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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
a early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
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Nome, Alaska, June BO, 1010.
SENSE VERSUS SENTIMENT.
T he man who was the civil head
of the Sein Fein rebels in Dublin
and who paid the penalty for his de
votion to his principles with his life j
was an interesting man.
A Trinity College teacher at one
time, later establishing a school of
his own and according to hi3 own
ideas in the environs of Dublin, he
is described as a wonderfully refin
ed intellectual with a soul as tender
and gentle and kind as a woman's.
In his school he had a motto “No
Boy Shall Kill a Butterfly” and this
was the teaching that he carried
forward: kindness to men and ani
mals and strictly doinjf unto others
as one would that others should do
unto him.
He spoke of Freedom as the death
less concept of the immortal soul.
“Freedom is a splendid thing that
one cannot worthily state in terms
of a definition. One has to write it
in some flaming symbol, or ring it
in music riotous with the up-roar of
heaven”.
i
Pearse is therefore considered as
a poet, not as a leader of revolu
tionists; as a dreamer not a doer;
as one who is devoted rather to
sentiment than to sense; and whose
soul gazing upon the "secrets of the
abyss” is “blasted with its excess of
light" and sees not the darkness of
earthy things.
But this is a tiueer world. We
owe lots to the dreamers.
They have inspired all our
acheivements. And the nie.i
who are pathfinders of
today were also the sentimentalists
whose ideals were regarded as
crude and impractical. As society
makes its progress, the visionary
conns first with his seer mind and
opens up new vistas to us oi
greater possibilities. They see the
unattainable paradise of heart’s de
uce. Later there comes the dis
ciple who says with the poet: “Ah
but a man’s grasp should exceed his
hand or what's a heaven for.’
Then come the followers who seek
to realize the vision, and last ot ail
its realization, when new prophets
and new poets and new seers and
new dreamers blalze new trails
through the thickets and vision
anew for us further progress.
People have an idea that good
things can come, great ideals can be
achieved noble work accomplished
without trouble, without trials,
without woes, without sacrifices.
But no such thing is possible. No
thing can be accomplished off
hand. The gifts from the gods
escape when we try to discover
them ready made and infinite labor
buoyed up by the Hope that remains
in their Pandora's box, is all that
may recapture for mortals the va
nished gifts.
Men pay the penalty for their
dreams in personal sacrifice. Every
thing that we have, everything that
we enjoy, everything that makes
life good to us has come to us In
travail and trial and tribulation.
Men have only mounted upon tlio'r
dead selves to higher things and
many have to sacrifice their lives
that over their bodies others may
gr.iie the heights.
Such was the sacrifice of Pearse.
Such will have to be the
sacrifice of all dreamers as
such have been their saerihe'
in the past. Sense may be more
secure than sentiment, but without
the spiritual side of life, vain and
unpractical and unreal as it may bo
considered, there could be no pro
gress.
THE REAL ANARCHY.
The policy of preparedness urged
by the great aggregations of capita,
with so much force today is an in
dication of the true anarchic nature
of capital. Capitalism, in insisting
upon the right of the indivdual to
make profits through explotation,
takes no stock of the common good
or the common weal. It is individ
ualism running riot and as Huxley
long ago pointed out, the ultimate
of individualism is anarchy.
The very teaching of capitalism
involves the cardinal principle ol
anarchy that might is right; that no
rights have any power to sway, con
trol, govern, direct, or subordinate
the exploitation of the masses by
the individual; that such exploita
tion is to be protected in its ac
tivities and it its functions by might,
and that might is to protect ii
against the collective masses come
what may.
And like the anarchy that it is,
it involves itself in contradiction. II
might is right and the strong anr
and the sword and the rifle and the
cannon are to be the final arbiters
between the nations, and the great
er the power is to be the greatei
security, regardless of right ci
wrong, then the world places itse'l
on record tearing all ethical prin
ciples to shreds, right into tatters
and justice is to be scattered .ii
dust before the breezes.
Moreover, if this doctrine is
ofcta:n sway that it is essential tf
trust ill arms and potential violence
in the settlement of differences—i:
the power of the nation is to be it
asset in negotiations which will wir
the best terms, there is no deny
ing the logic of its application t(
the class struggle. If preparednes:
is to be used by the masters in thei
commercial struggle for nationa
and international supremacy in tin
world markets, the same reasonini
applies to the struggle between tin
masses and the classes and insteai
of an effort to peaceably adjust tin
differences between workers an<
employers, by the strike, by the ap
plication of the principles of rigli
and wrong, it behoves the worker
to prepare so that their might wil
be actually the greater than that o
employers, and they can stand ove
the latter in their differences, a me
nacing power to compel respec
where otherwise they would fail, si
that the slaves may enslave th
masters.
If the workers strong in the at
guments of the preparationists wer
to arm, to secure posses
sion of munitions, of can
no and machine guns
to erect armories, to maintain ;
standing army of gigantic propor
tions, to levy a heavy per capita ta
to maintain this army and these ar
maments at a high state of efflci
ency, to educate their children ii
the use of arms, in military tactic
and make no attempt to conside
the ethical side of life, and were al
these things to be done under th
plea of a defense against a war b;
the capitalists, does any persoi
think that the capitalists would re
gard that with any sincerity, will
any sense of security, with anythin;
but misgiving, and would they no
most certainly believe that thes
preparations were sure to lead to
class war, and would be the ver
surest way of providing the natio:
with civil turmoil?
There’s not a person living bu
knows that is the case. There’s no
a persDn living but knows were th
workers to arm and prepare alon
class lines and using the same fall
acious arguments that are used b
the modern preparationists, tha
they would not be distrusts
through the length and breadth o
the land. \ou couldn't fool th
capitalists as the capitalists at
fooling the workers with their ini
possible preparatlonist program.
Every single fact in our existenc
uud in human history goes to shoi
that the cation that prepared to
war even when pretending to pr«
pare for peace got all the war tha
she was looking for. The cry "Au
Armos” in France ended in the col
apse on St. Helena after the com
try had been decimated, as the cr
a Berlin ended in the debacle c
Sedan and the whole story of the
nations is alive with lessons not
favoring preparedness but caution
ing against it.
For over one hundred years
along the entire front between the
United States and Canada were no
forts, no warships, no men at arms.
And there were no wars between
Great Britain and the United
States. For over the same period
forts have been constructed and re
constructed, garrisoned and re-garri
soned between France and Germany
and during that time there nave
been wars and rumors of war.
No sort of preparation protected
little Belgium, Not its forts at Liege
and elsewhere; not its universal mi
litary service, not its wholly dispro
portionate standing army. The pre
parationists in the Balkans have
been the night mare of peaceful
Europe for half a century, ant
D’lsraeli said at the conclusion ot
the Beilin conference “Now if we
could only get these little fellows
to drop their guns and take up their
spades, we could keep peace”.
The advocates of preparedness,
make no mistake, build up their
theories whether they know it or
not upon the doctrine that might is
right. They trust nothing but big
armies; a good cause, a just quar
rel, right or wrong have nothing to
do with it. It is the assertion oi
the individual nation’s righi
through the individual nation’s
might. It is the might that confers
the right.
But, how can we argue that a na
tion does that rightly which an in
dividual does wrongly. If the cods
of the duellist or the bully is tc
be the code of the nation with righi
and justice, how can it be the code
of the individual and wrong and
unjust?
Some nations as some men musl
place their trust in Right, in Truth
| in Justice. Some men do. Not manj
I—and their number may be is noi
| increasing. But at any rate, every
thing that has made for human se
curity and human civilization anr
human progress—everything tha
; has improved the relation betweei
I man and men, between nations am
! races and peoples has been foundei
upon moral principles utterly a
outs with that whereon is foundei
this agitation for preparedness.
Wipe away all the social wrong9
in any country; make strict and
even handed justice he the rule and
not the exception; let liberty
equality and fraternity be not dead
letters but real things, and there
w’ll be no need to talk of con
script.on, of great armies, of great
navies or to decry the efforts oi
every person towards national de
fense. Every man will be prepared
a-wf prepared not to profit from the
propaganda but to give his life blood
to uphold what is nowhere else ob
tainable throughout the world. Men
sacrifice everything for their treas
ure because their treasure secures
them liberty and life and security
for liberty and life. Give society
■ these things in unstinted and un
trameled measure—let freedom be
a real thing and not a political
myth, and the same sacrifice men
render for their treasure's sake will
surely be given for that which gives
the treasure its only value.
OVERSTOCKEl*.
To the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re^
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
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Commercial Agent, AGENTS
Front St. and Steadman Ave. At Dock.
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LEAVE SEATTLE:
JUNE 28.
JULY 25.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 15.
LEAVE NOME.
JULY 11.
AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1.
OCT. 29.
VICTORIA LEAVING NOME JULY 11 AND AUG. 7 will
call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Colum*
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enongh to al
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the railroad
to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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