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•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."
anrafiam Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, January K, 1»10,
It may appear strange that such
an intense interest is taken in wa>
news. Yet since interruption is
taking place in communication with
the Outside, it is very apparent, even
in Nome, that many persons simply
do not care anything about the pa
pers.
For them local nows has only a
passing interest; and without their
war news, they discover much that
is wanting in the paper.
It would be not only hypocritical
but also a very wrong thing to hold
that this is due to the depraved
taste of the readers. On the con
trary, it is significant of an instinct
ive feeling which almost all pos
sess, that history of far-reaching im
portance, affecting the interests of
all' nations, neutral or belligerent, is
in the making. And it is 'the in
stinct that is dormant in all whicn
arouses such an Intense Interest in
the war news and compels people
to read it.
Even in case of those whose views
are distinctly and rabidly partisan,
it is because of the fact that they
more strongly appreciate the real
importance of the war upon the fu
ture, and have made the issue a
somewhat personal matter in tha,.
event.
Nothing going on at the present
time, nothing that has happened
within the present generation has
,, . l>6t<n of such importance as ttfiif war.
It had thrown the world and its in
stitutions into .the crucible, and sub
.iected all to the test of fire, whence
they may become either more puri
fied and with less dross, or become
permanently refractory and irredu
cible to anything like elementary
purity.
And it is the humeu instinct that
this is so, prevailing over and above
nearer and what one might suppose
dearer questions, which accounts for
the absorbing interest with which
the people seek information as to
the progress of the war, and the
avidity with which they consume
the barest details.
In the reported activities or poss
ible activities of Congress, we ob
serve that no mention is made as to
action upon the reports of the In
dustrial Relations Commission. It
•is a blessing to some of the em
ploying classes that with the dear
people excited over the preparation
ist program, they forget all about
the needs of peace. In time of peace
prepare for war and forget all about
the Immediate necessities, is an ex
cellent policy for the capitalist po
liticians.
These are respectable days for
the boycott when even a cabinet of
ficial recommends it for use in com
pelling powers which will not arbi
trate questions likely to lead to war
•ire. And again over in Canada,
ause Henry Ford denounced the
1 war loan, they have begun
ing the Ford cars and that
approval of ‘ tho highest
s quite a lot of difference
he gun and what It is
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bet,
AlRo,
boycet
with 'tfafc
It mate,
who tiros t,
fixed at.
e of the fortunes
As an exampv .
. , ^ . . war stocks these
which are made in
days, a financial pa. unques
tioned reliability c'toa the c“°
an electrical engineer wh°
stock in a firm now hca v y nt<jr*
ested in making supplies or tl,e
Allies. A little less than a yt *r
-the man bought the stock at lk aaO
invested $050. Now ho has set
aside $250,000 for his wife ant?
family and rented spacious quarters
in Wall Street where he expects to
reach the multi-million class.
Isn’t it worth while asking, where
the man got that money? If h> la
bored at his craft until the day of
his death he wouldn’t make the two
hundredth of that amount, clear.
He obtained it from others who
had the wherewithal to buy and
whence got they that amount?
The sum came from values pro
duced by labor, and annexed by
those who did not labor, and who
are by this annexation process en
abled to gamble as such stock deal
ing really is.
Some day—it may be long and -it
may be short, the workers will
awake and there will be no more
annexation and then—Wall Stroet
will be fallen from its high estate.
Meantime it is an elegant system for
all but the workers.
The Industrial Worker hasn’t got
much use for the minimum wage as
a principle, because if every person
is paid minimum wages, prices rise
to equalize matters and there is
no benefit derived therefrom.
But as a means of locally raising
wages it is not be despised even
once in a while.
A merchant in Milwaukee last
October aired his views in opposi
tion to the minimum wage. And it
is always safe to gamble on a pro
position being beneficial to some
women when their employcres de
nounce it. Because it is beneficial
is the reason for the denunciation.
This man asked: “The law says
that no woman shall receive less
than $9 a week, but what becomes
of those who through inexperience
cannot earn more than three-fourths
of the minimum wage? The mer
chants are willing to pay a fair
wage hut the law is their handi
cap"?
inis man is n*u luiormeu. ne
knows very well that in the first
place it is not the merchant that
will pay the woman her wage?, ex
cept indirectly. The wages ar: fur
nished by consumers who pass them
over to the merchant and the latter
after taking what is above the mi
nimum, sits down and wri.°s up the
payroll. When therefore the mini
mum is higher than they used to
pay, they add a little something to
the commodity they handle, and in
this way recoup themselves.
The kick against reform legisla
tion is because the employers do
this. The little business man has
discovered that he is made to pay,
in Increased prices for commodities,
the minimum wage that his pr.'
gresslveness passed into law; his
his taxes are increased to arrangt
for compensation and Insurance
mmissior.a, aud that’s why the
progressive warty is dead as a door
nail 'Ihe footing of the bill: ly
consumers and smaller fry I'r.r all
their folderol reforms, is making
them bellyache quite a bit, and
they are turning to the older parties
which have abandoned such reforms.
New York tenements are valued
n the tax 10II at eight million dol
lars They cost in health, crime,
social misery, wretchedness a sum
that cannot be figured in dollars
and cents. But they do enable a
number of fortunates to fatten upon
that same misery that same crime
There’s a reason.
Miss Louise Covington formerly
“employed” by him, sued Rev. Hill,
who charges socialists with being
free lovers, for $100,000 damages.
If her contentions are true that
charge cannot be laid to the door of
Rev. Hill.
It Is really absurd to sec socialists
papers pretending- that the coclallsts
of the belligerent nations opposed
war, and are still opposing it. Oc
tho contrary they became in some
some cases more militarist than the
militarists themselves r.nd they
espoused this militarism evon while
still attitudinizing against capital
ism. The "war came like a cataclysm
and found socialists all over unpre
pared—or rather found the move
ment In control of a number of men
who were bourgeois in scope of VI
sibh, in environment and in habitat,
and socialist only from superficial
convictions.
There Is no use protending what
Is not so, and It is not so that the
socialists any where except In Italy
vigorously opposod the war. And
even in Italy although they offici
ally (.posed war. several were quit •
open in admitting that they re
joiced the war party carried its way
over their insincere opposition.
Two cases of interest wherein ca
pital crime figured with consequent
different endings are worth consid
ering. This is the Frank case and
the Hillstrom case.
The evidence flimsy as it was in
the Frank case, was much stronger
than in the Hillstrom case; al
though in both it was broadly cir
cumstantial. The case against Hill
strom presented many similar fea
tures to the case against Frank,
there was a hue and cry for the
lives of both.
In the Hillstrom case the records
of the preliminary hearing were
either altered or obliterated. In the
Fiank case one of the leading
witnesses contradicted his original
statement.
There the similarity ends. In the
Frank case there was unlimtied
money for the defense. In the Frank
case sleuths were employed to
work up cases against witnesses
and against officials conducting the
prosecution. Money was spent like
water to save him.
In the Hillstrom case he conduct
ed a fid conducted badly his own
defense, because the lawyers as
signed him were unskilled and
only half hearted. He was sen
tenced to die and sentiment was
carefully worked up to secure his
death sentence and to approve his
death sentence not only in Utah but
all over the country. Almost un
believable stories were circulated
about him, and found their way into
papers thousands of miles from
Utah.
Efforts to secure his pardon were
confined absolutely to the working
classes, and the Governor, strongly
prejudiced against him, declined to
listen to anything; refused to par
don or reprieve him. Frank's
counsel’s law partner was governor
and pardoned him.
Frank was a capitalist aaiusel
of assaulting and murdering a four
teen year old girl employee. Iiill
stroin was accused of being a rob
ber who was also an I. W. vV who
also shot down two men whom he
tried to rob.
The ending in both instances is
full of interesting and suggestive
considerations. Are they not obviout
as suggestive?
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The intention of the Department
of Labor to aid unemployment by
establishing a system of distributioi,
throughout the United States sc
that the scarcity in one place could
be relieved by the congestion of an
other, will be convenient enough for
employees, and improve the efficiency
of many plants. ,
As far as relieving the industrial
situation is concerned, it runs up
against the toughest of snags in
that there are not enough jobs to go
around. Every man would like to
get a job, but there are not jobs
enough to give every man and a’.;
employment bureau dividing up
the jobs among the workers knows
this beforehand.
Now this is as it ought to be foi
capitalists.
If there were enough jobs for
everyone, what would the boss do
when he wanted to discharge a
man? How could he establish effic;
oncy systems culling the poorer
workers, and keeping the more live
ly energetic and mere skilful?
Capitalism depends upon a large
unemployed class. Else a strike
would so tie up the industries that i
whatever labor demanded labor
would have to get. And then there
would be no profits, and if there
wore no profits there would be no
production. It’s the sole incentive
under capitalism. Capitalism predi
cates a large number of men un
employed who are in direct compe
tition with one another and who sell
their labor power for less than what
it will produce, during the time for
which it is hired.
If there are more men than job?
the capitalist system runs smoothly
Men are hired and fired and the
system of capitalist selection pro
ceeds well oiled. If the men strike
out of works take their places and
are used as strike breakers. If there
was work for every man, employers
would have to quit, that’s all, or
cl3© abolish the By3tcm—neither are
to be thought of, and hence the ex
istence of a large excess of em
ployees over employment must be a
standing conlition.
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