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Nome, Alaska, August II, 1!>1 fi.
AUIHTKATION.
Nothing has directed attention to
arbitration as a measure of relief
in labor strife as has the railroad
brotherhood demands.
For a number of years they have
settled all disputes by arbitration,
in not one of those settlements
have they been able to secure any
thing like their original demands
and in not a few of them they lost
out. It has only been an effort upon
the part of the higher officials to
make it appear that they won which
prevented the rank and file imme
diately denouncing the covenant had
been reached by the arbitration
board.
Accordingly arbitration is in such
high disfavor that W. S. Carter
the president of the Brotherhood of
Enginemen and Firemen says that
at best it is a gamble, and cyni
cally suggests that they draw straws
instead of going through any elabo
rate inquiry as to the rights or
■wrongs at issue.
The trouble with arbitration is
a trouble that is experienced in all
judicial or quasi judicial determina
tions of questions wherein so diver
gent interests as those of employer
and employee are involved. And
the simple fact has been that so lar
no such impartial board has ever
considered any labor demand.
The difficulty, and it is so mani
fest that question of the facts Is
impossible, certainly does accentu
ate the class nature of the labor
movement. And what is all right
for an employer, is considered all
■wrong for the employee or vice
versa as the sympathies of the
hoard of arbitration lies.
To this distrust is added an im
patience at the affectation of free
dom from bias which these boards
regardless of their private feelings
manifest on all occasions. But they
are none the less men subject to the
feelings, sentiments, influences and
emotions of the class socially to
which they belong.
Occasionally there is an excep
tion. Occasionally we perceive men
engaged in adjudicating class ques
tions with a fearless independence
although we might not. without rea
son anticipate quite another point
of view. But these are such rare
birds that they can rightfully be
considered the exception that proves
the rule.
NO END IN SIGHT.
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Although the Entente Allies are
supremely confident in their dis
patches that the end of the war is
In sight and that they are pressing
the Germans and Austrians so hard
that the constriction will soon be
unendurable, their declarations
that the end of the war is in sight
may be just turned down as of no
significance.
There is no more sign of an end
ing today than there was a year
ago, and although the Allies are on
an offensive everywhere and chro
nicling gains large or small, even
the largest are so relatively unim
portant that they are not affecting
on the whole the impregnable posi
tion that the Teutons occupy.
The policy of attrition is a slow
policy at best, and it would be man
ifestly ridiculous to expect an imme
diate crumbling of any so adaman
tine defense as the Germans have
built up.
This is a world war, titanic in its
destructiveness and also titanic in
the area of its activities. There is
no reason to expect that it would
be short in duration.
Besides those who believe that
the German defense may fall to
pieces might with profit consider
the story of the Six Years War un
der Frederick the Great, 'ihe
Vrussian ruler and his people hJd
out with greater tenacity of purpose
than did any of his enemies and
It is not without probability that
this great war may have a similai
ending.
Every nation now, Teuton or En
tente, is showing signs ol' weariness
at the prolongation of th{
war. Notwithstanding the efficienl
work of the censors in their efforts
to deceive the nations of the world
nothing is more evident than thal
a'.l are tired wi’.n the hostilities, and
the cry "How Long, <) I.ord' is not
an empty onr by any means.
I'or all that with every natior
v.fiiting for the other to first crj
enough, the longest of wars is
possible under such a condition.
The idea of humiliating any na
tion by any side in this war by pil
ing such a series of defeats as tc
leave the enemy utterly prostrate is
no longer to be entertained. And
the possibilities of resistance within
the Teuton nations will only be
realized when the enemy may, il
they ever do, reach the German
soil.
It is possible of course with ar
actual deadlock prevailing that any
thing and everything, trivial and
unimportant as it may appear, wil:
be quite sufficient to cause a be
ginning of negotiations which woul<
lead to peace. Hut what argues
against this condition is the post
tive bitterness that still exists be
tween the battling nations in this
war, and the still foolish clamors
for revenge by one side or another
A question that lias arisen in con
nection with this war is whether o
not tlie results will lie tlie more o
less reactionary, according as tin
war is long or short.
It is quite certain that one wa;
or another the results must hi
seriously affected by the continua
tion of the war, because a war con
dition provides radical change ii
environment and since a changec
environment invariably and natur
ally causes a changed view point
the actions that result from thosi
changed ideas must of necessit;
change also.
Comment has been made upon i
fact that the nations at war are be
coming more religious and especial
lyy it is said is this so in France
Naturally superstition is more pow
erful when death looks one in tin
eye, because reason is overpowerec
by emotion or sentiment, and hu
man beings have an hereditary in
stinct to believe in immortality.
However this may be, and it ii
strong religionists who say it Is so
and the wish may very well b<
father to the thought, if it is so
one thing is certain that all kind!
of reaction will accompany that rl
vival. It is not very difficult to be
lieve in a King by the Grace of Goc
and a ruling class through divint
providence if one has faith in al
the other fol-der-rols that pasi
muster as "religion”. But surelj
the injustice of the suffering ant
misery and wretchedness and griefs
is as likely in the end to inspirt
a radical materialism of a utilitar
ian nature, is to make short shrif1
of those who supported or uphelc
or caused directly or indirectly this
war.
One historian has said that tlu
penitent people called Flagellantes
who flogged themselves in an ecstas;
of suffering and penance to preevn
the Black Death causing their de
struetion, had to be suppressed bj
the l’ope because of the immoral
itv and infidelity that became com
mon among these exponents of rell
gums mania. And even the ap
pearance of religion may not sign!
l’y exactly as it appears to a casua
observer.
When the devil was ill, the devl'
was a saint. And the soldier facing
death doubtless feels that it is goof
to put his house in order as for ar
awakening in another world. Bui
returning in peace to this and be
holding what has been the result ol
the war, he may again turn tc
thoughts far more practical thar
those of another and a loftier exist
ence.
SAME EFFECT.
A German scientist has made an
elaborate investigation concerning
the mental consequences of hunger
and he sums up the results of his
work in declaring that the clinical
and experimental observations he
had made have proved that the phe
nomena due to over-indulgence in
alcohol and those due to depriva
tion and lack of nutrition are
somewhat extensively in correspond
ence. This matter is certainly worth
investigation and certainly should
receive more attention. So while
it is an excellent work to destroy
evils of drinking, still more import
ant is it to utterly obliterate hung
er which has just the same effect.
Hunger has done more to retard
labor progress than most people
are aware of. The mental effect of
lack of nutrition is to deprive the
victim of considerable will power,
self control and a tendency to ..obey
sudden and irresistible impulses.
Moreover it is known that the ef
fect of this condition of hunger if
that condition had any prolonged
existence, is much more protracted
than the effects of drink.
It is told of Samuel Johnson that
even when he had plenty in after
life, he never got over the result
of his former starved condition and
his animalism at the table shocked
his most intimate friends. He ate
like a wild beast, drops of sweat
stood out on his forehead when he
beheld his favorite dish, he attacked
his food with a growling noise like
a famished wolf. And there is hard
ly any doubt if the physical conse
quences of lack of nutrition had
been so lasting, the mental effects
must also have been no less pro
found.
There is no end to the evil conse
quences of poverty. They stare the
nation and the people in the face
always. They exaggerate evil effects
and they intensify human suffering.
The evil that it does lives long
after it, and there is no good what
ever to be interred with its bones.
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Next door to Pacific Cold
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To F. \V. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody, Pat Dunkin, John Dun
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Good
body, Basil Meek, James M. Dun
kin, Mrs. Dunkin, S. C. Henton,
Mrs. James Gibson, your heirr,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereb'-'
notified that I have expended in
labor and improvements the sum
of one hundred dollars each year
for the years of 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915
on the Blankett Location and the
Midnight Dream Association, both
association placer mining claims lo
cated on the left limit of Gold Rur.
a tributary of Bering Sea and re
corded and more fully discribed in
the Records of the Port Clarence
Mining District, in the Second Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified, that if within nine
ty days after the last publication of
this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
you F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F. W.
Goodbody,,^Pat Dunkin, John Dun
kin, M. O’Neill, Catherine Goodbody
Basil Meek for the Blankett Loca
tion and you James M. Dunkin, Mrs.
Dunkin, F. W. Goodbody, Mrs. F.
W. Goodbody, S. C. Henton and Mrs
James Gibson for the Midnight
Dream Association, your inter
ests in said claims will become the
property of the undersigned, vour
co-owner under section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
THOS. H DUN:UN.
Co-Owner
Date of first publ., Aug. 4, 1J1G.
Date of last publ., Nov. 3, lO'.tl
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