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Nome, Alaska, September 10,
HIGH PRICKS IN WAR ZONES.
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A dispatch says that food riots
have occurred in the Vienna where
the price is four dollars a pound for
beef and two dollars a pound for
rice. Owing to the number of other
wise productive laborers, engaged in
the unproductive task of killing oft
their fellow men, the product of the
country is not sufficient to supply
the demand, and in the competition
for what there is the man with the
most‘money gets what he wants,
while the man who has no money
goes without.
Naturally those who have to go
•without resent this condition, and
riots result. Now such conditions
are not unnatural in war zones.
There is a natural scarcity for there
is a natural shortage. But the very
remarkable fact is that when there
is a natural scarcity riots follow,
while when there is an artificial with
holding from consumption, and that
often when there is an excess ot
production, although there be the
same deprivation, there will be no
riots. Thus, and quite repeatedly,
in every American city during. in
dustrial depression the-e are very
many who are unable to buy food
becaus- they have not the money.
There being no work, they cannot
get wages, and there is no way
^vlmreby they can realize on theii
labor and get what they want tc
cat.
But there is no rioting. The pen
niless unemployed stand meekly it
line for bread and coffee, for stew
for charity meals, and that without
the slightest sign of recentment.
Yet, looked at with unbiassed
eyes, it might be admitted that th<
one would feel the same right t(
live as the other, one would hav<
the same desire to prolong existent'*
as the other, and one would imagin*
that the sense of injustice in th<
unemployed and penniless in a lam
bursting with plenty, would b*
above all others more acute.
Yet we see that quite the contrary
is the case. In every warring coun
try the people who are compelled t*
endure privations, unavoidable oi
account of the war, are the very
first to protest and violently protest
They have their riots and their de
monstrations, and they accept th<
position in which they find them
■selves with such a burning discon
tent that revolts against authority
break out.
Now on the other hand in th<
United States or any other country
the unemployed and destitute n<
matter what sufferings they endure
seldom manifest any disposition t<
riot, seldom manifest any exhibl
tion of revolt against the authoritj
that prevents them breaking intc
stores over stocked and warehouses
groaning with a surfeit of proven
der. They accept the situation with
out demur and with a docility is al
ways anticipated by the res
among the nation as natural and in
evitable.
But there must be a good soum
reason for this difference Jn the at
titnde of sufferers to privations dur
ing war and during peace, ant
there must be some explanation wh;
fewer of the unemployed no matte
how real their sufferings become, be
tray the same desperate resistanci
and the same determined refusal t<
accept conditions manifested amoni
the residents of the war zone shov
towards their fate.
It is possible that the genera
change that comes over the socia
mind as a result of the war has go
something to do with it. The in
stinct of fight reaches a higher de
velopment, and there is less tendenc;
to accept things as they are, i
things as they are, are unpleasant.
During peace, the lowest socia
strata, such as are the unemployei
and the destitute, are beset on ever;
side with authoritarian forms whlcl
seem to them omnipotent instinc
•tively. They see all other classes ac
cepting the conditions as they are
| and the authority which will over
' take any attempt to maintain a posi
! tion otherwise, seems the embodi
! ment of such social acceptance.
Years of working experience also
! fastens upon even the unemployed a
i respect for authority and they in
j stinctively, and against their own
i interests, assume the attitude of the
stoic that whatever is. Is right.
During war, naturally enough,
things are thrown in the crucible.
Manners, customs, institutions, sy
stems that prevailed with hardly
any change or modification for
scores of years, become up-set or
changed over night. The mind
loses its anchorage of past experi
ence and drifts with the flood. A
new mentality is born society, anil
this has within itself all the eie
i mental instinct which has no dis
i cipline of experience to control it,
I especially to drive it to accept a
course of action prejudicial to itselt
! and the old instincts above all
| which find expression in a struggle
for existence awaken, showing a
tendency to resist authority anil
offer to might a counter display ot
! might, in order to secure the means
of subsistence.
Only in this way, would it be
possible to explain bow the Germans
peaceful and above all things else
law abiding, and easily amenable
to the social discipline which au
thority for years exerted upon them,
refuse to accept the food situation
as irremediable and revolt in wild
riotings that in some places only
were controlled when considerable
blood was shed.
Neither the Germans nor the Aus
trian poorer Hasses suffer a bit
more than do the poorer unem
ployed classes in America, during
the periods o economic depression
but the American workers accept
their calamitous position as inevit
able and impossible to better, with
out a thought of seizing to satisfj
' their needs.
The American worker ordinarilj
is not so subject to social and gov
ernmental discipline as is the Ger
1 man. But he is subjected to a fai
1 intenser industrial discipline. Th<
German in a German factory is a fai
freeer individual than the individu
al worker who enjoys life in an Am
erican industrial plant. The elimi
nation of individuality as far as the
American worker is complete and
thorough. He is subjected to al
most whimsical authority from the
very start of his employment. Ini
tiative is destroyed, and he is simp
1 ly an automaton. Only those whc
have worked in American factories
realize what a completely restrained
activity is that of the worker, bound
by rules, regulations and authori
tarian enforcement which the aver
- age German would regard with
astonishment. The mentality ol
the unemployed worker is the result
of that experience. And he takes
with him from that factory when
unemployed this result of his indus
trial discipline and is ready for the
l social discipline, because he has had
his training. The hobo factor}
worker in America is the most sub
1 servient of all hoboes, nerveless, dis
ciplined and shrinking before au
' thorlty. .
As far as the factory worker is
» concerned he is a creature with at
> iron industrial discipline born o:
1 his factory experience, and witl
' hardly anything at all to counter
act his industrial subserviency ex
i ccpt the industrial union movement
1 This is no exageration. The facti
t of the Lawrence strike, even if th<
■ workers were mostly foreign born
- revealed a condition of slavish em
’ ployment which is unequalled, in th<
l annals of industry. During tha
strike, the Industrial Workers o:
I the World, for a time succeeded It
1 organizing therm with a splendid
' spirit of revolt against this slavisl
> condition, but after normal condl
tions of activity returned, the}
again inevitably succumbed to th<
. gruelling discipline of their environ
s
inent and abandoned the radicalism
of their organization to quite a re
markable extent.
American writers who visit Ger
many delight to dwell upon the
number of things that are forbidden
in ordinary life to the average
German, and they dwell on the do
cility with which the average Ger
man accepts and even approves
these “forbiddings”. Such writers:
are apparently unfamiliar with the
life of the average American indus
trial worker or their amusement
would lose much of its point, for
“forbiddings” and rules and regu
lations, the ordinary American in
dustrial plant cannot be excelled.
In any event, these forbiddings
while still nominally evistent, can
not be enforced during war. In
deed from time to time, one or
another is abolished or modified to
suit war time circumstances. The
every day social experiences are
subjected to a changed discipline,
and this tends to lessen respect for
the authorities who seem instinctiv
ely and in a subtle manner to be
either accessory to the evils of the
food .shortage or responsible for it
by their promotion of war.
Hence follows the mass opposi
tion which hunger arouses In the
poorer classes and if there is any
such an inspirer of revolution and
revolt as hunger among the victims
of its rigor, history does not men
tion it. Because then no longer
passively submissive, hunger makes
the undisciplined people actively
unsubmissive and revolting, so that
food riots break out with ever in
creasing frequency.
These things are of very great im
portance. Although efforts are made
to minimize the seriousness of the
German and Austrian food riots and
the British high costs of living agi
tation now so general, they will be
either directly or indirectly the
causes of peace.
None of the nations, which are all
of them controlled by the proper
tied classes, can afford to encourage
these lawless exhibitions upon the
part of the propertiless. No high
power shell used on the battle front
contains more explosive material.
The social energy manifested In
riots and demonstrations is the
j same energy that has levelled dy
nasties and changed governments.
They are not reformist. Thev are
revolutionary in character and no
desperate gamble upon the dnal
issue of a protracted war will allow
the powers in any of the nations to
permit them to gain social head
way.
They signify to our thinking, that
the social restraint and the •toei.'l
discipline which years of submission
to constituted authority have de
veloped, have now broken down.
The restraining and controlling
power of normal social submission
is losing out and the masses are
tentatively exerting their power.
The governing classes have en
deavored to nip these in the bud,
but they did not succeed. They are
too hard pressed in every land to
give sufficient attention to these in
cipient revolts against their own
domestic authority. It is almost
certain that as the war is pro
longed these riots will become more
frequent and more determined, and
the propertied interests must either
end the war to end the rioting 01
the rioters will end war by a re
volution against the propertied.
There is apparently no way out ot
it if we interpret rightly the social
psychology which prompts these
food riots.
OVERSTOCK ED
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 jo
the basis of goods purchased me
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.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
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at Crooks, next Fire Department.
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