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•early as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
kDranam Lincoln
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Home,■ Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, August 1H, I!)Hi.
A VANITY.
Of ;tH the melancholy wailing that]
* is a vanity in itself, what could be
more rasping than the laments ot j
the Hull Moosers that they have i
been betrayed by Roosevelt.
Why. except those blind victims I
of hero worship, who ever was mis
led by Bull Mooserdom? Everyone
knew right well that the Progress
ive party was Roosevelt. In Roose
velt it lived, moved and had its be
ing, and now that he returns to the
fold, they are left a political vacuum
which occasions their verbal belly
ache.
It is true that they told us that
the progn) sive party was to up-litt
reform and transform society. Mag
niloquence and lofty ideals outdid
one another in a splendid outpour
ing of optimism that seemed to take
the world by storm.
But this is a world of hard facts,
political facts as hard as the eco
nomic facts upon which they arc
founded, and it needed something
more than a party idealism founded
upon the hero worship of the sev
eral followers and the insatiable am
bition of the leading individual to
change, alter or affect in any way
those hard facts.
And just as is was the insatiable
ambition of Roosevelt to succeed
Taft as a third term president which
caused the progressive partv 10 be
founded, so also it was the ambition
of Roosevelt which caused its dual
obliteration from the political
world, even though dead before
that.
Just at the crucial moment Roose
velt showed his weakness. Just
when the situation required the
strength ot' desperation, he wilted
and wavered and the. machine which
held control of the Republican party
knew right well that lie wavered
and would wilt if they hoisted
their flag of No Surrender.
Had Roosevelt had the individ
ual daring to force the issue by in
sisting upon the Progressives nomi
nating him and his immediate ac
ceptance of that nomination, he
would in all probability have been
nominated by the republicans.
He did not stand the test. His
eagerness to have himself accepted
kept the postponement of his nomi
nation until the republicans had
nominated Hughes, anti by so doing
had directly defied Itosevelt who
was easily enough defied.
It would be hard to imagine a
more ignoble surrender. His en
dorsement of Hughes is an endorse
ment of practically every influence
and every interest he made the basis
of his former attacks upon the Re
publican party. Roosevelt knows
ami the campaign fund subscribed
should show him that it was the
leaders of predatory wealth and pri
vilege who elected Hughes Governor
of New York. It was the influence
of the "malefactors of great wealth”
that secured him the appointment
to the Supreme Bench, and it wa3
the same influence that controlled
his nomination at Chicago.
The very vital forces which Roose
velt fought at Armageddon are still
masters of the field. Penrose lias
returned, Cannon is again in the
saddle. Pennsylvania is still a Stand
ard Oil pocket borough. The cor
rupting influence of the money trust
is as rampant as ever. And not a
single element upon which Roose
velt founded justification for his
party insurgency in 1912 but is yet
in evidence.
In the nomination of Hughes, re
action is completely triumphant.
The boss returns, the machine rules
and the steam roller juggernauts
along.
Evidently Roosevelt wants peace
at any price. Possibly lie has dim
hopes that still before he dijs as a
repentant regular he may yet be
come tenant of the White House.
But he is now so completely dis
credited that It is an almost fore
gone conclusion all he has gained is
political oblivion.
However Roosevelt is merely a
detail, llis ambition and his weak
ness merely an incident in t He evo
lution of things. The time is at
hand when he will be as little im
portance in American history as
Boulanger once expected to be the
Napoleon of his day became in the
history of France. The story of hu
man ambition and especially the
story of political ambition is usually
a recital of sordid failure near the
closing of the story. Its closing
chapters are not even interesting
reading.
But because Roosevelt’s rise and
his collapse have shown die measure
of political things, it can obtain a
passing importance and deserves a
passing attention.
Political happenings are mani
festations of economic forces which
give rise to those political activities,
and it is with those economic forces
that we must deal if we are to dis
cover a key to any Question that
arises.
Roosevelt came at a time when
the struggle of the little business
man against Iiig Business became
desperate or little short of desper
' ate. Little Business adopted a very
i noble and up-lifting tone. It dealt
at length in the details of the cor
rupting methods which Big Business
employs. It enlists the services ol
i so called muck rakers. It has in
vestigations, prober., inquiries. it
| tubulated and piled up statistics. It
h it its mark in literature and it
sioganned purity in politics ann hoi
loaed for democracy.
While thus active In one sphere
| it was super-active in another. Ii
made trust prosecutions a politica
a;, ft of the government. It exaltec
the judges who were immune fron
trust influence and it damned thosi
who were not. It tore the country
with an agitation against consolida
tions which drove tlie little fellov
to tlie wall, and it clamored for the
glorious days when the little fellov
was the life of trade with his tir
horn competition.
I'pon this wave of idealism
founded upon the much sterner re
alitv of the struggle of Little Bust
ness for an existence, ambitions
saw their opportunity. And thal
being so why should a conscience
less, insincere but perfectly self con
fldent ambition, the most dangerous
of all, be denied? The breach was
ready for the man and Roosevelt
sprung over the head and shoulders
of more earnest workers to raise
the standard of Bull Moosedom
He trampled over sincere and earn
est men like La Follette. He
shouldered aside men like Cummins
and Borah, willing enough that they
should be his aides providing he was
their general.
Sincerer men stood aghast at his
change of front. They knew him tc
have been the friend of Platt, ol
Root, of Penrose. They knew that
throughout his long term of office
not once had he done any of the
things that he now demanded
should be done.
But Roosevelt the ambitious anc
the self confident knew that his
spectacular career from Tea Kettls
Hill to the Panama Canal was sucl
as would cover up any of the short
comings Sincerity or Purpose might
demand. And he judged rightly
He was seized with acclamation anc
although the most recent recruit be
came the liero and leader at Arma
geddon.
But what Roosevelt did not know
was that he was boosted into offles
by Little Business and since thoss
days, Little Business has lost its
tight. These are days of re-construc
tion. The cry has gone up to let
the Trusts alone. Timidity has
silenced Little Business. And only
Labor, discontented, witless of its
power and slow to rise in its might
still a sleeping giant, is left to oppose
predatory wealth. The trust agita
tion has gone far enough. The cry
is to “let the thinking people rule”
meaning those who thought suffici- j
ently wisely to obtain control. Pen- I
rose returns. Cannon is restored. ;
Reaction is rehabilitated and tri- i
umphant. Privilege is in place
Economic control in the exertion
of its organized power is supreme.
In this scheme of things there is
no reason for a Roosevelt with his
tinker’s swag of reform and high
minded nonsense. He has served
his purpose. He fitted in, in 1912,
there is no possible place for him in
191fi. While hir. insatiable am-i
tiori would yet claim the crown, his !
own instinctive political cowardice;
palsies the hand would grasp it.
And there is no room at the top for
a weakling, principled or unprin
cipled. They neither wear the
golden crown of Power nor the
laurel wreathe of Honor. They
stand and wait and thus also serve.
He has served. And he bears the
same relation to Big Business with
which he still kept in touch through
the Perkins and the Morgans, as his
followers bear to him.
He in his person and his leader
ship represented the lost struggle
of Little business. The steam roller
that crushed him was not the poli
tical machine, but the mightier and
more inexorable and far more ruth
less and pitiless one of evolution.
He belongs now to a past era. May
he rest In peace.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody, Pat Dunkin, John Dun
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Good
body, Basil Meek, James M. Dun
kin, Mrs. Dunkin, S. C. Henton.
Mrs. James Gibson, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are herelr
notified that I have expended in
labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars each year
for the years of 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915
on the Blankett Location and the
Midnight Dream Association, both
association placer mining claims lo
cated on the left limit of Gold Run
a tributary of Bering Sea and re
corded and more fully discribed in
the Records of the Port Clarence
Mining District, in the Second Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
M ilo’s
Cafe
\
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
The above amount has been' ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified, that if within nine
ty days after the last publication o£
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
you F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody,, Pat Dunkin, John Dun
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Goodbody
Basil Meek for the Blankett I.oca
tion and you James M. Dunkin, Mrs
Dunkin, F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F.
W. Goodbody, S. C. Henton and Mrs
James Gibson for the Midnight
Dream Association, your inter
ests in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, vour
co-owner under section 232-1 Re
vised Statutes of the United Slates.
THOS. H DTJiVvIN.
Co-Owner
Date of first publ., Aug. 4, l.HG.
Date of last publ., Nov. 3, lf>'.tl
OVERSTOCK CD
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tal:-1
ing, and find that we are heavily I
overstocked so are making enorm- J
ous reductions in Hardware—as!
much as 50% in certain lines. Not- j
withstanding immense advances out- |
side, especially in Hardware and j
Metal Goods, we are still selling on !
the basis of goods purchased tne j
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
Let ns estimare on your .Ton Won
For Correctly
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