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Nome, Alaska October 31, 1017.
TROUBLES OF THE INVENTOR.
In the distant time when man
kind was in its cradle and the tirst
monkev-man found that his weight
far enough out upon the branch
would dislodge it from the trunk,
he discomfitted his playmates, who
<ha-ed him. He returned next to
try the wonderful experiment. His
chattering companionsdrew apart
from him, and called him a nut,
hut the lever was invented. From
it the cart wheel and all other
wheels that sing the score of civi
lization, came. The race of men In
its tortuous path upward has found
no more useful anl universal de
vice, but from that di-tant day to
now the way of the inventor has
been hard. The story of Galileo
compelled upon pain of death to
abandon his discovery that, the
earth is round is well known. Col
umbus hoboed for seventeen years
and the wisest men of Salamanca,
u council of the most brilliant court
on earth, grinned their conservat
ism at him, and -neered, “Even so.
how can a ship sail uphill?” Thomas
Watt, inventor of the steam en
gine. was thought of as the lazy
idiot brat of a widow. Wise men
and scientists figured out to a t-v
ty that no locomotive could move
its own weight on a level track. The
first steamboat wa “Fulton's
Folly”. “It will never run”, the
conservatives said, and when it
moved majestically away, “Any
way it will never stop”. So late as
the mid-nineteenth century the first
telegraph messages exited s-upersti
tituous fear-. The telephone was
first publicly exhibited at the Phi
larelphia Contennial in 187G. X.»
less astute financier than Jay Gould
himself, looked upon it and pro
nounced it ;• nice toy in Ins judge
ment it would never be adapted to
commercial uses! There are men
still living to whom Alexand* t
Bell begged for money to prose
cute his discoveries.
It wa, ever thus; the inventor
encountered athanrt his Path the
sneering Imp of the Conservative.
But the inventors are the true
builders. Elias Howe starving and
deserted by liis closets friends, re
mained in squaliid shop on more
heart- weatlng hour and made the
sewing machine and the empire of
textile manufactures. Whitney made
the cotton gin and there sprang
into being an empire of silvery
fleece. The name of the inventor
of the reaper and binder is un
known, the machine taking the
name of the travelling salesman
who bought the first model for a
pittance, but the golden empire of
grain is here. History mentions
these men sparingly in smaller type
and footnote, but fills whole epochs
with the doings of swash-buckling
heroes.
\VA(il> (Ml TROIII'S.
It is perfectly clear that under
ity sysiem of wage <i profit you
can't keep seme men from growing
enorraouslj rich, honestly so. so
far a:, they themselves i re concern
ed. To illustrate we will suppose
.hat -* era; ' -j s H aed pays him
wages. N'iiw it were absurd to sup
pose that A will pay 1! in verges
a sum equal to that which iti de
rives from *5'. labor, else fr •. t a
business standpoint why employ
pint lifu at if? There must bo a
profit to A in excess of Hi's hire.
The notion 'of that profit is essen
tially the mainspring of every en
terprise embarked m. Now sup
pose that margin of piofit to be ex
ceedingly narrow, that A makes out
of B’s labor but one dollar a< week.
Now if all laboring people were paid
that close to wuat they earn for
their employers, labor troubles all
over the world would oea-e, strikes,
with all the hell they bring in their
wake, would bn no more, and the
great stern- of unrest now shaking
tiic besom of the world would sub
title. But suppose that on that
fair and equitable basis A emplyos
ono thousaid men a week. He thus
honestly clean,* up a thousand dol
lars a weak. If he has employed
ten thousand men a year he makes
a let profit of 520 thousand dol
lars in one year' Honestly, fairly
and legally so far as he is con
cerend. under the wage ar.d profit
syflem. The fault ;s obviously with
the system and not necessarily
with the man.
Applied to our own enterprises
it looks allright, for do wc not all
employ people just as cheaply as
■ve can get them, vhether it is for
work on the. farm, in a factory- or
a bank? And do we not all make
as much profit out of a transaction
as we possible can’ We have to do
so else competition, anotiier feature
of our system, would soon put us
out of business.
*et it is by the same system
thet .he much abused .Mr. Rocke
feller has made every dollar he
owns. His net profits are estimated
at about len thousand dollars an
lour, whether waking or sleeping.
$156.60 coming to him every mi
nute! >ie takes an aft. rnoon nap
and a comfortable fortune has come
to him. A hundred dollars come.
to him in less time than it takes to
sneeze.
But in all fairness is he. by our
own standards, to be blamed for
making every dtllar he can? He
may have never actually violated
the law even if he does now own
practically every one hundredth dol
lar there is in the whole country.
Under the same system it is poss
ible for his gtandson to own it all
if the fortune is conserved and cora
pou nded.
That ij exactly what has happen
ed in Europe in the case of the
Rothschilds They own it all.
They are money lender.; t° the
great national powers. Good and
bad times are alike to them and
wais, famine and pestilence but add
to their legitimate and honest
“profits”. Arn’t your business
principles as nearly as- you can
make them like the Rotschilds?
They get as much interest as they
can for (heir money, make £.- much
out ol every transaction, derive as
much profit as they can from each
investment? Don’t we ulL do the
same thing? In fact don’t we all
congratulate ourselves when we
make a good deaf or a “profit’ pay
ing investment? In fact do we not
all. when we are prosperous, build
new barns and say to our souls,
“Be thou merry."
But here, the Rockefeller, Roth
schilds and other fortunes are now
so stupendous and colossal that
they are impossible of disintegra
tion. No spendthrift of the family
can waste it fast as it accumulates.
Were the present and future gen'e
raitous of these families of lordly
wealth to prove imeompetent and
profligate these fortunes would still
increase until the world is literally |
owned by them. Nothing, can stop
stop it or change it except by a
radical change of the profit bearing,
wage paying competition system.
Will it ever be done, and what will
it be when it is changed?
COMPULSORY A RBIT RAT ION
Compulsory arbitration is a
means whereby any union that be
comes . strong enough to really
menace capitalism can be placed
under control. It does not apply
to unions whose struggles have
failed to attain sufficient strength
to interfere-more than loyally zwitli
industry. In the place of repres
sions against such weak unions
I they are to he either ignore:] oi else
' gSen State a’ci in such a manner
is to render t hem innocuous.
Australia—in Victoria in 1 !<•"
at the time of the railway strike
a law was passed providing a penal
j ty of 12 months imprisonment or a
line /Of one hundred pounds (about
$5C0.) for engaging in a strike on
j a government railway. A man is
liable to arrest and imprisonment
| without warrant or bail for advi3
I ing a strike orally or by publica
fcon of* by attending a meeting of
I more than six persons for the pur
| peso of encouraging strikers.
In Xew South Wales provides
that anyone taking part in a strike
feeding under certain groups of
industries is liable to 12 months'
imprisonment' and that the police
may break into the headquarters of
any union and seize any documents
which they reasonably suspect to
/elate to any walk-out or strike.
A man Is always better than
his creed, unless perchance he
makes a new one every day.
We take the bitterness out of
life when we accept it in its en
tirety—drink yo all of it.
J Worship humanity and you honor
•trsolf.
When men deserve the ideal it
will be here.
Whoever heard of the fatted calf
being killed over the return of the
prodigal girl?
There is something greater than
happiness jt is to have the strength
to put aside the temptation to
seek for it. And the humor of this
lies in the fact that the act renun
ciatory is only going after the same
thing in another way.
SPECIAL RATE THE REST Ol
THE WEEK.
Everything in 'store reduced.
Oranges $5.50 per box. Cabbage
18 lbs for $1.00. Sweet Potatoes
4 lbs. for 25c., while they last.
I.eave order for your winter po
tatoes now.
NOME GROCERY CO.
A. F. OESTREICH, Mgs.
You’ll see it lirst in the Worker.
NOME BAKERY
Big Dandy
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On “Umatilla'’ we cxj>ect a limited supply of
LIBERTY
If they arrive, we will sell to those desiring.'. If they laii to ar
rive, we ran take subscriptions and have bonds deposited in any
Seattle bank to older of purchaser.
GET BEHIND OUR GOVERNMENT.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF I.EO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
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< Miners and Merchants bank
j Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
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Workingmen's Accounts Solicited.
Army Shoes
EARLY LAST SPUING WE PLACED AX ORDER WITH
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT CONTKATORS FOR ARMY
SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON” LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM* OVER.
YOU MAY SOON HE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
SAN!” BUT WHY WAIT?
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
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