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Ill \<;l-:u \\l> KKVOM TION.
Senator Borah's reference in the
Senate to the French revolution
when he compared the rioting which
was taking place in New York to
the incidents of the French revolu
tion is significant enough, for at the
bottom of that revolution was the
spur of hunger—desperate hunger.
On tlie one hand waste, reckless
profusion, debauched squandering,
and on the other gaunt starvation.
In March and April ITS!), the ma
jority of the provincial governors re- |
ported riotings and pillaging*. and .
the first conflict which took place in
Paris was “the Reveillon allair he- !
< ause a paper manufacturer of that i
name who employed three hundred
operatives declared that the “work- .
ingnian can live on black bread and
lentils: wheat is not for the likes
of him etc". In an attack upon his
plant twelve soldiers were killed
and eigthy wounded and on the peo
ple's side two hundred killed and |
three hundred wounded. The him- j
ger impulse is to be noted running
through the tangled skein ol events}
in the French revolution a red
thread always unmistakable. "The ^
people no longer read the papers' ,
mourned the Queen in a letter
October HI. IT 111 to Fersen. "They
•are only interested in the dearness
of bread and in the decrees". Bread,
says the historian, that they might
• •arry on the revolution, and the de
crees against the priests and emi
gres which the King refused to
sanction.
Speculation in the price of wheat
had once been the privilege of the
; ing and Septeuil had practiced it
for the profit of Louis X\I, but the
middh classes took it over after the
Convention and outdid the royal
•.-ambling.
Robespierre took up the economic
views of the enrages when he de
clared in Convention “The food lie
essary for the people is as sacred as
life itself. All that is necessary to
preserve life is property common to
the whole of society. It is only
what is in excess of this that may
become private property, and may
be given up to the industrial activ
ities of the traders.”
One of the most extended struggles
throughout the momentous vears ot
the French revolution was 'lie eco
nomic struggle over the food ;ues
•tion. Unfortunately there was so
much of the dramatic and so tench
of the terrible and the trig;.- that
this driving impulse has been wholly
overlooked except among the m a t
careful historians. The idea of hx
ing the price of foodstuffs which
was opposed by the Montagiiards as
well as the Girondins and which
they said was "impolitic, unpracti
cal and dangerous" (un-American
they would say here), finally won
the day and on September 29 Ii93,
the Convention decided to fix the
maximum price for things of first
and second necessity -meat, cattle
tor the market, lard, butter, sweet
oil, fish, vinegar, etc.
Carlyle who loved the dramatic m
history and whose sympathetic and
betimes rather humorous irony,
forcibly depicts conditions when the
maximum law was being agitated.
•Think also that the private san
sculotte has not his difficulties in
time of dearth! Bread, according to
the people’s friend, may be some
"six sous per pound, a day’s wages
some fifteen”; and grim winter
here, blow the poor man continues
living, and so seldom starves; by
miracle! Happily in these days he
ran enlist, and have himself shot by
The Austrians in an unusually satis
factory manner; for the rights of
man. But Commandant Santerre,
in this so straightened condition of
the flour market, and state of equal
ity and liberty, proposes, through
the newspapers, two remedies or at
least palliatives. First, that all
Hasses of men shall live two (fays
a week on potatoes; then second
that every man should hang his dog.
Hereby as the commandant thinks,
the saving which indeed he com
putes to so many sacks, would be
very considerable. Cheerfuller in
ventive form of stupidity than Com
mandant Santerre’s dwells in no
man's soul. Inventive stupidity im
bedded in health, courage and good
nature, much to be commended".
Hut there were abler men than
Santerre and in truth the French
Revolution was so prolific in wise
and carefully considered programs
of reform that they possibly formed
the germ of every reform since those
days.
The Henry George single tax,
■onnnunistie socialism and a good
many other theories of life and liv
ing were born in those bloody and
troublous times.
It is the custom in considering
?reat revolutions to confine one
self to the dramatic events of those
times which indeed tried men's
souls above the ordinary. The guil
lotine. the lirisons, the conventions
—personal actors like Mirabeau,
Camille Desmoulins, Robespierre,
Danton. Marat, Charlotte Corday,
Lafayette, and so on have been
seized upon by the historians as the
men ' around which to weave the
fearful human tragedy. Rut in
point of fact it was the question of
how human beings live, above V
how shall they who produce Ihe
wealth contrive to feed themselves,
around which the whole terrible
story is written by the fates.
For that reason no proposal >as
or is too fantastic for consideration,
and it is significant enough that
the nationalization of the land,
the mines and the socialization of
industry were at different or iden
tical times proposed by the more
thinking of the revolutionists.
Jjicque Itoux advocated co-operative
stores. “Establish”. he said, "in all
the cities and large market towns
public stores where the price of
goods will he established by public
auction". Writers sneered at indus
trial slavery and political freedom
“of what use will a wise constitu
tion in- to a nation reduced by hun
ger to the state of skeletons .
Turgot, Sieves and Condorcet as
serted that the equality of political
rights meant nothing without the
real equality in fact, and the latter
held that inequality in property, in
equality of state and inequality in
education are the main causes of
all evils. Adequate salaries (mini
mum or living wages) was a demand
iu tlie Caliier des l’auvres (17S9).
Dolivier. a cure of Mauchamp. in
his "Essai Sur La Justice Primi
tive” expressed what he called two
immutable principles. Those fa
miliar with later day socialists and
reformers will identify them quickly
enough: first the land belongs to all
the people in general and to no one
in particular, and second that each
lias the exclusive right to the pro
duce of his labor. Lyons workers
proposed the socialization of in
dustry. They demanded that wages
should be regulated by the commune
and that they be such as to guar
antee subsistence. Endless contribu
tions disposed of all the iiuestion of
bl-metalism fiat money and the like
that agitated the world seventy or
eighty or ninety years later. The
assignats and their corruption,
counterfeiting by emigres and royal
ists under Pitt in England, and for
which Sheridan bitterly attacked
Pitt, caused such tremendous finan
cial disturbances that the number
of pamphlets on currency is legion.
The electors of the Seine-et-Oise be
fore the Convention November 1702
declared freedom in trading in
grain is incompatible with the ex
istence of the republic for such is
carried on by a minority with a
j view to its own enrichment so the
I entire . provisioning of the nation
must be carried on by the republic.
Commerce was held to be a social
function and should be socialized.
The main facts which we have
shown is sufficient to demonstrate
the important truth that the really
vital factor of the revolu
tion was the economic factor
and it was around these questions
of food and the high costs of living
that the intensely terrible drama
was written by the hand of Fate
Indeed it is well to remember that
for the lengths to which hunger will
drive even a craven nature no man
ret can say he knows.
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! II5C WORKER.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To W. A. Macomher and E Macom
ber their heirs and assigns.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one Hundred dollars
<11.00.00) for each of the years of
1914, 1915 and 1916 as the an
nual assessment required by law for
the said years upon and for the
benefit and development of each
of the placer claims The Elizabeth
Group and the Gertrude Group si
tuated on Bonita Creek in the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
Territory of Alaska and recorded In
Vol. 190 page 32 6 and Vol. 190
paeg 325.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if you do not
within ninety days from the final
publication hereof cause to be paid
to the undersigned your propor
tionate share of said expendiure as
co-owners, you W. A. Macomber in
the Elizabeth and you E. Macomber
in the Gertrude and Elizabeth, your
interest in said claim and claims
will become the property of the un
dersigned under section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States.
CHAS D. JONES.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 17, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 19, 1917.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Andrew Eadie, J. Potter Wliitt
ren. F. H. Waslcey, Ira D. Orton
Trustee. Elwood Bruner, J. Alll
Ilurner, Joseph Hammer, Wm. A.
Gilmore, J. I. Chambers, Ford E.
Chambers, to you anil each of you
vour heirs, executors, assigns or
personal representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified ttiat the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollais
for year of 1916, on the Golden Bull
Claim, a placer mining claim situ
ated between Newton Gulch and
j Fox Creek and recorded and more
j fully described in the records of Cape
| Nome Mining and Recording Dis
trict, in the Second Division of the
i Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions o£ the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
are further notified that if
within ninety days alter the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your, proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 10, 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 12, 1917.
No. 0313.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, February 23, 1917.
Notice is hereby given, that J. E.
Bonnell, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of twenty-one
years, whose post, office address is
Tacoma, Washington, by P. It.
Cowden, his Attorney-in-fact whose
post office address is Nome, Alaska,
has made application before the
United States Land Office at Nome,
Alaska, for a United States Patent
lor tne i.ross tsencn iracuon
Placer Claim, on the left limit of
Cooper Gulch in the Cape Nome Re
cording District, Alaska, Mineral
Survey No. 1198, said claim being
more particularly described in the
iield notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on iile in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as
follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 1189,
Itainy Day Placer, Cor. No. 5, Sur.
No. 1175, No. 1 Lake Creek Placer
and Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 69S, No. 2
Lake Creek Placer, a nr post, 4 Ins.
sq. 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed,1-1189 C F\, 2-1189
R D, 5-1175-1 L, 2-698, whence U.
S. L. M. No. 11, bears S. 11 deg. i
OS min. E. 6227.SO ft. thence N. j
0 deg. 56 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15 j
min. E. 1013.00 to Cor. No. 2; j
thence N. 67 deg. 53 min. W. Var. j
19 deg. 10 min. E. 476.60 ft. to Cor. j
No. 3; thence S. 2 deg. 01 min. E. j
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 309.00 ft. i
to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 44 deg. 45 j
min. W. Var. 18 deg. 15 min. E. j
336.20 to Cor. No. 5; thence S. 45 I
deg. 17 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00 j
min. E. 916.00 ft. to place of begin- j
ning. Containing an area of 10.060 \
acres, and is situated on unsurveyed |
ground in the Cape Nome Recording !
District, Alaska. $
U. S. L. M. No. 11, to which this :
claim is tied, is a fir post. 6 ins. j
1 sq. 5 ft. above ground, in stone j
! mound, 6 ft. base, 3 ft. high and i
[scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11. It Is \
' situate about 70 ft. East of what j
| is known as the Ressie Road and
; about 3.5 miles Northeasterly from .
j Nome, in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min.
| North, Long. 165 deg. 22 min’ West. j
J The original location Notice is re- I
I corded in Vol. 105 Page 163, and |
I Amended Location in Vol. 165 Page 1
I 346, records of said district.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are, on the j
North, unsurveyed, name and claim- 1
ant unknown, on the East, Sur. No. !
11S9, Rainy Day Placer, Carl Wick,
claimant. On the South No. 2 Lake
Creek, Sur. No. 698, claimant un- j
known. On the West, Survey No. j
1193 and unsurveyed claims, names j
and claimants unknown.
U. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 24. 1917.
Date of last publ., April 25, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United Stales Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording ,
District, Alaska, being Mineral
Survey No. 1191; said claim being
more particularly described in the.
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
' Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1, Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 41S and Cor. 2, Bella Frac
tion, Sur. 4 78 ; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-41S, 2-47S B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
I Monument on King Mt. bears N.
! 26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. S7 deg.
j 04 min. W. Var. 18 deg. 35 min. E.
I 1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
i min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
j thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
'deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
| thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Vai
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 478, Pioneer Minin,;
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 2 7. 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
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