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Nome, Alaska, August 111, 1111(1.
A cartoon in a Zurich paper de
picts the late Yuan Shi Kai glancing
through a long telescope towards
Die western nations and declaring
that “the more I look westward, the
more thoroughly convinced I am
that the fundamental principle of
all culture is might”.
The irony of the cartoonist is
fundamentally correct whether lie
■ intended it or not, and might un
unquestionably rules the world,
whatever channels it. may he exer
cised through.
It is true of course that most of
the nations espouse a religion o‘
love, hut neither in their own home
relations nor in international affairs
do those convictions if they are con
victions find expression.
We begin at school to experience
authority which exercises its might
and maintains a discipline which
in itself is directed towards a cul
ture having for its fundamental
principle the right of might. And
this condition is continued through
life in man's struggle for existence
and in various manifestations, one
interest or another provides, of the
exercise of economic or industrial
and through that, political might.
The efforts to prevent the free re
spiration of individual opinion is al
ways in evidence in the scheme oi
things, and newspapers, preachers
and politicians are perpetually en
deavoring to make the individuals
conform to the conventions which
are nothing more or less thin the
sanctions of those who posses eco
nomic and political might.
These interests although of the
few, are able to control tlie opinions
of the many, and to bring pressure
to bear upon all who refuse to en
elorse the views put forward. Anti
we have many examples of this un
thinking popular opinion which has
sold itself into bondage, because il
had not either courage or know
ledge, to the more powerful few, en
deavoring as the majority opinion
to compel all to do as they do and
to think as they think and to be
lieve as they believe.
Our entire system is built upon
that condition; and different prin
ciples founded upon abstract justice
are utterly impossible of acceptance,
just because impractical, before the
cxistance of privilege and power
controlled by the industrially anti
financially great.
The fact is, and everyone knows
it, the U mtrines of Christianity are
impractical in this society of ours.
The teachings that Christ has put
forth as a light and guide and lan
tern to the feet of men, cannot be
carried out when profits are the in
centive, and the golden rule is only
to be practised within the strict li
mitations of a profitable operation
of a man’s business.
Hut all do not know that this con
dition can be traced back to the
means whereby soceity maintains
Itself. Some men who own the fac
tories, the mines and the mills—the
land and machinery for production
and distribution own these things
because that ownership gives them
the right to deny access to the
means of subsistence, if they so will,
to all those who do not own. And in
granting the propertiless the right
to labor, are also entitled to ex
tract from them who use that pro
perty, all that is produced by the
propertiless so employed, unless
save just enough to live upon.
And just as the crowned monarch
of another nation found it essen
tial to guard his regal rights with
men at arms, with guards and
musketeers, with navies and armies,
so also these propertied rights de
pend mainly upon the might to
maintain themselves against those
who would otherwise claim access,
untramelled, to the means of ex
istence.
It is true of course the Kings did
not maintain their royalty by a dl
reet exercise of force. They (le
clared themselves the Lord's an
nointed, and they upheld thei]
rights by an appeal to ancestra
parchments. Hut they knew tha
their thrones rested upon bayonets
and without that support woult
speedily totter. So too any proper
tied man knows that his ownershi]
is not actively engaged in support
ing itself with might expressed ii
terms of military violence, bu
through legal means, in the court;
and the legislative halls. And trul;
also, everyone knows that were tin
propertiless to flout the courts am
the legislative halls, to ignore tin
proprietorship recognized by deed
and legal instruments, that floutinj
would speedily cause an expressioi
of military might would soon brinj
the flouters to a more proper sensi
of ttie reality of force behind tin
legal formula.
It may appear as an economic
heresy to the average Marxian t<
declare that positively there can bi
no value where is not possession. 1
is ownership (which invests in tin
proprietor the right to exclude fron
the social benefit of any possession
that gives it its value. Just as Ion;
as anything is free to all, as air oi
sea water, it possesses no value li
tiie scheme of things, and in tin
readiness which its possession cat
be acquired, its value falls and de
predates accordingly. Excliangi
values can only exist under capital
ism, and while it is the applicatioi
of manual or mental labor power t<
machinery and raw material tha
produces all wealth, only the pro
prietorship gives any portion of tha
any value. Value is wrapped up ii
proprietorship, and it is valuabli
because t Hat ownership is uphel(
by the social might which propert;
has turned into its own use. Tradi
and barter in ownership of varioui
articles is trade and barter in var
ions articles of value. And it is th<
assertion of this ownership whicl
involves the nations in wars, whet
the might required to assert itsel:
as inherent in the principles o
ownership, conflicts with the migh
of other trading proprietors.
But the present economic systen
is based upon might because it pre
dicates as its sine qua non th<
right to exclude from the necessariet
of life or means through whicl
those necessaries can be secured, b;
force, if force is required to sup
port authoritative enactments 01
legal sanction already created bj
private property itself.
That is why the capitalist systen
is essentially an anarchist system
It lias no other ethic than the ethl<
of the right of might. Its entirt
culture is fundamentally foundet
upon that principle. It claims, witt
force if necessary, the right to ex
elude numberless human being!
from the means of livelihood, bj
denying them access to the mean!
of subsistence. It insists upon th<
right, by force if necessary, to allow
those who have not property t(
acquire the necessaries of life onlj
after they have rendered them, tin
Caesars of industry, tribute in tin
form of profits. They require ii
older to maintain the social equlli
briom, naturally because of its be
ing essentially antagonistic and un
stable, armies and navies so tha
they will be secure in their owner
ship.
John Locke, the English pliilo
sopher, declared a great truth whei
he said that where is no private pro
perty, there is no injustice. Th<
right to exclude a community fron
what the community needs to live
which private property conveys, li
not to be upheld by any moral prin
ciple. If land and machinery anf
water supply are necessary to laboi
that labor may live, only an exercis*
of might can prevent labor assum
ing that right to live.
But none of these things are dis
cussed in moral terms. Nothing
ever is accepted because of its mo
ral righteousness. The man who
would effect a change must rely
upon some more powerful argu
ment. He must expose the inutil
ity of the system. He must demon
strate its inefficiency. He must
show that it can be superceded by
another and a better and more ef
fective and more wholesome system.
He must show that the public
health, the public wealth and the
public happiness would be increased
by its abolition and by the substi
tution of a change. And it is very
hard to argue with a system of so
ciety, frankly anarchistic, both in
its economy and in the means
whereby it is forcibly maintained,
unless hack of those arguments
lies the potentially greater might
of organized solidarity, prepared
industrially and politically to im
press itself as the dominant factor
in society and bringing with it, as
such, a more effective and a saner
, economy for substitution.
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M. O. SOLBERG.
OVERSTOCK ED
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oj
others, we can prove it to you.
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