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Nome, Alaska, October 7. 1915.
AS TO POLITICS.
There 'is no doubt at all in labor
circles that the legislation which
Congress passed at the eleventh
h<fur to avert a railroad strike was
due to the solidarity of the brother
hoods. Almost all the labor papers
point out this fact as an instructive
one, and furthermore the capitalist
rage that is manifested in a variety
of great journals is an indication
that this estimate is correct.
In any event that it is correct ail
observation as to jjolities will un
doubtedly confirm. Most people
imagine that legislation, especially
legislation which is of a reformist
nature is inspired by some humani
tarian motive. But that idea is not
correct. In point of fact, all legis
lation is a manifestation of certain
economic forces which have through
their influence been able to excite it.
Politics responds unerringly to the
stimulus of economic power and the
class,, the set of persons or the in
dividual who controls the economic
power can usually secure legislation
on his behalf.
It is an undeniable fact that the
great commercial, industrial and
financial interests have written
raenis of legislation over the statute
books of every country, and there
is not a phase of political activitj
which does not in itself represeni
some economic force, strong am
powerful, finding materialization or
the political field.
This analysis is sound if unsenti
mental, and it goes down below the
tumult and the shouting that so de
ceives those who are led away Ip
certain characteristics of politics
activities.
But one can hardly consider an:
‘issue’ which has been before th<
country which was not an effor
upon the part of some class or sec
tion of the people to have their eco
nomic interests attended to. Thu:
we have the powerful and the privi
leged able to successfully resist ai
income tax for half a century; w<
have the consolidating powers ii
the world of industry successful^
compelling a tariff so that their ope
rations could be compulsorily sup
ported by the domestic consumptioi
of their product; we have the shipp
ing combines manfully striving ti
gnaw a hole in Uncle Sam’s pletho
ric walet so that in the shape of i
shipping subsidy they could increas
their share of the unearned incre
meat, and we have organized labo
repeatedly endeavoring through vart
ous means to have such legislatioi
passed as would strenghten it
position.
Now to find an expression of their
economic interests materializing in
such a political manifestation as le
gislation, the first essential has been
that the interest seeking such legis
lation would be organized,, and the
stronger that economic organiza
tion the more definite and complete
would be the successful political
manifestation under all circum
stances be.
Nor is the reason for this far to
seek. In a composite society such
as exists at the present day, with
only very indistinct and very misty
conceptions held by the vast major
ity of what their interests really
are; with so many entertaining
wholly perverted ideas of their real
interests and with others this wholly
a matter of latent instinct, the
only way whereby minority interests
could rule is through controlling the
majority.
Obviously also that economic con
trol comes ready-made to the em
ployers. They provide through tht
gr:!.ce of God and ownership of the
means of production and distribu
t!on an opportunity to the masses
who tre employable, tj live And
because they have that power they
can secure support from employees
even when that support is to the un
doing of the workers. Or they may
use threats; they can declare that
in the event of their candidate not
receiving a majority, the opportuni
ty to work may be denied by the
closing down of the mine, or the
mill, or the factory, or the foundry,
or the machine plant, or the blast
furnace. And also by persuading
many employees that their interests
and the employers are identical,
| they may secure the needed major
I ity.
j . There is no getting over this eco
| nomie power of the owners of the
1 means of production and distribu
! tion unless the workers organize
what is just as essential to the
1 owners of the machinery of produc
tion and distribution namely their
labor. And it is quite within the
bounds of possibility that such a
general organization might be used
for the express purpose of securing
political action of a definite sort by
the workers, as it is so frequently
and so universally done by employ
ers. In fact is has been done alrea
dy in other nations, and many will
recall the occasion in Belgium when
organized labor to secure universal
suffrage resorted to a general strike.
Most of us however live in a world
of myth, and are quite bewildered
by the political activities which are
in evidence around us. The politicl
I ans even when spokesmen for de
i finite and powerful interests which
intend to effect their designs come
what may, will affect the loftiest
I motives and speak and act appar
; ently on the highest plane of moral
ity and humanitarianism. They per
vert the truth which insists that
| men act from motives acquired by
j their economic interest, as directly
i inspired by their economic environ
! ments, and the most successful po
' litician is the person who can arouse
! in the mentality of the masses an
ideal and perverted conception of an
environment which is not theirs. A\e
1 cannot rise above the economic
plane. That is the gravitating force
that makes the ideal unreal, and
l the real ideal, and politics itself re
presents at all times the interests oi
some economic interest which is not
lost in the mazes of idealism, but
knows its economic needs. Essen
tially has this been the case with
the propertied classes. They have
> as a matter of fact made business
the keynote of politics and the high
i est praise of a legislative body con
! trolling government is that it gave
1 a business administration.
We might point out in this con
nection the immense ramification!
of the economic interests in all po
1 litical functions. How dollar diplo
macy has been the basis of all diplo
* macy, and how the machinery oi
• national governments moved whei
1 financial, commercial and industria
' interests so dictated is too wel
■ know and will be Immediately rea
' ized without any cases being cited
■ The associations which the great in
1 dustrial interests have maintainef
i with the legislators of this countr
have been searching and shrewd. I
' did not need the stolen letters o
1 Standard Oil or the notorious reve
■ lations of Colonel Mulhall and thi
probe of the Lobby mvesugauoi
committee to show this.
Complaint is made that then
various actions are class legislation
class action and class decisions. An<
they are. Nor is there any mean;
whereby they can be overcome whil<
there are classes, exploiting and ex
ploited or employing and employed
and there are class antagonisms
Class antagonisms have existed ii
every age wherein there wen
classes, and the more precise is tin
division between the classes, alsi
and positively the greater will b<
the antagonisms which -will prevai
between them. In no place does thi
antagonism manifest itself so defi
nitely as in the political activities
just as long as those are open ti
such classes, but there has been i
constant effort upon the part of on<
to limit the political activity am
freedom of the other in favor o
itsffif. There is such a thing as tin
economic instinct of the indiivdua
in society, but its expression is onl;
to be discovered in collective action
because for the most part it is be
ing constantly in the exploited indi
viduai either perverted or suppres
sed.
From this it can be understom
how difficult is the position of th
politician who endeavors to answe
the call of "all his constituents’
and the interesting dexterity of th
more nimble of these mental gym
nasts can be the better appreciate
when the impossibility of their tasl
is fully understood.
JAP CABINET WILL
STATE CHINA POLICY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 6.—
It is announced from Tokio officially
to the State department that the
new Japanese cabinet will soon an
nounce its intentions on the Chinese
question and towards China.
It is admitted by Count Okuma
that the reason for his resignation
was that he repeatedly encountered
impossible opposition, especially of
late from the higher executive body,
clearly making his position quite
untenable. He does not expect a
very militarist policy from Terauchl.
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I'OIl DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
FOE REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax
Enforcement of Territorial I jaws.
Election, November 7, 1010.
FOR TERRITORIAL.
ROADCOMMISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, 1010
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1016
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate C. Coombs
For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1016
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