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May l>e the crisis in Washington
between the administration and the
majority leaders in Congress could
be explained in the simplest man
ner by declaring It evident that
Wilson and the democratic party are
no longer in real accord; that the
support extended him in hi3 admi
nistrative policies is so extended
both because in the last analysis h«!
controls the public patronage and
because there is a sence of loyalty
due a democratic president from do
mocratic members.
It is far more likely true that
Citade Kitchin is a typical exponent
of democracy and the democratic
party than is President Wilson, and
there is something so extraordinary
in the administrative policies being
opposed by a democratic house lead
er and supported by a republican
house leader one may well question
whether or not after all Wilson doe,
reflect the principles of his party ui
all.
It can hardly be considered a
mere matter of chance that Presi
dent Wilson is opposed on hlgiii\
important questions In the Senate bj
the Chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, and is supporter
by one of the most notorious o
stand pat senators on the same occa
sion.
And for this reason It would no
be ridiculous to assert that Wilsor
as a politician reflects the cconomi,
position of the republican party
more closely than ho does that ol
the democratic party.
Except that he is far from beins
in the same reactionary class of re
actionary minded men a3 forme]
President Taft, it is safe to say tha
T »_!J_* Unxrcx hfl'j.
a much more decided success as
head of the republican party than
as head of the democratic party,
unless one were to identify witn
the latter the relatively few great
interests that have found themselves
at home therein.
As a democratic president, Wii
sou runs up against all serts of dif
ficulties which he would not l’r.ve to
encounter as a republican, and he
certainly would not bo the pecu
liar and for the h < • dmt
nistration a very critic: i pupil I n In
which ho today finds himself.
The republican party is the part}
of great woalth, great iadustlal ana
great financial interests. It ir, the
party which stands for an extension
of privilege whore privilege ^111 af
ford the interests an opportunity for
still further aggrandizement.
Logically thorofere, inasmuch ns
thece great interests demand great
protection the propatv tionict policy
of Wilson is directed theret > quite
consistently. The larger the property
the more opulent the freight, the
more plethoric the treasure house
with precious contents, the more
urgont is the necessity for its guard
ing, and great armies and great na
vies are required In order to atiord
tho House of Morgan, toe H uso of
Rockefeller and the Hcir e cf Still
inr.n ample protection.
The small producer's, the small
farmer, the little business man, the
little exploiter and th general
cock roach commercial rlf ralf
that make up the general
complexion of tho democratic part}
has no excess've zeal for an expen
sive r.ad exter.clvo military and na
val establishment. They have very
little sympathy with imperialist de
signs, and while from sentimental
reasons they might be inclined to
venerate the Monroe doctrine, they
would hardly he very much inciiued
to risk the country’s peace to uplio.d
it very strcnuouciy f r the benefit
of others than themselves.
The repubican party is represent
ed in Big Bossiness. Thp uemo
cratic party in little businorc. The
lino of demarcation may not he ri
gidly noted, and there may be here
and there exceptions noted in this
generalization, but none the less
generally speaking it is economically
correct.
Today both in the foreign and
domestic policy where the foreign
and domestic policy are vitally im
portant, Wilson if; assuredly more
devoted to Big Business than to
Little Business.
His later day development makes
tills exceedingly clear beyond any
sort of quostion.
It would not be so extravagant a
notion to imagine Wilson adopted
by the republicans and receiving
their nomination in a patriotic out
burs*. But even the most grotesque
conception of political menatosities
could hardly imagine Bryan or Kit
chin or Goro for one fleeting mi
nute being received and L1 j-nted by
a republican conver.tlcn.
Moreover if wo could imagine any
of those three democrats in Wilson's
place, it is positively certain thai.
at no stage of their administration, i
allowing for the conservatism that
responsibility naturally entails. I
could it be conceived that a man
| like Senator Lodge in the Senate,
or Representative Mann in the
House would support any c.io of
their policies at ary time whatso
ever, and moreover that '.mpossibil
ity lies in the fact that it would be
impossible to imagine there repre
sentatives of the little business man
ever so far forgetting what was duo
to their party’s economic founda-,
tious as to introduce legislation
favoring the great interests.
Noth’ng that has recertly de
veloped shows hew completely poli
tics is the reflex of one's economic
position rs this crisis which is now
....—-1:~ i»» x*Tf in i
that, the leaders of the d^rcccratic
party are untrue tr the principles of
their party, but rather that Wilson
is ad v seating a policy which his
party economically has no sympathy
for whatever b .cause it has no ma
terial concern for their economic in
terests. On tho other hand Wilson
is receiving support from republi
can:-' not because they have deserted
the recognized principles of their
party but because Wilson has adopt
d as an administrative policy tliG
very policy a republic-n president
might very reasonably be ■ xpoctod
with come degree of certa'nty to I
adopt.
One may ridicule Bryan or his
followers, but in the main they are
truar to thoir economic type than is
President Wiiscn te the predominant
type of tho party which nominated
him.
Theoretically Wilson’s democracy
at: a southerner is quite rasonable
because within ample precedent, but
because ho and his have ccoromic
interests which conflict with the
later day trend of tho party, his ad
ministration develops an inconsist
ency.
Take two man prominent enough
iu the democratic party: Oscr.r Un
derwood coining from the steel and
iron industry of Alabama and Kit
eliin representing the farmer ele
ment and the smaller lawyers who
live off them. The two men are
t.uito unlike and without any doubt
the proper position for a conserva
tive like Undorwood is within the
republican part^ did not tha senti
mentalism cf the solid south make
party matte-s an hereditary thing
with such as he.
The squabble proceeding is there
for a squbbie of ecouon ic inter
ests; tho inconsistencies evident are
the inconsistencies inevitable where
one reprosenativo of certain econo
mic interests finds himself in a
party opposed to such interest eco
nomically.
And it is moreover exceedingly
interesting to note that the squabble
by no stretch of the imagination
concerns the majority or wage work
ing interest. They are unrepresent
ed by any such thing as a political
policy and so far as they have any,
it Is only a distinction without a
difference upon the par^ of such a
party from any of the oldel parties.
They do Indeed find mum advant
age for their own politlcaljXealcts in
persuading themselves tha^thelr in
terest is wrapped up in tftt frte ol
the little business man and the little
business man makes over the wage
worker as the lest rofugl in the
great war of extinction which Big
Business is perpetually waging upon
the smaller independent.
Whon twenty dollars worth ot
gold is taken from the or? or from
the earth it is a mistake to think
that the world is richer by that
much value. It costs according to
the estimates of mining engineers
on an average about thirteen or
fourteen dollars to extract that
value. Sometimes it costs more and
sometimes a groat deal less. A Rand
mine successfully takes out its ounce
of gold for ten dollars, a Cr.lifcrnir
dredge produces an ounce for seven,
but taken all in all fifteen dollars
per twenty dollars worth of gold is
the fair rate for greatly productive
mines. How is it, says the anti
socialist economist, that if labor
power is the ultimate measure of
value, twenty dolars worth of labor
is not used up in extracting twenty
dollars worth of gold?
The question is a fair one.
When estimates are made up as to
thn r>nat of P-nlH OYtmotiOn tVlP W"iflT
and tear of machinery, labor, fuel
oil, superintendence r.nd m. r.nge
mert costs are all figured up. And
the sum total is only thirteen dol
lars. Now the Marxian theory ol
value says that It is the amount ol
socially necessary labor power used
up In the production of the commo
dity gives it its value.
The paradox lies in the fact thal
the mining engineers take no cogni
zance of the amount of socially ne
cessary labor power used up in tht
production of gold which gives gold
its inflated vaule over what it maj
on an average cost to produce ar
ounce of gold.
Besides the labor power utilized
in productive mining, there is als<
the labor power used up in non
productive mining and the enormou;
mass of labor power used up in pros
pecting and development work be
fore the gold is produced. Kveo
day's work dissipated in the searcl
for gold, in prospecting in openinf
up the mine adds to the cost of pro
ducing it, and adds also to its valut
because it consumes sudh an enorm
ous mass of socially ^cessary labo
power.
There is romance as well as trutl
in the Marxian theory of value
Here is this production of gold, ar
apparent paradox where not an ac
tually apparent contradiction of th<
Marxian theory confirming upon i
Iltle thought the exact truth ot the
economic problem which the intel
lect of Marx has solved for us. There
is not a prospector moving out in
the hills by his energy and his tire
less labor no matter how unsuccess
ful but contributes to tho value of
the yellow metal for those who have
It.
The lack of success and the lack
of reward falls to the prospector is
the very element which contributes
most to the value of gold. That la
bor is necessasry to society, and be
ing necessary when diverted to the
search for gold even when not re
quited to the individual producing
labor power in prospecting, society
pays the price through the increased
value of that yellow metal for which
so much labor has been productively
or non-productively consumed.
Were every man to find gold as a
matter of course, its value would
fall, less men would be required
to prospect for a constant supply
and the value would thus drop with
the decrease in the amount of soci
ally necessary labor power used up
in discovering and producing upon
discovery an ounce of the root of all
evil.
Surely the Marxian theory of
value stands the test.
NOTICE OF PURFEITCRE.
io uus Aspen, jonn mompson, uus i
Anderson, A. Meister and (
Fred Seidel, your heirs,
successors, cssigns, or personal re
presentatives. 1
You and each of you are hereby j
notified that I have expended in la- |
bor and improvements the sum of j
one hundred dollars each year for |
the years of 1909, 1910, 1911, 191Z, |
1913, 1914 and 1915 on the !
Malamut Group, an association
placer mining claim situated on the
Niukluk river and recorded and
more fully described in volume
16, at page 246 of the records of
the Council City Mining and Re
cording District, in the second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended to hold said claim being the
.amount required by the law con
i cerning annual labor upon mining
j claims.
And you and each of you arc
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
i your proportion of said expenditure,
;your interest in said claim will be
■ come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
Slates.
CHAS STROM.
Co-Owner.
: Date of first publ., Feb. 26, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 27, 1916.
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