Duily 17Name Industrial Mark-us
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Nome, Alaska, February 10, 1010.
While militarism is being do j
•liotinced by a gocdly number o£'
pacific cnthun aols, they may turn ;
with profit and mental imprjvement
to the ideal stats of things militar
ism creates in Germany.
Thus the Krupps paid enormous |
•livid in Jo for the profits were enorm
ous. That resulted Iron' the war
war which resulted from rnUitar
iam. Accordingly the nr.hie '‘ rectors
voted five million dollars of the im
mense war prefits for the benefit of
the soldiers’ widows. Tha Krupp
family absorbed thair usual twelve
per cert.
During times < f peace, having
compelled labor ti produce vast pro
fits, the head-, cf corporailcns ia
this country apply largo sum1 made
in industry by the'r workers to
Foundations, Char'tlcs, Libraries
and Institutes. It is very beauti
ful, rad has been much admired by
many journals which are accustom
ed to sound the praises of the in
dustrially great.
Why* therefore chculd not similar
acls upon the part of munitionists
call forth the same tribute of ad
miration for the admirable conduct
of the great munition!,sts. This is
truly a world cf brotherly love i j
time of war as well as peace.
The direct statement to the
Senate by tile armor manufacturers
that they would raise the price of
armor plate did the government pro
ceed to construct its own armament
factories is excellent business.
The armor plate manufacturers
are not in business for their health.
They are not making armor plate,
for the purpose of making the Am
erican navy, great and strong; they
are not making armor plate in
order that the ships of the United
States should be invincible against
any other. They are in the business
to make money. Serving the United
States by selling under contract
armor to the navy is their business.
Gut they are in business also to serve
any other nation that will buy and
pay the price they ask.
You may be able to fool the work
ingmen and some others about this
preparationist pt.vi . 1 r - can
not fool the armor manutacnirers.
You may very well say that it is the
duty of every man to give the na
tion his gratuitous services in time
of need, but you can't get me armor
plate manufacturers to support th3
idea that that extends to their
business.
it's not the United States that
keeps the - armor plate manufactur
ers paying dividends, it is the fact
that they make profits. If tomor
row they make no profits they go
out of business. Self preservation
applies to business, if It docs not
apply to the working classes. The
man who manufactures for profit
knows very well that that profit
must be forthcoming to exist.
Granted therefore as the most
important essential of any business
that gains bo forthcoming, what are
to be considered legitimate an 1
what illegimiate gains? No one ever
heard of such a thing. Since profit
is the be-all and end-all of busi
ness enterprise, therefore the more
profit the better. There is no use
pretending to make any line dis
tinction between reasonable and ex
cessive profit. That’s not business
And again when the government
threatens to eliminate the manu
facturing industry as far as armor
plate goes by producing it itself,
they canot expect favors from the
armor plate manufacturers who arc
to be so sorely affected by govern
ment plants. They cannot expect
that the armor plate manufacturers
are going to posp ns fine Christians
whacked on one cheek liy tho estab
lishment of a governmentV armor1
plate plant and turn the other by
cutting down the price asked Unclt
Sam for armor. There is no altru
him in baftaew enterprise. It de
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pends for its existence in the profit
making. The reason of an industry
is the dividends that come there
from.
To urge to workingmen that the
compulsory military service for their
country is highly noble and worthy
and good, is all very well. But
when you come to tell business men
that a similar sacrifice of profit iv
noble and good and great the'/
laugh at you. They regard you as
crazy. It’s all right that the gov
ernment seize the person who has
nothing to sell but his labor, but it
is a horse of another color when
you pretend to measure business
with the same yard stick.
There always- has been a due de
ference shown the business Inter
ests. The law provides a monetary
fine as punishment so that the blow
will fall softly upon those who have
lots of money. The man who has
millions pays easily enough a fine
of thirty dollars while the man who
has nothing, fined a similar amount
is forced to starve to raise it. The
government provides in many states
property (nullifications for voters so
that the men of standing and pro
minence will have the more im
portant direction in the affairs of
the nation.
It is to be remembered that all
this privilege has been due to the
fact that the men of standing were
profit makers. They occupied their
positions because in directing their
business they accumulated wealth
through their profits. They fill up
the positions of prominence in gov
ernment in social and in political
affairs. They are on the committees
ofr the entertainment of distinguish
ed visitors because they themselves
are distinguished. They head the
list of those who will take part in
any prominent function. They are
the men who speak at banquets,
who address on national celebra
tions, or suggest the wisest course
for cuies town counties and states
They are honored not by reason
of any particular ability, but by
reason of the fact that they in'.
riule wealth, that they represent so
much profit skilfully acquired or
otherwise.
That’s reasonable enough. That
is 1 e 'Ouse the source of all activ
ity, the incentive to all enterprise,
the reason for all industry, com
merce and business is profits.
1‘rofits therefore has a political
a social and moral status of its own.
it writes its own policies in ethics
politics and social activities. Wlial
is all right for the profiteer is all
wrong for the employee. What is
an excellent stroke of business
would land men among the work
ing classes in the penitentiary. It
has been well said that the man
who steals a loaf of bread goes tc
jail and the man who swipes a rail
road goes to the senate. The me
thods of some of our great financin
houses are identical \vith tin
methods of the knight of the jimim
and the mask. The difference is lr
degree and not in kind.
Therefore it is when considering
the political actions of an armoj
plate manufacturer and’ that of th(
working stiff, what is all right foi
one is all wrong for the other.
The armor plater demands his pro
.fits. Ho demands his profits even i:
he does, as he has done, soil defec
«ve material to the government
The sale is justifiable because of th«
profit therein. The ethical motto o
modern business enterprise is tha
profit justifies the means.
The other day when they tried t<
introduce reforms in the administra
tion and management of the coa
mining industry of Kansas, the coa
barons protested that to do so wouh
mean to i*uin their business for th
cost of Installing such apparatu
would mean that they could mak<
no profits. They admitted that th
mines were dangerous, rthat the,
we*e notoriously qnsaie, that man:
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of them were death trape, but they
submitted that conditions compelled i
the working men to take chances i
and that was their affair. i
The other day when efforts were
made following a fire in New York i
to make a large clothing firm that
was one of the leading enterprises I
in a much smaller town in the Em
pire State instal safety appliances :
so that there would be -no risk to >
employees in case of fire, the man- i
ager appeared before the municipal '
government and showed that he
couldn’t afford to do so without <
great loss of profit.
The other day when Cherry mine
was blown up and three hundred
miners were entombed, the autho
rities permitted the mine to be
sealed so that the fire would not de
stroy the property although the
lives of the miners were to be sacri- :
flced iu so dong. I
The other day it was shown that i
when a steamer was wrecked lu
Chicago harbor that boat had been
: urn d down doing business in other
ports because unsafe, was permitiea
to go to Chicago because of the
money to be made.
The great men of the country
•>re the men great in profit making
The Morgans, the Rockefellers the
Hills, the Carnegies, the Guggen
heiins, Armours—these are the great
ones They take the lead socially
md politically. They are the cen
turions, the rest are those are told
to go and they go sure enough.
They are the men who patronize art
and literature and head the great
qharities and donate public libraries
and endow educational establish
ments.
They are great because me su
preme gift of all has been theirs,
the gift of profit making. They
rounded out no beautiful lines ot
verse, gave forth to the world no
new philosophy, no wonderful in
vention, no inspiring literature. Hu",
they did greater than all thess
things, they made money. They
directed, controlled and governed
the industrial lives of millions.
Their profit making made -them
great politically; men to meet pre
sidents on an equal plane, to he;
heard deferentially by government
committees and to be consulted by [
cabinet officers. Their profit mail
ing gave them control socially: dir
ecting the activities in their cities
completely and fastidiously. Their
profit making gave them respons
ibility for the lives of millions who
toil; their power is their supreme.!
greatness, and their j,power rests
upon their profits.
If profit therefore is the supreme
criterion of success and of greatness
and of power and there is no lift
denying it is, all human activities
are directly affected to the extent
hat they must be subordinate to
he work of profit making. It’s an
>1(1 saying that money talks, but
nonoy does more than that, It acts
t is nrt a supine thing, it is
.upremely active at all times The
>owcr of the profit-maker enters
r.to every life. It strikes terf>- iuto
he heart of the man who depends
or existence on his job. it slcklles
>ver with pale hue of fearful
bought the most independent soul,
rhe profit-maker knows himself
fou cannot put him off with patri
>tic buncombe. He knows that t£e
land that rocko the dollars rules
he world, and Uncle Sam cacjjo
vhistle for his armor plate if he
nterferes with profit.
Of what use it may be convicting
he Kaiser of wilful murder because
iis Zeppelins caused the deaths of
lome British non-combatants is not
lulte clear.
The Kaiser as far as wc can see
s quite immune from any reprisal
;he British law might take against
aim-secure as the proprietor or a
loal mine who in the mad rush for
irofits neglects to take the usual
safety precautions to save the lives
>f those working in the mine.
Besides the Kaiser might com
plain with some justice, if a legal
:echnicality is to protect him, that
tie was not tried by a jury of his
peers. That the jurors were un
necessarily prejudiced against him,
md that he would be warranted in
demanding a change of venue to
Karlsruhe or to Cuxhaven or to
Essen. ‘
There indeed he might hope to re>
ceive a fairer trial, or at least one
which he might consider fairer.
There once was a paper published
In Skibbereen, entitled the Skib
liereen Eagle. When Biswark be
gan his attacks upon the radicals In
Germany the Skibbereen Eagle
cautioned him to beware because
The Eagle had its eye upon him.
The Kaiser must be more careful
or he will elicit the condemnation
of quite a number of coroner’s
juries.
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