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ar/ranam Lincoln
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SIDE TRACKER.
When the Industrial Relations
Commission turned In Its report,
they afforded the nation and Con
jjress good material as basis foi
much needed social and industrial >
reform which cannot be delayed
without^ social danger of dynamic
kind.
Now Congress is full of friends
of labor, to use the favorite Gom
Persian expression. They are men
whose protestations of friendship
and esteem and love and respect
•and reverence and service for the
workers passeth the understanding.
To hear them say it, their whole
lives have but one object and one
end: to serve the hardworking,
horny handed son of toil, the true
support of American democracy etc
the laboring classes.
When then, at those men are
thrust the pointed reports of the In
dustrial Relations Commission with
ample material upon which to base
legislative reform, one would ima
gine that they would be tumbling
over their legislative logs, so to say.
to be first with bills to pass and
laws to make and enforce. And the
man who would assort that that was
a mistake would be considered to
have an awful crust to thus malign
the saviors (self-appointed) of the
working class.
But the fact is that you can hard
ly notice any attention paid this
rtport at all. It might not have
over been written. No investig tion
might as well have ever been made.
Walsh and his merrymen might just
as well never have probed anything,
and the aim and end of the friends
of labor in Congress seem to be de
voted just now to the devising Oi
some earnest and skilful manner of
evading action on this report.
hat happens then is this. Comes
the President with his cut and drlea
avian of preparedness which sweeps
.all question of industrial and soclai
reform off the boards, buries in a
mass af naval and military demands
all matter of social iniquities ana
industrial disgraces, and lias the en
tire country and congress chewing
rtlie rag to beat the band over na
tional defense and the biggest navy
in the world.
Oh, these matters of industrial
and social reform are buried all
right just now for a good long time.
11 the intellectuals and the yokels
can be got to a bandying of words
between them, the country will for
get all about the savage conditions
that prevails in industry and the so
cial injustices that are protected
under the flag.
Aud that's precisely what has hap
pened. Social reforms of all kinds
sres-t safely and neatly on the side
track, while the road is cleared for
She preparedness bunk to go thund
. eiring by and the jointers watch
with open mouth wondering where
the devil and why the hades the
special is running with such speed
•and with such right of way.
' .Nay., even our good friends the
socialists have leaped abroad this
preparedness special, some to say
that the darned engineer is going
itoo fast, others to declare that it
the? proceed on such a trip they
will land in the ditch, others to as
sert that it must reach its destina
tion, and there are few that realize
but dimly that the main train on
the road of progress is lying with
out steam and with crew dead on
the side track, forgotten, or side ,
swiped by the thundering Prepared
ness special that dashed past.
Of all the issues that have en
livened political action none surely
lias been more potent for making
all classes forget that there was
such a thing as the labor movement
as this preparedness. Whie the both
sides are endlessly chewing the rag
about preparedness, there wall' the
labor movement proper for aO.en- ,
tion: quite ignored, we say, lying
lead on the side track, "as silent,
is a painted ship upon a painted
>eean”.
CANDID ANY WAY.
Just a little re-print from the
\rmy and Navy Journal of February
[2. me. page 755, middle column
inder the raption "French Military
and Naval Notes”, a short and illu
minating and suggestive paragraph
•'Happily the lessons of the 1S70
71 conflict, when the incompetence
and whims of gas-bags of the Gam
betta type counteracted the efforts of
the able Chanzy, Faidherbe and An
reiies rie Paladines, have not been
forgotten and the men of words
(which Is the natural production of
democracies) .have this time little
chance to usurp the place of the men
of action”.
Now that short paragraph is not
quoted in order to refer to the sub
ject that the writer is considering,
but for its remarkably candid view
about "the natural production of
democracies "men of words , “gas
bags”. It lias been already stated
that the Journal is a soldier’s paper,
published for soldiers, it is frank
as a soldier is frank and it is under
no delusion as to what are the evils
of a democratic system as compared
witli a militaristic system.
No person despising a political de
mocracy could have expressed the!”
contempt for such a system of na
tional existence more clearly thar
docs that writer.
He is not a bit misled by the high
falutin language of the most experl
politician. To him what counts arc
deeds not words. He knows thai
four-fifths of the baggage of the
average politician consists of gas
bags. And he feels because of the
fact, witnessed with painful regular
ity, of the polticians’ expert bun
combe that this is the characteristic
of the democracy he is familiar witl
The question is not whether thi*
view is right or wrong. It is :
view shared by quite a good man;
who are not soldiers. But the im
portant fact is that it is the soldi
er's view.
He is a trained man of action. I
he gets orders to go he goes of t<
come, he comes. His is not to rea
son why, hut to do or die. To hin
life is a serious thing involvini
commanding or receiving commands
Its psychological effect is autocrath
and i« most essentials the vory an
tithesis ot democratic. It possessei
the saving virtue of directness o
word and promptness of action; dl
rectness of word only where i
leads to such action.
So whatever may be his doluston!
as to the virtue of obedience anc
the virtues of discipline and system
he is under no delusions at all as to
the Illusions which democracies mul
tiply and the wild fantasies that the
politicians therein foster. To him
the latter are "gas bags”, and their
words a nuisance. Their plentitude
of oratory an inutility, and their
fervor of rhetoric a waste of time
and energy.
Yet without doubt he has in the
United States come to a strange
parting of the ways. The United
States is a political democracy. It
lias its share of gas bags. It has
ts own portion of political bunco
steerers. But, most of these are
lot wholly unassociatcd with tho mi
litarists, and they are emitting from
.heir abundant and well filled gas
jags much perturbing oratory fav
jring the establishment of a m'.litar
sm which otherwise looks not at all
avorably upon them.
All of which would make the rest
vorry somewhat about the social
ralue of both the politicians and the
nilitarlsts—gas hags or otherwise.
DANIELS COME TO JUDGMENT.
We are not going to congratulate
he jury in the gambling cases on
heir achievement in bringing in a
erdict, although because they did
reach an agreement might possibly
t>e some reason to regard that as an
achievement in itself.
It is the nature of the achieve
ment in the nature of the verdict
that h/ids such cause for wonder
ment.
Far be it from us to assume to
say what should and what shoud
not be the verdict arrived at, but
why one game should pass scathe
less over the legal ordeal and why
some set of players should be con- i
sidered guiltless when the evidence, |
what there was of it, involved all
alike, is something that possibly will
never be explained.
No game can run in this town
without players and those who sit
in at a game of chance for money
whether their profession is that of
gambling or not are just as guilty
as the rest. If one is guilty in this
case then all are guilty; if one is
innocent, the rest are innocent.
There is no other way out of it in
this case and verdicts of that kind
are not intelligible.
_
THE THREE ELIXIRS.
According to President Wilson the
country needs three things to make
it supremely great: A scientific
tariff board, a merchant marine and
a powerful military and naval
force.
All of which reasonably enough was
put forward before a United cham
ber of Commerce meeting.
And all of which without Ques
tion, shows the conception of great
ness was in the mind's eye of the
president.
However it is one thing to be
commercially great and quite an
other thing to bo greatly ham
nay, to be greatly free; and how a j
scientific tariff board, a merchant
marine or a powerful military orga
nization are going to contribute to
wards the national happiness, is
quite another question.
Yet what doth it profit the nation
if it rise to pinaeles of commercial
greatness ne'er before achieved, and
it loses all ideals of liberty and its
masses are not happy?
No nation can live for commercial
greatness alone. Commercial great
ness is only for the few, and no po
licy can be a great policy which con
tributes solely to the well being of
the few.
And that’s where reasonably
enough the workers manifest dis
content, that they the producers,
upon whom rests the entire fabric
of the commonwealth, upon whose
labors rest the foundations of na
tional well being and prosperity,
are regarded as unconsidcred trifles
in the whole scheme, because they
are many and because they can be
easily replaced upon the market.
C. W. LEWIS
Successor to W. Delbar.
Linen gil not fur trout, herring,
grayling or white fish 2 1-2 in.
mesh 33 mosh deep 30 feet long
hung ready for une, price $6.00.
Linon gill net for Srlmon 20c. foot.
Corks 75c. doz. cotton twine or rope
40c. lbs., hemp or mnnila rope 02c.
Ib3., bamboo fish poles 50c., reels
25 and 50c. 2 in. mesh 200 mesh
doe-1 cotton sein $1.00 lbs. Sale
twine SaC. ball. Wrapping twine
2 1-2 lbs. eons $1.00 each. 3 lbs. In
dian clubs $2.00, Dumb bolls $2.00
Tennis Rackets $2.00 Tennis flails
65c., Official indoor boSo ball $1.00,
’ Steel fishing rods $2.25 each. Duck
. calls 50c.
, C. W. LEWIS.
i Successor to W. Delbnr. v
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MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the I
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora- |
tion organized under the laws of i
the State of California, with Its j
principal place of business and post- j
office address, Mills Building, San j
Francisco, California, has through j
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized J
agent, whose post office address Is J
Nome, Alaska, made application for j
a United States patent for No. 14 i
Above Discovery placer mining j
claim, situated on Meloing Creek, j
In the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alasaa, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
! deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
i Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
j min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
' place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.cnt No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed of
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska. V, ,_
The adjoining claims are ad fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek? I
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creok; claimants
unknown; Oh thb northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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