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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
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Nome, Alaska, August 21, I!)Hi.
thk folly of power.
i -
It war. a part of the Greek philo
sopliy which the Latins have adopt
cd in a proverb that whom the Gods
would destroy they first made mad
The Greeks saw the hands of ths
Gods in every little thing, ant
when they saw individuals in so
ciety court ruin by their folly, thej
saw them also the victims of th<
diivne wrath which had softened 01
intensified the blow was about U
fall.
The saying then finds applieatior
in society not infrequently, and wt
invariable witness the ending of i
power preceded by an arrogant dis
play of folly which seems the excuse
often enough for its destruction. W<
could not get a better example o
this truth than by a study of tin
manner in which the Captains of In
dustry are by their own arbiter;
acts smoothing the way for then
evolutionary removal front tin
scheme of social tilings, and especi
ally is this strikingly exemplified ii
the actions of the railroad president!
in their way of meeting the grea
railroad crisis which confront!
them.
Whether they know it or whethei
they do not, this crisis is weighinj
all in the balance. It is focussint
public attention upon the details o
an industry supremely essential ti
human intercourse and to liumai
well being. It is a crisis which in
volves the life of the nation as no
thing can ever so deeply affect i
short of a war for existence, and tin
people instinctively feel that eithe
a step forward or a step backwart
is to be registered as a result o
the negotiations now being carriet
on.
And in a crisis of this sort it 1:
supremely essential that those win
are the immediate parties to thi
controversy which gave rise to i
must know their own minds. Then
can be no hesitancy among the lead
ers, for whoso hesitates here indeet
is lost. There must be no exhibitioi
of delay for delays are deadly dang
crous. There must be no uncer
taiuty, for self confidence is an es
sential for the men who know.
But what we do find is that tin
railroad presidents are vacillatinf
and hesitating and delaying. Tha
they can come to no conclusion
That they cannot agree amonf
themselves . That they will not ac
cept a settlement* at the hands o!
Wilson and can agree to offer none
at all from their own body. The;
face an issue which is put befon
them with firmness and without he
sitation and with no delay by tin
brotherhoods. And in their unhap
py method of meeting that deter
mined action, they whose action ii
so indeterminate and so weak, prov<
themselves wanting in all things bul
one.
They have all the arrogance ol
men who know they have power bui
can only blindly and uncertainl)
use it. They display themselves as
incapable of decision as incapable o
concession, and they fail wholly te
show anything else but their owi
unfitness for a position of contro
and that they can be eleminatec
from the railroad industry withoui
the country being disturbed oni
iota. * ,
And these indeterminate and un
certain and hesitating men are thi
ones who are held up as models o
efficient captains of industry. Upoi
the dqmise of the least of these
the wheels of the industry they con
trol will stop in their course whil<
the body is laid to rest. And re
sardless of the fact that they hav<
departed, the industry proceeds t<
operate as if they had never been.
The instinctive tendency of hu
man beings is to judge the fitnesi
of human beings or human institu
tions by their usefulness. It is tru<
that some outlive their usefullnes!
but their ultimate extinction is as
sured.
And always society is submittinf
its individual members and its insti
| tutions to this acid test of fitness.
. If men or institutions can be dis
pensed with only witli resulting loss,
if their functions are no better per
formed by substitutes, if they can
not be eliminated without an im
pairment of social efficiency, they
are not found wanting.
But when they establish them
selves in the public esteem as use
less encumbrances, unessential
factors, functionless in the social
scheme, a drag upon the wheels of
progress, unnecessary adjuncts and
costly of the industrial activities,
their elimination is only a matter
of time, for it is only a matter of
time when their unfitness and in
utility will be discovered.
It is, as a matter of fact, in the
1 elimination of the inutilities: social,
political, industrial and personal,
that the world makes progress, and
every time a crisis, social, political,
industrial or national, arises, some
men and some institutions are being
subjected to the acid test which will
> warrant their retention or their
: elimination. There never is a labor
1 strike, but private ownership is cal
led in question. There never is an
industrial crisis but the right of the
: few in control to dictate the desti
I nies of the rest is met with a note
of interrogation. The mighty hatl;
’ been put down from their seats be
1 cause of their being unfit, and they
of low degree were exalted because
' of the natural fitness of things
- Kings went over board because the?
! had no useful function to perforn
which the people could not just ai
l well perform themselves, and the
industrial monarchs are not exempi
' from this ruthless judgment whict
is to he theirs in time and whicl
1 is even now theirs.
’ Back in Washington where the
! heads of so many gigantic railroaf
; systems are gathered together
! they are demonstrating nothing sc
' fully as their utter uselessness anc
1 their utter costliness to society
1 They can lay no claim to hold theii
position except by the right oi
money. If everyone of them were
' to pass away tomorrow and the
stocks and shares and bonds thej
’ own were destroyed in.a burnt offer
: ing to their shades, the workers ir
the industry could still operate It ef
ficiently. The trains would run
: the freight would move, and the en
tire system operate just as smooth
ly as if they had never been.
But because they have like pride
ful kings of old the conventional
control of the economic power, they
still maintain their right to dictate
but stand helpless to name the
terms. They have all the arrogance
of the mighty without the know
ledge which would guide them in
the wielding of their power. They
hesitate and delay and betray that
weakness and that arrogant folly
marks them as those whom the
Gods have destined to be the victims
of their wrath: First they are ren
dered witless and then eliminated.
So be it.
POOR CONSOLATION.
The German Admiralty announces
1 that the Central Powers sank se.en
ty-two ships of the Entente Allies ir
the two years of war while the Ger
man losses during that time were
' but twenty-five and the total tonn
age seventy thousand.
Certainly that is a wonderfu'
• achievement. But at best Germany
i has been condemned to a guerilla
warfare at sea, has no ships on the
1 ocean, and the Allies are stiP. ir
i command of the waves. The mere
fact that the Germans have sunk sc
■ many with so little result in theii
i favor is a poor consolation. It only
■ means so many more men are deac
i on one side than the other, anc
i there’s little triumph in that ii
• their own men, however, fewer
have died in vain.
PLAIN' FACTS.
Mayor Blake was elected on a
platform of his own selection pro
viding for municipal ownership of
a pumping plant and coal yard. One
month at the most would have been
sufficient for the Mayor and the
Council to completely review the
costs, the requirements and the pro
priety of such a municipal plant. It
is now the latter end of August and
as far as any actual work is con
cerned in the way of establishing
anything, they are just as near as
they were in the month of April.
Efficiency?
Some twenty members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World were
deported from Everett because they
agitated a strike among the shingle
weavers. All of which shows us
what a joke laws and legal riglils
become in the hands of those who ,
are in economic control. The men. j
because they endeavored to better
their condition, are put out of the
community because their acts
threatened the profits of those who
controlled the community.
We often hear about the lawless
acts of the I. W. W. men. But ther
is never any denunciation of ve.ese
lawless acts upon the part of orga
nized capital. There is certainly
lots of freedom for the capitalist.
A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.
Probably it would be unfair to
judge Judge Hughes mental caliber
by the inanity of his remarks upon
the labor question. His idea is that
labor and capital should come to
gether and work together. That
idea has been expressed by thou
sands of others, but thousands also
have very earefuly avoided offering
any plan whereby that could be
brought about.
It is only another form of non
sense to indulge in such expressions
as this, unless we know how that
condition we say is desirable is to
be brought about.
But the trouble is that Hughes
is in just exactly the same position
as thousands of others who before
him expresesd the same thing in al
most as many words, in that he does
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not know how any such a condition
can be brought about. He believes
it is possible to get capital and la
bor closer together. lie has never
seen it done. Unless he is blind as
a bat and ignores the increasing
number and violence of the struggle
between capital and labor, he
should know that instead of coming
together they are drifting more re
lentlessly and antagonistically, apart
Instead of the differences being
settled amicably they are settled by
ultimatums and by open struggles.
And there is not one of these po
liticians but know, if they are cap
able of putting two and two to
gether, that at no ttme at any place
was it possible to bring labor and
capital together with anv sort ol
enduring settlement of their strife.
They were fighting one hundred
years ago. They are struggling
against one another today, and that
struggle is not going to be settled
by politicians giving vent to mean
ingless platitudes on campaign
tours.
OVERSTOCK till#
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 oo
others, we can prove it to you.
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