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• e?«rl.v as possible, (g a worthy object of any good government.”—
anranam Lincoln
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: ;Mi ALIB I HATIO -..
Corapuls-.ry arbitration i.s an art
i’r< n:i ,i'Uiv. President
Wilson, howi vt-r he may have been
ohs< ure in his views on other sub
j.. tas far aw he imparted them to
tie- public, has never for one in
ta::t hesitated to affirm his belief
in . impulsory arliitration as a
! ri:. iple. and as a principle which
should h- materialized in legisla
t ion.
Nor was this confined to post-elec
tion statements, for some time [trior
to election the President has fully
demonstrated where he stood on this
proposition.
Not Gompers or any one of the
officials of the American Federation
of Labor could have been in any way
uninformed on this point, unless
they are uninformed on the most
common and most generally circu
lated items of news affecting labor.
Moreover, it has been fully under
stood that compulsory arbitration
would take up a part of the admi
nistration's legislative program and
would be quite early introduced in
Congress as such.
Accordingly when Gompers sup
ported Wilson as he did. strenuous
ly and without equivocation, and
supported generally the democratic
party, lie placed himself in no po
sition at all to oppose compulsory
arbitration. He supported compul
sory arbitration when he supported
Wilson for it was Wilson's avowed
policy.
There is. then, nothing reasonable
and nothing logical and nothng In
telligent in the opposition announced
by the officials who supported Wil
son to the principle of compulsory
arbitration: that, or their action in
supporting Wilson who advocates
compulsory arbitration was illogical
in the extreme.
There never was a more hopeless
ease of the engineer being hoist with
his own petard, and there could be
no more striking example of the
fatuous political policy which is pur
sued by the executive of the Federa
tion. playing high political stakes
with a job at the.end of the game.
Now compulsory arbitration meas
ur s should alart ..o ■ Com
pulsory arbitration b < b urly uncon
stitutional. That will not prevent its
i assagt . but to enforce that law it
lias to receive the consent of the
workers who an to be subject
t hereto.
All tli" laws that Congress might
■ could not k -op men at work it
they insist upon quitting, and it is
this i atari that should r eive the
attention of Hi - workers and posi
tively no other.
If a ,- institutional legislation is
passed: if laws are passed which
,-d.■ ar the constitutional rights oft
the workers which the work-1
ers as well as other eiti- j
zens are supposed to possess, there
is i.o reason why the workers should
even pretend to obey them.
Att< ntion may very well be direct
ed to the declarations made by a
number of railroad chiefs upon the
passage of the Adamson Bill to the
effect that they would not obey the
law until its constitutionality had
been passed upon by the courts.
And it may very well be under-1
stood, furthermore, that if they
found it profitable to evade it. they
would continue to do so even if the
courts upheld the law.
Attention might also profitably
be directed to the operations of the
Sherman Anti-Trust law. Whatever
may be thought of that law, Us pur
pose and its letter and its spirit
were to destroy industrial eombina
tions: the trusts
And whatever may be thought of
the purpose or the letter or the spi
rit of that law, the Sherman Anti
Trust law had within itacV the
means and the ways of doing exactl>
what it purported to do. And the
law was such a one that left ample j
means and ample ways at the com
I mand of tin- government o:’i i■ ti- to
! "iiforic it. ii they dared try to cn
; force it.
Since that law passed trusts have
nourished like a green bay tree.
They grew up overnight like the
prophet's gourd. They not only con
i trolled the situation, but they elimi
nated competition in many lines
absolutely and permanently. Furth
ermore since tlie operation of that
law, the trusts have become stronger
| and more powerful and more doinl
i nant than ever in' the social life.
All the blatherskite to the contrary,
at no time in the history of the
country were the industrially su
preme so absolutely supreme, not
alone in industry but in every poss
ible social activity.
Briefly stated it is easy of proof
that the Sherman Law was a dead
letter because it tried to do the im
possible. It was as utterly im
possible as the finite mind trying to
grasp such a concepton as the abso
lute infiinity.
It was utterly impossible for the
political reflex of the industrially
great to enforce the provisions oi
legislation would obliterate from the
scheme of things the industrially
all-powerful.
And in consequence, the country
faced the humiliating spectacle not
only of the law being ignored and
the combinations in restraint ot
trade growing and Increasing in
wealth and power, hut the Highest
I Court of the land, in order to avoid
| the effort at the impossible, adjust
ing the law. amending it and eor
; reeting it, instead of interpreting it.
' so that the rule of reason might
reach out and re-elothe in greater
powers the very combines that the
! law was supposed to destroy.
The reason the trusts were suc
cessful in ignoring the very exist
| ence of an anti-trust law was due to ,
the efficiency of the organization of j
the control of the industrial power.
The trusts didn’t fall back upon a j
lament that the lav.- was invalid:
! that the constitution prohibited any
: such condition as it sought to en
l force.
The complete and efficient indus
^ trial organization of those who con
trolled the combinations simply ig
nored it, and in place of adapting
their business to the law, they had
the law adapt itself to them.
It was the most complete victory
for passive resistance. But it was
a victory because the law was im
po. -iblo under the industrial circum
stances.
Xow were labor organized as
s' n tHieally and efficiently and as
eomple’ •.'!>• as the control of the com- J
hinations was organized, tie re would j
!.. i-o worrying about an anti-strike
tlot or ibout h< oi mpul or
.treu ration, which is tin- same thing.
But because the strength of latter
at at present organized is more on
paper than an actual fact, the com
pulsory arbitration is likely to find
itself in full force and on the statute
books, the Gompers and the execu
tive of the American Federation of
Labor to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Moreover the law will be enforced
—against labor, for capital can and
must be allow'ed to shut down its
industries when, where and how it
likes, if only as a matter of bus
iness.
The need for one big union grows
more and more manifest every day.
A PHASE OF FREEDOM.
Some young amateurs in Seattle
determined to present Ibsen’s “The
Doil’s House”. They hired a theater
to effect their presentation of this
world famous production which
many years ago created such a fur
are, but which secured condem
nation at that time for Its radical
ism.
When they had got well on prac
tising their parts so that they could
■easonably rehearse without calling
each other names after the rehearsal
was over, they discovered that they
couldn't get a theater in which to
unfold their interpretation of the
Norwegian dramatist to the Puget
Sound public.
The objection was not that the
performance of amateurs of an Ib
sen play might prove an intolerable
nuisance to patrons, or that it might
be, as so many amateur productions
are, obtaining money under false
pretenses.
On the contrary some preachers
who had read the play objected to
it as unfit for representation and
dangerous from a social point of
view.
And the owners of the house
which had agreed to rent it were
threatened with public condemna
tion and boycott if they did. So
they did not.
The freedom of the playhouse is
not a very real thing these days
with so many different busy bodies
having so many different ideas as
to what is and what is not fit for
other fellow.
The worst of it is that they make
very one have the same nasty or
the same morbid mind as them
selves.
TAXATION.
The troubles of the Board ot
Equalization are over. They are a
thing of the past. The work of as
sessment is done and the lit tie
strcnuosities which it occasioned are
lulled to rest.
There is very little difference this
year ami in other years, but the thin
end of the wedge of justice and fair
ness has been inserted, and the time
Is coming when a verterbraied coun
cil will he in session whicn will re
quire the assessment to be as the
law requires it, and require the
Board of Equalization to play no
favorites hut to adjudicate as the
law requires them to adjudicate,
and that with all the facts before
them.
The Board of Equalization is a
court for redress for wrongful assess
ments. Their functions are judicial
and not dictatorial. They have to
decide as between two statements of
fact, that of the assessor and the
assessed, and they are not in session
for the express purpose of being
good fellows to lighten the load of
this or that brother merchant.
The fact that none of the assess
able value--. !n Nome with few excep
tions are returned in ful! is reason
the more why they should he. And
if all are compelled to give a full
and true return there will be no in
equity and there will be no eva
sion.
It is most regrettable that the
merchants and business men them
selves fail to perceive this. And be
cause they fail to perceive this, is
reason the more why they should
have the matter quite forcibly drawn
to their attention.
Today there is a certain assessable
roll. Some are proportionately as
sessed higher than the others, and
it 13 this injustice which rankles.
But if the merchants themselvej
would insist upon each and every
man in business returning his full
assessment or knowing the reason
why, there would be the same taxa
tion returned. the rate would bo
lowered that there would be no in
justice whatever.
It is because some come ne'ar the
! true values of their property, and
j some do not that the trouble mani
. stly i.~. And until the commercial
! interests in this town are educated
' up to the fact that it is good 1ms
, iness principle and the only prin
ciple in keeping with the integrity
we hear so much about and see so
seldom, that true and correct re
turns be handed in by all.
That all this is so manifest and
so clear and yet should be so gener
ally ignored is the most remark
able fact in connection with the an
nual meetings of the Board of
I Equalization.
And it is a constant source of
friction and a constant source ot
v^ry adverse and not unjustifiable
criticism.
TO THE BOVCOTTERS.
Dont be too harsh in your judge
ment to the man who will not agree
with you or who will not come along
The most misused implement on
earth is the hammer, but even the
hammer has some useful moments.
Figures won’t lie, but Liars will
figure. Medelcot extra heavy Scotch
Wool Underwear $2.50 garment,
Xova Scotia knit Wool elastic rib
bed Underwear $1.25 garment. Cot
ton ribbed Underwear 50c garment,
Mens all wool Socks 25 and 50c.
The best flanel Shirts in Nome $1.25
to $2.00. Other Shirts $2.50 and
$3.50. Canvas Gloves 10c. up.
Leather Mits 75c. and $1.50. Child
ren wool Mits 25 and 50c.. Mens
light weight white or grey Mits 25c.
American Prints Calico 10c. yd
C. W. LEWIS.
Del bars.
CESSATION U BOAT
ACTIVITIES REPORTED
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—An arrival
from Europe on a liner today ex
plains the absence of any reported
1' boat activities as clue to almost
wholesale capture or destruction of
under sea craft by the Allies.
The Allies are maintaining the
utmost secrecy concerning the mat
ter and only indirectly is any
thing allowed to leak out.
French naval experts are said to
have devised the plan which has
i caused such havoc. It is stated
tliat IT l)oat activities may soon be
expected when the Germans prepare
to meet the new' conditions, whieii
will be very shortly.
1X.IUHKS FOOT.
Gus Berendt injured his foot
seriously when he drove a pick
through it w'hile at mining work.
He was brought to town for medi
cal treatment.
The Arctic Bakery
A Fine Selection
of x.mas can's ix shade of
Fancy Candy-Boxes ami Baskets to select from. We can supply
your demands. Bulk t'audios of all kinds for the Xmas Tree.
Leave your orders now. Candy Canes, After Dinner Mints and
Salted Nuts to order.
BOSK CANDY STOKE AND ABCTIC BAKKKY.
The home of Fancy l ax try and good Lunches.
BEMKMBEU! One chance on a large fancy Basket with every
Twenty-Five Cents I’urclnise.
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pay 75c. per dozen. Try them and save 25c per dozen. This is quite
an item. You know our reputation for having the best eggs.
And we are sincere in saying that this is the best value for the
money we have ever been able to offer.
TTEjCROWLEY~
Kent Transfer Oo.
Genera1 Transfer & Freighting
Qoai & on
Phone Main 139.
TRY
PHIL MURPHY
I FOR LEATHER VESTS & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS. HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CAPS, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
PARKAS AND ROBES.
MURPHY HAS THE ROODS
Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation ive have received ;2270 pairs
<£ of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason". Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
I P. A. PETERSON SHOE €0.
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office Hours: 2—5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
John Hancock
«IGHT SCHOOL. 212 FRONT ST.
From 6:30 to 8:30 p. m.
leading, Writing and Arithmetic,
also Art of Bookkeeping.
Terms reasonable.
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1 Hams and Bacon
Also our WILD ROSE LARD, made
I~ from the pure leaf fat, In 3, 5, 10 and
20 lbs. cans. S
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