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Nome. Alaska, October 2, 1010.
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There has just been held a con
vention of bankers in Kansas City.
It was a business convention and of
course attracted a great deal of at
tention. The conventions of these
men usually do. That is inevitable.
It may be expected. It could not
be otherwise.
It is wholly immaterial that they
<lo not some of them reach the in
tellectual standard of an illiterate;
it is wholly beside the question that
some of them know as little about j
art and science as an untrained 1
monkey. Inasmuch as they control
the wealth of the country, and vest
ed in that wealth is Power, their
opinions must be not only re
ceived with respect, but considered
at some length as due them who re
present, if not the people, at least
the power that controls the people.
Surely no person is going to ques
tion the importance, socially, ot
these men.
If any one did, the press would
speedily remove any doubts one
might have upon the matter, for the
press reflecting clearly the econo
mic power of the land, loses no op
portunity of swinging incense befort
the deliberations of these men. Now
at that convention Vanderlip urged
prepared ness as the prime necessity
of the hour. He urged its necessity
in order that conditions in industry
and commerce might continue pros
perous. To him these were the only
things worth consideration, and they
should at all hazards be attended
to.
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It is an interesting fact in connec
tion with the persistent arguments j
in favor of preparedness that are
heard from the Vanderlips, few j
urge that the very basis of such a
policy must be the establishment in |
the country of such Industrial con
ditions as men would willingly fight1
tor, and such a degree of personal |
freedom and individual rights as j
the masses would not willingly fore- \
go. Instead, they urge that con- '
scriptlon is a social necessity, ami :
all for the purpose of preserving j
“prosperity”.
But whose is the prosperity? The j
wealth of the United States is eon- j
trolled by a very slender few. And
it would appear obvious that their
interest in preparedness is much
greater than is that of the masses
who have nothing to protect hut
their job. and often not that.
Yet it is quite evident that the
foundation of all preparationist po
licies that might he received without
cavil would be such a one as would
insist upon the greater happiness
and the greater com >f the mas
ses; a higher standard of living;
security against unemployment; pro
tection in old age; attention during !
sickness and generally insurance]
against destitution and poverty.
Yet. it must be understood, that
the Vanderlips speak with no earth
ly consideration of the workers. ITe
spoke purely and simply for the
< lass to which he belongs: ihe class
which has the Power and which con
trols society. He knows that it is
merely of such as himself, that con
sideration need be had.
Accordingly it is quite natural
that these preparedness views are
concerned only in so far as they at
fect the welfare of the great econo
mic interests in society: pre-omin
entlv the Vanderlips, the Morgans,
the Rockefellers and the rest, and
experience has taught them that the
nation makes their interests the na
tional interests, for the very simple
reason that they have economic con
trol of the nation.
Whatever one may think of such
a system, at least it will do no good
denying its existence. It will do no
good denying that diplomacy, and
where diplomacy fails the national
arms, are used almost exclusively to
advance those interests. If the in
terests of the wage workers alone
were concerned, the United States
and every other country would have
enduring peace. But because it n
not the interests of the workers, but
the interests of the industrial, com
mercial and financial magnates that
are concerned, preparedness be
comes a matter of vital urge and a
Plime necessity.
Another banker who made somt
important comment at their conven
tion was one Harris. We judge Mr.
Harris is a heavy holder of railroad
stock. At any rate he declared that
Wilson is capitulating to the rail
road men was guilty of appalling
cowardice.
That is a most interesting expression
of opinion. When the railroad com
panies found the situation dead
locked. they appealed to Wilson.
And when Wilson gives in that the
eight hour day is sound in principle,
he is guilty of capitulation:
Obviously had Wilson decided other
wise. he would have been ail that he
should be in the banker’s opinion.
Now it is not safe to declare ’.aht
Wilson was immune from popular
clamor, and that in deciding in
favor of the eight hour day he did
not succumb to the temptations ot
the political situation to a certain
extent. But what man is immune
from popular or other pressure?
Take these bankers. How do tney
obtain their power? Why are they
listened to with such respect? Whv
do the papers re-print their utter
ances as each were a pearl of v.is
dom? Why do pulpiteers and
preachers, politicians and peers re
porters all fall over one another to
adjust their views in decorous re
spect to the views of the bankers?
In truth the trouble is that all art
guilty of appalling cowardice. Hu
man beings have enabled some to
control the means whereby others
live. To obtain the means of sub
sistence, those who have to obtain
access thereto, must he ready to ac
! i omodate themselves to the require
| ments of those who control tiu
; means of living. In other w-'rds th<
bankers wield a whip as powerfu
■ as can be imagined to keep in lint
those who might otherwise kic’. t*i«
traces.
I They rule because the rest of u:
are too cowardly to deny them ,
i right which is founded upon tin
omnipotent force is control of tin
economic powet. That is whv tin
I commercial magnates, the liuaneia
! magnates, the industrial magnate
i have such terrific power at i! wh:
' it is we are all guilty of the ap
j paling cowardice of subiuittiOi
I thereto.
I ne popular ciaiuui »» ini ii
j this authority of the economically
j supreme is as nothing. Anc' lienee
j the power of the railroad brother
hoods is quite an unimportant mat
ter compared to the economic
power of the railroad presidents. It
is manifest that Wilson was. as a
j man between the two, unable right
ly to decide and he compromised.
He supported the eight hour day,
and insisted upon the employees eli
minating their penalized overtime
demands.
It appears to the bankers that he
is guilty of enormous cowardice be
cause he favors the employees, but
i they would never have complained
liad he succumbed to their economic
power, and sided as so many of the
politicians do side, with the privi
leged classes. But the bankers will
| never see cowardice in that. It is
too much the normal condition in
every community. It is accepted as
the right and proper thing to do to
succumb before the demands ot
those who control the means where
by the rest live. It is done every
day. It is highly respectable. It is
conventional. It is endorsed by com
mon sense in all practical men. It
is wisdom.
Yet men have known that this
economic power is a menace to per
sonal freedom. It has been borne
in upon them that it is subversive
of democracy, of popular control, ot
individual independence and that Is
why there is a great, wide, all en
compassing movement today to
establish an industrial democracy
where the few will no longer con
trol the means whereby the masses
live, but in the socialization of pro
duction and distribution, the entire
scheme of society will be altered so
that no man or set of men will make
any man or set of men afraid to
act as they feel is right, and as they
could do no other.
That will be something. It will
be everything. It will restore the
human being to the plane of free
dom which he, as an individual,
"has loved long since but lost
awhile”.
Rocking chairs at 91 to $7.50 at
Crooks next Fire Department.
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