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THE STAKE OK i.ll'K.
Meantime, while the political
economists are showing that 'In
price of bread is regulated by tile
law of supply and demand, and that
monopoly has not a thing to do
with it. for it cannot infringe upon
that economic principle, some in
spired idiot might with profit to us
all explain how it is that although
the United States produces more
wheat than any of them, bread is
cheaper in England, France and
Switzerland than it is in the Land
of the Free and the Home of the
Brave.
And if this is not enough of a
pro.>len. they noglit very vceli con
descend to tell us how ii is that in
Australia, the v ry loaf which costs
six cents now in the United States,
• is retailed in i. lat i oi the South
ern Uros. for four cents, although
the per capita wheat production ol
Australia is not a third as great as
that of the United States.
Nor is the ouestioti of price paid
for the Stall' of Life simplified by a
consideration of the commercial ac
tivities within the wheat market.
The Allies are buying and have ex
pressed their willingness to buy lour
hundred million dollars worth of the
six hundred millions produced.
The economist says “There you
are, the Allies are buying up the
wheat and there is not enough for
this country, hence the price must
be so high.” That is all very well.
But why should the same loaf made
by the Allies from wheat bought in
the United States be cheaper than
the loaf bought by Americans and
made from identically the same
wheat:
These are questions not to be
solved off hand. There are many
factors which have to be fully in
vestigated before the six cent loal
of bread can be explained away in
detail.
In any event let us side track
this matter of the Staff of Life a
minute to reach a deeper question
that is most directly involved.
One of the highest functions ol
industrial activities ought to be that
of feeding, clothing and sheltering
society. Man must be fed. Hence
the feeding is of prime importance
If we could live on grass, or moss
or chunks of wood, or sand, or clay,
or gravel, or stone, the question
would not be a serious one. But it
is true that we must earn out
bread with the sweat of our brow—
or the other fellow earns it with hit
sweat for us, which is accepted by
all good preachers as the same
thing.
Accordingly this matter of feed
ing being a supremely high and im
portant function, society should
have great concern about its effiei
i ncy. Its sowing and reaping, its
milling and moving, its baking and
its purveying should be matters
which are thoroughly understood
ami thoroughly efficient in every
way. Waste should be eliminated,
And the main thing to be considered
should be that all should have then
food requiremnts satisfied with the
least per eentage of useless labor and
as directly and as well as possible
There is some efficiency for you. But
what efficiency expert would for a
fleeting second consider the elimina
tion of tlie grain broker, the specu
lator, the elevator man, the gradei
and the like? What person
would consider the question pure
‘ ly from a social point of view
and see to it with the elimina
tion of all other matters, the hungry
were fed?
Why, under God’s canopy not a
one. The efficiency expert is not a
social worker. It is immaterial tc
him whether the social functions
are performed well or ill. He is nol
concerned In labor and work and
energy being expended In satisfying
the social needs. No one considers
efficiency in that connection at all.
The efficiency that finds high favor,
that is the theme or professional
writers and the subject of quite vol
uminous modern treatises is the effi
ciency that concerns itself with the
real purpose of all social activities:
profit making.
We never want to overlook the
fact that this is tlie sole object of
ail activity at the present time: to
make money:. No one bothers
about the higher social functions:
that society be well fed. that society
be efficiently led, that society be
well clad and efficiently clad, that
society have good homes and be
efficiently sheltered.
When Candidate Hughes said that
lie stood for “America first. Am r
ica efficient”, did he mean that he
1 stood for seeing Americans fed fiist
of all, clothed first of all. educated
| first of all. well sheltered first o:
all, living in comfort and luxury
1 and reaping the great benefits from
{ the giant progress mechanical in
! vention had made? Did he mean
i therefore when lie said America
effcient that he objected to. the false
grading system. the speculative
gambling in food and clothing, that
he would shut off export trade until
American wants were first of all
satisfied, that the tenement and the
I slum would have to go, that the put
i pose of human labor and human in
genuity should be in America devot
ed first, last and all the time te
American welfare, that all coule
more greatly enjoy and all need, be
more greatly satisfied? Why cer
tainly not. The man is not insane
He knows what he is talking about
! He knows very well that the rent;
from the tenements enable many o
his friends to have a delightful time
of ease with dignity; he knows tha
| the profits trom export or ioou am
I clothing have reached giobular mil
lions and his friends have grown fa
nursing their war babies. He know
that this has resulted in great in
dustrial and commercial prosperity
and the dividends of the ownin,
class have been long in the land
That is what he means by Americ;
and those are whom he means* b
Americans. The America first ts th
American trade and the America!
dollar and the American profit first
and the America efficient is the effi
cient industry which continues t
make profits and to extend am
spread out and control gigantic mil
lions.
They think in terms of profits
That has become part of the na
tional mentality which capitalise
has forced upon us. When we tall
about a prominent man we mean i
man who has a good bank account
when we speak of an independen
man we know that we refer righ
well to the man who has no need ti
lies for a job. When we say that i
man is successful we mean that h
| has made money and has a gooi
store of this world’s goods. Tli
America that is considered is tin
America thinks exclusively of thos<
interests. We all know that. We al
know that trade and barter am
commerce and industry: dollar mak
ing*in a word is the real end am
aim of American activities. Tin
main purpose of government nowa
days is to assist those ends and aim
that American dollar* making ma;
he first and American trade and in
| dustry may be efficient.
*1 Back we come then to the Staf
; of Life. What has that got to d<
| with America efficient? The higl
| price for a loaf is the price we pa:
| for “America first, America efficient’
You will have noticed how every pa
per has gloated upon the soaring ex
ports of the United States since thi
war began: America first. You wil
note that domestic prices have alsi
contributed to the genreal prosperit;
of the maker and merchant: Amer
ica efficient. Now no one wouli
think of saying, "By the Gods o
War, the main purpose of hurnai
industry should be the satisfactioi
of Human needs and that therefore
when American needs are satisfied
and all have enough to eat and
drink, to wear, and confortable
places to live in, let exports be car
ried on to satisfy the needs of other
nations”. That would never do.
Then there would be no prosperity;
no monkey dinners, no debutante
balls, no diamonds and autos and
polo ponies and yachts and hundred
gowns and private homes and great
estates and wedded harlots and rare
wines and art collections and the
thrill of gambling and retinues ot
lackeys and man servants and maid
servants and harems, for the few.
Those who have not, should be
satisfied. As it is now with soaring
prices and magnificent profits and
golden dividends and fat surpluses,
society is reaching such a standard
of perfection in realizing its aims
under capitalism as never before:
dollar making was never so efficient
in all American history. Forget it
about the Staff of Life.
UNIMPORTANT.
The American Federation of Labor
is now in session at Baltimore. It
is not likely to have any very im
portant results as far as the labor
movement is concerned. There will
be little factionism; there will be
very slight debating and there will
be little of that lively discussion
signifies great life and great hold
upon the souls of men.
Such conventions occur not often.
The Second Annual Convention of
the Industrial Workers of the
■ World was such a session; the Fift
eenth Annual Convention of the
Western Federation of Miners was
another. There were gatherings of
the workingclass pulsating with
mental breadth and great vitality
and vigor. Men felt greatly and were
prepared to act greatly. The form
was nothing. Tire effort and the
| act everything: though deeds were
! water than words still were the
words not an ignoble sign point to
greater actions.
With the Baltimore convention it
is different: cut and dried forms,
cut and dried formulae; cut and
dried principle; cut and dried tac
tics; cut and dried officialdom; cut
and dried mutual admiration, pero
ratino, exordium and grand finalt
Cut and dried with all the life"gon(
from the seedless harvesting oi
empty phrase and economic cant
Whitewash for the cracks, gilding
for the rifts, varnish for the cheap
and worn out, led by a political
Warwick and dominated by a ma
chine. what else but human auto
matons could come from such
a system of disorganized organiza
tion?
With the evidences all around ol
the economic, unity and solidarity ol
employers, how will this army of
workers divided into craft organiza
tions with craft disunion and craft
squabbles, hope to face the solid
phalanx that opposes them? Even a
Gompers in all his wisdom has never
shown it possible.
NATIVES VOTING.
The question of natives voting is
approached by officials who have
charge of their destinies with some
misgiving. They believe that com
petent authority should determine
whether or not they are qualified to
vote and if they did not possess tho
requisite qualifications they should
not be allowed to vote.
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We believe that more harm comes ,
to the'natives by denying them the
rights of citizenship and insisting
I upon maintaining them the wards
of the nation than there does by ad
mitting them to certain privileges j
which are reserved only to their !
more sophisticated brethren. It is j
quite possible that they might be j j
easily handled. But if they are more |
easily handled by ward heelers, po- |
litcal bosses and the like than their |
white brethren than indeed they are |
likely to be little bettered and not 1
j at all improved by the right to :
< vote.
HE WAS REAL MAD.
At a political meeting in New
York a number of irate Irish-Amer
icans' thus denounced Wilson:
“When Mr. Wilson tried to sell this
nation to England. Thank God, an
O’Leary has arisen to oppose him.
Every American knows down in his
heart that Woodrow Wilson is the
best
president England has ever
had. If King George had searched
the United States or even England,
he could not have made a better
choice than that political accident
that made Woodrow Wilson presi
dent’’.
And then they say that the Irish
are losing their sense of humor.
To prevent future annoyence and trouble of leaky roof*, mam
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GENERAL HARDWARE AND BONING SUPPLIES.
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THE ROSE CANDY STORE
AND ITS NEW ADDITION
ARCTIC BAKERY
are prepared to serve their patrons with a fine line of Breads,
up to date pastries and Lunches.
Our Ice cream, made from ''the Nome Dairy Cream speaks
for Itself.. A fresh supply of Augustine & Kyer Chocolates ar
rived on the Victoria.. Home-made Chocolates, Peanut Candles
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