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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government. —
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1811, at the post office at
(tome, ■ Aiasisa, under the Act of March 3, 187*.
Nome, Alaska, September 1, 11*10.
CAPTAIN DOLLAR.
Captain Dollar is neither a milk
sop nor a mollycoodle. He is a
San Francisco Shipowner. The boats
used to sail under the British flag
but when the war broke out, he
hoisted the American ensign over
his craft. Safety first appealed to
him. Later when he saw that the
British flag was safe on the Pacific
coast, he reverted to the Union
Jack and blamed it on the Seaman s
law.
When speaking in the Chamber
of Commerce about strike condi
tions in San Francisco as one of the
Law Order committee, Dollar vented
the opinion that the only way to
handle the situation was to fill the
hospitals with union men.
The red blood of the captain
craved for gore, and he deliberately
incited himself and his follow com
mitteemen to violence, .
But nothing will happen the Cap
tain. He belongs to the class that
can be violent and forceful and law
less with impunity. He can urge
assault and murder without fear.
But suppose the unionists take
the captain at his word, and act
as he laid down the anti-unionsts
should act, what a very pleasant
situation would develop in Frisco.
As it is, the idea seems to be to
allow all the violence on one side
and to ruthlessly crush it on the
other.
FIDDl.lN'ti.
Nero fiddled when Nome burned.
Even this devotion to the art of
music hardly exonerates the Em
peror from his imperial indifference.
But there are many who even when
nations face national crises, devote
themselves to their rcling passion as
if that and nothing else was of any
concern.
We have ample evidence that
while the nation is facing one of
the greatest industrial calamities
that it has ever been called upon
to meet, instead of taking a broad,
intelligent view of the situation,
Congressmen are fiddling over it po
litically, and seeking wherein they
can best make political capital out
of the situation.
But that might have been ex
pected. The real life of the nation
is no longer in the national capital.
It is no longer in the world of poli
tics. The politicians are mere pupp
ets; for the most part men who
seek to obtain through their adroit
talents, positions of ease with dig
nity.
The real life of the nation is in
the industrial world. The real life
is in the factories. the counting
Bouses, the railroads, the ships,
mines, the mills of the land. Wall
Street dominance and working class
service are the two factors of su
preme importance in the national
life and these run far, very far away
Trom the political current which at
best is a mere unimportant off shoot
and reflex of the more important
social forces that stir the economic
world. .
Social activities are no longer
confined within state and national
limits. They are existent in states
and nations, but are divided by in
dustrial lines, and no longer by
geographical boundaries. Each in
dustry in the nation is a state in it
self, with its rulers, great and small,
and its subjects prominent or un
important. Each industry has its
class lines from President to bonds
man. Each industry has its own
storld with its own activities, its
own requirements. Us own ambi
tions, and its own conflicting inter
ests. States an4 counties are merely
ly* relics of a social system of a
bygone era. Today the world and
national divisions are industrial.
That is the way that social evolution
has proceeded. Capital with its sy
stematic adjustment to the need’s
of the capitalist economy, has so
accomodated Itself, and labor, slow
er to folio .v suit, has also made an
effort to adjust itself to the econo
mic requirements.
The consolidation of the trusts in
the industry meant the centraliza
tion of the real governing forces in
that industrial society. This has
been going on for some time, but
it is still far from complete.
In any event the life of the na
tion is now within the industries
not within states or within cities.
Because the political world is so
far removed from the actual world,
we have the professional politician.
The majority of congressmen,
senators and representatives are
professional politicians. • They have
no conception of the industrial eco
nomy. They only hearken to the
influences that are likely to give or
take away votes. Most of them are
lawyers who have no clients or who
expect through their political favors
to use the Congress as a stepping
stone to the bench. They are for
the most part hopelessly ignorant
j men, in the sense that what they
' do know is as useless to them as
a knowledge of breeding hogs
is of use to the sailor. Their de
bates upon tariff and taxation are
essentially the debates of a bunch
of noisy quacks, and their picayune
efforts to make political capital out
of the railroad crisis stamps them
as mountebanks.
Legislation is a hobby horse has
been well nigh ridden to death. And j
every new law that is passed is only \
a pigmy effort to fill up the bottom- |
less and every widening gulf that
separates the economic from the
political world.
The real world is the industrial
world. The varying movements
within that world is the pulse of
the social life. It is within that
world that the great things, the
great changes, the great events of
human history are being developed. ,
The forces reaching maturity there
in are collosal. The railroad crisis ■
is only a flash in the pan of the na
tion. The politicians’ life is in an
atmosphere of their own, quite un
aware of the gigantic forces which
are in vortex about them, and the
world that is being made outside le
gislative halls.
Nor is it the fault of the poli
ticians primarily. The fault is with
the press. The press has been a
cloak hiding the later day develop
ment of society. Ignoring the con
crete facts of social evolution, the
historical method of the average
paper is the method of a hundred
years ago. The papers have been ,
the high priests of politics. Their
ministrations center around the
idols that are supposed to have the
destinies of the nation in the hollow
of their grasping hands. Their ef
forts have been to concentrate at
, tention upon the political activities
as if they alone were worth while,
and they alone corttained the es
sence of the national life. But the
national life is far elsewhere. The
; national life is in the mine, the ex
: change, the workshop, the factory, '
the railroad, the union hall. The
The meeting of the political party ts
as much an unessential as a church (
gathering. It is merely a manifesta- j
tion of a subsidiary social activity: i
a luxury not an essential any
longer.
It is really autohypnotism to pre
tend that the political world any i
longer represents the essentials of
the national life. Not the smallest
or the remotest territory, except as
the territorial industries are cbn
trolled by a government, is affected
by the political ebullitions that from
time to time stir its borders. But
within the developments of its in
dustries; the struggle upon the
part of owners for profits and wage
workers for more of the product of
their labor, is the real fate of the
country to be observed. The ad
journment or the session of Con
gress affects not in the slightest de
gree the lives of the masses. But
the closing of shop or a mine or a
nill is attendant with tremendous1
mman concern. A political crisis
will pass off without serious conse
luences, but an industrial crisis
taralyzes the nation.
The fallacy of political freedom
iias been useful functioning as a
solvent of the woes arise from in
dustrial serfdom. But the crying
seed of an industrial democracy, the
urge of human beings to fight in
dustrial absolutism, cannot conceal
the emptiness of political freedom
where is only industrial subjection.
And the petty efforts of the pro
fessional politicians, noisy and inde
corous, to build their fences with
the shadows of an industrial cala
mity overtaking the nations, is one
not very well calculated to restore
political activities to the national
favor.
Society under the influence of- the
machine in industry has been slow
ly evolving into industrial instead
of political units. There is more in
common between the engineer in
the State of Washington and the
engineer in New York than there is
between a merchant in New York
and laborer in the same city. The
coal miner of the east and the west
i/lontir-ol um hit inns ami ail
identical environment with identi
cal sentiments animating him and
his. In each industry the working
and the managing units have every
thing in common as working or as
managing units.
These things are self evident.
Only the real estate man with new
sites to sell is immersed in the
old landed conception of society.
We might as well realiae these
things first as well as last, for the
every day facts of life will fasten
them upon our minds whether we
will or not. It is true that old no
tions die hard; hut there is not a
phase of human activity hut does re
veal the fact that the social organi
zation today is no longer political
or geographical, but industrial.
That being so social control must
sooner or later he co-ordinated along
industrial lines, with an industrial
democracy wherein the freemen
who labor will be the administrators
of the industrial destinies as the
final goal.
That social organizations are
founded upon the material facts ot
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Next dour to Pacific Cold
Storage.
the means whereby they live, social
ist interpreters of history have long
contended. It is not in recent years
that the materialist conception of
history finds proof for itself. It
alone will explain the historical pro
cessus.
As men make their living, so will
be the institutions of men, whether
political, religious, social. It is true
that Institutions belonging to an
older economy may outlast that
wherein they grew, but they will
have to finally submit to an adjust
ment to the social needs of the lat
er system, or be destroyed.
The clashes and the conflicts add ]
the struggles that are to be ob
■ served in society are, broadly speak
' ing and in the most general sense,
! merely part of that effort to suitably
effect such an adjustment. Some
times it is hardly done, effected
only after endless trouble and trial
and human suffering. Other times
j it comes with revolutionary impulse,
I catastrophic in its swiftness, mak
! ing up in a few days and a few
years for the delays to which the
endless struggle of the centuries
was subjected by the reactionary
j forces.
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