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Nome, Alaska, November 2, 1910.
THE ETHICS OF WAH.
There seems little douot that the;
Marina was an armed boat, carry
ing a six inch gun aft. The boat
itself was a transport, used to carry
horses, and these in turn were used
to prosecute the war. It was to the
interest of Germany to destroy that
ship and to destroy it with the least '
• possible chance of the Marina matt
ing use of its after gun.
Surely that much seems clear.
Surely it is quite evident that to
sustain an imaginary right of an
American to aid and abet the ene
mies of Germany, is against alt
reason and common sense from a
German point of view.
In any event Germany did what is
done all over the world. The subma- !
rine sank the ship first because the j
U boat had the power and secondly |
because it was to its interest to do
s0- . . • i
To call that sinking atrocious is i
absurd unless we recognize every
thing in this war as atrocious. And
that may be would be right. But
when people consider these ques
tions they usually only see such a
side as supports thetr real or inagm
ary interest.
Take another case. A British
business firm imported many shav
ing brushes. These were to be used
for the soldiers at the front in
France. All the brushes were dis
covered under test to have within
them anthrax bacillus and were
about as deadly things as could be
used.
A terrible outcry went up from
the British over this latest atrocity.
But there never was a word of cri
ticism concerning the British im
porters who in the way of trade aid
ed and abetted the importation of
these articles from an enmy country
so that they could make money on
the contract.
The money making scheme ap
pears to be regarded as legitimate,
although this trading unquestion
ably enables the war to continue,
since the capitalists on both sides
are making profits.
In the outcry against the enemy,
the sins of the friends at home seem
to be not worth considering, be they
ever so dark.
It is quite a commentary upon the
war that there are more millionaires
in Great Britain, Germany, France
and Russia today than there ever
were before. Several British, Ger
man and French firms are making
more money than ever before, by
the war. The prodigality of some
of the war contractors was made
the special subject of a denuncia
tion by high German officials and
the antics of the newly rich in Great
Britain have become the objectives
of pointed satire.
But these people are the power
within that era of mother earth now
comprising the war zone. The fabu
lous dividends which are being paid
in Great Britain by insurance, coal
mining. shipping, transporattion.
war contracting, munition and other
companies have never been equalled
in the world’s history. A quite
similar condition exists on the con
tinent of Europe and this accounts
for the demand for a prosecution ol
the war. The denunciation and ac
cusations which go up from time to
time about the atrocities by one side
or another, are merely the cawing of
the carrion over the profit offal of
the war. The money makers are
still gorging themselves with the
unusual loot that a war crazy world
has cast before them. With hooked
beak and raking talon they tear the
plunder to pieces and raucously cry
out at one another in their unclear,
frenzy for the best of the carrion.
In the meantime in the trenches,
obedient, duty-struck, docile, and
tamed, pie multitude hack and slay
and slaughter to provide still more
reason for the riches that are being
so savagely squandered.
Bebel at the Stuttgart Conference
opposing the resolution for a gen
eral strike in case of war, declared
that such would never be necessary.
That the war would not be possible
That it was unthinkable and would
cause a complete collapse of the ca
pitalist system.
But Bebel was a poor prophet.
The war is not only possible, but ac
tually under it. nations prosper.
Never at any time in the history
of the nations has there been such ;
industrial activity and isn't that
prosperity? Isn't that what is poli
tically considered to be prosperity.
Never were there so many million
aires being made, and never before
was there such a tendency for
wealth to centralize. Furthermore
instead of there being any tendency
for the system to collapse, the na
tions now at war are making war a
normal condition. They have figured |
out ways and means to meet the
human demand, the munition de
mand, the food demand, and the
financial demand and they are meet- ,
ing them. «They have organized
their war so systematically now
that the Central Powers and the En
tente Powers can meet the require
ments of the war in all these lines,
so that war and not peace can be
made indefinitely the life condition
and the normal state of the nation.
That has been made by taking
women and making them laborers,
by taking the waste products and
utilizing them, by eliminating any
thing and everything, except profit
making, which might interfere with
war. And just as peace made pro
fiteering its hand maid, so have
those who direct the war,immediately
or by proxy, made profiteering the
hand maid of war. To talk there
fore of an ethical system under war
is beside the question.
War is just as much entitled to
considerations of privilege as peace.
When in the course of mining ope
rations a terrific disaster occurs
snuffing out- the lives of hundreds,
disasters due to the greed of operat
ors and the failure to install safety
appliances, society calls such a ro
grettable accident inseperable from
the succesful prosecution of indus
trial enterprise.
There are some protests. But
they are few and far between. Simi
larly when thousands are thrown
out of work and hundreds of thou
sands suffer cold, starvation and ex
posure by reason of unemployment,
society passes off this condition as
inevitable and urges Charity as hav
ing a fine field to work in. Few be
gin to stand on their hind legs to
denounce the frightfulness of capi
talism that seals up hundreds in a
Cherry mine to save the unmined
coal, none see the frightfulness of a
Triangle disaster \vhere hundreds of
girls are locked in to their work and
are offered a burned offering to
greed. None preceive the frightful
ness of oppressive landlordism in the
slum that hferds vice, crime and
disease at an exhorbitant rent in
wretched foul-smelling warrens. The
frightfulness of peace that lines up
the unemployed for a chunk of
bread, that drives the desperate
women to shame, that kills babies
by the score, that casts upon the
foetid breezes of congested existence
millions of disease germs—these
things are never commented upon!
Well, why should Peace have any
more privileged consideration than
War. War is now the normal state
all over the world and we might as
well begin to recognize the fact that
these little atrocities termed fright
fulness by the atrocitied, are merely
phases of that Christian profit-mak
ing fellowship is exemplified in the
sacrifice of a worker, man, woman
or child, on the altar of profit pro
duction. Profit production under war
has great obstacles to overcome.
During peace it has its path made
easy. During both it smears its trail
with blood, crime, atrocity, injustice
and outrage.
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Political Cards.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Eena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1916.
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FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
CAPTAIN
John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election. November 7, 11)10,
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR SENATOR:
Martin Moran
Election, November 7, 1910.
CITY BATH HOC81L
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boil
ing Hot).
M. O. SOLBERO.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Mike Young
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax !
Enforcement of Territorial Laws. |
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate H. Coombs
For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7, ^916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
W. J. Rowe
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMI83ION ER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA *
Jas. Wickersham
Election, November 7, 1910.
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