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Tin: I. \V. W. AXI) ITS POINT
OF VIKW.
So general is the interest in this
subject that the reader wishes to
got into the matter outrightly
and we need cast about for no en
gaging style to hold attention.
It prejudice and hatred prevail
among them it is not less in degree
than that which is meted to them.
It misinformation is current among
them,—their opponents nay say
how much,—it is likelwise current
about them. An inquiry into the
latter phase is the specific work in
hand here.
That It is An Alien Importation.
This is the more readily accepted
of ail tlie stock objections. Us jus
tification t. not conceded even if
Irue kince much that we hold
worthy, Caristiaiitv on it hand, is
from the Kast. In point of fact
lli» I \\ \\. is most markedly Am
erican it. origin, in development and
in s me unavoidable if unworthy
characteristics,-—An eriean pluck,
fortitude. courage, hardihood and
liberty loving idealism. it was
foil' -d Aim ruan citizens many
of whom were of notable intellectu
al attainments: A. M. Simons,
Daniel lie Leon, and Eugene V.
Delis, coiobaring with William E.
Trautni: n, William i>. Haywood
and otln r labor men who had been
brought to the fore by conditions
and exigencies distinctly and pecu
liurly American. it lia- remained
oft cored. led end sponsored b> Am
erican citizens in the far greater
part and its membership today will
stand an eighty per cent test ol
American nativity.
^ es, it is quite true that the labor
complement of llie* I. W. W. exists
in Europe but it existed in America
first and it may with greater reason
be said in France, for example
that syndicalism is an importation
from America. Toda> we may be
said to have directly exported the
1. W. W. to- Panama, to Havana
Hawaii. Australia and New Zealanc
since America organizers departdt
litis country tor those shores
Sabotage a word descriptive of tin
fighting strategy of tlie 1. W. W
is a Freni li term but it is a ver
liacular labor translation of oui
own "missionary work” of the Am
ericar. Typographical Union in tin
might is t general struggle so lai
waged beiwccn labor and capita
this country, nut that in turn migh
be said to have been an adaptatlo
ol' the “gaecanny” of the Scotch
factory worxcrs. Certain it is that
emery dust wont into the lubricat
ing oil of i>rintieg machinery long
before the French peasant hurled his
sabot inlo the loom he rebelliously
cursed. In principle ihe I. VV. VV.
will and does develop in response
to the industrial conditions in any
pa.titular country.
That The I. W. W. Won’t Work.
We heat much less of this than
formerly. It hung on under the
operation of that bromide that we
are inclined to believe vhat we
wi-li to believe. At the outset the
worker was not supposed to have
th; moral right to refuse work
whatever the terms or conditions
might be. The I. W. W. challenged
that pralice and had the hardihood
to go hungry and endure the
bulfetings of the police rather than
work under conditions that were
wholly intolerable. His idea frank
ly is that his labor power is a com
modity whose value is determined
in precieelv the same way as i the
value of other commodities and if
he gave any thought to moral right
at all he felt that he had a right
to withold his power to work if less
than its value was offered.
That it is a Lawless Aggregation.
1 am not apologist enough to say
otherwise. I can only say lhat this
que-tion hangs wholly upon the
point of view. It is avowedly a
revolutionary movement and these
are invarihly held as lawless for a
time at least. The Declaration of
Independence of course justices
revolutionary movements upon the
| part of peoples who may desire to
substitute new government and this
document easily become incendiary
when translated into Spanish and
circulated in the Phillipine Islands.
Two patron saints of modern Amer
ican republicanism have said:
| Wendeil PhttlVfm: “The manna of
I liberty must be gathered day by
day or it is rotten. Republics exist
solely upon the tenure of being
constantly agitated.”
Abraham Lincoln: “Labor L- sup
erior and prior to capital and de
serve., the much higher right" And
upon another occasion, “The
strongest bond cl human sympathy
outside the family relation should
be one uniting the labor men of all
nations, lands and tongues”. The
I. W. W. are students of Lincoln.
origin
or ESKIMOS TRACED
MISHALLY.
Prinative music hitherto lias been
tittle regarded from the standpoint
of racial hi torv. Such facts as
have been gathered about tribal
rhythms and melodies have been
much exploited as material for the
composition of exotic-sounding
pieces for the modern concev. halt,
but they have been little applied
to the comparative study of lost or
disappearing civilizations If some
traveler today discovers a folk tune
in Abyssinia, inevitably some ccm
po er tomorrow will write an
“Abyssinian” intermezzo for full
orchestra, with a number of new j
instruments added. If an anti ;uar- j
ian goes into the hack country of
Peru and brings out a strange me
lody from the mountain people, a
musician is sure to seize upon it at
once as the theme of an aria for
an inca opera.
Breaking away from the idea
that the present use of a folk tune
is what count,.; for most. Christian
Leden, tlie Arctic explorer, lias in
vestigated Eskimo music in Green
land with the purpose of learning
its past significance.
Startling with the idea that the
origins or a race can be studied as |
well through music as through j
spoken lore, lie has taken phono
graphic record, of Eskimo singing,
as he has heard it under both do- j
mestic. and ceremonial conditions.
The way that a people expresses it
self in music does not change so
much, according to him, as does its
way of expressing it-clf through
other forms of culture. The Eski
mos of the present time, as lie has
noted his theories to interviewers,
have the same manner of vocal de
livery, the same way of putting a
strrs. oil a tone and the same me
thod for constructing a melody that
their ancestors had centuries ago.
Going on the theory that races
have permanent traits of voice,
rhythm and tune, Mr. Leden has
compared his records of Eskimo
singing with his own and other
travelers’ records of American In
dian i inging; and he has come to
the conclusion that the Eskimo
tribes of Greenland and the Indian
tribes of both North and Soutii Am-1
erica have a common ancestry. In
fact, he holds that he has found,
a strong argument showing the i
Eskimos to be descendants of Am
erican Indians who were driven
northward perhaps thousand- of
years ago and who have since re
mained isolated there.
One of the peculiarities which
the explorer, talking informally
with journalists, has mentioned as
! common to Eskimo and American
I Indian singing is a sliding, or glis
sar.do, accent of important phra-es.
I There are other details which he
has submitted to ethnologists. He
has yet to make a complete popular
presentation ol his researches.
A Canadian woman has written
to the department of militia asking
that her husband, who has enlisted,
be put in the front of the fighting
in the hope that he would be hot.
America would not be the most
hated nation on earth if the admi
nistration had follow ed the advice of
the Socialists and absolutely for
bidden the exportation of. muni
tions or food during the progress of
the war.
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The Rowling Alley next door to
the Eagle saloon is now open for
business. Everybody cordially in
vited to ronte and enjoy themselves.
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