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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
■early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
■braham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
home, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, January 10, 1010.
If one considers the general eco
nomic make up of the Democratic
fS'arly, it is not impossible to under
stand how the rather ambitious prc
f arntioniut program outlined by
T resident Wilson causes a split.
The democrats like the republi
cans are recruited from widely se
parated interest. While their coun
cils may be enriched, literally as
well as figuratively, by the Belmonts
and the Ryans, nevertheless there
is another class largely represented
which has very little in common
with these well fed porkers at the
economic trough. There is the
smaller business man, tho impecu
nious professional man, the worker
with a “future” and others with
million dollar heads on two cent
bodies, struggling to keep afloat in
the struggle for oxfstcnce.
The bane of their lives is the tri
bute better organized monopoly in
industry and in finance demands for
.permission to avoid the many
crowded ranks of the toiling mas
ses.
Anything that tends to keep up
taxation is to them a night mare,
just as high railroad rates and high
taxation under the republicans sent
tlie smaller business men and littie
independent out rampaging in the
wake of Roosevelt through the for
ests of insurgency.
The preparationist schemes fore
shadowed by Wilson under the drive
of a European obsession involve;
the certainty of enormous expendi
tures of money. You cannot build
battleships on hot air, nor blow in
12 inch shells without large public
contributions
It is all very well to be prepared,
but taxes arc hell as well as war,
and if you please the little business
man will have none of it.
The big business man is well pre
pared. The taxation which he is
forced to give up will be merely a
detail and ho will give it with pa
triotism and benevolence.
If he wanted to, John IJ. Rocke
feller could support the American
navy for a whole year, construct the
battleships demanded by the ambi
tious program of the Navy Leaguers,
and still not be broke. The Du
font De Nemours Company would
be able to supply three years pow
der to the Amcric. •• government
gratis and still be a flourishing mt
nopoly.
Of course all of these are in a
wholly different position to tho lit
tle fellow that has a pioneer mil;
in the jungle dnd is trying to rise
and is swatted into ids subordinate
position by bank rates and by illi
beral competition from a trust
When he has to face huge taxes and
huge rents and huge prices for raw
material, when his product is
shoved on the market at rates
which demand more frequenting of
banks for loans and more signing of
notes and adding of interest due,
when he is up against organized op
position which is indestructible, na
lurally he is not willing to aid any
policy, no matter what, which moans
the complete and utter ruin
-of his business.
Besides, the big capitalists are
playing against him the safest of
safe games. Their money is in
vested largely in the railroads which
will move military supplies, man
euvring troops, guns, and material
from camp to camp; they own til
munitions factories and the arse
nals, they make money in guns an.l
in gun carriages, in aeroplanes and
autos, in armor plate and machine?}
and why should they worry? Even
if they are taxed on the one side
to help to pay these preparation
schemes, at any rate it is taking it
out of one pocket to shove it, with
profit, rent and Interest added, into
the other They are not likely to
object. But the plain impecunious
professional man, the equally plain
and equally impeculous business
man whose existence in business is
merely to avoid the proletarian
scramble for jobs in tho labor mar
ket and whose democracy is an
ostentatious covering for his rather
sordid economic equivocation, wilt
not ho able to view the Wilson
plans in the same high steel-blue
patriotic light as the Rockefellers,
the Morgans, the Carncgies, the
Schwabs, the Remington Arms Co.,
the Colts, the Du Ponts. Belmont
with money invested in war babies,
the scions of the Ryans with invest
ments in similar stocks, will vigor
ously applaud the President in the
most extravagant shcemes. It means
to them dividends and it means in
creased activities on Wall Street.
But he who makes none of these
things, but has to pay them tribute’
hates to part with the things that
are Caesars to Caesar for he knows
very well it is only a pretext to en
rich someone at his expense.
When estimating the position
taken by any party politicians we
have to consider their economic po
sition. Their polities will be a reflx
of that position. They may cover
their politics by patriotism, and it la
often what they understand as pa
triotism, but in most cases it is
merely the tax paying position
which they occupy in society.
And when great taxes are threat
ened by the presence of ambitious
naval or military programs, the first
how! goes up from the little busi
ness man and his political represen
sentatives because of the taxes
which he has to pay. And
the next thing the little business
man does is to spread his ideas, al
ways under the garb of patriotism,
among the workers so that they too
will conclude that they will be taxed
to death, and put in the clear if the
little fellow that calls himself “in
dependent" has to pay a proportion
ate share of the government ex
penses, which are increasing steadi
ly all the time.
Just at present there is a whole
sale opposition manifesting itself to
the Wilson plans within his own
party; but rather from the rag-tag
and , oob-tail that support William
Jennings Bryan and other rndlcas
leaders of the little business men.
There is a divergence of inter
ests. If you could have a great navy
and a great army without paying
any larger taxes for them, the rag
tag and bob tail, although they
might assert differently, would as
sent to it willingly tomorrow. Bus
thnt increased taxation sticks in
their craw. It makes them 1 elly
ache tc t-cat the band. It does more
it overcomes the hankering some of
them have for offices, and they
would even divide up in schismatic
sections rendering defeat certain at
the general elections rather than
forego the opportunity of knocking
high taxes down and out.
Yet it is a sign of the
we behold these factions developin'
without hope of accompliching any
good for themselves. If the repub
licans come into power the demo
cratic program of a big navy
v/ill be enlarged and the larger
army prorosals will be con
siderable increased. The repub
licans know very well what interest
their party caters to, and have
purged the same element which is
now weeping and wailing within the
Wilson party.
Taft occupied such a position
to Roosevelt, prior to the steam
rolling convention as Wilson does to
Bryan. It is a very remarkable coin
cidence. Wilson was to be the re
pository of the Bryan policies, and
Bryan • supported Wilson against
the entire party at Baltimore. Now
unless Wilson can find a Root with
a steam roller, the same Bryan will
be there with bells to make opposi
tion hideous to him as well as would
have Roosevelt to Taft.
The explanation of the situation
is entirely due to the fact that there
is very little difference between the
policies of the Bryan followers and
that of the Roosevolt followers.
Both want relief from the oncroach
ments of big business. Prepared
ness Instead of Taftlsm has brought
out the same instincts of the petty
bourgeois in the smaller fry of the
democrats. The same Instinctive
tendency to protect .ho ill-favored
and lean pocket books of the little
business man is at the back of both
revolts.
It is wrong to suppose that thin
will be adftiitted. On the contrary
the most high minded phrases, re
miniscent of crown of thorns upon
the brow of labor and the cruci
fixion of mankind upon a cross ot
gold, will make the welkin ring with
an elevated and tear sparkling pa
1 trioti8m. But it is the same old
cultus wawa that adorned the thund
erings of Bombastcs Furioso before
he set out to discover the unknown
rivers in the south American con
tinent. And the workers will look
for tjie most part unamazed but in
terested, knowing well that the
struggle for them is in the future
when gradually and bit by bit, or
very ciuickly, Big Business wipes
out opposition and faces an indus
trial democracy unswayed by no
such tax-paying terrors but couseb
ci!3 of the fight which will be for
possession.
One of the most astonishing fea
tures of this war in Europe is (lie
uniform nature of the reports.
Hardly a day passes but some ser
ious reverse is reported for the Al
lies, or there comes the news that
another diplomatic victory has been
achieved by the Central Powers.
Thus the entrance of Bulgaria
was foreshadowed as probable on
the sides of the Allies, but just the
reverse happened and to Russia to
which nation Bulgaria ower her na
tional existence, the Bulgarians rose
in open opposition and in alliance
with the .Turks, the herditary foes
of their race.
Greece which in the earlier days
of the war seemed anxious to join
the Allies, is now hardly less will
ing if an opportunity would offer,
to side with the Central Powers.
And in addition, the situation is
uniformly unfavorable to the Allies, i
In the west the great offensive fail-!
ed; in the east the Germans walked
through Russian opposition; Servia
is conquered; Italy is powerless,
the Dardanelles a fiasco; Persia a
doubtful matter; Mesopotamia a
disgrace. Hardly a single ray illu
mines the dark prospect of the si
tuation for the Entente powers. Nor
although their sympathizers may
havo been eagerly awaiting it, has
there come any glimmering which
would indicate the dawn of an
other day.
And with all this, tlttsrc is no
sign of peace. Accord.ng to all the
rules of war the Allies are licked;
cicuaocicicicuacicmckcicicicictoc
according to all the rules of war
they should be all taking peace; ac
cording to former happenings they
should be faltering in their alliance
and.making peace ono at a time.
And the remarkable feature of
the situation is that there is no
peace. What peace talk has occur
red has been among the Teutons or
their Allies. In Germany peace
riots are admitted to have occurred.
In Hungary the peace agitation de
spite the ferocity of Count Tirza was
too great to be stifled. In Austria,
reports show an utter indifference
to Victory in Vienna which does not
bring hope of an early cessation of
the war.
In neither France, Russia nor
Great Britain is there any thought
of peace, not even among the mas
ses. They may have modified their
original views, but none the less
they indicate a belief that the war
must go on. Critics on the outside
are hopelessly at sea. They hold
that economic and financial stress
should have long ago put an end to
the war; but there is no end in
sight.
When Sasanoff ridicules the peace
notions and the peace agitation,
the Russian revplutionary group
are With him, and it i3 now stated
by Count Okuma that Germany has
sought to effect a separate peace
with Russia and Japan as she ha3
sought a separate peace with
Frnce.
The situation therefore is cer
tainly beyond ordinary calculation.
All efforts to guage the date when
the war will end are wide of the
mark. It may come with startling
suddeness, or it may end in a revo
lution among the belligerent na
tlons.
But no side has really struck a
decisive blow. Paris, Petrograd and
London are intact. Until the time
comes when one side or another
strikes that vital blow, peace talk
is more or less nonsense.
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