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•early as possible, 1b a worthy object of any good government."—
anranam Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Home, Alaska, unaer the Act of March 3, 1379.
BUSINESS BUPER-OBGAMZATIO.V
Baron Shibusawa is the mobt
prominent financier in Japan. At j
the age ol 7G years, In this very |
year of grace, he made a tour of
the United States for business pur
poses; a semi-official Journey as are
the purposeful journeys of all pro
minent Japanese throughout the
world.
The Baron is a far sighted man.
He is not at all concerned with na
tional shibboleths that are resur
rected once a year to apostrophize
the nation and the flag. He is
concerned with the United States
as a country taking its place
among the nations of the world, a
giant in youthful strength and
youthful vigor.
He Is quoted at length by Am
erican Big Business with some ap
proval.
“America’* he said, “is now at
one of the most important turning
points of her history. Hitherto she
has been self centered and selt
contented, politically, economically
and financially. But now, In conse
quence of the war, she lias been
brought suddenly to realise that
circumstances place her in the very
forefront of the world's financial:
and commercial powers and she ,
seems determined to utilize the op- i
portunitles thus presented.”
Without a doubt the general re
view thus presented by Bhibusawii
is correct. The war lias placed the ^
1’nited States in a commercial and
financial position of supremacy in ^
the world that this country nevei |
before attained. Heretofore Am
erica was a great nation with ide
als of democracy purely her own.
The relations with other countries
were at least dominated by these
same ideals. And with the change
in the situation, the question natur
ally arises, how much and how
deeply will the change affect the
democracy of the country heretofore
at least nominally upheld.
The answer is almost obvious.
The very first step taken to assure
the international position of the
United States is to secure a great
army and a greater navy. While
in academic discussions militarism
is denounced, since militarism is a
necessity to commercial supremacy,
militarism, willy nilly, must be
adopted.
The demand is heard in many
quarters for a much greater mili
tary organization than the people
or Congress just yet is willing to
concede. But that comes in good
time.
In addition an extension of ihe
jiowers of the Federal Trade Bu
reau is suggested to meet forthcom
ing emergencies.
Furthermore, the demand is heard
more loud than ever that Big
Business and the government must
get into active alliance for the
furtherance of the interests of the
commercial and financial magnates
of the nation.
These are days of Business Super
Organization forced upon the coun
try by the exigencies of the situa
tion arising from the Great War.
The Japanese financier observed
it unmistakably with approval be
cause he urged an active alliance
commercially and financially with
Japan so that both could mutually
profit by the entente.
The Unitod States has been pro
ceeding along these linos of mili
tary and commercial and flnp.nciai
preparedness under the Wilson ad
ministration further than ever be
fore. Trusts have been practically
immune from prosecution. Monopol
ies have a swing throughout the
country that they would never be
fore have dared to develop. Bus
iness enterprise has been towards
the coming together of all lines 01
industry, and Pan-American con
gresses have been directed towards
the control of the markots of South
America for the exclusive exploita
tion by mainly the United States.
The United States, supreme in
the supremacy of its great industri
al chiefs and financial kings, is now
brushing shoulders on terms of
higher caste with the industrial
chiefs, political monarchs and finan
cial kings of older nations. And we
say that it is a very interesting
question whether or not the ideals
of democracy enunciated in the
Declaration of Independence can re
main unaffected by this association.
Can, in other words, tho right ot
every man to life liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness be still main
tained under an industrial absolu
tion and financial imperialism?
What one observes now is that
the activities of the nation are to
be directed not to any such sell
contented and self centered policy
as the care of the American people,
the promotion of their happiness,
the extension in their midst of de
mocratic principles. They are to be
and actually are directed to the de- j
velopment of a gigantic world
supremacy in commerce, in indus
try and finance. Tht United States
is to control by its great indus
try and financial systems tlie mark
ets of tli'e world; to affect by their
sway thus the hoppincss of other
ne.tons than their own; to exploit
I for profit the peoples of other na
tions and to establish commercial
relations witli other and remoter j
•mtinnw which have ideals of gov
ernment and freedom and human j
liberty generally much contrasting i
with those at least theoretically ob- j
laining in America.
That is beyond doubt where the J
country is directed. It is following
i Wall Street ideal. It is looking
towards a commercial and financial
imperialism will fatten the already
plethoric wealth of the great ones
commercially and financially in the
country. It is nurturing in it3
heart a more than Itoman vision of
t imperial greatness, and it is for this
j purpose setting forth to make pre
' parations of the most sinister type
Already many of the educators
paid by great. capitalists have point
ed out the necessity for a lower
standard of living for American
workers in order that the Amer
ican employers may not be handi
capped in competition with their
foreign rivals whore cheaper condi
, tions prevail. The United States
(Chamber of Commerce protests
against the reformative clauses in
the Seamen’s Bill because it placed
American shipping in a position of
disadvantage with other nations.
'Great organs, paid by Big Business,
have been springing carefully the
suggestion of control of the labor
organizations lest their unions in
| terfere with the groat business re
gime that is about to be Instituted.
| The policy is carefully cutlvatea
, that no more interference be per
! mitted with business consolidations
,and industrial and financial Alli
. ances. It is time and time again
insisted that the reason for the
I German efficiency and the perfection
, of its commercial organization has
been that thoro was a complete
■ understanding between German Big
I Business and tho German govern
ment. It is demanded that in order
! to protect the American flag, which
, means American business, in all
foreign countries a great army and
j a greater navy be developed. Am
.erica is to be a nation of merchant
princes, financial kings, industrial
over-lords. The American peoplt
j they are to serve. And service is
the keynote of modern business
ethics. The ideals are all in that
direction, to serve faithfully em
ployers and every born American
' youth may one day be either a
Morgan or a President.
The centralization of wealth Is to
[ proceed on a more and more gigan
j tic scale. The line of demarcation
between those who are independ
ently rich and those who are indepon
ently poor is to be more and more
clearly marked, moro and more de
finite. The contrast, vivid enough
under the “self-contented economi
cal, political and financial condi
tion” between the rich and the pro
ducers is to be still better defined,
to become more startling and the
conditions revealed in Industrial
Relations Commission reports are tv?
become intensified in order that
everything may contribute to the
business super-organization that is
now dangled before the eyest of the
people as a tempting bait to lure
them from old time ideals of per
sonal liberty and national freedom.
It is a mattet of evolution. There
is hardly any doubt of that. The
grain in the soil, then the blade
and the grain in the car. The day
of nationalism is over. The day
of internationalism is at hand. That
is the one insisting sweeping fact ot
modern times. No natino can be
self contained and self centered.
The strifes and struggles, the social
and political activities as well as
the commercial and financial activ
ities of other lands are reflectea
with promptness in the United
States. Capitalism wipes out geo
graphical boundaries and makes the
whole world exploitively kin. Ideas
coalesce with the obliteration of
distances. Every faster steamer
and every international railroad
wipes out a frontier. F>olitically
they may remain an endless source
of friction but the human ideas are
international. Financial systems ad
just themselves to international
need. Commercial development
flows in channels first worked out
by international requirements.
Just as legal theories slowly adjust
themselves to changing economies
and feudal laws pass with the ar
rival of capitalism, so also national
ideals change with the growth ot '
internationalism. There is a con-1
stant tendency towards integration
and absorption proceeding in socie
ty. The local independents are
gobbled up by the national trust
organizations and international
agreements absorb national market
control. It is not effected without
friction. The process of evolution
has involved the overcoming of con
siderable resistance even if it fol
lowed the line of least reisstance.
The evolution of business which was
the integration of business went on
and will go on with the greater tak
ing care of the lesser, in the esti
maton of and according to the ideas
of care held by the greater.
That is the function of modern busi
ness enterprise evolutiouarily speak
ing. it is to become the giant con
troller, absorber and consolidator.
That means super-organiaztion
It means a super-organization which
can be affected by no archaic De
claration of Independence; no con
ventional ideas of personal liberty;
no academic discussion on class
struggles. It is a super-organization
which must as such depend for its
success as much on the active exer
tion of force as its potentiality to
exert it. It demands the subordina
tion of all individual and social
impulses to the greater require
ments of “Greater America”, which
means greater power and greater
control and greater wealth for the
commercial and financial magnates
who control it.
That's what is meant by
Business Super - Organization.
That is what is meant by Prepared
ness. It has become a business ne
cessity, because a necessity in the
evolution of the United States from
a nation self contained and self
centered politically, financially and
commercially to a nation leading,
controlling and dominating all other
nations in the world of commerce
and politics and finance. And when
this is mentioned it must be insist
ed that it also means the commerci
al, financial and political supremacy
of Just a very small fraction of the
American people, the rest will serve
in the great plan of modern indus
trial, financial and commercial evo
lution involved in discussions ot
“Greater America”.
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MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283 j
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska, I
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 Discovery placer mining I
ii unaiaocuMiuMHwgmwgi;
claim, situated on Meloing Creek, ;
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory ot 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 ot 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.
I 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 monument 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 it
Melsing Creek, on the south side
the.reof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., 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
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek:
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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