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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911. al the post office at
Rome, Aiassa, under the Act of March >, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, March 10, 1010.
We identify nations and the po
licies of nations by the character
istics ; nd policies of the dominant
faction therein. That is boc&uco we
lose our mental accuracy in consid
ering collectivities.
Vet it often happens that what we
refer to as an American policy or
as a German policy or as a British
policy may be a policy which the
average German, American or Brit
ish will not endorse.
Even in representative demo
cracies it can occur that the poli
cies which are those of the govern
ment and hence are identified with
the nation, say as Amer’can poli
cies, may be policies which do not
i represent quite a large majority oi
the people and are radically differ
ent from an extensive minority.
Tho Wilson administration is a
minority administration. Tho spin
in the republicans elected the mi
nority party and n. majority of the
people as reprecontcd in tho pro
gressives, the republicans ind the
-socialists find no expression what
ever.
la Europe this is even more
marked. There tho ruling clans Is
in a very distinct minority. Its aims,
ambitions, designs, policies are
held to bo characteristic Of the ma
jority of tho p.eqpte therein.
i Thus if is that we find nations
embarking upon what Is.fcllod a
'German, a British, a Frencfi Or a
Russian policy which the people ot
those countries in their heart ot
hearts do not support.
'• But ‘in all countries a powerful
tew can enforco their wills subtly
and unconsciously somotimes, more
often by main forco and economic
power on the rest and they rule.
In Europe for tho moot part the
trouble is to give the majority rul
ing expression. In America cr where
there is a representative government
the trouble i3 to allow a powerful
or numerically small minority some
say in its affairs.
Four-fifths of the objection to re
presentative government is that it
gives the party which obtain t.h'
inort votes absolute control of til"
legislative fundi©!—, of gr.ve-nmen-.
It allows tlie niir.o’ - ■ |
no expression wli.u< vor. /„u<! no-;
< inMngly the nation proceeds upon
a policy wfilch is not in record with >
the wishes of quite a large portion
of the population but which is di
rcc‘sd by a majority how.-ver spiail
because it is a majority.
Some men to overcome this have
proposed proportional representa
tion. This system proposes to give
representation to a minority In terms
«.f its vote. That is to say, suppose
a district elects six members for the
legislature, those members would
bo divided up in proportion to the
\ oto cast, one third the vote secur
ing one third the reprooeuation two
third the vote getting two thirds,
or the party getting one sixth the
, v o*o receiving one sixth tho mem
bership, and so on.
in this way every person is sure
of representaton, ar.d while it might
;uld somewhat to tho legislative diffi
culties of the majority party, it
would at least give the minority
parties representation. And it would
certainly result in many who now
< nn nover hope to be represented
finding that they were represented
and well, undor the system of pro
portional representation.
It would have the decided advant
age of making public the varioty ot
views that obtain In any Common
wealth. And it would greatly help
to prevent any policy being adopted
and passing off as a national policy
when it Represented meroly the po
licy pf a faction thereof.
The objection raised against this
method is that it would tend to ob
sruct legislation. The law mills
would grind out measures more
slowly and the debates would be so
bitter that pregroes would bo lm
Itossible. .
That this is a doubtful evil may
be at once conceded because it is
not in evidence that there is a de
mand for more laws.
Some person speaking recently
said that laws merely gave expres
sion to the accepted morality of the
community. That’s not correct.
Of ton they give expression to a
condition which the community
would reject ot its social conscience
as rather immoral than otherwise.
But theoretically it la correct.
Sometimes it docs reflect the so
cial view but that i3 only when so
ciety has organized to enforce the
views regardless of the laws then
in force or not, and when such laws
are enacted following social enforce
ment they are simply affirming so
cial sanction of an accepted condi
tion and they simply will not be
violated.
But the greatest trouble with le
gislation is that it Is factional. It
is not representative of the will ot
the masses, but rather of those who
dominate the masses, and is often
enough a social irritant, compelling
the establishment of punitive meas
ures to enforce.
In many enactments, so foreign
are they to the wilt of the people,
that the most important clauses
therein aro the penal clauses.
Ideal legislation is legislation
.that reflects an accepted condition.
Take a recent instance that occutred
,oyer in Europe.
Landlords throughout Glcscow
and other sections of Scotland raised
rents because they claimed by rea
son of the munltlonlst activity the
workers were not casually but per
manently employed. By reason of
their land proprietorship they felt
justified in ondoavoring to abstract
more from tho workers.
Ton thousand in Glascow alone re
fused to pay rent. Eviction proceed
ings were started against them ann
the whole ten thousand attended
the court and announced that they
would pay no rent and would make
no munitions until rents wore estab
lished at the old scale. Thl3 was
done. Thereupon Lloyd George
brought in a measure to prevent
any rent raising throughout the
i ountry.
This law did not enforce any new
condition. It ratified merely a
condition the organized community
of workers had established. It
could not he broken and it was cer
tain to be enforced. Punitive clau
ses were not the most important in
the bill. It was a social measure
which had first of all received so
cial warranty.
Where laws run up against snags
as a general rule, it is because they
endeavor to effect alterations in the
ground plan of the social life before
society itself has approved such a
change. It may have the warranty
of a powerful faction which being so
powerful controls the government,
but such a law will require heavy
penalties to aid its enforcement ana
when enforced is only tyranny in
disguise.
Probably it was really in view 'ot
the deficiency in representative gov
ernment not representing certain im
portant *factons, often divided but
when considered in their totality a
majority of the nation, and passing
laws which were inimical to the In
terest of these unrepresented, forc
ing upon them the views that they
did not want and interfering arbi
tarily with their Individual and coi
lectve customs, Jefferson said that
that was the best government which
governed the least and Thoreau
amended this expression to say that
that government was the best which
didn’t govern at all.
What we see today In Europe Is
an astounding condition which is
not a reflex of'the people’s will, but
unqueotloqably a reflex of the will
ot those who control tho govern
ment.
Yet the hostility which is manifest
between the belligerent nations Is
directed not exclusively against
those who dominate each country’s
affairs, but against those who live in
the country as a whole. The Hymn
of Hate is not directed against the
wealth and aristocracy of England
that entered the war, but 'against
the English people who are England.
The attack upon German culture as
militarism in disguise is not an at
tack merely upon the Junkerdom
and bureaucrats who foisted imperi
alism and militarism upon a peace
loving German people who love their
homes and families and kindred.
Invariably the dominant class,
faction or party makes itself out to
be the country itself; Insists to the
limit of its power that they shall
be so considered, and puts down
with an iron hand as treasonable
and rebellious any effort to give na
tional expression to a different idea
than is theirs. ’ Thus we even find
a plutocracy claiming in the name
of America triumphs which are
solely theirs, national benefits which
are not national at all but simply
their own, urging policies as nation
ally great because they will make
them great.
And the workers follow suit and
in the collective idea as stated lose
perspective and mental accuracy.
They thus declare that America
controls the financial world when as
a matter of fact if true it means that
only a few Americans do so;
they speak of American pros
perity when the vast major
ity of Americans gat a living
wage; they talk of American inde
pendence when ., most of the people
are economically dependeat, were
born so, will live so and mast die so
with other men absolutely-controll
ing the way the* live.
Some time when an economic or
ganization gives those who have now
no power real political and industri
al power on account of that, orga
nization, they' wil proceed to iden
tify their aims, intentions,, well be
ing, benefits, prosperity, happiness
as the national one, and the control
of affairs will simultaneously pass
into the hands of those who now
have no control and no power.
The skillful manipulation in this
world by the powerful in finance
and industry of the national. factors
so that their own personal affairs
in finance and industry will be the
national one, embroiling the nations
in wars, embarking the nations upon
policies wholly inimical to the; inter
tats of the vast majority- is possible
by reason of the econotalc power
that they hold. They dominate the
financial life, they control therefore
financial life, the control therefore
directly or indirectly the social and
the political life. They drive home
their ideas among the people; they
force the people to accept them.
They make their interests national
and patriotic, and those interests
which may be better a thousand
times for the people, treasonable
and unpatriotic and rebellious.
They invent punitive Measures to
enforce their control and they estab
lish under one form or another an
autocracy or an oligarchy which con
ceals itself.
Men explain this by saying that
the economically powerful manage
to pervert the ego of the dependents
so that they absorb as their own
cause the cause of those who tyran
nize over them. They inflict the
discipline of their own ideas upon
those in subordinate positions and
they make them general.
This is easy because of the diffi
culty of viewing collective conditions
in any but the abstract. Life is too
short to inquire. Experience when
it conflicts with authoritative enact
ment or authoritative instruction is
condemned or distrusted. Man is
told to accept the inevitable.
Were it not for the inherent in
stinct in men to prolong their exist
ence, to make their lives freer and
happier, to co-operate to this end,
the view of the ruling powers would
be tacitly accepted as all that it
should be and all that it could be
and hence all that was best to be.
But the urge for a free happy life is
the inheritance of all animal exist
ence, and we have come to judge
things and men and conditions or
things and men, simply as they for
ward the social happiness and make
life for us all freer and fuller. The
very elements of reason are discov
ered in judging the tree by its fruit,
and* that firings it close to instinct i
common to all living things. It's |
where mentality began.
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