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somi: facts.
Contrasted facts, which are < lose
• related, have an educational et
iect. Let us give a few.
Firts of all: money 1 Everyone ui
stinctively likes to read of money.
Every patriotic American likes to
boast of the wealth of ”his’ country.
Every American liked to cheer
M’Adoo when he said that they had
Hie soundest financial system in the
world. You bet “we” have.
Last October or thereabouts high
financial men in the United States |
asked the British government not
to ship in any more gold for a spell.
They had too much of It. Get that?
There was too much money in the
country for the country’s good. The
people couldn’t absorb the doggoned
thing fast enough! It was coming
in at such a rate that all available
space in the assay office of New \ork
had been filled and the local federal
reserve bank forced to take a chunk
of it for safe keeping! On October 1.
1916. according to the Foreign
Trade Department of the National
City bank, the volume of gold in the
United States was two billion, six
hundred and thirty six million, nine
thousand six hundred and thirty
four, or exactly J74S.738.904 more
than when the great war started!
That is certainly some money. It
is far more than the mind that is
not naturally mathematical can
grasp at all. The figures are just
so much sound, and no more.
In other words “we” have made
over seven hundred million clean
profits since the war began, and we
just do not what to do with “our"
money. It is stowed away in vaults,
in barrels, in safes and other places
where it can keep safe and snug for
those whom the Almighty in itis
Wisdom decided should attend to it
for "us”—and they certainly mind
their business.
Let us turn to other things:
Because meat is practically prohi
bitive as to price, the New York
Board ot Health authorized the sale
of horse flesh in the city of ->pw
York. It didn’t go at first but later
on, the only chance of getting their
grinders on a piece of flesh being
from these defunct sped ■ the work
ers gradually and quit* benevolently
began to patronize and assimilate
the horse markets. So the old ani
mals that used to go to the knack
ers for their hide and hoofs are now
contributing to the up-builidnu ot
the brain and brawn of American
labor! And dont forget that seven
hundred odd million lying in the
banks because it cant be absorbed.
Some thrifty are ”‘we' horseflesh
ont ers'
In the Fall a benevolent Agricul
tural Dipartmoit saw that with the
belligerent nations wanting wheat,
there would a shortage in the
country, and hence the prices would
go away up. and they did. But “our"
government is nothing if not solicit
ous for the workers welfare. They
look ahead and the administration
keeps awake o' nights thinking how
it can help “us".
So having observed this crisis com
ing upon us. the Department of
Agriculture issued a bulletin show
ing how the working classes could
make bread out of spuds and flour.
The receipe can he got for the ask
ing, so there is no use any one go
ing hungry. especially with that
seven hundred odd millions lying
there in New York. Sure Mike!
And furthermore leather dealers
have been holding a convention.
What is worrirng them is that there
is no leather to go around. They
have discovered that the belligerents
have been using them for accoutre
ments, tor harness, for saddles, for
hoots and shoes. Accordingly they
said and said quite positively that
the time was coming when wooden
shoes should be used by the
workers. Leather uppers may be, In
some cases, but certainly wooden
shoes as to soles. And they believed
that the workers might take to
those more willingly, as higher
grade shoes for them, when thej
"dress’’ up and gratify their esthetic
ser.se, could be furnished of prepar
ed paper. Prepared paper was not
equal to wood or leather. Wet
weather and wet walking played hell
with it, and made It mushy and
pulpy, besides the price of paper
was going up that it too was a luxury
that had to be carefully handled.
Moreover and in addition this
fuel problem was quite a crux (hat
had to be solved for the workers.
Hard coal was twelve in N'ew York
and Chicago dealers saw it going to
fifteen dollars in Chicago this bless
ed winter!
Wood wasn’t easy to get, and the
scientists thought the only solution
was to go without.
And all this time, getting back to
money, gold is just piling up and
aching for some one to come along
and cut loose.
The total resources in "our’ banks
according to the report of the Con
troller of the Treasury on September
12 was fourteen billion, four hund
red and eleven million dollars.
Twenty billion securities and bonds
of all sorts, and the rest specie!
So although the country is richer
j than ever, and there is actually
more money available for the spend
ing the workers are to be reduced
! to horseflesh and potatoe cake and
j wooden shoes.
| Is it any wonder those wise politi
cians when they came across with
[that there slogan about “democratic
prosperity got the worker’s goat?
Wouldn’t any man experiencing tli<
J ecstasy of a horseflesh ragout and
i picking the potatoe eyes from hit
ginger cake just get up from flu
table to run over to the booth tc
cast a ballot for that unterrified
: Jeffersonianism that proclaims the
| equality of men: for horseflesh eat
ers as well the consumers of bull
I beef?
Never in the history of the United
States of America have the profits
been so enormous and the earning
capacity per capita been so huge
They surpass all previous dreams ol
wealth production. And never be
fore have the conditions of the pro
ducers been so uniformly lower or
account of the higher costs of liv
j ing. This is surely an ideal state ol
! things in American industry. This
is the state of things that realizes
the ideal that has been set by tht
! by the American Merchants and
j Manufacturers Association. And th<
entire problem is to keep it that
[ way. To bolt them down, to tis
:1c tit fast, to screw them in the
'sti.Ti c: place, so that no kicking 01
bn< king or remonstrance or agila
tion of any sort will disturb them. Ii
is 1)( > >nd doubt a perfection o:
iliings when the many millioned wil
j be sure of their millions. and th<
few investors will be sure of tlieii
investments, and there has to bt
some way devised of keeping thi
stiffs eating horseflesh, wearinf
wooden slices and consuming pota
toe bread if the lives and liberties o
the people are to be preserved
That’s an immortal cinch. So there
fore with many appeals to Jefferson
ian enlightenment and considerabli
! -flag waving and not a little higl
I minded talk of Americanism, wi
have to have a big army. That’s tin
| first essential. The next is compul
sory arbitration, anti-strike laws
more and more dictatorial powers It
the state aad national executives
;and thus shall democracy reach th
I stars.
| If the workers attempt to stir u]
a stink, deport them, club them
, bludegon them, shoot them as a
j Ludlow and Bayonne and Youngs
i town. If their organizers put in ai
appearnce railroad them as in Colo
rado or in Minnesota.
Elevate the police to a plane o
semi- divinity. And in the fullnes
of time and with the aid of the edu
cators and politicians, there will b
happiness and horseflesh, wooden
shoes and welfare, potatoe cake and
piety the natural order of things.
So it is that all things come round
to those who wait. Efficiency in
business, industrial preparedness,
militarism: all these things the na
tural evolution of capitalist individ
ualism, realizing itself in the golden
era of twentieth century of civiliza
tion! And the country one vast Uto
pia of horsemeat eating potato bread
grinding workers: could the libertar
ian mind of man consider a greater
achievement? Yea, verily, and the
huge pile of gold bullion in these
vaults growing greater and greater,
and the power which is wielded by
the owners of this wealth, through
the Grace of God, extending to the
remotest corners of mother earth,
dominating, commanding, dictating
and directing the destinies of the
greatest and the least: socially, mor
ally and intellectually for the good
of our bodies and, under the bless
ings of Heaven, for our immortal
souls as well.
Thus we rise to the stars over the
stepping stones of our dead selves
to higher things as the poet in in
: spired rapture has discovered. Cr
if not of our dead selves at least
through the poetic carrion f dead
horses sold to enable the hoi poilol
! to taste flesh meat, while banks
bulge with bullion.
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Ladies and Gentlemens Clothes.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Andrew Eadie. J. Potter Whitt
ren, F. H. Waskey, Ira I). Orton
Trustee, Elwood Bruner, J. Alli
Burner, Joseph Hammer. Win. A.
Gilmore, J. J. Chambers, Ford E.
Chambers, to you and each of you
your heirs, executors, assigns or
personal representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
tended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
each year for the years of 1914,
1915, and 1916 on the Golden Bull
Claim, a placer mining claim situ
ated between Newton Gulch and
Fox Creek and recorded and more
j fully described in the records of Cape
.Nome Mining and Recording Dis
itrict, in the Second Division of the
j Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
' pended under the provisions of the
i law concerning Annual Labor upon
] Mining Claims, being the amount
| required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
| are further notified that if
I within ninety days after the
! last publication of this notice you
i fail to contribute your proportion
j of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
| of the undersigned your co-owner
i under section 2324 Revised Statutes
J of the United States.
SEWARD DREDGING CO.*
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. G, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 31, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICp OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and.
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Pfccovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. \Y. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 rain. E.
4110.0 l't. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. tar. 19 deg. 00 rain. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 rain. E. Car. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. ]
G9 deg. 45 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 10 j
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4; j
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Yar.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. \Y. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 rain. \Y. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.SO ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
\Yonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
| ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Yar. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
j of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
I ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
l to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Yol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Yol.
165 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ.. Feb. 21, 1917.
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