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Bntered aa second class matter March 1. 1911, at the poat office at
Horae, Aiasaa, under the Act of March I, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, February UO, 1010.
Nothing reveals the growing
modernism of Japan so fully as the
fact, which occurred there quite re
cently, that the authorities closed
down the Stock Exchange in Tokio
because of the bulling tendency
that prevailed. Stocks soared to
■great heights, just like the war ha
loes of Wall Street aqd great for
tunes were made.
Ip all respects Japan despite its
still clinging to many of the cu
stoms Of an older day among the
people is an essentially modern
country. Its industrial growth is
phenomenal. , Its business prosperi
ty and methods quite marvellous.
Tokio is growing at a faster rate
than any other city in the world
except Greater New York, and at its
present rate of development will be
Tunning the American metropolis a
close race for the premier position
as far as size, political importance
and financial greatness is concerned,
very soon.
The methods of acquir.ng wealth
In Japan are no different to what
they are in America or any Eu
ropean country. They have seizen
upon the capitalist economic system
and have directed all their energies
to its development.
In Japan every industry is foster
■ed by the state and in Japan accom
panying this growth is a develop
inent of proletarian sentiment which
can easily bo guaged by the fine ar
ticles from radical Japanese which
have from time to time been trans
lated in this country.
No Caucasian approaches the Ori
ent with any sort confidence. Some
how chattering lecturers andstiperfi
cial observers have acquired only
the impression which an apparent
mystiesm leaves behind, and they
come away Imbued with the notion
that the Orientals are some otliei
sort of being, mystic, unintelligible,
unfathomable.
But they are not. They are human
"beings who bleed when pricked,
who laugh when tickled, who suf
fer when injured just like the rest
of us. Their brains acquire facts
with the same ease and with tilt
same difficulty as the average, ant
what they have time r 1 what they
are doing any other nation given
huiiar conditions, similar impulses,
similar environment would do and
would have done.
Japan loses out by being mis
understood as the embodiment ot
that silly notion of the mystic east.,
with symbolism the rampant note In
art, in literature, In music and in
social life.
Their- art, despite the beautiful
lacquer work, indescribably accurate
delineation of tree and flower, is
still art in its infancy and is by na
ture symbolistic. But so was the
art of all nations in their youth,
and Japan in these days of photo
graphy and moving pictures, me
chanical coloring and at the other
reactionary extreme, futurism, is
rising right well to the artistic pos
sibilities of maturity in the chromo
litho and the Sunday supplement.
Critics of Japanese methods sneer
at Japan as a nation of mimics; that
they have fcopied the western na
tions tonly, not excelled them.
One would have thought that the
illuminating facts of their civiliza
tion so easily to be observed at
Mukden and Liaoyang would have
dissipated any such shallow views,
tndoed it hardly'needed the proven
excellence of such a chemical as
shimose powder to demonstrate a»
far as Japan was concerned, she
hadi not only been Instructed but
Iraq bettered it.
And we are all mimics. No man
could possibly write today a hook
which would not he In some way a
plagiarism, maybe an unconscious
*>ne. Old man Solompn quaintly
hikI truly said there is nothing new
under the sun, pud since tfre days oj
the Queen of Sheba's lover, the sun
has grown older Indeed as has the
I earth with it.
Progress is not originality. Many
strike a vein of originality appar
ently when they are in reality
merely turning back and delving in
the mystic methods of antiquity. Why
I hasn't a friendly critic compared
[even Bernard Shaw to Ovid, al
though it is quite certain hath
would be disgusted to think there
was any truth in tne comparison.
Japan is progressing along di
stinctly similar lines to every other
capitalist nation. Profits and . pros
perity and money are the shibbo
leths of modern Japanese industri’’.
Great factqrles in great cities with
great armtes and great navies, wfiat
is needed to further prove its civi
lized modernism?
It is true Japan is not a Christian
nation and lacks the gloriously ci
vilizing influence of a T. M. C. A.
and Billy Sunday. But likely enough
when occasions arise they can dress
up their Nipponese interpretation
of the doctrines of Buddha and
make it quite as presentable as the
Sermon on the Mount. For al reli
gions have the same identical ad
vantage, apparently, that they are
more honored among the nations in
the breach than in the observance.
Buddha, as wc understand from
reading those who were able to read
his religion in the vernacular tex;
books, aslo has his Gdlden Rule, as
had Confucios. And it has had no
effect that we could see in Japan
absorbing the Korean soil or in
driving the Russians from Port
Arthur, it's a consolation that the
pussilnnimity that appears about
these religions as when the true re
ligionist teaches to^turn the other
cheek for another welt also, is mere
ly a text book and pulpiterian pussi
lanimity and is not meant for exact
application. We believe that it is
quite possible even with a Budciistic
doctrine of the virtue of poverty, for
a Japanese John D. Rockefeller to
teach most instructively in a Sun
day School, and if they have any
such a commandment as to keep
tlie Sababth day holy, they will tie
able in true Buddistie fashion to see
that it doe9 not interfere with in
dustrial progress.
Equality before the law is a very
real thing; no matter where you go,
no matter in what state you have
the pleasure of resorting to the laws
delays, you always get the same
value for a dollar. The more dol
lars you have got the more value,
and the strict, and unvarying dol
lar standard of equality is certainly
a wonder.
jTako the tv^o cases that are not un
connected with Alaska.
The canneries would not pay their
territorial taxes. Under the advice
of their attorney, who, by the way
is the beloved of democrats and is
their National Committeeman from
Alaska, they resisted the collection
of the territorial tax. As far as
they were concerned they would
pay none of it. But they have dol
lars galore, and so are entitled to
all the law and the laws advantage
inherent in their many dollars.
A friendly suit is brought against
them by the Territory which they
have been trying to defraud of the
money due In taxation, and tue
Territorial Attorney Mr. Cobb anc.
the Fishery Attorney Mr. Cheney, in
a gentlemanly sort of way bring
the suit before Judge Jennings who
decides in favor of the Territory
and says they must pay taxes.
But there are more dollars for
law if need be, and the Fishery
trust will appeal If you please, and
thereupon Mr. Cobb In a delight
fully friendly and democratic way
says, “My Dear Gaston, you dont
have to pay costs of an appeal; we
will make such a stipulation In ou -
gentlemanly sort of agreement ”
It’s v,ery nice indeed., the cosm
are. tempered to the. unshprn, trust
by the very much shorn territory.
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That’* one story. It's moral is
money makes the Law go to -?
Here’s another. It's different sort
of reading, but Illustrates that
statement as to the unvarying equal
ity of dollar law wherever you go.
The moral of the second story Is
that If you haven’t got cellars you
get no law. fiitcuse us pientloning
the moral hefore the story, but you
will perceive that we are right.
The leading figures in this feature
film are The Alaska-Qregon Canning
Association, a subsidiary at the
trust, and also interested in that
case which Mr. Cheney with nation
al comrniUeemaq brilliancy placed
before the court of Appeals free
and gratis tor nothing, fend a
gentleman called George H. Woolff,
a common working man, a vlllian
and a hero.
Mr. Woolff while out $1 a job In
Portland Oregon, wheye Alaskan po
litics. are not Vholly unknown in
indirect and slanting; lash ion, had
his eyes peeled for a "position”
And having his eyes peeled and
keeping them so in a state of watch
ful waiting like our noble president,
he happened to scan an advertise
ment by^the other leading figure in
this picture, the Alaska-Oregon
company, the villain if you please
Well j/3ir, Mr. Woolif takes him
self, as fast as his legs weak from
from coffee and— could carry him,
to the offices of the company and
there and then is awarded with a
job, or to speak more correctly the
promise of a joh. He came to Alaska
the land of p.rondf^ q^ytunity,
gold, beauty, aqd agricultural pero
ducts; for further paitMci}^ Pieaffo
see Governor Strong’* annual re
port. , ...
Hq worked tw<> month*. Tl.ien
he W8is slch two adys. he w*s
sick had to. dqc^or himself; when
he was well he returned to the can
nery and was told to get to Hell oqt
of there; he wasn’t wanted arour.d,
no work and a long, long, long way
from Portland with no money in
the pock’ and no heel on the shoe.
'Twasn’t a government job he got
from Portland, you see.
Mr. Woolff shook the Alaskan
dust off his feet just as soon as tlie
Lord and the Steamboat Co. would
let him, and be reached the Web
foot city safe and well after a vary
ing lost of vicissitudes as they used
to say long ago, and started suit
against the company. He won and
was awarded $161 damages.
But the company had an attorney
.with a regular stipend turned over
by the month for just su*h cases,
and that officer of the company to
earn his salt appealed the case.
Woolff was up against it. Under
the law in Oregon the county clerk
must receive all filing fees in ad
vance, and makes no provision in
case you have got no money.
Judge Gatens issued an order di
recting the county clerk to tile
Woolff’s answer to the appeal with
out cost, and the county clerk threw
the order in the waste paper basket.
The judge was told of thi^, out
what can a poor Judge do whop a
labor case is, involved. Contempt
proceedings are not for them. So
ho turned to a group of Jurors and
very philosophically lamented "A
f oor man 4ns no change to get
ustloe un<& the l»v; it you hove
money you can defeat justice, if you
| broke justice will heat you”. . ,
It's a delightful condition certain
ly, and-it was thoughtful and kind
and nice of Mr. Cobb to stipulate
with #r- Chappy that this organized
ra^eg^y would hhv® to pay no ap
peal fees in the tax cases. As Ga
tens said, if ypu have money yap
can defeat justice gnd like as pot
Cobb may be a sadder and wiser
man before his cases are disposed
of. The territory will pay.
But and here’s the point, there is
no denying the equality before the
law. People may talk of dirty do
larn and filthy lucre and tainted
money. There is no such thing. The
power, the force, the energy latent
in all dollars is equal and the same,
and the amount of law one million
gets anywhere is invariably the
same. As for the man who is broke,
as Rudytird used to say telling about
Mulvaney, that’s another story. Ask
Mr. G. H. Woolff about it.
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