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J.’HOM 1I1S EMINENCE.
James, Cardinal Gibbons is a fa
miliar figure in American public
life. And like all prominent men,
lie is prepared to give his opinion
on every subject under the sun,
from booze to strikes.
And thus of late he has been in
terviewed by the New York World
and on Wednesday, August 23, we
read with great profit and instruc
tion, his remarks on the general
subject of strikes.
He does not approve of strikes.
He says so quite plainly, and he
states his reason with some cogency
if little logic.
Said he: “If we are to have
strikes, the poor will be hurt, and
naturally my sympathies are with
the poor. The laborer is worthy of
his hire, but if we are too severe to
wards capital we will beggar the na
tion.
Obedience sanctifies the whole
action of man. It creates harmony
■between those in authority and
those in subjection, and creates so
cial order pleasing to God the
source of all authority”.
That is very nice. And when one
comes to think of it, one feels that
it is a great blessing to have His
Eminence around to give us good
advice and profitable Instruction.
Unhappily, when he declares that
7iis sympathies are naturally with
the poor one cannot see why that
should be naturally the case, and
when he suggests that labor can be
too severe upon Capital and thus
beggar the nation, one is not quite
free from inferring that it is with
capital where the sympathies and
the interests of His Eminence na
turally lie.
We certainly see no reason why a
platitudinous declaration to the ef
fect that obedience sanctifies the
whole action of man should be ac
cepted at its face value, and impli
citly as the truth. Indeed it is a
painful experience of humanity that
it owes more to disobedience than
to obedience, as far as the progress
of the world is concerned, and be
cause such disobedience violently at
times interrupted the social order,
these United States owe thJir very
existence. The colonists refused to
be any longer in political subjection
to the royal authority, and the
Great Republic of the West came
Into being. Every step that the hu
man face has made towards enlight
enment, in scientific lo*e, and by so
cial progress has come through re
fusing absolutely to bow the knee in
abject subjection to authority.
The very doctrine which Gibbons
promulgates has been the founda
tion for the Divine Right of Kings.
They held that their authority came
from God. They insisted that the
subjects of their kingship should
submit because God was the source
of all authority. But a braver and
a better theory of existence came
into being when the revolutionary
fathers declared that all authority
to goyern comes from those who are
governed, and that it is id the peo
ple where by right all authority is
vested: that when any authority is
iwt conducive to life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, it is the
right of the people to alter and
abolish it.
And so it is that when industrial
authority presses upon those who
are subjected to it, it is the right
and the duty of those who a-e so
presesd upon to alter or abolish
the conditions of such authority.
His Eminence is a reactionist
whose mind has little in keeping
• with the spirit of freedom. His idea
of those in authority and those in
subjection is much better suited to
k a political despotism than to a de
v* mocracy. And it would be a hard
day indeed when his doctrines upon
working class subjection would be
accepted by the workers of these
United- States as an infallible doc
trtne to be accepted at one’s peril.
Fortunately even In the Church of
His Eminence, it will be repudiated
by the vast majority of the union
workers who may in matters affect
ing the soul or liturgy accept Gib
bons as a requisite authority.
It is not the first time that dis
cussing economic questions Cardinal
Gibbons has shown that his sym
pathies are not with the workers
but with the Thomas Fortune Ryans
and other stained glass window do
nators.
POIN DEXTER’S PLURALITY,
About the only use of political
elections is the gauge they are ot
the trend of popular opinion. Some
times opinion is reactionary and
sometimes it is progressive. When
progressive it is generally mildly so,
when reactionary it goes the limit
with approval extended to the Pen
roses and privilege, the Cannons and
conservatism.
Senator Poindexter is a progress
ive. He has not been identified
with any of the munitionist schemes
for plunder, nor the stand pat plans
for privileged concessions. He has,
even though it was hardly popular,
supported almost all the progressive
measures that were given a hearing
in the Senate.
Consequently when he defeats
Humphreys, enmeshed in the deep
est sort of reaction, who would
throw open to the plunderbund any
thing and everything their reeking
talons could grasp, it is quite signi
ficant that the country is not quite
prepared, as far as the .State ot
Washington is concerned, -to go back
upon the good old times when the
national resources were looted and
to those that hath, more was given
and by whom, also, more was
taken.
So therefore, those who had con
fidently believed that the country
had returned to ultra stand-patism
have another guess coming.
THE GAMBLERS GAME.
Every season just about this time
of the year, there is a talk of
stampeding to this camp or that.
One year it is the Innoko, another
the Iditarod, another Ruby, then
the Shuslianna, then Dime, or Mar
shal. And so it goes: the prospect
ors and miners seeking some place
where from the soil they can win
out a stake which will make them
“independent” for life.
In each of these camps some
money is made. Some person quits
the game winner of a small fortune,
but the great majority draw blanks
and no prizes in the cruel lottery.
The greater portion of the labor,
the energy, the costs ore wasted and
it is often a dolibtful matter
whether the average reward is equal
to the normal total of every day la
bor in other industries, plus the in
vestment of so much capital which
ventured its all upon the game.
This waste of time, energy, money
and labor is called developing the
country. That it develops the coun
try is quite possible, but that it de
velops the country in an extremely
wasteful and an extremely unsatis
factory way can hardly be ques
tioned.
Life in Alaska is endured with all
its hardships because it offers to
Alaskans the alluring possibility
that some day, some time some how,
the Alaskan may win a home stake
from mother earth. And in the
search for that home stake, the Al
askan is at the same time freed
from the dire economic pret-ure to
which the masses in the outside are
subjected and against which they
struggle all in vain.
In reality therefore, the greater
portion of the people of Alaska are
simply gamblers. They hope to win
a stake from the soil by their labor
although they know ^hat the per
centage in the g&pie is strongly
against them. Hence it is that the
. expenditure of energy is a useless
expense for the most part, 'and the
labor socially speaking mis-directecl
and useless.
We gain nothing by pretending
different. Vet we always advance
nur positions when we realize the
cause and the effect of our activ
ities, so that we can reform them
and place them in channels wherein
they will not be wholly wasted. We
doubt very much if there is any
such a scandalous state of things
existing as this misdirection of
human energy, and the purposeless
waste of labor that the capitalist
economic displays everywhere. \\'e
cannot eat this gold when we find
it; Midas himself found it hard
food, and it is surely a desperate
state of things when the social or
ganization diverts human labor to
such monstrous and entirely useless
activities as is in evidence around
us everywhere. Consider for ex
ample the waste of energy in the
manufacture of munitions of war.
I? it possible to imagine a more
damnable state of things, than that
millions of men and women be taken
from activities wherein they could
contribute to human comfort and
happiness, to human welfare an 1 to
human gladness, to create death
dealing, misery-conveying instru
ments of war, conceived with the
fearful object of crushing human
life.
The object of it all is profit. And
human beings under this same eco
nomic urge dare the fever of the
tropic jungle and the blizz.tr 1 of
the frozen north for the same use
less reason.
Instead of our co-operating to
gether in industriy to supply human
wants in a manner complete, scien
tific and thorough, we bend all our
energies to the creation of profits
quite regardless of the fact whether
it brings joy or suffering, misery or
happiness to human society, and re
gardless whether or not the needs
and necessities are gratified at all.
But just that profits may be forth
coming we have slums and fetid
tenements, we have disease breeding
conditions which blast society from
day to day and from year to year.
Prospecting in Alaska is a gamble
pure and simple. . It is a gambling
game in which there are mighty
few winners. Yet because there
are some winners, each one finally
hopes that he will be the lucky
wight who makes it.
There is nothing in it therefore
but systemless labor and uncertain
expenditure of time, money and
energy. It is for the most part and
the vast majority a purposeless
waste. And that is because society
is ordered along lines distinctly
anarchical and wherein the sole in
centive is that of profit making in
stead of the service of the people,
for the improvement of their lives
making them freer, fuller and hap
pier.
Some day, human beings will rise
in their anger against this foolish
system. Some day the certain
knowledge that labor can produce
more than enough for all; that labor
can secure fullness of everything
for old age and for growing youth,
that the scientific direction of hu
man energy, co-operation among
the several members of society, will
prevent any uncertainty being the
lot of old age, and youth and man
hood will enjoy the good things of
the world in literal abundance as
the reward of well directed and so
cially necessary labor—these things
will force us to abolish this foolish
present system.
Now it is a gamble, with the
cards stacked against the gamblers
from the start, and poverty, suffer
ing, disease, destitution awaiting
the losers.
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