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Nome, Alaska, June 28, 1916.
THE MEXICAN TANGLE.
■Developments in Mexico provide
another of those very dangerous
objects lessons so prolifically impart-'
ed for the past three years, that the
supreme confidence of the world .s j
not in the might of right, but the
right of might and that in the last
analysis force and violence is the
sole solution for international pro- j
blems.
Into Mexico, for the past five j
years, the United States munitlonists
have been pouring arms and amnw- J
nition. Into Mexico for the past;
score years have been going repre
sentatives of American capitalists1
acquiring concessions, buying up oil,
coal, railroad, land and mining
rights from the men who controlled
Mexico.
All of this has been so much fuel
to the flames that were burning^
now controlled, now beyond control,
in that southern republic.
And when is harvested that which
is sown, we find that the only hope
for the future is force—armies and
rifles and cannon.
But suppose, just for a minute,
that the United States were really
productive of supermen with a oe
lief in right and righteousness, and
they had not sent their avaricious
ones into Mexico, had not furnished
them with arms and munitions of
war, fomented civil strife and grab
bed the national resources, but in
stead had sent men there to teach
them a better and higher order cif
;h;ngf.; had provided schools where
had been furnished trr.inload.s of
munitions; libraries where they
sought land concessions; had dis
played not avarice or corrupting
tendencies nor had cutdono the
Mexican grandees in their execrable
treatment of their peons—in fine if
in all their intercourse with the
Mexicans they had put in practice
the principles of right and righte
ousness, does any person think that
the harvest of doubt and uncertain
ty would be what it is today for
cither American or Mexican?
Of course the United States can
conquer Mexico. Of course force
can subdue that people. But as Cav
our said, “you can do anything with
bayonets but sit upon them''. And
whi!“ the world has gone mad in
its wild resort to force and violence,
certain it is that bayonets will not
provide socloty with a stable order
of things. That’s the fallacy of mi
litarism; it’s the fallacy of reliance
upon might. It is the mistake in
the whole thoory of great armies
and great navies preponderating as
to strength and permanent power
against rights.
We still live lost in the miasma
of brute force. The mists of con
fidence in might still deceive us.
But aB yesterday, so today, it is true
aR truth itself, what was long ago
written: "whose liveth by the sword
shall perish by the sword”. The
whole story of humanity is a story
with that moral. No lesson Is so
emphasized throughout the entire
processus of history. It involves
every nation that is or will be, which
placed He trust not in right and
truth and justice, but in the force
of greater might.
MORE SCIENCE.
Quite recently a number of tho
leading scientists in Great Britain
memorialized the government pro
testing against the neglect of science
in that country; pointed out that
it was not given sufficient attention
in the prosecution of the war or la
the piping times of peace. Showed
that the scools and universities neg
lected it, and that it was treated
with contemptuous indifference, and
that while classical education ap
peared prominently in all university
and school currioulums, science
found no place. They furthermore
pointed out that legislators were
mostly ignorant of science wholly,
and that it found no favor either
in public or in private life.
That is not the first time that
scientific men in Great Britain have
complained. Regarding scientific
men as the only really educated
men, Herbert Spencer said that most
members of parliament were ignor
ant men. As in the United States
Congress lawyers predominate In
the British parliament, and it Is
only conferring an undeserved dis
tinction to regard the man learned
in the law as anything, but in the
ordinary sense, a learned man.
The complaint is suggestive. It
is questionable whether or not the
affairs of a nation would not be bet
tered if they were administered by
men who were educated In political
and economic and social sciences.
As things now stand, legislation
is a hap hazard response to certain
demands by certain interests, and
that response often takes the form
of a inker which is inserted for the
express purpose of making that le
gislation effect certain purposes not
otherwise understood to be the pur
port of the bill.
The average legislator knows little
or nothing about actual conditions
even in his constituency. The re
presentative of a factory district in
the east before an inquiring board
couldn't tell what rate of wages
were current in his district; didn’t
know what rents were paid, nor
that, as was shown the mal^s
wages were so low that ether mem
bers of the family were required tc
work In order to provide a suffici
ency. The hopeless ignorance ol
most congressmen concerning actual
social and industrial facts is most
striking, while the efforts of men
to make clear their views upon fiscal
and currency questions have merely
established the fact that they had
no views at all, despite their honest
efforts to acquire those of the in
terests which they right nobly re
presented.
The discussion before the House
committee on the Child Labor law
by men from southern states where
child labor prevailed showed that
they had not the slightest idea ot
the extent or the consequences of
child labor, and it did not trouble
them in the least. The cumbersome
faults found with representative
governments are due in the main to
the fact men who are representa
tives do not know the facts of the
social and economic life of the na
tion. A politician has come to
mean a man who understands poli
tical intrigue, cunning and vote
getting, and nothing more, the irre
ductable minimum of fatuity being
apparently reached therein.
MUNICIPAL. OWNERSHIP.
Now that the city of Nome has
started on the high road to muni
cipal ownership, a few joy bells
maybe would be In prder were ir
rot for the fact that most of the
Aldermen are in that interesting
and excited state that they don't
know where they are going, but
they are on the way.
A lot has been purchased for a
pumping plant.. The cost is one
thousand dollars. Then comes the
matter of clearing the lot; erecting
a building, installing pumping ap
paratus, providing a water supply
and the thing is done. It seems as
easy as falling off a log or a sky
scraper in a night-mare. But which
of the aldermen l as put forward
llgures in detail showing the cost of
this procedure step by step? Which
of the aldermen has come forward
with specific plans, with definite
estimates of cost, with accurate sur
vey of the entire scheme in detail,
showing that the city gains and does
not lose on the plant to be develop
ed by the municipality?
Not a single one of them. Buy
ing a pig in a poke is an open
transaction compared to the business
methods of the aldermen in this
onnectlon. 1
The pumping plant may result i
n saving the city a considerable 1
um. It may be one of the wisest .
teps ever taken by the city coun- 1
til. It may be all that and a whole i
ot more But one thing only is <
tertain and that is that not a single 1
>ne of the council know whether it j
vill or not, or if they do and have
he facts to show it, they have ;
lever taken the public or their coll- i
■agues into their confidence.
WHY NOT?
When Jim Hill kicked the bucket
ir in other words passed over the
3reat Divide, the Hill roads during
the time of his interment ordered
every train stopped for a few
minutes.
We all know that would not re
surrect the railroad king. We all
know that not all the wizardry of
the wealth which he possessed
could put one small shadowy vital ■
3park back into the lifeless frame!
that had passed into the state of,
death.
It was an effort to show the peo
ple what a great man Hill had been i
for pomp and ceremony have been
used of old to show the masses the
power and glory of him who had
passed away, and thus in a measure
to counteract the dangerously
equalizing the iconoclasm of death
which defies human power.
Yesterday the longshoremen
stopped work in honor of the me
mory of Thomas Olson shot by
blackguardly strikebreakers in San
Francisco. And to our thinking in
no manner could that life have been
more fitly honored than in the pow
erful illustration of the solidarity
of unionism. The efTort is not to
show the grandeur and the power
and the control of the dead man,
so that after he has been la!d away
a memory cf greatness might still
linger with obsessing force in the
minds of underlings, but rather to
show the workers the real principles
of solidarity and brotherhood that
should exist among the working
classes for their own interest.
That’s how the workers can honor
fittingly themselves and their de
parted fellow unionists. “Dont waste
ime grieving”, said Joe Hill before
n so many words, “organize”. That
vas a fine legacy to leave his class,
tnd it is the same lesson that we
earn from the longshoremen lay
ng off for an hour all along the
:oast to honor the man who died
ighting labor’s historic battle. The
;ood work that plson helped along
vil live after him. It is living right
iow in the hearts of the workers, I
ind the method chosen to honor his
nemory is far more potent and fat>
'ul than the temporary cessation of
;rains while Hill was being consign
id to his tomb.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE,
ro John. Smith, Charles Anderson,
B. S. Rodey, John Stout, J. M.
Sloan, your heirs, executors, as
signs or personal representatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
the years 1912, 1913, 1914, and
1915 on the Way no Association, an
association placed mining claim si
tuated at the mouth of Willow
Creek and recorded at page 431 in
Volume 190 of the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District in the Second Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
The above s mount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
clamis, being the amount required
to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you fall to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure
you John Smith, B. S. Rodey, J. M.
Sloan and Charles Anderson for the
years 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915
and you John Stout for the years
1913, 1914, 1915, your interests in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under Section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JAS. B. IVORY
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., April 14, 1916.
Date of last pub., July 14, 1916.
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