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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of hie labor, or as
a early as possible, Is a worthy 'object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communication! to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, .Mine 2, 11117.
kknatokivi. rise \i. it.ans.
There’s a dignified nobility about
♦ ho senatorial plans to tax neces
saries like tobacco ami tea and
coffee and sugar and cocoa. It af
fords all an opportunity of contri
liuting to the glory of the nation in
♦ he war an l will without doubt he
cheerfully paid.
It affords the workers an equal
opportunity with the millionaires
of financing the affairs of the na
tion: a most glorious opportunity
indeed!
If it is sweet and grand to die lor
one’s country, it also ought to be
as sweet and grand to pay a few
cents on every pound of tea, coffee,
sugar or tobacco consumed, and
without doubt the masses will deep
ly appreciate the favor and the ho
nor conferred upon them by the
senators.
The plans to place a surtax upon
profits and a graduated income
tax, removed the opportunity of
paying towards the revenue which
t he people are so eager to have a
share in. and the correction of this
original error will without any
doubt he properly relished by those
in whose favor the correction ha:,
been made.
Rightly these equitable apprais
ers saw that Mr. Rockefeller, Mr.
Morgan, Mr. Schwab and the rest
had already too many privileges and
♦ his privilege of paying all alone
the costs of the war was too much
for the finance committee of the
senate to endure. They saw these
men endeavoring to effect another
monopoly, not possibly of very great
material consideration, but surely
from a sentimental point of view
beyond price. They were denying
to the lowly workers a chance, the
chance of a life time, to contribute
their portion towards the great re
habilitation ol the universe, and as
far-seeing and fuirminded and jus:
men they put their foot down anti
denied that new monopoly any rigid
to CXlSt.
They visioned the stalwarts of
lirawn and brain who had been pro
ducing tlit national wealth, serving
faithfully as those also serve who
meekly stand and wait, wat liing
with sinking hearts the pri.ilege de
nied them of giving of their wages
and the salaries towards the funds
of the nation, while those men who
already had more than a sufficiency
of privilege were being afforded the
chance o pay all or nearly all ex
penses. Then these patriotic sen
ators. worthy patres conscripti, rise
to the occasion with tears welling
In their hearts, and insist that such
must never be. Rather let the trea
sury go empty while waiting . the
passage of the revenue hill, than
that these simple heroes should be
allowed to wait in vain for the op
portunity to share the privileges ol
those already more than favored in
material things.
Commendable therefore is that
policy of these modern Daniels in
politics legislating with iron righte
ousness and rigorously, despite^ the
outraged feeling or the powerful,
defiant of the spirit of resentment
they may (xcite in the highest circ
les, r gardless of the anger of those
those well aide to visit their angel
upon them—rigorously insisting
that Justice he done though the
Heavens fall.
Food for thought, in truth, it
there in this fine example of modren
•altruism.
Although, it may well be that tin
J’enroses and the Lodges and tht
rest may be denying themselves the
privilege already theirs of paying a
.surtax upon their private Incomes
still the nobility of soul
that exercises the activities ol
these men in Congress, insists that
the poor us well as the rich will
have the not ignoble privilege ol
paying the war tax in uniform pro
portions.
It so easily
might have been
otherwise. They might have taken
advantage of their position to insist
that no poor man was entitled to
pay a cent towards the expenses of
the nation during war time. They
might have pointed out that the
war would, with increased business
activities of one kind or another,
have so increased their profits that
the only reasonable way of ridding
themselves of their surplus was for
government to take it. They might
have pointed out that the poorer
sections of the. community had a
sufficiency of gloiy in giving their
person under the drafL law, and
that it remained for them the richer
classes to give of their property
under a quasi conscription of pro
perty law.
It must be admitted, l'or it cannot
well be denied, that the workers
would not l'or one instant have
dared to challenge the right of the
men of wealth to have their wealth
conscripted. It will have to he
acknowledged, because it is beyond
controversy, t Hat wealth conscrip
tion would have been just as logi
cal and just as reasonable and just
ns fair as conscription of the per
son. Yet in spite of this, the senate
j committee, with wonderful self
j abnegation admit the workers to an
I equal footing and permit them the
; opportunity of sharing in the pay
1 ment of taxes of the country.
A very wise poet said that trials
are more easily borne when more
commonly shared. Upon that max
im is founded this weighty policy
which excites applause. It is obvi
ous that if these he times that try
men’s souls, in having all share the
! trial, the whole people more easily
{ bear it. .
I it might have been otherwise. A
j haughty senate might have held
that the workers and the masses
I of the people were being admitted
to sacrifice enough: they might
J have held that here was an oppor
tunity for the men of wealth not foi
| the masses oi consumers, to show
I their patriotism, it is was for the
inner circle of wealth concentration
to enjoy the luxury of wealth con
scription. Uut knowing well that
j in denying them this opportunity
| they ran the risk of creating dang
erous enemies within that inner
circle for all time, they do their
whole duty like whole-souled men.
It is to lie hoped that those men
of wealth and position who have
been compelled thus to share their
privileges with the producing mes
ses will not do otherwise than ac
cept the situation gracefully and
with true patriotism acquiesce in
the action of the Committee. This
is a time when the national senti
ment should be unified, and no time
for quibbling over matters which
in the last analysis are nothing but
fair play and common justice. it
may he that the miliionaiie will
fee! slighted in being denied his sur
tax. it is not impossible Unit hr.
may be excited to angry expressions
because «f lifts, but the nobler con
duit on this luspieious occasion is
to submit to the inevitable and
with great good cheer accept things
as they are.
Surely they who have so many
and so much of the good things ol
this life will not envy the^poorer
brother in his little gift from the
Senate. It should rather appeal
to that finer sense which with more
kindly heart enjoys seeing others
enjoy the privileges which mighl
very well lia\e been their own.
Moreover knowing the charitable
methods of foundation-founders
and stain-glass-window-endowera
we feel confident that they will
I make a virtue of necessity and al
j low the justice of the policy which
removes a tax from their shoulders
and allows the masses the privilege
of themselves sharing in the burd
ens.
THE RATE RULING.
According to a Washington dis
patch the Interstate Commerce Com
mission decided against the Wick
ersham contention ot discrimination
of rates in favor of the big compa
nies, holding that the rates existed
as charged eight months ago, but
not now.
If this is a decision against
Wickersham, the man in the street
should be shown. It is not self
evident. It is more than twelve
months ago since Wickersham made
his move in the case, and if, since
that time, and under the pressure ot
that move, the steamship companies
put their houses in order, that
merely justifies the Wickersham
position.
The real question is why were the
companies obliged to rectify tlie
discriminatory rates which they
practiced eight months ago. If
that is answered we can hardly re
gard the dispatch that Wickersham
was decided against in the rate case
as correct in inference.
In fact what has happened is this.
The steamship companies did ha\e
discriminatory rates. Wickersham
in his brief explicitly revealed
wherein they' existed. Not only
that but his move to have the In
terestate Commerce Commission in
vestigate the matter, compelled
also the Steamship Companies to
mend their ways. Under pressure
of that kind, due entirely to this of
ficial action the Interstate Com
merce Commission, admits that the
companies removed this discrimina
tion.
Yet how long these rates have
been going on until this action was
taken who may say? Everything
points to the fact that they have
been the natural thing in the Alas
ka transportation trade and only
because action was taken to change
this, was it changed.
There's a heap of black spots
shadowing through the dose ot
whitewash which the Interstaters
have applied to this case. And one
of the darkest is the very wording
of the decision which in effect ad
mits that the injustices existed but
since have been remedied.
And now comes Alaska politics.
Every paper which has attacked,
denounced and hounded Wicker
j sham will see in this decision an
other case of rank failure—another
exploded effort at self advertisement
—another ridiculous baiting of ca
pital, invested in the country, foi
political purposes. They ought r.t
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least to be fair enough to admit
that this is a concrete case where
VVickersham has proved his useful
ness to many of the smaller ship
pers.
The Industrial Worker is not a W’ick
ersham paper, has no more sup
ported him than it has supported
Sulzer. No paper has been freer
in its criticism of many things
which he has done and many things
which he has left undone than this
paper.
None the less, because he is no
longer the certified delegate to
Congress from Alaska, Is no reason
why it should be asserted that ot
this rate case he has made a fizzle.
He has done nothing of the kind.
If the changes have been made in
the conditions of discrimination in
the rates, so that such discrimina
tions were changed, it has all been
brought about by W'ickersham and
by not another politician
The Alaska rates need consider
able remedying. The Industrial
Worker has contended that rates
upon the ocean and rates upon the
rivers will help to solve transporta
tion problems in Alaska much more
promptly than the construction of
a government railroad. Th'is paper
so claimed long ago and claims so
today. The key to the situation is
between Alaska and the States and
not within Alaska.
To finally adjust these rates so
that no inequity would exist re
quires comsiderable work and work
that is not merely word-play and
political tom-foolery. The Wicker
ersham effort was an effort along
lines of earnestness and reality.
There was no pretense about it,
and what little has been done has
been done by reason of it.
Prejudice against him cannot deny
that, however strong it may be,
without stultification.
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