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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Nome, Alaska. April II, 1913.
11.1
Day by day, week by week and
month by month, this country ana
the United States generally faces a
rise in foodstuffs.
Of course that falls most heavily
upon the working man and will con
tinue to fall heaviest upon him, first
because his purchasing power is con
lined to very restricted limits and
second because that purchasing
power must spend itself almost
wholly in food.
If out of his wages therefore, ai
most all of it must go to tho pui
chase of food, his shelter and his
clothing will have to take loss anil
less, and his standard of living be
comes materially reduced.
Itriefly it is of interest to con
sider this enormous increase in the
price of food stuffs.
There are many contributing cau
ses, not all of which are tho same
importance. There is the higher
cost of raw material; there is the
increase in the costs of transporta
tion; there is the increased demand
for the food products of the nation
and there is the enormous influx
of gold into Uie country since the
war began.
There is more gold in the Unitel
States than ever berore in its his
tory. Not just a little more or a
moderate increase in the quantity—
hut a eolloHul increase of dimensions
so gigantic that it has literally
swamped the banks.
Gold is as well as tho medium of
exchange, also a commodity. Its
price marked in terms of those
things for which it is cxchr.ngd io
therefore regulated by the same la-,\
that affects all commodities: the
law of supply and demand.
The demand for gold has
not risen excessively in
the United States. But the sup
lily has risen tremendously. It has
arrived from Europe from Asia and
from Africa. Shipments of gold
bullion and Australian sovereigns
have come it millions from Aus
tralasia. In the banks in the East
the gold has been received in Midas
quantities. And while it has, there
lias been no such thing as a business
revival or a wage increase or de
struction of properties requiring
gold borrowing for re-building in
the United States would pl£cc that
excess gold in balancing circulation
As a commodity the relative in
crease of gold supply over the de
mand as a moans of exchange is
simply enormous.
Now gold is our medium of ex
change. With it as a standard the
prices of all commodities are
reckoned. A definite quantity ot
whoat and a definite weight of meal
are equal in exchange value. That
mutual equality of value is expressea
by saying that they are worth so much
money. A definite woight of meat
is worth ten dollars and a definite
44«antlty of wheat is worth ton dol
lars. But the ten dollars itself has
.niW
a changeable value as represented by
because gold is a commodity
affected as already stated by
the law of supply and demand like
food and drink and clothing.
The European war has dumped
enormous quantities of gold in Am
erica while it has heightened the ln
and tor food and
1 ty5 EvroP°an war
I ^SMrmoua, quantity
of productive labor or which is the
suae thing has sent that labor into
non-productive pursuits. It is clear
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[•'■go and in consequence they b’d
against the people in those countries
for the food required by the people!
I therein for their own use.
This creates a shortage in the sup
ply and an Increase in the demand
and up goes the price.
| So with this European war on, the
prico would have gone up in any
event whether gold was dumped :n
huge quantities on those shores o:
not at all. But ttie vast munition
and other trade that has come to
the United States has produced a
plethora of gold supply and with an
increasing gold supply, the fooa ex
pressed in terms of gold must show
a soaring price.
Moreover this increase in price is
heightened by higher costs of trans
portation, by incroascd railroad and
steamship rates and by other minor
factors which make themselves felt
economically from time to time.
Wo have thus endeavored to mane
clear as we can the increase in price
ifrom the economic point of view.
i but political economy butters no
parsnips. It brings no consolation to
the man whose purchasing power
j expressed in wages is reaching the
j limits also.
j No tine figures displaying a mo3t
favorable balance of trade; no elabo
] rate review of the munitionist activ
ity; no political unction that the
I United States is becoming the Gold
center of the universe, carries with
it the consolation needed by hungry
workers who watch the standard of
living going down day by day and
week by week and month by month.
We may not live by broad alone, but
economic philosophy is a poor sub
stitute for bread in any event, ana
it is certain that we have not yet
heard of the end of the high prices. !
We are certainly facing a critical
time. All revolutions began with i
hungry bellies. There wore wise
men, philosophies and treatises anti
cyclopedists, hut all had the econo
mic factor deep down as the founda
tion upon which they were built.
it is astounding that while the
critics of conditions in Europe see
certain the signs of chango in the
social conditions that there prevail,
they can glance over the situation
in the United States with eyes un
moved, as if the human beings here
were not flesh of the same flesh ana
bone of the same bone.
The United States ia seriously at
focted by the war in Europe. The
war is compelling the production of
the Unjted States workers to fur
nish forth as well as tho munition
supply also tho food supply for tho
belligerent nations. Who suffers?
Not the exporters who reap their per
cent and then some. Not the garnb
ler in the stocks of war babies; net
the brokers and railroads and shipp
ing companies, but the workers.
They are face to face with condi
tions which mean If they mean any
thing that they have to deny them
selves food and clothing pr shelter—
one or the other in the sufficiency or
insufficiency to which they have been
used.
\Vhat good is an. increase of tec
per cent in wages when necessaries
have gone up twenty per cent? What
good is it to think that one has an
Increased wages if tho increased
wages will not overtake, the ever t#
creasing cost of food.
We have shown why it 1b that th6
prioe ol..food has increased. It has
increased under the laws of the ca
pitalist. systsjn which lp the, prevail
ing economy. ,Jt to inevitable tyr
cause of the fact, tyat it ,i» a. profit
system. tIt i#, uh&WJdabte becas®»
pf the ;fact that,inven, must vork, tfr
(jthersn - who produce no .exchange
.Sftlues, therefor.t tj
s» 4ri.k vtuvanesUopablif, correct that
this Is an abnormal dlstnrbanpf,
fi* re*4iw»ted aft*
» dSrtprv(rt St JCSWUStfuctionr wfigp
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desert used tcfc,«Q»s«l% Ms
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goi'f neveiadw xdit, •■■■ ,5>
a ,»Isos otJnaafa sc
.msfsvs ieihud erf) has .
reached the oasis. And the capital
ist system is a system which pro
vides the workers with cafes of ac
I tivity and purchasing power com
11'Ctent ior immediate needs, with
vast tracts of the desert industrial
depression in Between, with the
oases getting fewer.and smaller anu
rarer and the desert tracts to he
tided over getting more and more
wide, getting more and more difii
cult and more and more dangerous.
The most dangerous of all has now
been eraehed. It has certainly
been reached. It has certainly
met by forceful measures whien
amount to the government's forcibly
regulating price and distributing
the food of the nation. Food is so
regulated in Germany, for example,
as to ensure all at least getting <>
sufficiency. The government has
destroyed private monopoly and as
serted a pubic monopoly. Only ir.
this way has it been possible to
met the needs of the case.
In the United States no such courss
is possible. The fangs of private
monopoly are sunk too deep in the
government to admit of any suen
action - being taken. And as a re
'suit upon those inadequately pro
vided to meet the soaring prices
terrible deprivation is certain.
Only one thing can save the coun
try, the employment of all surplus
labor in a similar manner to that in
which the vast masses of Europe are
being employed. Then if the United
States enter the war, the food ques
tion will for the time being solve it
self. It is immaterial whether this
war is a war with a European na
tion or a war of conquest with Mex
ico; the only means whereby the
evils resulting from the increased
cost of living can be overcome is
under capitalism by hurling the na
tion into the hell-pot that the an
ttons of Europe are now being re
duced to economic ashes.
That would send gold freely circu
lating. It would stimulate industry
as it never was stimulated before.
Labor would be in demand because
all excess labor would be used for
fighting or aiding in the fight. Mu
nitionists who have milked the ud
ders of the European financial cows
dry would then turn and milk the j
United States treasury. Vast orders j
would pile into all factories; the j
railroads would reach a supremacy
of traffic never hitherto achieved,
an immense ship building industry!
would spring up; hives of activity1
would abound and the wagos paid -
the workers would be such as never
before they reached. That is one
way out of it. And it is only ono side
of the picture at that. That
way would mean also desertea
homos, widows and orphans, maim
ed and crippled and blind and deso
late. It would mean mlitary despot
ism and the abandonment of the
principles for which the great ones
fought and struggled and died with
geatness of heart for ever to up
hold. It would mean the ascendancy
beyond any peradvcnture of a plu
tocratic oligarchy upheld by a mili
tary despotism. It would mean the
j realization of the state so inimitably
drawn and with such prohetic eye
by, the author of Caesar's Column
almost twenty years ago.
But there is another way out.
; Not the darkest way throught the
hell of cannon fire and the red ter
ror of violence and death. But
through the peaceful re-organizatior.
of the social system so that each
would be required of according to
his power and furnished according
to his needs.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John. Smith, Charles Anderson,
Tom Wilmore, your heirs, execut
ors, assigns or personal represen
tatives :
You and each of you are hereby
' notified that I have expended in la
| or and improvements the sum of
; one hundred dollars each year for
the years 1912, 1913, 1914, and
I 1915 on the Sadie Association, an
| association placer mining claim si
! tuated on Willow Creel; a tributary
of Penny river and recorded and
more fully described in Vol. 190, at
page 431 in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District;
in the Second Division, Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisi ns of the law con
cerning 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 after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure
you John Smith and you Charles
Anderson for the years 1912, 1913,
1914, and 1915 and you Thomas
Wilmore for the years 1913, 1914,
and 1915 your interest in safd
claim will become the property pf
the undersigned your co-owner un
der section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JAS. B. IVORY
Administrator of the Estate of Paul
Ivory.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 14, 191G.
Date of last pub., July 14, 1916.
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