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Nome. Alaska, April 10, 1910.
Most instructive is it now and
then to generalize the various po
lieies which the great dailies reflaet
ing the interests that support them,
advocate. Business—super organi
zation l’an Americanism — world
trade—business efficiency — world fi
nancial and commercial dominance
Great objects are all these things
for the few who are great, and the
papers reflect the notion that this
greatness of the Morgans, the Rocke
fellers the Schwabs, the Vanderlip.i,
the Camegies will bo shared by all
the people.
Moreover the belief prevails that
notwithstanding what great develop
ments may occur. American demo
cracy and American Ideals of free
dom will in spite of all, persist.
That’s the most peculiar feature
of it all. It is held as inevitable that
super-organization will lead to mak
ing the wealth of the wealthy still
more collosal—will center in the
hands of the great men of Wall
Street the financial control of the
world and that the principles of Am
erican democracy will remain sta
tionary and there will be no change.
That’s the unscientific aspect ot
the social and commercial and finan
cial reviews that from time to time
appear in the papers.
it is easily seen th<*t financial and
commercial and industrial activities
will evolve to a plane hitherto never
attained, hut that the political
structure that prevails when was
neither financial nor commercial
supremacy will still persist without
any evolution whatsoever.
Now that simply is not possible.
Invariably the political structure of
any nation reflects therewith the eco
nomic structure, and kept even step
in evolution with it. They went
together. And how men made their
living and whether they wore in
pendent. meant tnvariahlu how also
they would be politically inde
pendent also. It's worth while con
sidering the outlook as reflected In
lhe papers with such a considerable
degree of pride.
Thus it is stated that America Is
to be the groat financial center ot
the world. That the financial capital
heretofore centered at London will
pass to New York. Wlir.t docs that
mean? Does it mean that the peo
ple of the United States will obtain
more money than they had before?
Does it mean that the workers will
be paid higher wages and that the
people of the United States will
have have at their disposal globular
millions to aid in tho pursuit ot
happiness, to lengthen their lives
thus made more happy and to make
liberty broader and fuller in the
everyday conception of the terms?
It moans nothing of the kind. And
it never did. It means that a few
men who can bo tallied on your
fingers, will rise to a financial grand
eur never yet has been roachod by
any other men. Just as the world
increases in wealth—so also must
•ose who control that woalth no
richer and more powerful men than
ever before.
it is stated that an era of un
precedented industrial greatness
and world control of markets will
follow to the Unitod States. This
means that a few great firms orga
nised in syndicates that have a
practical monopoly will reach a pro
ductive and profit making capacity
that ..hitherto never before has been
reuphed. It doesn’t mean that every
little manufacturer struggling to
keep his head above the industrial
tide* every little business man that
just get along because tho Bank
allows him, will have prosperity
hurled at his gates in chunks be
yond " the ‘dreams of avarice. It
means that so great and so powerful
and so dominant will the trusts be
come that they will dtct&te the con
ditions of industry—prices, wage*
and activities to all and sundry. It
means the continued centralisation
of power and of wealth In the hands
ot a few; it.means the domination
of the many l>y that few; it mount ,
that a small oligarchy in industry j
and finance will control the lives
and destinies of the rest of the na
tion.
Now everyone knows that this is
so. Those who stop to think what
it means when efficiency and super
organization for world control re
ceive powerful boosts, know it very
well. But they close their eyes to
the inevitable logic of the situation
and affect to Relieve that American
democracy will be the same Amer
j icon democracy when every man
had his own little mill, his own
little plot of ground and his own
method of earning a living without
lot or hinderr.nce from any man or
set of men.
The principles of freedom could
have been the ideal in relatively
poor community with every man
striving for existence in friendly ri
valry. are not the same that will
prevail when the wealth of the coun- i
try is held in the hollow of one
nian's hand, and the rest of the peo
ple are serving folk. That's clear or
it should be clear.
If a man owns the only means
whereby a community iivec that
man dominates every activity there
in. He dominates tho lawyer whom
, ho retains, the preacher whoso pul
pit he supports, the doctor whose
hospital Tees he doles out, the boss
.whom he makes his foreman, the
wage worker whom ho grants per
mission to work, it is absurd and
ridiculous to place the hirelings of
a corporation as on the oa.me plane
of independence as its president or
the borrd of directors. And it is a
| monstrous condition of perverted
thought to imagine that with an
| ideal set before the nation of bloated
wealth for a very few and serving
| places for the very many, you are
! going to loave it possible for the
principles enunciated in a Declara
I tion of Independence to dominate
| the mentality of that people, and
.dominating their mentality dominate
j heir lives.
And the people realize that. They
| refer wth contempt to anything that |
appears in keeping with the prin
ciples of the Declaration of Inde
pendence as Fourth of July clap-trap.
We have heard antagonists in courts
and on political platforms refer witn
such derisive contempt to the re
marks that tended to show the poss
ibility of such idealism remaining.
The husk only remains. The ker
nel has disappeared and a nation
that lives upon the husks of former
idealism is going the road to revo
lution just as fast as evolution can
bring it about.
Any way it's good to know where
we are at. It’s no use peddling to
ourselves that the people of this
country will have a share in It be
cause Morgan is the financial mo
narch of the world or Rockefeller its
industrial emperor. Alt we know is
! that it is too much power for any
man in a democracy. That it should
be inherent in the system Is all the
more unfortunate for the system.
We dont blame Rockefeller nor
Morgan nor the rest. If they.were
not the human field upon which
these economic forces made such
developments as are ldentined with
them, someone else unquestionably
would. They are creatures of capi
talism. Just the same as we are.
They are those who proBtted by the
system in excessive measure, but
under the system someone was
bound to do so. The point is that
top capitalism and democracy are
Eventually incompatible. And when
men begin to glory in the future
‘itlilcii holds out wealth of such gi
gantic proportions as to stagger the
imagination and just for d very few,
while identifying that condition as a
state of national happldeed, we can
well understand to what extont the
perversion of thought in the inter
est of thkt few hha been achieved.
Id thd statement of the rkllhoadb
as to why they cannot grant the in
crease of wages and the shorter
work day demanded by the four rail
road brotherhoods there is also the
3ini3tor suggestion that if they have
to grant it, the increase can only be
gained by decreasing the wages ot
the other employees. But if they
do, it is almost certain that they
will bo short of men for they now
have reduced those lines of employ
ment almost to an irreducible mini
mum.
There's quite a bit of domestic
pathos about the brotherhoods de
manding an increase. They have
boon petted by the railroads beyond
reason. When they held their con
ventions the companies furnished
cars and sometimes special trains.
When they wanted witnesses before
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion they secured them from the
brotherhoods. When they wanted
to campaign against anti-railroad iro
litidans they’ secured them from the
ranks of the brotherhoods as in the
case of the fight against Lafoltette
in Wisconsin.
Not only that but the brotherhoods
or some of them have been the
strong Allies of the railroads when
the maintenance of way employees
sought to organize and they watched
witli lack of interest and cold blood
ed indifference the scandalously low
wages of the section hands.
The head of a Brotherhood of
Engineers lived in Euclid Avenue.
His daughter's coming out was ot
equal importance as a social event
to the marriage of the De Witt
Gotterock’s daughter to the Duke ot
Beggary. If the extra gangs started
striking for higher wages, the train
men said “we should worry" and
troubled not. at all.
Now they are themselves inclined
to watch with some “compunctious
visitings of nature" efficiency sy
stems play hell with their privileges.
They are made to pull longer trains
with fewer men; they have to do
their own switching at sub-divisions.
They see bigger engines pulling big
ger trains with the same crows Air
brakes and other mechanical im
provements have side tracked a
quantity of labor otherwise neces
sary. Nor is this all. The electric
motor is coming. It is in fact here,
and the youth from the technical
school can operate its lovers v-itn
the same skill as the motorman of
several years. The engineer is a
highly trained man. There is all the
difference between them. Some seem
to be able to take out an Old wheez
ing cofTee pot and make up time
with Us noisy side rods and flat
wheels. Others will take the fast
est and best of the passenger engines
and lose time with it. One will
waste a week's pay in oil and lubri
cation. Another will squander the
pay of two men on the coal taken
on to make the division. Tho en
gineer reaches his position only
through a long process of weeding
out and elimination. He gets his
position on the passenger T>y reason
j of his peculiar fitness. He can tell
the slightest irregularity in the
sound of the machinery or in tlie
wheeze of the exhaust. He knows
to a T exactly the right feed of coal
and water and steam. And he is
himself the finest and acutest and
most invaluable portion of the com
pany's locomotive department. An
other man could be put on in his
place but he drops back in time, in
coal consumption, in machinery
wear, in oil waste.
The company cannot very well
buck up against any highly skilled i
organization like that. Engineers
are not born, they are trained ana
naturally selected in a school of
the most costly kind—for com
panies.
but this is all changing. Ths
motor is coming. ' It has in places
already arrived. It eliminates the
highly trained engineer. It substi
tutes the ordinary man who can
twist a crank to scheduled adjust
ments. Electricity is not the wild
uncertain thing that steam is. It is
thoroughly domesticated. A woman ;
with uncertain nerves and a school
boy with thoughtless mind can turn I
on the sliced as required with ease
and competency. It is open to every;
one and requiring no skill will be;
availed of by everyone. The engineer j
is paid for the possession of a (
trained faculty was rare. Now the
companies will require it no longer.
They dont want it. It’s unsaleable
as a mail coach after railroad con
struction, unsaleable because use
less.
That’s what the roads are facing,
and it’s what the brotherhoods are
facing. They may win a demand
for an increase now. But their trl
| umph will be short lived. They are
making their last flash in the pan.
The coming day is before the other1
workers—especially is it before the
maintenance of way employees ana
j the men in the shops. They who
have been neglected and out ot
whose hide the companies threaten
to take the increase to pay the
brotherhood men will be the key to
the situation.
Gradually the wheel is turning
and those that were lowest will be
the highest, and then the brother
hoods will realize that their folly
was the fact that they did not make
common cause with tho commonest
of the workers and make an injury
to one the concern of all—that is ot
course unless the syndicalist wise
acres boro from within, and save
them by the application of a foster
ed grace.
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