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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government. —
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 2, 127$.
Nome, Alaska, J; unary 11, 101(1.
Prosperity? What is it? How is ii
guaged? Who are prosperous when
She country is prosperous?
Important ’questions these, when
the entire news disseminating serv
ices are telling the people that labor
is well paid; that industry is super
active and there is a great demand
lor workers in ail the industries ot
the Hast. Moreover it is going to
be before the people as an argument
upon the part of the Administra
tion at the next elections, “We
brought you prosperity”. We—that
is the democratic party—- not the
■manufacture of munitions, not the
■war in Europe, not any economic
cause, but plainly the political party
which happens to be in power.
And they will want to be judged
by that, and they can if they want
to turn to reported profits of one
hundred per cent in some of the mu
nition factories or to well authenti
cated profits of over two hundred
and sixty per cent by the Powder
Trust, one hundred and sixty per
cent before the contract was filled
by the advance payment demanded
upon the contracts—or they can
turn to Youngstown, Ohio, where
the slaves of the steel mills worked
for nineteen cents an hour before the
blast furnaces and when they struck
had their places taken by men who
held no jobs!
Prosperity? What about these in
cidents in Youngstown in the steel
mills?
.4 Details of the jury picking i« die
Schmidt case show that not a
single wage worker sat thereupon,
hut that men who were notoriously
unfavorable to union labor did; that
one man admitted to a loss of me
mory since suffering from a typhoid
case, because of his anti-union sen
timents was permitted, and a chall
enge refused for cause until the de
fense put on a well known alienist
whose evidence conclusively showed
•that such a juror would bo utter
incompetent. Trial by jury?—
Trial by previous sentiment it would
appear.
It is about time that Mail Com
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
got busy and tackled the utterly de
ficient mail service that Nome is re
ceiving at the source. Tncy would
at least have the satisfaction of dis
covering whose the fault is.
Whother that of the mail clerk or
tie postmasters or whose. Then
fhey could act accordingly.
We are about a ton behind other
years in the mail received. On?
mail due last week has not arrived,
and at no time hap. there been even
an approximation of the maximum
received.
No doubt the Commitee»is fully
competent to handlo t’ue question,
hut if they take the matter up di
rectly with Delegate Wickcrsham
and with the Postmaster General
and state the case clearly without
doubt, they will receive attention.
It is no use wasting time with sub
orlinatcs of any department. Direct
to headquarters will obtain quicker
results and conditions here are some
rotten.
There is even an objection locally
to give out the exact amount of
mall received each week. The rea
son is obvious. The officials dont
want to let tho people know how
had It is. But it is about time that
the matter received attention. Nome
wants some mail service; Nome ha*
been satisfied enough with the
poorest aervico in Alaska, but when
it gets so rotten that it smells to
•heaven, It’s about time for action.
Some financial authority says
that the United States has now the
best banking systom upon earth.
You just bet your sweet and pleas
ant life that’s so. Last October
John Skelton Williams, Comptroller
of the Currency, speaking before the
Kentucky Bankero Association
■bowed how it is. He said that in
one “southwestern state 131 banks
reported that they charged a maxi
'mum rate of interest of from 15 to
2 4 per cent; sixty seven banks a
maximum of from 25 to 60 per cent,
twenty two banks a maximum of be
betwcen 60 and 100 per cent, eight
een between 100 and 200 per coni
and eight between 20 and 2000 9V
of these disgraceful rates were on
comparatively small loans. These
banks are authorized by tho gov
ernment. To an extent at least they
have the saetion, the prestige and
protection of tho American nation
and lending $3.50 for six days to a
washerwoman or a laborer or a
farmer’s wife at 2400 per cent! As
someo ne said of drugists’ profits on
powdered chalk, “it gets out of the
range of per contage into larceny
from the person”.
You bet that is some system and
you have the sanction, prestige ana
protection of tho American govern
ment right behind you!
A Banker back East is quotpd in
Solidarity as saying “the nations
of Europe when this nightmare of
war shall have dissipated will be
compelled to pay an enormous bill.
Every man, woman and child will
be compelled to produce. The most
rigid economy will prevail and
standards of living will be reduced
to a minimum. Not only our for
eign markets but our domestic
markets as well, will be in danger”
The banker suggests that the Am
erican standard is too high and
must be lowered, and In this war
ifreparation made for the warfaie
that will come in commerce.
His arguments appear plausible
as to the prospects which he fore
sees, but we may well doubt thnt
contingency.
In the first place, the European
workers may not so willingly ac
quiesce in producing to pay off a
bill. Revolution is not so far ofT In
Europe as some people think. And
,lt is never nearest when noislost.
Even Camille Dosmoultns the day
before could not havo foretold tho
taking of the Bastillo. There’s
trouble ahead paying those bills,
and It may not worx out as Banker
Kies suggests.
I
The gunmen again in Youngstown
caused disturbances by their viol
ence. Violence begot violence, and
the workers after they had vented
their wrathful indignation in coun
ter attack and destruction, meet tho
militia who como to preserve order
that the gunmen had not been pre
vented in disturbing. Now the
courts will try not the retainers of
the industrial barons, but the in
dustrial serfs. And various anu
sundry will be sent to jail for var
ious’ and sundry terms. Justice will
be satisfied and another name is
added to tho long list of riots that
began with tho armed violence of
the private armies of capitalism:
names such as Bayonne, Chrome,
Ludlow, Calumet, Coal Creek and
others.
These are sporadic revolts. The
workers are unarmed, or if some do
carry weapons, the most of them are
armed with nothing but hot resent
ment. They are easily crushed. And
because they are easily crushed, the
employers recruiting their armed
forces from the slumB and dives,
the thugs and gangsters, continue
to browbeat and bulldoze and beat
up tho strikers. But it ncods no
prophet to foretell what will hap
pen some of these days. The first
violence may start locally, but it
will spread to other plrces and
eventually become general, and
then when too late it will be real
ized that this infamout usurpation
of the state's police power, visible
upon the first show of strife in in
dustry, by the industrial chiefs has
been an evil that should long ago
have been Redressed.
When five thousand men struck
In Arizona, the mine owners sent
a request to Governor Hunt for
troops. He sent the militia and he
went there himself. At Clifton he
spoke to a mass mooting. And he
said that tho first sign of violence
by either mine guard or strikers
would be followed by the guilty
ones being arrested by tb- militia
and kept in a bull pen while the
strike was on.
The Mine Owners actually start
ed a recall over this stand, and de
nounced Hunt as an anrchlst, a
socialist and everything that in
their estimation was disgraceful,
there was no violence In the dis
trict. There were no Ludlows, no
Bayonne?. no Youngstowns, and it
is because the militia was used as
much to keep the gangsters, armed
and retained as guards, where they
belonged as anything else.
But there are few Hunts where
there are many mere tools oi the
larger corporations. And while all
kinds of denunciation is lavished
upon the strikers and their violence,
few indeed are those who have one
word to say of the unwarranted
murders which gunmen retained by
the companies commit, the outrages
they practise and the disorders
which they deliberately foment.
Some day this will lead to terrible
consequences, and then it will be
too late except to realize what
might have been.
It’s very entertaining to read the
inter-newspaper discussions which
are now proceeding in Juneau, be
tween the Empire and the Dispatch.
The Dispatch supports the idea of
Statehood, while tho Empire wants
rull territorial government. It’s
wonderful how interesting tho con
troversy botween Tweedledum and
Tweedledee can become betimes.
Garrison’s statement to tho House
Committee on Military Affairs that
conscription is a democratic prin
ciple may be correct. The question
is an academic one. But there are
lots of democratic principles which
are just now in abeyance and which
no one would be rewarded for bring
ing to light, and any would bo pu
nished for putting in practice.
Thomas Jefferson once expressed
the hope that the country would
never bo vory long without a re
bellion as it would serve to main
tain the popular rights from en
croachments. Doubtless rebe'lion
is just as much a democratic prin
ciple as conscript’on. But it is
prudently forgotten as such.
The right of the country to the
services of every man on an equal
plane for defense is one that will
find many stout up-holders. It's
necessity in war as a military po
licy, purely, can hardly be argued
against. But its existence during
peace would bo a distinct menace
to perconal liberty and would un
deniably tend to build up a military
caste which would be a source o£
endless friction in the United States.
It has been in Germany where
everything was favorable to such a
military organization, and in the
United States its organization
would be opposed to practically
every national and individual senti
ment.
For all that, the irony of the si
tuation, here as elsewhere, in build
ing up a counter-militarism to coun
teract the effects o# militarism else
where should not be overlooked
The genial competition which the
other nations enjoyed among one
another in building up armies and
navies had only one inevitable con
sequence: a great war.
There is no earthly reason why
this fact should be concealed from
the people. If it is the intention
of the military and naval chiefs to
build up a war machine of gigan
tic proportions, there is no earthly
reason to expect it will culminate
in any way different to the culmi
nation took place in Europe.
Practically all the cooler head^
concerning the European crisis
agree that it was a commercial war,
that its basis is fundamentally an
economic one. Have the people any
reason to think that American Com
merce is less powerful, or has any
higher ideals in meeting rivals than
have the commerce and industries
of Europe? Is it even in evidence
in this country that when the em
ployers and employees fight over
a question of wages on one side
and profits on the other, the em
ployers evince a spirit of concilia
tion and peace? And is there any
reason to think with a vast fighting
machine that can lick creation, with
munition profits in the offing, the
commercial magnates will be liable
to have any trouble discovering a
casus belli when they want it?
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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