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Nome, Alaska, June !>, 1» HI.
HHiH PRICES.
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A man can write learnedly if he
has information enough to hand
concerning high prices but who can
write instructively and in a matter
to provoke in'.' rest upon such a
subject unless he completely feels
the pinch of those higher costs ot
living?
And that’s the trouble with mere- '
ly academic discussions on the
higher costs of living with reams j
of theories unfolded to discover
where the real trouble lies and in
explaining not at all.
Hut the man or woman who faces
at the week end the fact that the
wages will not meet the necessities !
of living is not likely to be con
cerned very much as to what is the
cause of the higher costs, but how
that higher costs of living is to be
met.
There is for the reason only one
solution and that is that wages
must go up to make it possible for j
the workers to acquire a reason
able amount of food, clothing and
shelter.
You just turn to any paper and
note the continuous struggle in the
form of strikes, increased wages
demands and so forth that “disturb
industry” and you discover there
and then this problem not in the
academic but in its most practical
form, and although one were to
grow black in the free theorizing
on the cause of these high prices,
the main question would still do
for those who are seriously affect
ed hy the higher costs of living:
How are we going to meet it? Ann
then too and there it is equally ob
vious that there can he only one
response to this most urgent ques
tion and that is: By getting higher
wages to make the increased remu
neration cover the increased cost i'
living.
That's the elemental and the very
simple side of the labor question
that is always with us. It is the
philosophy of life that the capital
ist system liaB reduced human be
ings to realize, and it is for one
that lives for the day, and then
half exists, only.
High prices is the recllv serious
question that confronts the public
today It is not as some imagine,
national or industrial preparedness,
it may be well to sneer at men ana
women making a god out of their
bellies, but there is only one thing
certain and that is to live human
beings must be adequately fed. Ar- i
mies may bring peace; but armies
wilt never bring peace to an indus
trial system that in the nature of
things develops a large class of
poorly nourished and semi-starved
employees.
It is important that this serious
question be realized in all its seri-1
ousness, and the constant efforts to
drag red herrings across its trail to
divert the workers from following |
out the facts are demoralizing In1
the extreme. The food that is now '•
raised in this country is more than j
sufficient to meet all American
needs. American labor applied to
the farms raises enough food to j
supply every American resident with
a more than sufficiency, with a j
superabundance that were it appli- .
ed to the relief of American neces- j
sities would justify the great paens '
of praise that are uttered from time
to time in the papers about the |
great production of the farms ana '
so forth.
American labor applied to the j
looms in the textile mills produces
a more than ample supply of silk
and linen and cotton and woolen
goods for the proper clothing or
every man, woman and child in the
American nation. The productive
capacity of the textile mills far
transcends the national need. Am
erican energy and labor applied to
brick and stone and cement and
mortar to wood and glass and metal
is more than able to give every
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human being in the United States
ample and secure accomodation
against any sort of the elements
that may drive to shelter. American
labor applied to the coal and me
talliferous mines, to the arts ana
the industries is more than doubly
ample to supply American people
with everything from their greatest
to their smallest need, in a quan
tity far in excess of the individual
needs of any one or them.
These are easily demonstratable
truths. They are facts as easily as
certainable as it can be ascertained
when will be the next new moon or
when the sun will rise of the mor
rom. They can be shown by fact
and figure to be mathematical as
well as industrial certainties. There
is not an element of doubt or perad
venture about them. Government
figures and commercial statistics
can be referred to in ample proo:
of their correctness and the figures
reduced to decimal parts.
Now as against this we are con- j
fronted with another fact and that
is that side by side with a supe
sufficiency of food we have chronic
starvation. Side by side with an
actual excess of textile fabrics pro
duction we have ill-clad millions.
Side by side with this a condition 01 [
housing that rouses the city wratn j
throughout many popular centers, |
we have fine houses to rent and
many more not to rent which are
vacated by the owners who have
more houses as they have mor
servants than they know what tu
do with,
Against and over all of this we
have high prices going higher all,
the time, with every little pretext
seized upon to gouge up the prices
another fraction or another who; ■
number and to keep them there
long after the pretext that put them j
there is forgotten.
Isn’t all that a much more seri
ous question than preparedness
against a bunch of bankrupt na
tions that now are jumping side
ways to maintain enough credit to
buy a stand of arms? Isn't it much
more important whatever way
you look at it to have an American
nation well fed, highly leisured,
comfortably and seasonably clothed
and well sheltered, than to begin
speculating upon what will happen
when the war is over and the thrice
bankrupt nations of Europe are
bandaging up their wounds ana
cursing the God of War as they
cursed, that divinity never before.
The war sentiment has died out
of every country in Europe. Every
nation In Europe is now in the
heartbreaking condition when en
thusiasm is over. The red lust of
conquest has left every eye and in
stead there is the droop of grief ot
the horror that lingers after Hell’s
terrors have been witnessed. There
is no nation now but thinks oT sav
ing from the wreck of the cata
clysm what may be called an hon
orable peace. And it Is this bunch
of battered derelicts of civilization
that the people of this country are
scared into a war madness to pre
pare against: the echo of the craze
that has died out in Europe a year
ago.
it does not mean a trifling mat
ter that to the feeding and cloth
ing and sheltering of the people ot
the country the attention of the
nation should be directed. It Is
upon the health of the people today
thut the future status of coming
generations depends. It is upon
the degree of leisure and education
that the masses enjoy that the de
gree of American civilization must
he judged and will be gauged.
High prices In themselves are not
to important. They can be met
under ordinary circumstances by
the wages being increased to cover
the higher cost of living. That is
surely obvious. But it Is not an
unimportant commentary on the
system that many who work hard
est to produce In plenty, where
there Is plenty, hare least and an
insufficiency at that, and hare
moreover, to enforce their instinct
ive demands for a sufficiency with
strikes and labor struggles that
now are everywhere throughout the
nation.
Food prices are now at war time
heights. Not because the United
States is at war but because a fevr
American capitalists have made the
war produce them great profits by
selling to belligerents and starving
the people at home to do so. The
food supply of this nation is not in
the hands of those who raise it. The
farmers are no more prosperous
now than before the war began. The
number of tenants has not been re
placed by a number of owners,
there is no diminution in the num
ber of mortages plastering the farms
Quite the contrary, the plasters
have increased since 1914. But the
prices which the farm products com
mand in broker’s hands have never
been higher. Men who gamble ana
speculate upon the supplies ot
wheat and barley and oats and corn
and beef and sheep and porn
wouldn’t know what could be raised
on a field if they were questioned,
and some of them wouldn't know
a growing field of barley from a
growing field of wheat or corn.
And it is no use blaming the
enormous supply of gold that has
been sent to this country as respons
ible for the high prices. What
ever indirect cause that may have
exerted in the actual condition the
country faces, it is one at least over
which the workers can exercise no
control. The only thing that they
can do and the only thing they do Is
to struggle and strike on the eco
nomic field for better conditions,
and that they are doing to the best
of their ability and within the limi
tations that the economic pressure
of their sphere of life allows them.
The fact of high prices and the
! fact that men speculate and gamble
' and export and profit in the enorm
! ous surplus that the labor of the
country produces are characteristics
j of the present industrial system.
[ That system wherein production
is for profit as is distribution for
profit accounts for all the disabling
conditions which have followed anu
which have been excited by the in
creased cost of living. Steadily they
are getting more and more serious,
i Steadily prices are rising and al
though at recurrent periods there
! may be witnessed a slight depres
1 sion, the increase withal is steadily
and consistently maintained from
decade to decade.
Even an increase in wages is
not a permanent remedy because
the prices increase steadily above
any increase that has been given to
: the workers by employers.
The problem that has to be con
sidered is the problem of bringing
within the reach of every individual
. human necessity the requirements
of all. it is not because those who
would have enough do not labor,
it is because those who have not
enough do not get enough, whether
they work or not, and those who do
no work but lead a life of pleasure
and wastefulness have oftentimes
the most.
It is because the country to main
tain itself, to provide its population
with the creature comforts must
overhaul its entire economic system
if there will be sound minds in
sound bodies not among a narrow
and fortunate few but among all the
people and among the people who
labor most of all, this question is
so serious.
The duties of each one to serve
the country in war is insisted upon.
But obviously that carries with it
Just as surely the duty that each
Individual shall be within that
country assured as a result of his
labor reasonable comforts and the
satisfaction of all his reasonable
needs.
Otherwise, in the day of wrath,
there will be found those who hav
ing had throughout their lives a
dearth of everything that they crav
ed, a feeling that come what may
they have little to lose but their
economic chains one way or an
other.
It was Victor Hugo said that a
man can’t live without bread even
if he can’t live without his country.
WANTED:—A Thirty horse power
Hoiler In good condition. See
Otto Halla.
SOCIALISTS CHALLENGED.
I challenge every Socialist, Radi
cal, Single Taxer, or Reformer, to
send ten cents, silver, (Money re
1 funded if dissatisfied- for my liook,
/‘Why Things Happen to Happen.''
Are you sure you’re right?—W.
; Harry Spears, Hamilton, Ohio.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice Is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
' agent, whose post office address is
\ Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
1 Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Rocording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. \V. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsius
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Ite
! cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.etit No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed it
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded In
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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