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Nome, Alaska, October 17, 1916.
HKUK’S THK MII.I.KM1M.
Say's an exchange boosting the ■
federal Reserve Law “There will be I
no more bank-made money stringen- J
cies, no more money corners, no
more gold suspensions no more lock- ;
ing up the coin ot' the realm”. We j
should very well say most decidedly |
not! Under this beneficient law
hasn’t every wage worker got gold
to throw at the birds, are not the
banks sending it to every other per
son by parcel post, and is not every
one literally surfeited with gaudy
gold and isn't everyone happy
thanks to the democratic currency
bill? In a short time the gold will
come our way even for the asking.
It’s great to live during these pre
election milleniums.
I'N'DKlt THK HIKKACK.
Apparently the present political
campaign revolver, around the most
important issues in the land: the ta
riff, the foreign policy and the pork
barrel.
It is about such subjects that the
speeches of Hughes and also those
ot Wilson are tilled to repletion.
As a matter of fact, those are
things about which the politics of
the nation is alone concerned.
Questions of pork or no pork, ade
quate or inadequate currency regu
lations, tariff or no tariff and the
general foreign relations seem to he
about the only national activities ot
political concern
But we ail know that beneath
these superficialities lies a deeper
and more important subejct: the re
lations between Labor and ( apitai.
No one can rise from even a par
tial perasat of the report of the In
dustrial Relations Commission with
out feeling certain that although be
neath the surface of things, therein
sire the most important natiinai
questions of all.
Few ever trouble about these rela
tions. Few ever give their time oi
# their energy to a consideration ot
these facts at all. And those who do
are regarded as fanatics, incapable
of normal considerations on any to
1>1C.
* But though Hughes may pass up
these questions with juristic gen
eralizations and Wilson cover them
up with platitudinous bosh about
about the new fredoni or new na
tionalism, the question involved
therein is not to be hidden in a
thicket of veribage or concealed
within a jungle of phrase. On tht
contrary this is the question that
will not down; it is the one that
everywhere is manifesting itself and
is growing in more and more explo
sive material as time and tide pass
on.
To hear these elegant political
addresses by twc such past masters
of phrase and language as Hughes
and Wilson, one would never think
that in a dozen workshops in a
dozen mines, in a dozen industria
plants is growing explosive revolu
tionary material whose intensity is
directly as it has been neglected.
All over the country today labor
ites are awaiting trial for various
alleged offenses with the entire offi
cial force doing its level best to rail
road them; all over the countrj
great detective agencies are bendini
all their efforts to fasten guilt upoi
innocent men, to promote crime tha
labor may be stained in the eyes ol
the rest of the populace, to justif;
their existence by spying, provokini
and assisting in every form of laboi
trouble.
in every strike violence is beinf
deliberately promoted by profession
al thugs, and we have reached tha
stage when it is almost imposslbh
to obtain a fair trial for urrestei
unionists.
There is a matter of some deei
moment for you. Here is a nation
al question which transcends in im
portance the mere petty superficial
ities of the tariff or the pork barrel
Here is a matter that is surgim
like a poison in the veins of tin
body politic, and assuredly wer
worth the while of any great man t<
consider and determine upon.
Instead of that we find all thi
matter ignored. A philosophi
phrase from Wilson, a judicia
aphorism from Hughes: as if flm
words buttered parsnips and poetr;
filled empty bellies.
Here is something worth placing
in the forefront of all national po
licies: something that involves not
alone the prosperity and prepared
ness of the nation, but Its very ex
istence as well. Instead these fidd
lers play their political jigs while
a bewildered people dance. But
someone must pay for the music.
COMM KUO VI, BOYCOTT.
As everyone knows. in the per
fervid enthusiasm of a beautiful Al
liance, the Entente nations have de
termined to commercially boycott
Germany and her allies after the
war. Neither Russia nor France,
nor Italy, nor Russia, nor any ot
them will have anything to do with
"Made in Germany”.
That’s the plan of it. It sounds
well enough during these strenuous
times of war and everyone is straf
ing everyone else. During this pe
riod of abnormal mentality among
the nations anything and everything
seems good enough to be endorsed.
But they are reckoning without
without tlu*ir host. If a British,
French. Russian, Italian or any
other businessman can make com
fortable profits trading with the
hated German, we can be Quite cer
tain that he will so trade.
Anyone who imagines that there
is anything patriotic or sentimentaJ
| about business has another guess
coming. Often indeed patriotism
1 and sentimentality are highly com
mercialized and the munition makei
: of one country may well lie tli<
dock holder in the munition factory
of another, yet in his own the very
| loudest in proclaiming the interest
ing doctrine of his own nation's su
premacy. American manufacturers
' patriotic men all of them, with thei;
j sons on the militia of the college;
of the land, cheerfully sold muni
tions to Huerta that it was eveu tie
i would be used in destroying the sol
| diers ol' America.
The purpose of commerce is pro
fits. It is wholly immaterial wheth
er those profits come from a Brit
isher, a German or a Hottentot. The
exchange of wares transmutes every
thing into the gold of profit, and
that does not smell. It has no taint
It is immaculate.
If the London shopkeeper can
handle German goods at fifty per
cent profit and the same grade ot
British and French and Russian
wares at but ten or fifteen, we can
be quite certain the stuff he will sell
will be “made in Germany”. The
only possibility for a boycott of Ger
many would be for the Entente ma
nufacturer to dump at cheaper pri
ces better goods than the Germans
produce. If they can do that they
will make good, if not, they might
as well forget about it. Of course
it is all very well to make a little
splurge just now as to what is to
be done after the war. That’s pa
triotic and will have an effect upon
the hoi polloi. Just as when the
Pacific Mail Co. to pronounce its
own funeral service and to enjoy its
own obsequies, “killed by the sea
man’s law”, decorated its morebund
offices with American flags; dying as
it were in splurge or surfeited loyal
ty to country and to aflg. But the
bunting and the flags were made in
Japan, and they even kicked about
the duty charged upon the imported
Article. There are a good many
people in a good many nations
whose patriotism is quite ostenta
tious and whose respect for the flag
Ip so keen that they even import the
i flags from foreign nations, that, be
ing, cheap, they can have enough of
th^m.
Business is business. After the
1 war it will still be business, and pro
fits made in Germany or by Ger
’ many made goods will be just as
j sweet and just as clean to those
loyalists as any they could otherwise
enjoy. Capital has no country. It
is at mighty strong effort to' make
■ the masses think it has. It is goon
J stuff and aids commerce.
WE CAN DO IT.
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3 delivery pta «ne Main lftl and tin
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W. J. WILLIAMSON Pro#
Political Cards.
OR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
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Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1916.
OR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS 11
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1916.
'OR ATTOREXY GENERAL 1
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby!
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
F'lection, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
CAPTAIN
John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916. !
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Juiien
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles 1). Jones
Independent Candida t e.
Election, November 7, 1910.
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! FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
OR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1»16.
'OR REPRESENTATIVE:
' I
Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1016.
"OR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTV)
Election, November 7, 1016.
TOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax
Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate C. Coombs
For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROAIH’OMM ISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROARCOM MISSION ER
W. J. Rowe
Republican < ’andidnte
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROA DCOM M ISSIONER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1010.
GEORGE B1TTEL.
Information wanted regarding the
above who left New York in 1898
and believed to have gone to Alaska.
His dear old mother is anxiously
waiting to hear nows of him.
Address: CHRIS BITTEL.
Box 323 Albany, N. Y.
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ING OUR TRIP TO THE OUTSIDE. WE ARE HERE TO STAY
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OF FURNISHINGS AND WINTER SUPPLIES TO BE HAD, AND
AM DETERMINED TO MARE THIS STORE THE BEST PLACE
IN ALASKA TO TRADE.
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