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None, Alaska, unaer the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Mart'll 10, 1010.
It s not likely that Judge Gary
Is going to lose' much sleep over tho
Indictments returned against him
and his steel trust officials. Wnv
should he?
He has nothing to tear from the
machinery of the law. The machin
ery of the law was never intended t«
steam roll him or his. Right well
he knows it. Even without his
handle, he would as a steel magnate
have long ago realized that he en
joyed immunity from anti-trust
acts.
It may be all right for prosecutors
in lower courts to attain some de
gree of reputation in pursuing him
and in even convicting him. But
there are higher courts which wili
reverse the case and there we are.
This prosecutor seems to be a
sizeable fellow. It's election year
and the big political game huntor is
always popular about that time
Even a conviction rushed through
would do no harm, and might do th?.
attorney lots of good. The appeal
will come after the election and who
then cares who wins?
We cannot give these prosecutions
in Ohio much credit. It’s many a
long day since the stool trust diet
business in this same line in that
same state. They are not uow sud
donly guilty, nor are they more
guilty. They know whore they are
at and it's foolish to believe that the
state officials did not know all about
their activities long ago.
But, as stated they do no harm
it’s a little harmless thimberlg
sery perpetrated upon tho doar peo
ple and the dear people are entitled
to their fun.
How seriously they tako these
prosecutions! Even the prosecutions
of the New Haven officials under the
anti-trust laws were taken seriously
The papers played tho game too and
aroused a decent respectable patri
otic Interest in the caoeo. Justice
was the godtless of virgin purity,
blind of both eyes, weighing the
scales evenly for rich and poo:;
alike! If we lived in the days of
poetry some of the long hairod rant
ers would have written an Ode to
the Triumph of Justice as seen in
the trial of so man; r.ia.g-.'PV s in
volved in the New Haven cases.
Of course that’s all passed and
goue, but that tho trials were taken
seriously when they were In opera
tion is no fault of tho people. They
c&u now afford to forget it.
Doubtless this indictment against
Clary and his officials will provide us
•with another nine days Triumph-ot
Justice wonder. It is to bo hoped
so. The innocent and unsuspecting
and unsophisticated uaturo of the
people is a divine thing, and its lari;
of reasoning power and its lack oi
memory cannot he helped.
These trust laws haven’t wholly
been without fangs, none the less.
The Danbury hatters know this to
their cost. But tho Danbury hal
ters were laborites and as Rudyarc
says, “that’s another story”.
In a very interesting editorial on
“Machine Thinking’’ tho Milwaukee
Leader wisely cays:
The one great danger that con
fronts labor is the possibility that its
thinking may become mechanical. If
by any system of favors granted,
the arousing of hysterical enthusi
asm or a false craftmanship, a work
jug class can be deceived into relin
quishing control of its mind to those
who control the othor processes of
the great industrial machine, then
industrial slavery is secure”.
it is no use blinking the fact that
the “one great danger" which the
Iseader speaks about is not a theory
bat. a condition. It is not a possibil
ity but an actually realized f^ct for
the vast majority of the workers,
organized workers among the rest.
We take our thoughts, our beliefs,
our opinions, our prejudices, our
views upon current events almost
wholly from the employing classes.
We model our daily lives, we plant
our ambitions, we train our hopes,
we direct our future along the lines
ordered by tho employing classes.
Our thoughts are mimicry and out
ideas mechanical. We have little or
no class originality. Our literature
is a borrowed literature, and our
1 philosophy is stolen or adopted from
that of the employing classes.
Here and there to be sure cases
will be cited which are exceptional,
but they are isolated and minority
and exceptional cases, hardly of
consequence in the social move
ment.
This being so, it may be argued
that progress is therefore impossible.
It might be so considered did we
forget the solution that Marx very
fortunately stumbled upon to the
effect that the newer system is born
within the shell of the old.
Socialism is an effect of capital
ism. The cause of socialist growth,
socialist ideas and persistency is ca
pitalism, and it is as much as any
thing else part of the discipline
which the economic supremacy ot
tho employing classes forces upon
us.
This may seem a paradox. But it
is the truth.
The very mechanical condition
that machine industry forces upon
man is responsible for the growth of
socialism.
In the first place the rigid discip
line of the machine insists upon co
ordination and collective action for
the best results. The very first im
pression loft upon the human mina
by modern industry is the need for
co-operative effort. Dtsorganizeo
disunited Individual effort is wholly
inefficient in modern induotry, and
every “plant” Is in Itself a little In
dustrial comumnlty ordered along
co-operative lines, and production
where it attains any degree of effi
ciency at all, a collective produc
tion. Capitalist machinery insist!
technically, as its sino qua non, upon
collective action and this crushes
down the individual impulse to un
restrained discipline which in a mo
dern factory would get nowhere.
Nor is this all. The machino pre
sents itself to the working man as
a contrivance which is efficient iu
accordance with the elimination of
all unnecessary movements, unnec
cessary parts , unnecessary power.
Every cog functions usefully only
when it is essential, every wheel
functions efficiently only when it
does what is an absolute requisite,
and wholly non-superfluous work,
every movement justifies itself only
when that movement adds to the
maximum of the machines produc
tive capacity.
Men turn from the machine to
society with the mechanical concepi
of the social organization imbedded
unwittingly may be, or consciously,
in their minds. They look towards
the elimination of the unnecessary
iu the social organization. They
devise ways and means of making it!
as productive of happiness and well
being as possible. All unnecessary
parts are to be eliminated under this
machine discipline that is imbedded
in the minds, and socialism unques
tionably has its greatest justification
in the application of efficiency sy
stems to modern society, and to mo
dern social organization.
Unconsciously it affects the class
standpoint of the worker and the
employer differently.
The employer views the machine
as a profit making device. The
worker regards the machine as a pro
ductive contrivance which turns out
tools or supplios or commodities ot
one sort or another, so that he can
make his day's wages and live. The
machine suggests itself therefore to
one as a means of producing profits
to the other as something producing
a useful article.
The reflex of this viewpoint Is
seen in the application of the me
chanical discipline upon their minds.
The employor turns to the individual
who tends the machine, and applies
his efficiency system to hi
her as the case may be, so that the
factory may be more profitable. Al
though in a subordinate position,
the employee takes ultimately a
larger but still mechanical view,
and turns to society as a collection'
of individuals and applies his effici
ency ideas to it so as to eliminate
anything any person or any condi
tion which is not essential to hti
woll being and which does not cen
tribute to the general happiness.
Hence his socialist ideas founded
upon the mechanical discipline of the
collective production prevails in the
factory where he is employed.
Naturally neither the machine
discipline over the mind of the
employer nor the same discipline
over the mind of the emplcycc ob
tain unrestricted development. Anu
in no cases are they anything but
intuitive as yet. In control of the
political and economic situation, the
employing class controls the educa
tional. religious and national situa
tion for the workers. The press
cater3 directly to that class and <u
turn is feund endeavoring to further
impress the discipline of the em
ploying classes upon the working
classes with great success.
So far the progrealve olemont and
the revolutionary consoquence of
machine production ij held in check
by the hereditary notices which
the workers received from a,previ
ous age. Those notions, essentially
in the Interest of the employing
classes, still are entertained. And
they are still further propagatea
and taught, to overcome the essen
tially utilitarian notions result from
machine production and which con
stantly suggost the fact that collec
tive production and private and indi
vidual distribution of such collective
production is against common sonse,
and against the reasoning the ma
chine forcos upon men's minds.
These two distinct forces In so
ciety are freely recognized,, but
very seldom analyzed. Wo name
them off handed as the forcco of re
action and the forces of revolution
or progress. The struggle Is con
stant, bitter and cannot end until
the class distinctions that accompa
ny them are abolished. For they
arise constantly from modern pro
duction. They are inseparable from
it; and it has come at last to be
freely recognized even by the most
conservative that the present system
is far from perfect.
The secret of the porsist^ey ot
change is duo to the filet thSurorWiT
j are constantly springing up from
I certain social conditions which re
exert themselves upon those condi
tions tending to change and alter
them. The new system is thus
born within the sholl of the old as
Marx said, formed from the very
forces which wore given birth to by
the system which the new one will
j supercede and destroy.
The old fable of tho Phoen'.x ris
ing from its ashes is the secret of
evolutionary progress. It is from the
a3he3 of the old the new is born,
partaking to a certain extent of the
nature of the parent system, modi
fied by the necessity of things and
better adjusted to promote tho well
being of human existence.
The master class would long con
tinue to rule the workers in abject
slavery did not the very system of
slavery itself produce the seeds of
revolt. The machine which has
| made the modern system of cr.pital
!ism possible with its huge profits
■ and its cent per cent, is the verv
j means whereby the profit itself is
I possible to be abolished. Profits are
| born from collective production, and
[ it is only a matter of time when coT
jiective production will insist upon
! collective distribution as the only
| solution of the distressing problems
which the profit system grinds ou;.
i-witli unfailing and tireless uniform
ity.
REPUBLICAN CALL FOR
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
A District Convention of Republi
cans, elected in the various pre
cincts of the Second Judicial Divi
sion of Alaska, at the primaries held
cn March 11 cl. 1916, to attend as
Delegates to the- Republican Terri
torial Convention at Seward, Alaska,
on April 19th, 1916 Is hereby called
for the purpose of adopting plat
form Resolutions, endorsing Dele
gates to the Republican National
Convention to be held at Chicago on
June 7 th 1916 and for other party
purposes. The said District Conven
tion will be held at Hunter Hall,
corner Hunter Way and Front St.
Nome, Alaska, at 8 o’clock P. M. on
Saturday, March 18th, 1916.
By order of the District Commit
tee, Second Judicial Division th s
! the 7th day of March 1916.
GEO D. SCHOFIELD.
Chairman
W. M. EDDY
Secretary.
F. A. DANIELS.
A. A. ALLAN.
J. C. KENNEDY.
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