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Hill HOOK It CASKMKNT.
The fate of Casement now appears
to be almost sealed. To depend
upon the British King’s clemency,
which is upon the cabinet’s clemen
cy, is to depend upon a mighty cold
blooded and uncertain quality of
mercy.
It is possible that the government
has recovered from its spasm of ter
ror at the Irish revolt, which it sup
pressed in Dublin, as to be in a po- ^
sition to let Casement's case obtain
some attention.
There are several reasons why it
would appear wise to allow Case
ment to live. First of all the man j
conies from a very respectable and
aristocratic family who have been
ardent supporters of the govern-1
ment which Sir Roger opposes. In J
the second place all the rest of the j
family seem to have been earnest
and sincere servitors of the govern- j
ment, and to be giving loyal service :
in the army or in the civil admiins-1
tration of the country.
Sir Rodger is not of common clay.
He is not a radical. He is not im
bued like Connolly with any social
ist notions. He has never identified
himself with the struggle of Labor
to better its condition. He ha®
served Big Business of the British
national type very efficiently as a
Consul of the government.
it would be really impossible 10
suggest for any person more power
ful reason why one’s life should he
spared.
Casement is known and was high
ly respected by English Tories. Ilis
association with Irish rebel thought
is regarded as a certain symptom
of insanity, and it is so absurd to
conceive a member of an aristocra
tic Tory family allying himself witn
any aggregation of economic or na
C.ouaI ludicals, that without doubt
10 men like Sir A. Conan Poyle
botli as a physician and as a lory,
it is a evrv reliable symptom indeed
of mental aberration.
However people have heard be
fore of men and women paying the
death penalty ’pour encourager les
autres”, and Casement may enjoy
the privilege of being such an exe
cuted encouragement. In that event
of course his death will be a
symptom of a government’s mental
aberration, not from any perversion
or national sentiment, but from
excess of fear.
Hedged around by subtle foes
O.ermany must enjoy the fact, that
its prowess has struck dread in the
heart of its enemies. It was this
fear of Germany which made the
Irish rebellion such an object ot
terror to the British officials, and
that terror found expression in the
bloody execution of its leaders. The
captain who shot Sheehy Skeffing
ton has been declared insane. But
very obviously the court martials j
that directed the “leglmate shoot-|
ing” of Tierce and the rest, were
carried away by their excess of
dread and to that extent also were
mentally deranged.
It is quite remarkable that the
British themselves seem incapablo
of realizing that. Perhaps that too
is another symptom of the extent
of the mental derangement from
which the nation suffers by reason
of the terror of war. We often see
analogies of this in quieter and more
peaceful times. Many a man glories
in certain characteristics which are
merely the vicious stigmata of ne
generacy, he would, were he approx
imately normal, be rather anxious
to conceal.
At any rate we know that there
can be just now no such thing as
a reasonable exercise of the quality
of Mercy. During these dark and
gloomy days, the quality of Mercy
is exceedingly strained, and is as
rare as the rain from Heaven on
the desert of Sahara. Men have cut
such blessings from their souls, and
“in the heart of every man Terror
is lying still”. But it is gratifying e
to know that sunk as may be the
Asquiths and the rest in that aber
ration due to a terrible war and the
more terrible dread of its terrors,
they may not be sunk so low as not
to be touched by a memory of
Casement’s former loyal service.
And it is also highly improbable
that far as may be the aberration
of the official mind from normality,
It is never wandering so far afield
as not to recognize the rights
which caste confers upon even an
offender like Casement. Casement
I may have sins as scarlet, but wash
ed In the blood of snobocracy it can
be made whiter than snow. And
I it is upon this that his sole hope
I for life depends. It is upon this
, slender thread that he can hope to
| prolong his existence. No matter
! of generous clemency, no feeling
| for human frailty, no sympathy for
. the misguided views however ele
j vating—no moral consideration can
i affect his case. But that he is Sir
| Roger and not a common man, that
his blood is the blood of tories ann
| an aristocracy, that his life repre
sents a branch of a respectable
family tree—these are momentous
i things indeed and may, belike,
save the man's life. After all, blue
blood has its redeeming qualities.
CIVILIZATION’.
Lowell, Mass., may not have con
ceded the right of women to vote,
hut is certainly does grant their
I right to work, that this is indicative
of progress—civilizing progress, may
be, it would be imprudent to deny
These are certainly times that in
spire men s souls. Magnificent are
tlie profits come from industry and
magnificent is the basis of the in
dust riej We refer back to Lowed.
Tnere in that favored manufactur
ing center, the United States Cart
ridge Co. has obtained an option on
fiO.OOO square feet of floor space
I from the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet
Co. and will employ 1000 women
making munitions of war.
1 Those women may not vote. Their
delightful feminity Is to be pre
served from the sullying impuritv
! of the ballot box and the debasing
association of politics. They will
permit the men folk to do that.
They will have their charming sex
preserved for the more elegant ope
rations of the United States Cart
ridge Co. and will receive the hand
some remuneration of seven dollars
i a week. It is to be hoped that they
j will appreciate their privilege. It
is to be hoped that they will un
, derstand how carefully and pru
■ dently and zealously their sex is
saved from the rougher side of life
i and tenderly witheld from the pub
lic sacrifice of voting at the polls.
Instead a glorious system of society
permits them an access to a means
of livelihood suitable to their
womanhood making cartridges and
other war munitions which will per
forate the guts of men and animals
far away. In this manner they will
be fitted for motherhood, and in
this manner with a eugenic certain
ty, will the future citizenship be as
sured to the country and the Flag.
PEACE.
A returned observer from Europe
says that a stumbling block to
peace that few have written about
is the fact that the Powers are
afraid to call back their troops as
they must, of necessity, upon terms
of agreement being reached. They
fear that they may be called to an
accounting. The Germans may atfk
the Kaiser and the Junker class to
explain their necessity to the
scheme of existence; the British
may demand of the Asquiths and
the nobility and the aristocracy
and the capitalists generally what
good they are in the world; the
French maw insist upon the Bour
geoisie explaining why their oxist
snce as such inutilities should socl
ally be prolonged; and the Austri-1
ans and Italians with the war
fever dead within their bosom and
the nationalist antagonisms faded,
would begin like the rest a general
house cleaning.
There are many indications that
such a national house cleaning will
be insisted upon. The jingoism will
have departed and rationalism will
have returned. With rationality at
the norm, how will the non-essen
tials of the social life explain away
their unproductive but exceedingly
mischievous existence? The native
hue of peace resolution naturally
becomes sicklied over with the pale
cast of such thoughts and con
science makes cowards of the gov- j
ernments and the governing classes |
in Europe.
THE LONGSHORE STRIKE.
The strike of the longshoremen
outside is prolific with instruction
for the average worker. Whether
it goes down in defeat or is ac
companied by ultimate victory, the
tactics pursued must be open for
candid criticism.
It is stated, for example, that
the dock work is performed by
strike breakers who sling the
freight or truck it to the dock for
slinging and when slung on boar<t
ship is stowed by union sailors.
That stowage is as much a part of
the longshore work as is the dock
work. And if the dock work done is
scabbing, there is no other name
for the board ship work whether
it be called union or not.
The urgent necessity these days
is for a closer coming together of
all crafts within the industry. The
transportation industry is a unit in
being affected by this fight and the
seamen who aid in the defeat of
their fellow workers are not a bit
more worthy consideration than
the strike breakers. We must have
a clear ii?3a on that.
It may be urged that the seamen
might be called upon in case of such
a strike to support a movement they
did not regard as practicable or
which they did not approve of for
one reason or another.
All the more reason why there
should be one union of transporta
tion workers so that all could de
eide who would have to put up the
fight. That would be only reason
able. And until this one union
idea in one industry, co-operating
with one union in all industries is
an accomplished fact, battles will
be lest which should not be lost
and strikes will be protracted where
they should not last longer than
twenty-four hours.
Just imagine an army attacking
and one regiment denied the co
operation cf others because the
members did not belong to the re
giment making the assault no mat
ter how critical was the need of
their help. If the methods used by
the Amor car. Federation of Label
were used for one day by the most
powerful am:*' in the worid. aud
the same system of regimental
(craft) autonomy prevailed, they
wouldn’t last as long as a snow ball
in that place where the Gompers
idea belongs.
marine bulletin.
Nome Radio, July 20, 1916.
Delta at Fairbanks.
Susie with 5 Barges up Kotlik 9
a. m ,18th.
j Schwatka at Gibbon leaves for St
Michaels, Thursday p. m.
Jacobs, Kelly and Benchley at
Gibbon.
Reliance and Sibilla at Gibbon.
Yukon with 2 barges down To
lovana 8.15 a. m..
Julia B at St. Michaels.
Davis with barge yp Kotlik 16th.
Tanana with barge up Circle 3 p.
m. 18th.
Alaska at Gibbon sails for Fair
banks noon.
Atlas at Fairbanks.
Selkirk down Big Salmon 8 a. m.
White Horse up Yukon crossing
1 a.- m.
Dawson up Selkirk 7 a. m.
Casca at White Horse.
Vidette up Ogilvie 4:36 a. m.
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