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< HINA.
China is doing very well as na
tions go, and with its second revo
lution and civil war shows that it
is reaching the higher plane of ci
vilization.
Time was when we all thought
differently, but not now. The
world has been gaining in wisdom
well as experience during the
past few years. Time was when
the country that made a boast ot
its era of peace was esteemed as i
the highest typo, but never again.
The European war has broken these
vain illusions. Now we know th.it
war and preparation for war is the
highest good. We know that when
the nations complained of the burd
en of armaments they did not know
what they were talking about, tliai
they were really right In the van
guard of progress and merely ima
gined otherwise. Therefore even the
neutral nations cry to arms, ana
even the neutral nations must re
echo to the sound of the clasli ot
arms and the tramping of traine 1
myriads.
So we say China is doing very
well. China is having its own wai
game witli infinite pleasure devast
ating its fertile provinces, over
whelming its industrial activities,
subverting its institutions, and re
ducing comfortably its surplus popu
lation so that those who remain will
breathe more freely and breed with
more zest.
These are great times to U"e and
also great times to die. The great
war hus made life a continual round
and pleasure what with munitipnUt
dividends and high costs of living.
But a real genuine civil war tear
ing loose among the people snows
that China is even excelling ir its
own sweet way.
VIMiA.
If l’ancho Villa is dead..and it is
as yet quite uncertain, the old ban
dit could not have shuffled' off this
mortal coil at any more opportune
time, and dying he would have re
lieved the administration of a most
cm brassing position.
llut “the wish may he father to
the thought" upon noth the part ot
Carranza and the American govern
ment, and the wily general inav
have substituted for himself a corpse
whose outward seeming some
what resembled the rebel leader.
Villa has quite a lot if native
genius. He may have been a villain,
hut we dont know that Ills profes
sion cultivated the finer side of life,
and we must recollect that there
are atrocities and atrocities and all
have not been brought home to the
raider and bandit.
Honestly we doubt very much
when the whole gamut of outrage
to which the people of Mexico have
been subjected by outsid i Interests
is fairly considered the Mexicans
guilty of outrages and atrocities
have not been just as much sinned
against as sinning.
A most determined effort has
been made, especially by those hav
ing designs upon the Integrity oi
the Mexican nation, to point e/ery
Mexican as a walking scoundrel
whose riddance would be a blessing
to these days and placos.
That is simply not so. Villa Is
possibly a bloodthirsty leader, but
he is simply bettering the instruc
tion that rapacious capital and lust
ful profit-making gave those Mex
icans who were daring enough to
reseht It all.
THK M’AIKK) COMMISSION.
Travelling through South America
Is the M’Adoo trade commission
whose function Is to cement friend
ly feelings between the United
States and the South American re
publics in the Interest of trade.
The South American trade is by
no means to be regarded with in
■inference. British and German ma
nufacturers have discovered that it
is fairly lucrative and while those
nations are at one another’s throats
it is considered timely to scan a
t on mission with a view of making i
protestations of friendship anti
opening the way for the North Am
erican trader.
It s a common sense policy, rteve
loped in the interest of big business
which has its eyes upon the dol’ars
that may come from such trade
Whether just such a commission
is the proper thing or not is a mat
ter which may be disputed, but it is
remarkable that no one has ever
for an instant required a reason for
the fact that South American
countries have not been very fond
of patronizing American companies
and instead turned their eyes to
wards what Germany and Great Bri
tain had to offer.
Mind, that will be only half the
matter worth investigating. The
real mystery is how in tho world
the Latin republics of South and Cen
tral America have failed to appraise
I the Unit 'd States at its proper
worth.
| The principles of freedom as
enunciated in a Declaration of in
dependence surely arc the last worn
in tlie way of liberty, and ought to
be sufficient to bring towards the
United States tho reverence and
friendship of every Scuth American
nation.
Then to there is the Monroe doe
j trines with its high responsibilities
filling upon the United States to
guarantee voluntarily the freedom
land national integrity of the various
i \mericr.n nations.
Why the republics of Chili an i
Brazil and Argentina have failed to
pay the homage of their respect and
friendship to the United States for
such a Monroe doctrine should give
these itinerant commissions some
sort of pause. Doubtless there’s a
!cause and it would be interesting to
know if tliat $ause has been re
! moved.
U'H'KKKSH AM.
| Wickersham may be nominate)]
I today by the republicans at Sewara,
! but even if ho iB not. It will make
I no difference as he is certain to run
again in any event.
Having travelled through the
I various political degrees from
I straight republican to Roosevelt
progressive and Wilson democrat,
he will not be loth to rejoice in his
return to his old love.
It's a totally different question
whether or not the old love will
welcome its former political choice
so warmly. Possibly some will and
some will not. During the time
that Wickersham was a political
Ishmaeltte and the republicans
fought among themselves, they
established factions which did not
dare depart from the fold but which
developed antagonisms even more
bitter than were developed between
those within and those without the
fold.
To all of these Wickersham will
not be mutually welcome. Ono fac
tion will fawn upon him because oi
the opportunity he gives them ot
evening up with thoir rivals for
place and power within the party,
and as an evener-up of old scores
James Wickersham would be hara
to beat.
Indeed that has been his most et
fective function in Alaska politics.
He gave the outs of one party an
opportunity to get even with the in*
In the same faction, and democrats
and republicans who were sore upon
this or that faction within their
own ranks, sided with Wickersham
to prevent the triumph of the rest.
That has been the story of politics
in Alaska ,and It has been also the
source of Wlckersham’s strength to
no small degree.
Now he will hare to be swallowed
whole by all the republicans If no
—~ '— - >
mlnated and (or some ho will be a
mighty bitter as well as a mighty
tough morsel.
THE DANBURY HATTERS.
Tho efforts to rr.ise funds to as
sist the Danbury hatters have been
somewhat strenuous and it is doubt
ful If these victims, real victims, of
the Gherman law will ever recoup
themselves for their losses.
And that shows how completely
and thoroughly unscientific- are
labor organizations and slow they
are to learn even in the bitter ex
perience of the class struggle, espe
cially as exemplified in the case oi
the Danbury hatters. There have
been fines imposed rrom time to
time upon various industrial trusts
and some have been put to such ex
pense in defending themselves that
even the legal costs have amountea
to more than actual fines.
What have been tho tactics pur
si^ed by these trusts? Did they pay?
They certainly did. But they took
good care that they lost nothing by
it. The glass trust was fined anu
paid its fine, but it also reduced the
wages of Its employees, thus in
creasing its profits, and raised tile
price of its wares, thus adding to
its gains. And the price remained
long after a "reasonable” time
had elapsed to pay the fine and .the
costs of litigation. Standard Oil
and the American Tobacco Co. and
the other trusts which have enjoyed
the pleasure of a comic op^ra pro
secution have added to their profits
in a similar manner, and they turned
the evil of the costs of defense inm
their permanent betterment by high
prices.
Well might labor take a lesson
from these examples. Just recent
ly labor organizations subscribed to
wards the Danbury hatters. Why
should not labor organizations have
proclaimed a general demand fer an
increase in waees to cover this sub
scription—to cover it as the trusts
cover it a hundred times over and
fight if their demand was denied?
That was the reasonable way.
i The Danbury hatters were ma.1'1 the
goat for labor, and labor ought to
have made their fight the fight of
all. The trusts take care that some
one pays their fines and costs. Labor
if it had half the instinct of seit
preservation that capital manifests
on all occasions, w'ould go them one
better and make the tru’.ts pay.
Put ;u:-t as long as they will not
fight for labor’s advancement, they
tan t expect to advance by just pay
ing “leaders’” salaries.
Y<>1 X<JST< )\V\ STK1KI'..
The rioting tliat occurred when
the steel trust employees went out
on strike has occasioned consider
able comment in the various papers
It's quite high-minded comment too;
tlie incidents are deplored and the
government is urged to investigate.
Investigation like charity covers
a multitude of infinities. At least
tho democrats have discovered that,
and it has been this administration's
long suit.
But why investigate. The facts
are obvious. He who runs may
read. There is no mystery. Every
thing is patent and clear and mani
fest. The whole affair lies in a
nutshell. Seventy per cent of the
employees receive less than H5j
a year.
Take a pencil and figure that out;
how an employee with a family of
bairns can support them upon that
wages with the present high costs
of living, and when you nave done
figuring you will find the paper
covered with a picture spells red
ruin and desolation and rioting and
■trikes and revolution far clearer
than any specimen of the cubist art
that ever you came across. It’s
there in detail in black and white.
Strikes and rioting—how under
heaven's canopy with the careful
calculation of none too friendly sta
tists before you to the effect that at
least seven hundred is required tc
support a family of five in elemental
decency, could there be anything
else?
IMPROVING THE IMMIGRANT.
Wren the papers began talking
and writing about hyphenates who
never became Americanized, an as
sociation boldly threw itself into the
breach to make the immigrants
more efficient and to make them re
spect all American institutions.
Now comes- Chairman Walsh ana
points out that the most efficieni
way to make immigrants respect
American institutions i3 to give
them a square deal and further al
leges pointing to the report of the
Industrial Relations Commission
that they are not getting any such
thing now.
That’s a viewpoint worth consid
ering, but it will not be considered.
Walsh might as well have kept his
mouth shut.
ECONOMIC
DETERM I NISH.
The Milwaukee Leader has a
number of fine editorials every day.
Most of them are of local interest
for your social democrat is rome po
litician and Wisconsin politics arc
interesting. The first thing that the
politician must do is to cater to the
sentiments of the folk around him.
Beer made Milwaukee famous, and
Germans have made in multitudes
their homes there. What could ce
more correct, more natural ana
what else would be expected bu?
that the Leader of Milwaukee
should be rabidly pro-German and
anti-prohibition.
Besides even Wilson prudently and
politically tempered his denuncia
tion of the hyphenate activities in
! Beeropolis.
Economic determinism — that’s
all.
NOTICE OK FOrtFEITCltE.
To Torn Kelleher, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You ore hereby notified, that i have
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars for
labor and improvements each year
for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914
and 1915 on the Jefferson Associa
tion, an association placer mining
claim situated on Cripple river ana
recorded and more fully described
in volume 19fi at page 03 in the re
cords of the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District in the Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
j under the provisions of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment wor<
upon Mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified, that
if within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice, you fail
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure your Interest in said
claim will become the property of
rhe undersigned, your Co-Ownei un
der section 2324 Re\ised Statutes
of the United States.
WILLIAM SHEEHAN.
Co-Ownei.
Date of first publ., Feb. 9, 1916.
Date of last publ. May 10, 1916.
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