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Nome, Alaska, unoer the Act of March 3, 1878
Nome. Alaska, March 11, 1010.
One Year
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One Month
The question of taxation and
finance after the war is exciting a
good many papers. Even labor pa
pers that con boact of no bank ac
counts of plethoric dimensions dis
cuss with the ease of a Chancellor
of the Exchequer globular millions,
and grow quite worried after the
war to know what tho world win
do with the staggering debt that it
has got to face.
It U only indiroctly that tho ques
tion disturbs America, for America
is tho debtor nation according to
economists, meaning by America,
John P. Morgan and the Money
Trust. The root dont count.
The general public cannot take
much intereot in tho array of figures
which are necessarily involvod in a
discussion of a national indebtedness
for figures while easily enough ma
nipulated, cannot be manipulated to
attract any show of interest and at
tention.
The one claim to greatness 01
William E. Gladstone, the English
statesman, is that ho was ablo in a
speech on the British budget to in
vest his financial statement with a
fascination the ordinary roador finds
only in a novel like Treasure Island.
How he did it tots of people have
tried to explain but got nowhere,
and finally get off their hobby horse
and admit that it's a gift.
The vast array of figures which
the British are now considering
would require someone greater than
a Gladstone to endow thorn with In
terest, or to even mako them intell
igible. The general public knows
that they exceed tho llmltc of the or
dinary intellect to grasp and are
for all intents and purposes repre
sentative of mathematical inhnity.
So we will just ignore figures.
Sot against this condition however
is tho fact that the workers i>ay no
taxes. The worker has no money
and you cannot take blood from a
stono. The worker receives what is
demonstrable as a minimum wage,
not tho minimum wage of the theo
rists and up-llftors, but the economic
minimum wage of supply and de
mand which does not rise above
that necessary to keep body and
soul together.
What tho worker produce- ana
what the workor receives are two
different things, and while tho work
ers produoeo tho wealth which will
pay taxes, ho does not now and
never did have any share in it. If
food rises to heights that are un
procurable by bis wages, his wages
will after a period of mal-nutrition
and starvation rise to the necoesary
height, he will he immersed always
in that state of chronic starvation
which the law of supply and demana
of necessity forces upon the workers
as a minimum wage.
For that reason therefore al
though the country becomes swam
ped with debt, tho worker does not
pay it. He produces what will pay
it. but dobt or no dobt it would
never have been his, that excess over
what it costs to keep him and what
he produces.
Therefore it is only a wild streten
of unreason to pity the poor folk
after the war who will return to
their industrial positions to pay the
great debts which have been piled
up. The people who will pay and
who always pay are the employing
and business classes. They will have
to foot the bills and they will pay it
out of their property rents, their
business profits. The debt is so
enormous in all these countries that
tremendous industrial activity under
a credit system will have to mark
the return of peace just in order
to secure a payment or those debts.
And as a matter of fact when you
hear the financial historians relate
how great productivity followed the
great wars, you will here find the ex
planation for that phenomenon.
Now debts aro so paid as that it
■will be always 'hardest tor tho
poorer ; business to may. and one re
suit of this war will be to drive the
little fellow In great numbers into
the ranks of the propertiless work
ers. The big firm, the great corpo
ration, the much-propertied ana
great landlords will be able to pull
through, and they will moreover be
hard set in the immediate future to
slough off the financial burdens on
to the backs of the little property
holder who Is scarce even under nor
mal conditions able to pay his w y.
Indirectly, too, as bondhold rs and
lenders, they will be recouped by
the revival of Industry after peace,
and will pay taxes in many in
stances to pay themselves.
One of the reasons why an extra
vagance of government is tolerated
Is because those who are in econo
mic and financial control dig up out
of one pocket to receive it back In
the other.
An armor plate company making
hundreds of millions out of govern
ment contracts finds no burden in
the addition of a war tax that
amounts only to a few housands.
The financial concern that floats a
government loan anil makes millions
in the transaction similarly can af
ford to pay ten. fifteen or twenty
per cent income tax. They are sim
ply paying themselves with interest.
These are little oddities about
High Finance which the workers
who pay no taxes completely over
look, and these same odditfbs ex
plain why as a system It is all sc
popular with High Finance.
This war finance Is essentially di
rected towards the great tendency
of the capiallst system to make the
poor business man poorer, and to
make the rich financier or industrial
chief richer all the time, it win
literally bankrupt the smaller Inde
pendent who has been struggling
along as best he could, and will
sweep him and those like him Into
the proletarian ranks where ta
cease from troubling an 1 fiscal wot
ries are at res''. ,
It is just '.hi3 'act that makes the
taxation problems so se.’hnr. a mat
ter The smailer business man is
not quite such a chump as his eriti s
make him out to be. We may eriu
11 ize his money grabbing tendencies,
| but there is a stern intention to
to make the best of ic for himself
1 and the worst of it for the other
1 fellow. He does not submit tamely
1 and he unerringly places the finger
! upon the cause of his troubles.
We saw that in the United States
when he and his started the Pro
gressive party which had basically
something far deeper than the Bull
Moosery of King Theodore. Nor is ho
likely to accept defeat from Wilson
i under an abandoned New Freedom
Populism Itself was the protest ot
the smaller man against industrial
submergence, and even republican
prosperity which gave a new lease
of life to a whole lot of them could
not obliterate the efforts of the
small bourgeois to cave himself wit
nessable in the progressive party,
and to quite a large oxtont In its
control of the Socialist party of
America where the stronger minds
of the progressives are now finding
a refuge.
The inevitable economic steam
rolling of the small buclnoss man
by reason of war taxes will excite a
revolutionary tendency in the belli
gerent countries and that Is why
these taxation questions are of some
thing more to tho workers than
merely academic questions.
The grant of an increase to tho
bituminous miners may bs an ad
mission upon the pnrt of the coal
barons of tho inevitable, or It may
be a tactical stroke which has not
wholly unbared itself.
It may thus result in dividing the
Interest of the anthracite and the
bituminous coal miners, and divid
ing and ruling Is the favorite tnaxlm
of ‘Imperiaiists in industry as well
as tn the nation.
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So far no settlement of thqj. de
manda of the anthracite miner# has
Been made. They aro still denied
their increase, and a battlo of Ibn
The only weapon which tho an
thracite men have is tho strike,Sln<l
the more oxtencive and r.il-ecom
passlng the strlko, the more efflcl- j
ent the weapon. Tho striko off the |
coal minors would necessarily re- j
suit in an Industrial stagnation due I
to lack of fuel, but under present
time conditions the coal that reaches
a higher degree of industrial im
portance is bituminous and not an
thracite. The best smith co*al is
bituminous coal; coke a highly %sen
tial material in tho production of
steel and in ore reduction comes
from bituminous coal and the effect
of a stoppage of bituminous mining
would be much more serious from
an industrial point of view than, j
than a stoppage of anthracite.
The consumption of anthracite is
of necessity very great. Railroaas
and ships and urban factories use
large quantities of it by reason ot"
its efficiency from a smokeless point
of view. But it can find a substi
tute in bituminous coal and city or
dinances and smoke nuisances wiP
of necessity wait upon economic con
ditions and remain suspended dur
ing the absence of the anthracity
supply on the markets.
The interests of the coal miners
therefore are greatly enhance4 by a
complete identification of interests
between the bituminous and an
thracite miners, and a settlement for
one should mean a settlement for
all.
The Idea that bituminous mining
should be j>ermitted while anthracite
miners are on strike, is uppermost
in the minds of the bosses. And it
is not impossible that tor that rea
son a settlement of one set of de
mands may have been agreed upon
to keep one set working while the
others are on strike, so that tho
strike might lose its efficiency
against the industries of the em
ploying chiefs.
However labor conditions in the
east are not unfavorable to a
granting of the demands of the
miners.
The mines are only able to re
cruit their working force from the
constantly arriving immigrants from
Europe. The war has resulted in
that supply falling off, and the ba
lance of immigration is no longer in
favor of the United States capital
ists.
If the anthracite miner quit, they
are numerically so great that the
1 coal mine companies will have an
unusual difficulty in supplying tnelr
places. Added to this i3 the fact that
coal mining may well be substituted
1 by striking workers for other In
siderable dimensions
able.
lustrial activities, the demand in ,
munition and other works which re- j
Beet munltlonlst activities, Deing I
the greatest ever known.
None the less, should the economic ]
conditions which prevail aid the j
anthracite miners In obtaining their j
demands, it 1b not to be lost sight j
of that the actual division of inter- j
ost in a separate claaslfl- j
cation of the minora as such |
employed in bituminous and la ]
anthracite fields, divides up the I
strength of the organization also j
and weakens it in the fight that it j
is compelled to maintain for better (
conditions.
The deadly tendency to disunion j
in such a division, is not to be j
glossed over by favorable results j
during a favorable time. Those i
would have come in any event.
There is not now and there never
will be any room for any kind of dis
union among the workers in any in
dustry. Regardless of the nature of
their mining, all mining interests
are directly connected and the wel
fare of one connected with the wel
fare of the other. We may
further than this and declare with
out hesitation that the interests of |
all workers in any and all industries
are one and the same, and no mat
ter what is said to deprecate It, the
idea of one big union of all workers
is the only idea representing a prac
tical method whereby the workers
will attain industrial efficiency in
enforcing all their demands.
GET THE sGWti RIGHT. HEAD
THE WORKER.
REPUBLICAN CAUL FOR
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
A District Convention of Republi
cans, elected in the various pre
cincts of the Second Judicial Divi
sion of Alaska, at the primaries held
cn March 11 cl. 1916, to attsno as
Delegates to the- Republican Terri
torial Convention at Seward, Alaska,
on April 19th, 1916 is hereby called
for the purpose of adopting plat
form Resolutions, endorsing Dele
| gates to the Republican National
j Convention to be held at Chicago on
j June 7th 1916 and for other party
I purposes. The said District Conven
tion will be held at Hunter Hall,
corner Hunter Way and Front St.
Nome, Alaska, at 8 o’clock P. M. on
Saturday, March 18th, 1916.
By order of the District Commit
tee, Second Judicial Division fh:s
the 7th day of March 1916.
GEO D. SCHOFIELD.
Chairman
W. M. EDDY
Secretary.
F. A. DANIELS.
A. A. ALLAN.
J. C. KENNEDY.
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