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EAGER EOR DUTY.
Twenty thousand Mew York mili
tiamen are said to be eager tor
border duty. More heroes. An>l
right when the hot weather is sizz
ling there too. Are there no
strikes in the Empire State to give
the "boys” a little exercise?
INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS.
The latest form of preparedness
is the promotion of "industrial pre
paerdness’’. It is pointed out that
while millions of men may be re
quired at the front and “in the
trenches’’ for every million so em
ployed, there must be three million
organized in the shops, factories and
fields to keep them supplied with
the sinews of war, and that this
organization is no less essential
than the military organization of
the troops
1 he workers who will keep tho
armies and navy on the battle line,
must be subjected to a semi-military
organization and government discip
line so that the industrial machine
ry may work fittingly for the men
at the front and for that reason no
scheme of national preparednesss
is complete which docs not also aim
to take in the workers, divide them
into units for purposes of control
and direct their movements during
peace so that the country can effi
ciently face war.
In other words, the preparation
ists, most of whom are ardent anti
militarists in their professional,
talk, would provide for the United
States of America a scheme of mili
tarism alongside of which the worst
possible form of Prussian militarism
would he freedom and liberty itself
There is no getting away from
this. It is not a sudden call to
arms to resist invasion. It is deli
berately organizing the country
along militarist lines so that surh
a thing as individual and social li
berty wi'l be of the past.
Take the extension or such a sy
stem to any industry and consider
what it would obvloeriy mean. The
men are to be subjected to a form
of discipline immediately under the
control of sonie bureaucracy in
Washington. If they attempt to
strike or !c demand better condi
tions ci Quit when they feel Ike
,t, it is not hard to understand that
such a militarist discipline could be
promptly invoked to curb their in
dependent action.
This is no far fetched dream. In
the postal service it is an accomp
lished fact. Quite recently prison
terms were served postal employees
for resigning without permissison.
That took place in West Virginia,
but under the auspices of the feder
al government in anno domini
1915.
Involuntary servitude would have
been made an accomplished fact
under another and of course quite
constitutional name.
When this war started, every pa
per in the country echoing the cries
from across the Atlantic, traced it
to the militarism of Germany.
'"Prussian militarism”, they said
threatened the freedom of the
world. It was denounced in all the
moods and tenses, and now we dis
cover that the nations of the world,
the United States not excluded,
deems the best way of combatting
militarism w'hich menaces freedom,
to abolish freedom and to out-mlll
tarist the most militarist of the
Prussians.
The irony, of the Gods never chilled
the heart with blacker poison.
If there is any one patent, glar
ing, unmistabable, unquestioned, un~ ,
doubted fact concerning the prepar- <
edness of the nations ot ;
Europe it is that their prepar- i
edness did not prevent war. Cer- ]
talnly Germany’s gigantic military I
organization did not, nor did Rue- |
sia’s re-organization of its army <
system, nor France’s more than mi- 1
litary preparedness help peace any
thing. British naval preparedness
spelled its entry into the world war,
and it is beyond any national ques
tion that their very preparedness
was in truth and tact the reason
of the war.
A huge military system in any
country is a menace to freedom.
Madison pointed out that long ago.
The British wise in a rebellion
against their sovereign shrewdly
made a standing army illegal unless
confirmed annually by parliament.
The nation that has to stand sup
ported by bayonets is bound to ruin.
It is the one positive lesson in all
history. The decline and fall of an
cient Rome cannot he concealed as
commencing when its mighty le
gions began conquering and sub
duing the world. First of all they
silbdued Rome, and then the world
subdued them in turn.
The struggle of every nation has
been against militarism and against
the acceptance ol' the doctrine that
might is right.
Kverything that the nation owes
to itself and to others is owing not
by reason of military prowess but
upon the conscientious acceptance of
the right of every man to lifo lib r
ty and the pursuit of happiness. It
is against this right that the pre
rarationists, now strike The worker !
is no longer to be a freeman, but
the automatic and dependent cog in
a vast military organization. There
is to bo no personal initiative, no
personal liberty, no independence
of action, no freedom of thought,
'speech or deed. They will have to
have all their independence curtailed
I in order that they may in peace as
in war effectively function as units
of a vast social scheme of prepared
ness!
The wildest dreams of the capi
talist collectivist who advocated the
supremacy of the state reflecting the
! power of the economically suprem j,
could not coneoive any such despe
| rate state of affairs r.a these men
now imagine.
Nothing would place so much
power in employers' hands. Nothing
would remove so completely the
j last remnant of individual freedom
that the industral system, enslaving
though it be today, still admits of.
And that’s where these militarist
leaders are driving. They know
very well that as financially and po
litically independent, they would be
in positions not of subordination
but of command. They should
worry. But it is for the workers
to fully realize the facts of the case
as they must face them sooner or
later.
HUGHES V. WILSON.
It is quite worthy of Charles E.
Hughes that his first act shoul-l
have been to attack the foreign po
licy of resident Wilson. It is quite
within the realm of political, espe
cially republican political fiction
that the greatest attention should
be served to the foreign policy. As
a matter of fact the politicians
these days are playing hard to keep
this foreign business before the peo
lpe to the complete eclipse of
everything else.
It is an extraordinary thing that
the domestic policies which might
be expected to excite deeper interest
are quite neglected.
Yet that is a fact, and what we
have seen of the activities of this
very session of Congress shows that
the foreign and not the domestic
policies are to be the political is
sues.
In that capitalist politicians are
quite safe. Just as long as they
can keep the people guessing as to
peace or war, just as long as mat
ters of treaties and tariffs and the
like are the sole bones of conten
tion, the people are quite likely to
forget all about home affairs and
concern themselves with matters 01
far less moment.
The only Important foreign policy i
just now is to keep out of war.
That is all. The maintenance of the
neutrality of the United States is
the sole means whereby that can be
done. And that so far has been i
done as fairly well as it could be
done by Wilson, despite the vasi.
exciting causes for war which mu- j
nitionists and other insane profiteers
have tried.
Hughes has his own notions of j
what the foreign policy of the na- ,
tion should have been, but had it
been any other than it was as far
as peace or war is concerned,
where would Hughes get an endor
sement?
The unfortunate fact about the
trouble in Europe has been to make
every person concentrate attention
upon it. It is true that following
war orders great profits have been
made that would not otherwise have
been made; it is true that an In
dustrial boom is now in full swing
in the east in consequence of ths
stimulation given the export trade
and the practical monopolizaztion of
the markets by the United States
because of its being a neutral na-1
tion. In consequence little- or no
interest is excited to the actual la
bor conditions throughout the coun
try and the serious effect that the
continued soaring costs of living
are having upon it.
Instead there is manifested an im
patience with the men who strik.s
because of the fact that to make
ends meet they must have an in
creased wages. Strikes disturb pro
fit-making
Most of the country is just now
studying the war in its relation to
the political situation, and i: is an
astounding thing that even the ma
jority ot the workers should be
more concerned whether or not this
or that candidate was likely to be
pro-Gtra-an or pro-Ally, than
whether or not he was likelv by a
policy liberal or reactionary to
hasten the economic evolution
which so intimately involves the
workers as a class.
It is an astonishing state ot
things when even in the political
world wn discover matters concern
ing other nationalities should be re
ceiving more attention than the
possible effect of the Hi-ghes
ascendancy in politics would have
upon the people.
Nothing could more closely re
veal the obsessing effect of the wai
upon i‘.l! classes in this country
! and upon none has it such an ob
j sessing effect, characteristically
enough, than upon the worcers
| They are many ii i ot most of them
interested upon everything under
the sun from war to prohibition,
n> her than in crganizatioi edu
cation and the consummation of an
industrial democracy.
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8x10 Tents.$6.50
8 qt. Granite pails.25c.
1 1-2 Rice Boilers.25c.
Large Fry pans, 10 in.25c.
Large drip pans 10x15.25c.
Large Granite Wash Basins . . 25c
12 qt. Stew Pots.25 c. |
6 qt. Blue and white Bake dish 25o.
14 qt. Granite Dish pans .. . . 25c
Star Tobacco per lbs.50a.
We lead in Quality and Price
HOLTS CASH STORE.
Tel. Main 90.
Center tables from $2,00 to $5.00
at Crooks next Fire Department.
I
AT THU DR® AM.
The S. R. O. wac much in evid
ence at the Dream Inst night The
! Island of Regeneration, in six pow
erfull feature acts was shown. You
| know Vitagaph productions and the
: high standard of their headliners.
This is one of them mounted on a
scale of magnificence never before
attempted, a blue ribbon feature
that Eclipses all previous etiorts, a
omantic vehicle that carries Mis3
Edith Storey S. Rankin Drew and
master Bobby Connelly. A wonder
ful child performer into the spot
light of all star fine arts photoplay,
a master feature. Positively the
Last run tonight. Dont miss it. To
morrow night War-World wide an
other great special in 4 parts, au
thorized by the German and Allied
staffs, Berlin Celebrating the Fall of
Lodz. To the glory of von Hinden
berg. Usual prices prevails.
Granite pots, new, 4 qt., 15c, at
Crooks, next Fire Department.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
_
Notice la hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the lavra of
the State of California, with its
principal place of buolness and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address Is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
> in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and held 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. 644.4 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
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melslng
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.ont No. 1172 is
a schist sione 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.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melslng Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of laBt publ., June 21, 1916.
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