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The only advocate of some stand
ing among the preparationists who
supports the application of the
Swiss system to the United States
is Theodore Roosevelt. When he
and otheVs proposed such a system
it was almost unanimously de
'^unced by the Naval and Security
leaguers.
The reason for their opposition
was because it would leave the guns
and ammunition in the hands of the
workers and you couldn't trust
them. They might turn the guns
against their employers. They 30
stated.
Surely there is food for thought
in such a repugnance and for such
a reason for distrusting the working
class with arms and ammunition.
Conditions are such that they dare
not trust them to uphold them, nay
that, like as not, they would use
their arms and ammunition to demo
lish the system that exploits them.
Moreover, we see that it is care
fully arranged that the officers class
in the army under all the mo-e ac
ceptable plans will hr taken from
the employing classes. There win
lie no provision made whereby the
business man will till the ranks an I
the workers here and there also
hold officers’ positions.
__ The entire conception of prepared
1 ^flnHLsjrSss that is now lindiug favor !s,,in
point of fact, utterly undemocratic
and strictly oligarchic. One class,
the employing class, is to be trusted
with control of the entire system,
the other is to furnish the material
for gun fodder.
There are just two phases of the
preparedness system which should
he fully explained and which have
not been explained by any one of its
advocates.
The first is the relation of I lie mu
nitiohist manufacturers to the en
tire scheme, and the second the
double entendre of the movement as
far as the working class is con
cerned.
If it is intended for domestic
troubles even more than for for
eign troubles, it is certainly worth
explaining why its plans are built
ji|miu such oligarchic princii les.
As a matter < f 1 cl e.-t ana
tion- will he forthcoming, ilisten i
under the guise of patriotism, tic
workers and others .are to hav ■
foisted upon them a huge military '
establishment utterly, as George
Washington long ago pointed out, :
variance with ttie democracy of Am
erica.
For all these reasons it is lx you ■!
doubt refreshingly humorous to have;
a man like Gompers demand for th
American Federation of Labor that
the federalized mllitin will not lr
used in strike duty. As a matter of ;
fact what other duty lias the tnilt-j
tia performed in the United States |
since the Spanish American war? In !
Colorado, Michigan, West Virginia, j
New Jersey, New York and a lot or J
other states too numerous to men 1
tlon, the militia proved the ablest |
factor in bull-dozing the striker; j
into submission. And it is because 1
it is as much proparodness against j
the strikers of the future as pre-j
paredness against any foreign j
foe, that tlie employers want it |
a strong federalized force which can
be recruited with the strength ot
all the regulars if neod he in case of
serious economic troubles, and 110
such thing as the democratic Swiss
system.
Frankly we cannot see any possible
European foe threatening America.
Not Germany, not Great Britain, not
France, not Russia ana not even |
. Japan from Asia. J,Vu
Hut we can very plainly see that
troubles may arise at home. Condi
tions from , time to time as exposed
for example at Bayonne, or Roosj
veU or in Colorado may easily force
a strike. Organization may readily
.. force that strike to become genera!.
-gunmen employed by tho bosses car.
easily force tho strikers to self pro"
tective violence as in Colorado, and
the preparedness scheme then comes
in handy to shoot the strikers into
submission.
It is for this purpose there are
cossacks in Pennsylvania. It was
| thus the gunmen recruited militia of
Colorado functioned and the Nevftda
rough riders have already claimed
their strike victims.
This is the preparedness scheme
that appeals to Big Bucsiness. This
is the preparedness scheme that
Big Business is for forcing upon the
country under the Terror of an ima
ginary foe. and the most pitiable
figure of all is this man Compere ap
pearing before the promoters of
such preparedness and asking thni
the federalized militia be not used
on strike duty.
The suggestion that the working
class should not be called upon to
bear the cost of preparedness is
superfluous. They will not. It’s &j
rich man's luxury and the rich man
from that portion of the product of
labor will easily dig up a sufficiency
for that purpose. The worker wiil
not have his wages increased on ac
count of it; but neither will he be
called upon to pay for It.
It's a funny thing, but reading be
tween the lines of some of these
preparations orators there seems
to be a sentiment of regret that the
t’nited States has such a small army
that it cannot afford to butt into tlic
martial circus that is now redden
ing the soil of Europe. Some of
those gory minded heroes long to
emulate the deeds of valor of the
great ones across the pond amt
would, if they could, drag this na
tion into the bloody maelstrom.
But that’s only make believe. The
munitionists want their profits and
Big Business wants to be prepared
against a dissatisfied working class
so that when they ask for more
bread they can give them what they
gave them at Ludlow, more bul
lets.
Not all may be of this intention,
but the more far seeing and the
shrewder who turned down the Roo
sevelt suggestion of the Swiss sy
stem are. They know what they are
preparing against.
There is quite an interesting ar
ticle in an exchange concerning the
value of the editorial page in a
newspaper. The writer thinks that
it has comparatively little value
educationally or otherwise.
Probably that is true. At least
the editorial page is of such little
value as hardly to direct or inspire
any action in consequence of urg
ings therein expressed
People do not take the ideas tljat
lead them to adopt certain courses
of action from the newspaper, any
more than they do from the pulpit
or the stage. Occasionally perhaps
an article strikes home and gives
food for thought, hut as a general
rule people read editorials only
when they feel that they will appeal
to their own opinions, or contain a
roast of themselves and they hate
themselves for their ill-rewarded
curiosity.
Nothing is so exaggerated as the
political value of the editorial page.
It is a fact that elections are never
won and seldom lost by newspapet
support. In Alaska we have noted
almost every paper supporting oppo
nents of Wlckersham and we nave
seen Wlckersham walking in with
the greatest ease at the head o'' the
polls. This has happened so often
that It may well occasion some
douttn as to the political value ot
editorial boosting.
The real power of the press is in
the expression or suppression of
news. It is the news columns that
actually are productive of opinions
on all the current subjects of
thought. It is the news column that
really cultivates public opinion, ana
the press agent that skillfully works
up his dispatches is the man that
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disseminates certain opinions con
cerning all public actions. Thus
when Rockefeller visited his mines
In Colorado, the reporters through
clever news agency work, througn
the carefully worked out publicity
plans . of his staff, produced in the
public mind without actual false
hood a totally wrong Idea concern
ing the whole trip, as to the Rocke
feller visit, as to the Rockefeller
minors, a3 to the Rockefeller union
and as to Rockefeller himself.
News dispatches in the papers con
cerning railroad problems have suc
cessfully forced the Interstate Com
merce Commission to raise rates
and more than one court decision
has actually been delivered under
the popular stress forced by news
articles which had nothing to uo
with editorials.
No one paid any attention to the
editorial utterances on the Hillstrom
affair. Everyone paid attention u>
the carefully worked up feeling
against the Industrial Workers ci
the World to which he belonged,
and the carefully cultivated false
hood that Hillstrom has had a
criminal career before he came to
Utah. Everyone paid attention to
the terrorist stories as to dyna
miters who were going after Gover
nor Spry who is now placed in the
painful position of prosecuting his
own detectives for blackmail by
such stories.
Long ago the educational value
of the pulpit passed away, and the
Billy Sunday revivals are merely a
reversion distinctly retrogressive.
The newspaper may have, as Stead
suggested and believed, for the time
being usurped the placo of the
pulpit.
But today that value which the
pulpit may have had from an edu
cational point of view is certainly
not found in the editorial page of
the jiaper. Most people who make
a practice of reading editorials di
not do so for the sake of any intel
lectual value that the opinions
therein expressed may have. They
do so in most instances because
within their own minds the thoughts
therein expressed find favor with
them, and when they do not tlioy
coniine themselves strictly to the
news columns having neither time
nor patience rior interest in the
ideas which are r.t variance with
their own. This is especially the
case with radical papers where tha
novelty is even no attraction and
originality is regarded as much the
same as anarchy. To lie siua- now
and then they may read a larast ot
themselves or the ideas which thay
uphold as we stated merely to grati
fy a curiosity which hates its own
Inquisitiveness.
There is more educational valuo
in the news column than in all the
editorial pages-put togetner, ana me
people will form moro opinions from
current evdnts as told In the new*
columns, than all the most learned
criticism thereupon in the editorial
page.
Most people’s ideas come stealthi
ly and unsuspectingly enough to
their brains. And it is quite re
markable that they realize this in
stinctively. It is because of the
ideas that are created in the simp
lest movie plays that authoritarian
minds have constituted boards ot
I censorships and say what may and
1 what may not be thrown on the
screen.
The warning that Is published iu
the war pictures from President
Wilson on the neutrality question
shows clearly enough that these pic
tures have the power to inspire ana
they cannot inspire wihout exciting
thoughts correct or partizan And
possibly it is now too iate, but the
postal authorities, are themselves
endeavoring to .exercise a pow.-rful
censorship as to what may and what
may not be published in the news
columns of the paper
The Masses was lately exclude!
from all the New York Subway
news r-tclls. Not for any editorial,
but because of a poem on Jesus
Christ and Billy Sunday written in
street colloquialism and a cartoon
by Sloan. It did not matter that
the reading matter in the editorial
or other articled pages contained
much more mordant and erosive
material. The company excluding
the monthly knew that it was the
cartoon and the simple poem that,
evoryone understood did the work.
Intellectualism usually over-reachea
itself. It’s the simple news story,
the simple cartoon or the common
poem that fills the bill, excite3
thoughts, creates ideas and in
spires with dynamic sentiments.
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