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BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.
When the late President M’Kinley
in an unusually inspired moment
referred to the American control of
the Phillipines as a case of benevo
lent assimilation, the papers jubil
antly delighted in the phrase and
repeated it with all the delight of a
child with a new toy. Writers and
speakers ventured to repeat the
words with excessive unction, and
the phrase like charity covered a
multitude of the iniquities of imperi
alism.
Time has passed since then, and it
is interesting to noto the process
of benevolent assimilation that lias
proceeded. For assimilaticn has pro
ceeded, but it is not wholly one
sided, and not wholly of a type
which the late M’Kinloy had in his
mind when ho made use of the
phrase.
The natives have themselves been
subjected by American minds and
American ideas to an assimilation to
a certain extent, but they have alar
affected them to a no less degree.
Thus we find high and shrewd
and “hie military md civil officials
openly supporting the notion of po
lygamy among certain of the island
ers, openly advocating its mainten
ance before Congressional Commit
tees, and when as satraps of the im
perial government they ruled those
sections, officially' endorsing the
practice.
It might bo urged that our civili
zation is after all essentially polyga
mous. It may be said that more
often than not men in high places
have their illegal wives and such
scandalous conditions are more fre
quent titan people imagine. Even if
this is so, and that it is true to a
certain extent may be admitted, yet
some sense of decency and conven
tion has at least cloaked the ten
dency, and they affect at least the
outward decencies of monogamous
existence.
And certainly nothing con' i ex
ceed the bitter denunciation of nol>
gamy as such when affecting Amer
ican citizens in the American state
of Utah, and it has been condemned
as utterly un-American and utterly
foreign to the spirit of the country.
But an occupation of the
Phillipines has changed all that, |
and the officials return ac-1
vising that the system in,
certain sections of the archipelago
he approved with official sanction.
There's some assimilation for you
never entered the philosophy of the
late President M'Kinley.
Not only that but in the ideals
of government the imperialistic con
trol of an alien peope, alien in man
ner, feelings, sentiment, ways of
life, ideas, education, ambitions, has
been marked with an extraordinary
effect upon the American people.
if we take up the preamble to the
Declaration of Independence, we
behold therein stat. d some political
facts which are supposed at least to
be the basis of American existence.
There is not one single one of
those fundamental facts, cardinal
principles of the political condition
of a free republic, which has not
been utterly ruthessly and com
pletely violated by the American oc
cupation of the Phillipines and
which makes the Declaration of In
dependence as construed by a Fili
pino nationalist an incendiary docu
ment as far as the United States is
concerned.
This surely is a benevolent assi
milation was not clearly foreseen bv
some of those wb.- unctuously re
peated the phrase first made use of
by M’Kinley. Yet it is one of over
whelming magnitude. To change
from the ideation of a republic *o
the ideation of a ruling imperialism
is a national fate that cannot be
ignored.
The American occupation of th;
Phillipines has been without doubt
of considerable benefit to the na
tives. it has given them oppot
tunities for education that they
never had before; it has restored
order where was uncertainty of ex
istence and it has brought many
blessings to the islands which they
never enjoyed under Spanish rule
and which it is problematical that
they would enjoy under Phillipine
rule.
But what of the Americans? How
has it benefitted this nation while
the process of assimilation has been
been tried? Has the gain been
worth the loss?
Can it in fine be reckoned in the
dollars and cents of commercial
and industria benefits which may
have accrued from tho new born im
perialism?
WHAT THEN?
Many important trade and indus
trial papers and some of tho more
or less leading dailies are comment
ing upon the apparent fulfilment of
what last fall they had foreseen: the
industrial revival throughout the
United States. And they arc in I
told-you-so fashion repeating that
they had warned that something had
to be done to prevent labor strife
destroying the benefits invested ca
pital might otherwise enjoy from
such revival. Now, they point out,
the industrial revival is being ac
companied by a general revival ot
industrial strife wherein labor is
asking for increased wages and
shorter hours.
This is some time ago, and day.
by day the reports of labor struggles ■
are increasing in length and general-'
ity. They are taking place in almost,
all the industries and the insistency f
with which tho workers are pressing j
the issue, it is to be conceded, fully J
Justify the forebodings which the;
journalistic prophets above referred ,
to had given expression to.
They had clamored then that
something be done to prevent such j
an action upon tho part of labor,
but they did not suggest anything
that looked very feasible to Capital
and hence nothing was done.
In the estimation of a good many
the only phase of industri?.l activity
worth considering .a that phase
which is intimately connected with
profits. The fact that labor is inti
mately concerned in any such thing
not for one instant is deemed a mat
ter worth consideration.
In the conceptions of modern
business enterprise that are general
ly accepted the only serious consid
eration worth while is the profit
consideration. It is upon profit that
business lives and it is upon profit
only that it can flourish.
Hence any condition of industry
which is accompanied by disturb
ance is most objectionable. The la
bor that is most keenly appreciated
is the labor that accepts what ever
is given it without murmur and
makes no effort to improve condi
tions and thus decrease the profit
ratio of the business. Employers
have given this matter much con
sideration. They have sought re
fuge in slavery, in peonism, or near
slavery and near—peonism and they
found that while this represented
the most satisfactory state socre
times, on other occasions wage work
ing appealed to them to a greater
extent.
Labor that was enslaved became
an increased responsibility. Bo cal
led free labor gave them no concern.
They could employ or not employ
them today, tomorrow or the next
lav. tut when not employed the
up-keep and maintenance of that
labor cost nothing.
Necessarily the advantage of this
rorm is ct-vious. Tho ownership of
i horse, a mule or a slave necessi
ties these animals being fed and
sheltered end protected as to health
is a chattel. With a wage worker,
lie chattel interest lasts only when
:lie wage earner is surrendering a
irofit making labor power and ends j
vben he is not working.- Tho era- ]
ployer does not have to boo that the
worker is well fed, healthfully
clothed and suitably sheltered. On
the contrary, the wage earners be
ing numerous and more than suffi
cient for every job, the loss of one |
life on account of maiming in in
dustry, or from acquiring diseases in j
an unhealthy occupation cuts no [
manner of figure. He can be re
placed instantly and without trouble
Against the advantage of this
system, the wage earners have cast
upon themselves the responsibility
for carving out their own existence.
This means then that they have to
struggle against the instinct of the
employer to reduce wages to an ir-,
reducible minimum. That is over- 1
come only by joint action. That
joint action is more easily accomp
lished when the labor market is not
overstocked excessively and em
ployers bidding for labor power are
morr plentiful. During periods of
industrial activity then, labor
strikes and labor struggles, and the
boss pays the penalty ror the happy
condition he enjoyed when labor
was a drug in the market and they
could get workers for what thev
wished to pay them.
It is not clear that anything can
be done. Employers in modern ma
chine production have had to see
that workers were to a certain limi
ted degree educated and that the
intelligent use of their reason may
make them efficient in machine shor
in mine, in factory and in mill. Ac
cordingly also this fact results in
fewer industrial superstitions pre
vailing and more are gradually dis
appearing. The system itself pre
pares within itself its own dissolu
tion. The development of intelligent
action is slow, but what there is of
it becomes spontaneous. It may be
come somewhat bewildered by doc
trinaires and hair splitters, but the
masses know very well what is di
rectly inimical to them when they
see it.
The interests then discover that
prohibitive legislation such as pro
vailed in the happier days of con
vention acts and the like is not like
ly to be successful. They therefore
despair of any such action.
On the other hand they turn to j
the workers and accomplish by
flattery and cajolery and chicanery j
what they cannot do by direct pro
hibition. They affect the higher
plane of things. They have civic fe
derations ethical culture societies,
commission of investigation and the
like. They approve unhesitatingly
the leadership of safe and conserva
tive men in the labor movement.
They endorse a moderate policy and
approve “the coming together of ca
pital and labor’’. They would kill
the movement with kindness and
their benevolence is a thing of beau
ty and a joy for over.
This operates much more smooth
ly and much more successfully than
most people think, and to a large
extent it has chloroformcl the ag
gressive tendencies of labor mind
ful of unemployed crowds, bread
lines and other panicky conditions.
The leaders have become “personal
ities of some consideration”. «
The Lid is off, but you will not
be gambling if you take advantage
of that fact. Bring real money
with you as chips dont’ go. From
now on till the time of stock taking
you can get two for one at Darling
& Deans. You can buy a pick <
for fifty cents—do you got it?
Bargains along all linos.—Adv.
Dont forget your SPRING TONIC
Flowers of Sulphur, Sassafrass Bark
Mexican Sarsaparilla,, Cascara Bark
LOMEN'8 DRUG STORE.
HOLTS CASH STORE
, Tel. Main 96.
ATTENTION MINERS.
Mining Screen, 3 mesh, pre ft.. 30c.
Steam points.$3.50
Retorts.$2.00 to $5.00.
Quicksilver . . per 1%.$2.50
Pacific Shovels, best.$1.09
P‘bks with handles.85c.
Hemp and Manila rope per lbs. 20c.
Nails, all kinds.1 l-2c.
3 1-2 ft. Saws, 1 man . . . . $2.50
Axes 3 1-2 lbs.$1.00.
Tents $6.50, $7.50, $10.00 & $12.00.
Silver Plates, per foot . . . . $1.90
Buck Saws.$1.00.
Gold Pans.35c. and 50c
White Boots.$7.75.
White Packs.$4.25.
Snuft, Sept, made 6 for.25c.
HOLTS CASH STORE.
Tel. Main 96.
l)ont forget your SPRING TONIC
Flowers of Surphur, Sassafrass Bark
Mexican Sarsaparilly, Caccara Bark.
LO.MENS DRUG STORE.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address Is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovory placer mining
claim, situated on Melclng Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 33
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.ont No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed ot
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
M. , longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded In
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
ows: On the northeast No. 15
kbove Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dls
;overy on Melsing Creek; claimants
inknown; on the northwest ana
loutheast, claims unknown; all un
lurveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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