl the Industries, th
finance or the commerce of a coun
try will control that country. 1
the people control the industries c
aqy country, that people is on th
direct road to collective ownershii
\V> cannot help haying brougt
home to us evory day of pur live
how intimately, Mu|$af ay.pr<
macy asserts political supremacy
and not only political .supremac
\>ut social supremacy as Well, ont^
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fyg ln& every social Plase- '
' Tho power of rti weater corpor.
tions is enormous. It spect* inf
in jevenr walk 'of life, it penetr»t«
oVefy aomal strata. It, ;affe^ts th
legislatures although they would
scorn to admit it; it affects the
press although the 1 to avow it3
subserviency in the intellectual pro
stitute, it affects the puipitcrs, it af
fects the politicians, nay controls,
directs and inspires their activities
What in the world is political action
but the contentions of nival inter
ests to assert politically a contro,
which they are struggling for in
the economic world?
The reason that progressivism
dies out, and has but a short strenu
ous life is that the economic control
has been lacking,' and the interests
which control the bread and butter
control also the political destinies
of the nation.
Even the great political parties
recognize this, and make direct ap
peals to the voters on this very ma
teriai ground.
Wherefore suppose that the for
eign owners of American industries
were to become dominant, and they
certainly were no negligible factor
before the war, is it not quite in
telligible that they also exercise a
political control asserted perhaps in
sidiously and possibly with stealtn
j and secrecy but none the less real
! for'all that? * ,
Ownership is the real power and
government in the reflex of owner
ship. Any time any European na
tion becomes a dominant factor in
industry and finance in any coun
try, that country comes under their
gpvernment also. Only political or
national metaphysics will deny that
or will attempt to conceal it.
The Return of Henry Ford to
New York may be dictated by con
cern for his health or it may be
dictated by a sense of the failure
of his expedition. In any event,
wisdom is learned of experience.
Every report says that the east
is basking in the glare of the un
usual prosperity. Enormous profits
are reported from (the munition
factories. Two hundred per ce,>t
profit is not unheard of and the
factories are booming. It is very
satisfactory to know that those pro
fits are enjoyed and that there is
little danger that the workers will
become depraved by tho degenerat
ing influence of excessively high
wages. The men who make the pro
fits know well how to keep them.
The Germanist agitation against
munitions of war is one sided
There is just as much reason to op
pose the exportation of food or
other necessaries for these |>rolong
the war just as much. In any event
if it's peace the exponents of a mu
nitlon embargo want, why not try
to equalize matters by endeavoring
to reach an agreement with all of
the belligerents to manufacture no
more war material. If it’s the eno
of the war is needed, here’s a
practical plan. To oppose the export
of munitions to nations which had
not built up a gigantic system ot
military prcparedneca is to put pa
cificist nations always at the mercy
of those which model their exist
ence along war preparations lines.
The real reason of the opposition
to munitions export carried on so
extensively is not because it is a
murderous and barbarous and
outrageous industry carried on for
profits, but because It enables the
enemies of those countries which
have already brought their muni
tion production system to perfec
tion to overtake' their disadvantage
A little candor helps things along.
NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order df Court
made and entered on ^he 28th day,
of December, 1915, Notice i3 hereby
given that the regular General 191(,
Term of the District Court, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska, will
be held in the Court House, in
Nome, in said Division and Terri
tory, commencing at the hour of 11
o'clock A. M., on Saturday, the 2?th
day of January, 1916 and continu
ing from day to day according to
further orders of the Court.
Given under my hand and with
Seal of Court affixed this 28th day
■ of December, 1916.
(SEAL.)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk, District Court, Territory ot
Alaska, Seconl Division. ■* '•
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