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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office al
some, Alasaa, under the Act of March 3, 1879
Nome. Alaska. January 2(1, 1010.
Attached to every position there
are doubtless certain duties which
havo to lie performed which often
enough are onerous if not actually
irksome. Governor Strong's rep rt
gives one the idea that this is a per
functory duty whicii is best indulg
ed in, because part of the gov
ernor's functions, in a mrnner ot
glittering generalities.
Frankly taking up this report
and ignoring to whom it is adilres
sed, and not asking the why of it.
one could regard it as a generous
advertisement of the Territory by
some transportation or real estate
company wherein the advantages
are all set forth and the disabilities
hardly ever.
It is incorrect to say that the re
port doos not embody facts of ex
treme importance and ruattors which
for reference sake must be consider
ed invaluable. It docs just that.
It chows the progress of the mining
and fishing industry as well as
other lines of social activity which
are of paramount importance to the
country.
flut it almost deliberately avoids
dealing with any of the disabilities
under which the Territory labors to
the extent that practical and effici
ent remedies for those things could
bo found.
This is especially the ease with
such an important industry as the
fisheries, wherein many of the dis
^traeertil condStions industrially aJM
socially that prevail are not men
tioned or if hinted at, are hinted ac
in so general a way that they will
occasion little inquiry and di mand
•line uiieimun.
To be sure' the Governor concerns
himself with the restrictions an:l
red tape which lias hedged around
the private enterprise in many lines
and restriction^ and, red tape which
it will later on be admitted have
been of most salutary effect inasmuch
as it has prevented a wholesale
seizure of those resources which
‘wore available for seizure.
Conservation has worked well in
Alaska, and only the mouthpieces of
those corporations which have ob
served with covetous eyes the ter
ritorial resources think otherwise,
and the pity of it is that some of
that principle has not been extended
to the fishery resources the un
bridled exploitation of which not I
withstanding Strong’s denial, has!
resulted in a depletion of the salmon j
run in many valuable streams.
To suggest otherwise as does the j
•report, is to suggest a condition ex
perience has taught from the Co-j
tumbia river to Alaska is not the
case.
The real estate agent style of
boosting conditions in Alaska and
which is a marked characteristic of
ibis report, is a most profound and 1
unworthy mistake for any official, '
Masks has opportunities for many,
but Alaska is now and will for a
long time be no place for the man
without capital.
It is a lot of sententious non
sense to say “Alaska therefore is the
land of plenty and opportunit?. It
invites the man of means as well
as the man of whose brawn and
brain are his only capital. Success
awaits these if their efforts are
only rightly directed”. Such might
be all right when writton at the
dictation of a Chamber of Com
merce publicity committee for an
editorial, but is has no place in a
government report where facts and
figures and not glittering genera’
ities which are generally glittering
nonsense should have a plape.
Some of the recommendations as
‘to Schools for example, or as to an
nulling the contract with the Morn
ingside asylum aro valuable and
worth consideration. There is no
reason why there should be any
shortage of money for the support
of the schools in any section of Al
aska, and that there Is, Is a crying
scandal. It certainly is a monstrous
condition to note the vast output of
the fisheries and the producing lode
aniBM la Jklaaka, and- to consider
that., there is not sufficient money I
■'< cur'd . for the territory's thirty
eight schools outside incorporated
limits.
The Governor suggests a mining
experiment station “at or near
Juneau". This pork barrel idea can
just as well be abandoned by Al
askans. What such a station would
be at Juneau would in effect be an
appanage of the big mines where in
side dope could be obtained as to
the prospects which the miners have
discovered. Nor is this any such
thing as far fetched. It is notori
ous that the assay offices connected
with such stations elsewhere and
even private asasy firms have been
the decoys where prospectors un
burdened their secrets for the bene
fit of the large mining corporations.
Juneau is not the center of the
Alaskan mineral belt. And it should
be the last or one of the last places
to suggest locating the mine experi
ment station. Alaska Is a very large
country as the Governor himself
suggests, and it does not begin and
end with The Treadwell or the Gas
tineau mines, or the Governor’s
mansion. It extends all the way to
Point Harrow in the north, and to
place it in Juneau .is to leave nan
available such a station to sections
of the country which need it most
and to bring such stations under
the thumb of the Treadwell and
other vast and covetous corpora
•lons. '
Last but not least apparently the
Governor has been won over to the !
doctrine of preparedness in a
humble way all his own.
• bus on page 48 Governor Strong
seems to sav with regret. “As yet
Alaska has no militia or other mi
litary organization .... I have
therefore to recommend that 'such
legislation be enacted by Congress
as will make it possible to organize
and maintain a force of militia in
Alaska”. The Governor agrees
with a former War Department re
commendation to maintain a force
of militia “particularly in the vicin
ity of Juneau”.
One can feel how much eclat
would be rendered to the guhcrna
totorial functions, if officers ;n uni
form resplendent with gold braid
and waving plumes, graced such
with their presence. And it can
be nho admitted that the absence
oi such has detracted from the
brillancy of many and many an
otherwise perfect reception.
Besides the managers of the large
mines In Juneau may have observeu
in outside sections how efficient has
a militia proved in breaking strikes.
And the lack of such is not mane
up by the neighboring’presence of
regulars at Haines. The regulars
never have been efficient strike
breakers. The officers are notori
ously intractable. They cannot be
irned as the ' militia officers them
selves are used, owing their civil
positions not infrequently to the
company’s whose strikes they have
therefore to put down.
Possibly (and of course possibly
not) the Governor may have also
observed these things, and takes
time by the forelock so that Juneau
can be prepared against any indus
trial struggle.
Otherwise there is no sense in the
establishment of an Alaska miliita.
The number available against a
foreign enemy is so small aB to be
negligible. One thousand men could
no more hold Juenau than they
could hold the entire coast against
an invading foe.
As part of the militia system of
tfte United States, or as part of
the preparedness system of the War
Department, they would not even
form a nucleus for dofense against
an invader.
Hence 'comnvon sense froin the
worker’s standpoint has neither
sympathy nor patience nor approval
for this rather sinister suggestion
of the Governor in his report. If it
is a suggestion from a military
standpoint it In absurd; if it is In
dustrially Inspired it is, where not
absurd, extremely ominous,
i However the Governor’s report
has one strong characteristic which
is not wholly to be despised. Ile
bate^ble questions and the acrimony
of involved political issues ara very
obligingly shelved. The Governor is
a non-partizan who will not handle
the pitch of controversy lest he be
defiled.
That's some achievement for a
iemocrat which must commend it
self to his nonpartlzan secretary.
There is no member of the Fishery
trust going to be seized with un
lue and irritating anger at the posi
tive nature of the Governor's re
;ommendatlons. The men wjio have
an eye upon the resources of the
country will not be displeased if his
mnservationism where not of a ne
gative type is at least of a courte
>us and gentlemanly dillctanteism
He w"1 hurt no one's feelings by
bailing to show that Alaska suffers
'rom f veat and ser ous disabilities
much more important than the lac!- .
>' a standing militia, Lfut he at j
east preserves on ofiicia. dignity
which will not be ruffled by acri- '
norious criticism or loud nenuncia-!
: on l, ost unseemly wherein to in- j
.olve a statesman™
U no one calls it an epochmaking j
’"port, no one will accuse him or j
stooping to the dust of politics. And }
.hat’s saying a whole lot.
What does. John I). Rockefeller
nean when he promises his Colora
lo miners a system of labor organi
sation more democratic than union
sm? “Our plan ” he answers, "is to
;ake in all men irrespective of whet
ter thty join a union or not. Union
sm benefits one group not all the
workingmen Our thought has been
;o devise something absolutely dem
jcratic—something that will take in
ill workmen, whether they belong
:o a union or not..
There are three reasons which
reep a workingman from joining unl
ms: Restriction of membership by
;he unions themselves, dislike of the
lecessary discipline and pressure ot j
md excited by omployers. The mao .
who voluntarily refuses to join witli ■
lis fellow workman in an associa-,
;ion for the common benefit is eith 1
?r selfish, or shortsighted, or incur-!
ibly and abnormally individualistic
md he is too scarce to Ifs a prob
em. There is not an important la-i
ior organization in the country that
would not he glad to take its chan
ges with opposition from working
men if only there was no opposition
from omployers.
So, if Rockefclltr forms a labor
irganization which includes all the I
nincro in the companies which he 1
controls, the non-uriion membership
in that organization will be compos
ed chiefly not of men who did not
want to join tho union, but cf those
who were afraid to join it. Plainly
Mr. Rockfeller could take his choice
between having practically all the
minors join the present un'on or in
ducing them to join the more '‘dem
ocratic” organization which he has
proposed. He has chosen the latter
plan, which will be the more dif
ficult of tho two, since an entire
ly new organization must bo cre
ated. His reason can hardly be oth
er than an opinion that a labor or
ganiaztion proposed and controlled
by the employers will leave the
men Vess power than the old style
union. '9r "
6ut the criticism that ought to
be made of Mr. Rockefeller is not
against his plan, but against his
lack of frankness. Like* any em
ployer, he wants the reina of con
trol in his own hands. An em
ployer must often make estjmatez
a long time abend, and the balance
between profit and loss may often be
upset by an unforseon labor disturb
area. Jt would be mere convenient
if labor could be ifought and sold
like so much ccal. But the day
when this was possible is past
Stability must be secured by going
forward, not by going backward.
Labor must be conceded a real
power in industry, nat the fictitious
power of a supervised organization.
With this real power must go res
ponsibility. Workingmen are finite
ready to assume responsibility in re
turn for power. Some labor leaders
like some business men, will breai;
contracts, but as a rule, with fair
dealings on the employe s’ part,
contracts will be kept. The industri
al problem will not bo settled by
men who stick their heads in the
sand and insist that the Interests
of labor and of capital are identical.
They are not Identical, and they
never have been. Bur progress to
ward closer agreement can be made
if employers and labor loaders will
frankly recognize the divergence or
interests and each / make as good
and as honorable a bargain as he
can. The trouble with Mr. Rockc
fel’er’s proposed bargain Is that it
isn’t quite honorable. It doesn't re
cognize the true situation, and it
commits the commercial crime of
offering a substitute In place of the
genuine article.—San Francisco
Bulletin.
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