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PREPAREDNESS.
If any one wants to discover the
extent to which the preparedness
propaganda is being carried on, one
need only note the strange places
where its advocates pop up.
Thus in the Scientific Monthly for
last April, a magazine purely devot-!
ed to matters of scientific interest,!
we find the bulk of the reading mat-'
ter almost wholly confined to this
agitation. In fact the only article j
of importance that challenges place
with this series of proparedness!
writing is Professor Davis’ “Studv
of Coral Reefs”.
And these are articles which do
not consider or attempt to consider |
the qu stion in any other but its po- I
litico-economic aspect, and hardly
in a manner which one would expect
from a scientific magazine.
But that is the preparationists
way. There is no attempt made to
get down on this proposition to
strict facts: the public is asked to
consider generalizations, con
jectures, theories, speculations an 1
to consider such while under the in
fluence of a patriotic hypnotism that
fails to reason and which simply
leaves the mind cloroformed against
the rational guide of human intelli
gence.
Broadly speaking, this prepared
ness campaign is due to one cause;
tho fear which has overcome thos-j
who have an abundance lest another
who covets that abundance may at
tempt to loot his treasure. It is not
very flattering to the national pride
that so many should be carried away
with this obsession of fear. Nor does
it minimize the evil that that fear
is based upon pure fancy or pre-'
verted facts.
As we see it, if this country is to
protect itself efficiently against any
aggression, it must begin in an en
tirely different quarter than with
the army and navy. It must begin
with the very foundations of society,
the very-little-thought-about masses.
This country is no better than
the people who live in it, and its
laws and institutions are no better
than the results of their operation
upon the lives and destinies of the
people. The people of the country
were not created to bow down be
fore any institution however vener
able, nor a flag however to be re-1
spected, but both the institutions
and the flag are supposed to be
made lor the people.
Accordingly then, to make all j
these things worth fighting for, the
first attention of the people should
be towards their own condition.
If the people are well to do, com
fortable, have reasonable assurances
of happiness, have not any reason
to fear for the future and their liv
ing and well being is assured within
reasonable certainty, the people will
need no orators to tour the country
urging upon them to rise to defend
it. They will defend the country
spontaneously.
It is ridiculous for so many peo
ple to denounce that class which op
poses the frantic appeals for pre
paredness, to denounce their utter
indifference, and their utetr callous
ness to the efforts to rouse them
from such indifference.
Reasonable would it be to inquire
the reason for such indifference
and that might result in some ex
ceedingly profitable Instruction.
It needs no vory profound student
of social conditions to know that
the man who works twelve hours a
day for a dollar and ninety cents
seven days in the week while prices
are as they are today in the found
ries and the furnaces and the facto
ries will not be very seriously con
cerned about defending the nation.
It is ridiculous to pretend that he
has the same interests at stake as
the man who sits in easy street and
passes a life of delightful satisfac
tion of his every want and desire.
It is absurd to think that the miser
able factory slave Is going to be pos
sessed of the same frantic desire to
resist an invasion which will natur
ally take hold of the man with broad
and rolling acres of meadow land
owned by him and from which he
extracts a satisfactory profit.
Yet, the certain fact is that it is
upon the worker with little or no
property to protect, with nothing at
stake that the entire system of pre
paredness will fall. He will be
speeded up in the munition factory
j or speeded out to the front to stop
1 bullets. The fight will have to be
! maintained by his bravery and his
tenacity ana earnestness and hi3
determination. It is only to Ignore
the act3 cf life to think that these
| attributes can be established without
I the secure foundation of materia!
social justice.
We hear much concerning the evils
of German militarism. Hut we heal
very little of the efforts made to
prevent racial deterioration in Ger
many, and to secure for that em
pire well-fed and loyal soldiers. The
loyalty of the German soldier is not
all sentiment; that is the least part
! of it. The average German knows
| very well that he is, as a national
unit, as an individual member of his
nation, better fed, better housed,
better secured against unemploy
Irnent, sickness and injury than are
i .
those whom he is lighting against.
He went to war a well fed man with
a clear mind and a clean body.
Whatever tyrannies as a militarist
power the state effected against him
collectively, at least the state indi
vidually went in between the ruth
less exploiter and the exploited and
marked the limit of the latter's ra
pacity. It secured some compensa
tion against injury and death; it in
sured against unemployment and
old age; it saw to his being fed
when hungry and that his creature
needs were attended to.
It took great care of his health in
his industrial occupations; the
smelterman was not leaded, the
matchworker suffered from no
phossy jaw, mineral poisoning did
not make short the lives of the li
noleum workers; the chemical la
borer. was sure of good health la
the unhealthiest occupation; hours
were shortened in proportion to the
heat of the furnace for the furnace
men; special dietary privileges pro
vided for men in chloride works; the
manufacture of lead paints made
prohibitive and superior substitutes
I compulsory.
j It is in fact completely impossible
to conceive anything more startling
than the contrast between industrial
conditions as they obtain in Ger
many and as they obtain in the
United States.
The United States pays more
i wages; has a better standard of liv
ing in general but that’s about all.
I The workers are compelled to work
longer hours, to work and produce
more intensively and their safety
and their health is completely
Ignored.
The evils of militarism arc great
and manifold. But as we see It,
the militarism of Germany is to be
transplanted to the United States
with not even the shadow of an ef
fort made to provide industrial con
ditions as favorable for the workers.
We believe the efficiency of the
German military and naval organi
zation is greatly exaggerated. It is
exaggerated for the express pur
pose of making it worthy of re
adoptlon by other nations with the
preparations bug in their head.
We believe that the efficiency of the
German social organization is really
upon which Germany’s success has
hitherto depended.
Great Britain and the United
States are acclaimed as the two
countries wherein individualism is
the keynote of the national exist
ence. Yet any sort of an examina
tion of actual facts shows that It If
only those who are men of sub
stance —propertied and wealthy—
who can exercise that individualism
with any sort of freedom. The rest
are compelled to subordinate every
ind.vidual faculty, every individual
impulse to the controlling factor.?
of the social life, not the least of
which is to find a master who will.
allow cne access to the means of'
production, and thus access to the ]
means of subsistence.
Wh'le socialized production is in-1
slsted ui on. and the workers used:
in collectivities to manufacture and
produce; distribution of the product
cf that collective labor is individual.
Hence that individual who controls
such distribution is in the last ana
lysis the only one who can boast his
ability to give free and uncontrolled
license to his individualism. We all
recognize that. We consider the
man with a competent fortune as a
responsible and as an independent
man. The man sacking to make a
sufficiency is described as one who
is seeks to become independent, ami
the very expression dependent in
volves within itself the obvious
meaning that one depends upon
another for his living.
All of these facts are Involved in
a consideration of the prepared
ness question if that is to be sound
and through. But none of these
facts are even momentarily consid
ered. And thor is where the fatal
flaw in the whole matter lies.
The anxiety of the plutocrats fo/
their treasure is natural enough;
the anxiety of the propertied for the
protection of their property is rea
sonable. But it is not reasonable
to compel their interests to he an
object of solicitude to a million
workers while the Interests of the
million workers is not considered
worth a moment’s thought to those
loudest crying out for prepared
ness.
Moreover all the preparedness
plans in the world will be In vain
unless back of a military organiza
tion, there is the instinctive sense
that they are not the victims of so
cial Injustice in the hearts of the
millions who will fight, and it is the
millions clamoring for social justice
who will fight.
Most of those who are long in
patriotic discourse are hopelessly ig
norant of the actual social facts:
they will not listen to the other
side. As Goldsmith said of the Eng
lish aristocrats “they call it free
dom when themselves are free”
They know nothing about tho peon
age in the woods, the serfdom in '
the mining camps, the slavery ot jj
factories, the miserable blight of I
rack rented tenantry upon the jj
southern farms. i
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NOTICE.
J Pursuant to an order of Court
■ entered on the 29th day of May,
1916, notice is hereby given that n
Special Term of the District Court,
Second Division, Territory of Al
aska, will be held in the Court
1 House, in Nome, in said Division
'and Territory, commencing at the
hour of 11 o’clock A. M. on
Iwedosday, July fifth, 1916, and to
'continuo thereafter according to
further orders of the Court.
Given under my hand and with
the Court’s seal affixed this 31st
day of May, 1916.
1 (SEAL)
G. A. ADAMS.
Clerk, Distrct Court, Second Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
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