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Nook-, Alaska, July ;»n, 1!(17.
HlSiNKSS Is 151 SIM --\M>
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It has In-it popularl> assumed
that Germans, more than other peo
ple put “patriotism" it their qual
ities ran he des, rilied by that sac
r,:u Will'd above business, and. per
haps. they (lo. but there are many
exrepl ions The Tribune enumer
ates three German insurance com
: . in t is city that are engaged
in tin- apparently strange business
- tor German patriots—of insuring
ships against the attacks oi Ger
man I'-boats. The Tribune charae
teries it as “perhaps the w irdest
business in all the history of under
writing." But. ait r all. its strange
ness is a mere illusion: it is simply
buisness and perfeetly legitimate,
also. iiusiness is business—not
patriotism. necessarily. except,
when tlie i .Vo tilings happen to gc
together. When the> don't patriot
ism takes a bark seat. In this ease
tlie German iiusiness men claim
and rightly, too—that they are "do
ing busimss by direct permission ol
President Wilson."
As good German patriots, whei
they are called upon to pay the in
suranee of a sliip sunk liy a i -bout
they can rejoice at the financial loss
lo tie enemy while mourning ovei
tlie financial loss to themselves. Am
when tlie ship they have Insure!
gets by safely thev can consolt
fliemselves with the insurant
money, and sinct-rrly regret that
1 bey had to take it. The ideal com
lunation would be getting money or
both eventualities; ships that an
sunk and ships Ihat escape. fhai
would lie good business; hut, un
lortiinately. Iiusiness cannot lie dom
tliat way and so we have the para
dox that it isn't iiusiness at ail.
And, instead of it being “tin
weirdest business in all tlie histoij
of underwriting,” tlie cold fact is
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place of all “underwriting," which
after all. is nothing more than
gambling—we <lo not use the term
in any opprobrious moral settee
laying odds that certain tilings will
or will not happen.
Any man can go to '.!*• British .
1,10yds today and gamble on the life
of the kaiser. Things like that al
ways were done and are now being
done. Von Tirpitz, the ruthless ‘ sea
wolf” of Germany. is under the
weather now with diabetes and lias
retired for the time being to some;
health resort. Lloyds will lay you
a little bet either way—that he gets
well or passes i 11 his checks; it
makes not the slightest difference
to them. It's business. The same
issue that tells us about these Ger-;
man insurance men tells us, also, tit .
Norwegian captains who arc getting
money from the Germans for in
formation about the sailing and lo
cation of Norwegian ships that the
Teutons desire to sink; and of Span
ish sailors who are doing the same
tiling, both with Spanish and other
neutral as well as allied ships. It's
all of a piece. It's business, that's
all. Buying and selling information,
and taking chances, it is business
—and if patriotism interferes with
it— Well, then, so much the worse
for patriotism.
And there is nothing whateve?
“weird" about it. It may in* dis
gusting and abominable, but it is
Indisputably commonplace. The
statement that it is "weird" is
simpiv a specimen of pretentious
moral can, the unconscious hypo
crosv that prevents people from
seeing straight, and enables them to
assert that the tiling that exists has
tio existence, and vice versa. The
insurance of allied ships against
German IMtoats by Germans is not
the disgusting thing. What is dis
gusting is the pretence that tilings
of that kind are so unusual as to be
weird, and the denial that they real
ly are the commonplaces of capital
ist business.—New York Call.
Tin: sTi;i:i:r r.\u stuikk.
Tin- Seattle car strike finds ai
I most ev.ryone in svnipathv with the
'
tar m. ti and against the street car
j compao. Kven large employer ot
labor hav • given evidence of this
peculiar frame of mind. What then,
are the employers going to oppose
their ■ as.; in this struggle against
the tract'on company by the sink
ing etc ,i ■>> ccs?
By no menus; tl. employers who
; oppose the car company tire not
I very ext i sive in a..v event -is em
ployers. Moreover those who do.
do not oppose the traction ccnpuiv
as employers but as corruptee; of
the !• vi.-,aturcs, franchise stealers
and unfair corporations who exer
icse their influence against the pub
lic ami employing interest generally.
When the traction companies fought
the .litnc.s in Seattle they simlp>
made tools of the members of the le
gislature at Olympia, so that session
after session became a hissing and a
by-word in the minds ot the general
publi
Some ot tlit- deals tiia; were put
through wt re so raw and so deli
berate ihat their audacity made tin
poop]' frantic, but without result
and now in the day of trial they find
themselves resolu.ely opposed by a’
tit ■ people id’ Seattle whose will am
whose wishes have been trampled
upon there as t'hr«h"n
There is no doubt that the trac
lion company is enormously wealth.'
and enormously powerful. Its rami
11 cat ions reach into the richest ant
most powerful interests in America
Standard Oil. Morgan. Slone Wei)
stir, what are all these but merelj
interests affiliated to absorb.
The national activities of tin
traction trust. maintained uiulei
! purely independent corporations
with local shareholder; in each, art
now practically shown to be f a i r 1 \
nol be gainsaid at any stage of tlit- t
game. |
Tht pu 1»1 i*' sentinu nt which in- j
stinctivelv feels that public service j
activities should he held by them j
operated by and for them, realize j
that the activities are operated by !
outside holders, lor their profit and j
their benefit only. They feel that i
the public is a profit giving animal |
to be milked carefully and to be ca- j
joled and chicaned and jollied sufii- i
iccntly so that it will come through i i
but that there may be no mistake
about it, legislatures are corrupted j
and councils grafted to the extent i
that the franchise may be a really '
profitable franchise and the mono- .
poly a real monopoly.
When the traction company saw 1
the jitney rise into popular favor,
it immediately and in every popu- j
Ions center set about devising ways
and means of killing the jitney
traffic. In some places they quite
frankly outlawed them. In others
they effected legislation which did
the same thing in an apparently
noble minded way. The jitney men
were shoved to one side, not without
protest, but the great traction Inter
ests found that it was relatively
easy.
Moreover in this work they were
aided and abetted by the leading
papers of those cities. Ilig Business,
with its unfailing patronage, al
ways could rely upon the "respect
able” papers of large circulation and
conservative policies, selling them
selves for a song in the way of ad
vertising and they found the work
of bribing them easy and as lucra
tive frame-ups were planned
for raiding the state legisla
ture, the big papei s cleared the way
by casting around the, plundering,
the cloak of decency and welfare
work for the people. When the
councils were beset by lobbying
grafters, it was the big daily that
made the boodle the more easy by
misleading public opinion of the
facts and suggesting the false by the
suppression of the truth.
Ths however can only go on for a
certain length of time. When a pub
lic service corporation, in the pur
suit of profits adopts the public-be
damnetl policy of sacred memory,
the public gets up upon its hind
legs. When the days of strap hang
ing. over crowding and ill timed ser
vice arrive, not even the secret sup
pression of the facts in the news
papers prevent the almost blind
common people observing the fact.
They observe it in Seattle. They,
in Seattle, would be quite indiffer
ent to the lowest kind of wages, pro
vided the service rose to any degree
of excellence. Hence it may be con
cluded that the public is not in sym
pathy with the strikers because they
are under paid and over worked but
because the public gets a poor ser
vice from the monopoy.
HACK RIOTS IN ST. 1.01/IS.
The papers are arriving giving in
detail the account of the fearsome
rioting in East St. I.ouis. It is not
often it-, the history of the world
that one reads of such barbarities.
No atrocity that has been reported
from Europe has equalled the atro
cious barbarism that was manifested
by apparently civilized white men
i and women in these terrible riots
j and with the consent and approval
I of the authorities. Imagine driving
! half burned and horribly mutilated
negroes who sought to escape from
their burning dwelling, back in to
i the flames, or butchering them in
I cold blood. Yet those tilings were
done and a St. Louis paper describes
| a well dressed woman wanting to
I have access to the wounded negro In
one instance so that as she expressed
| it "she might cut the heart out ot
j him”.
; Now «heso things were not done
! by a nation at war against a warring
nation, but among citizens of a na
tion not in civil war of different
race and color.
It is very important to remember
that under normal conditions these
people are also wholly normal. It
is important to remember that with
out the excitement of some abnorm
al feeling. developing a fanatic
j craze, they are much the same as
j the average person.
There appears to he no doubt
I that all human brings are muili the
same. The only thing needed is to
j give them some impulse and
| straightaway. atrocities will he
! forthcoming and there will he a re
I version to some savage type that
lean he relied upan to have strains
I in everyone of us.
Only the other day in Seattle an
at'empt was made to attack the Tn
’ dust rial Workers of the World, and
w‘t» it not for the sivitig common
sense of the city authorities and the
citizens generally, it could under
the excitement of the moment have
been as bad and as terrible as that
which took place in East St. Louis.
Nor can it be overlooked that some
intreests right now in Seattle are
endeavoring to bring about this very
condition and the I. W. W. men
1 themselves have appealed to the
President against the reversion to
savagery which the Post Intelli
gencer so lawlessly urged against
the industrialists.
It is such instances as these which
serves to moderate the affected con
demnation of outrages committed
by nations at war. They are not
characteristic of the nations. They
are merely examples of what people
will do who allow themselves to re
vert to savagery under the uncon
trolled impulse of their individual
passions. fanned and excited still
more by others similarly affected
and acting with them.
There is no doubt that reactions
set in. Those reactions are well de
scribed in the horrorstricken senttn
ces witli which eye witnesses describe
the scenes in which they participat
ed and without feeling any horror
which is later on theirs.
Siberia.
The prospect of Siberia being
opened up for miners of all nations
may he just yet far away and hardly
within hailing distance—however
however this may he we do not
know. But when that time does
cotne about, there is going to be a
rush to that section of the country
which will make the Klondike sick
in comparison. Enough is known
of the Anadir country to know that
it has great wealth and the only
thing that has prevented its develop- j
ment heretofore has been the more
or less prohibitory laws of the Itus- j
sian Empire.
With the republic it is different. !
Doubtless tb^rc will he less inolina-j
nation to prevent any person reap-1
ing the reward of their own indus
try. even if there is a definite effort
made to prevent some rich concern
front grabbing up the entire distret.
The coal, timber and minerals that
are accessible would seem to indi
cate it will he a good country for a
poor man, and none the worse be
cause the red flag is flying over it
instead of the standard of imperial
ism.
The likelihood that Nome, al
though in another nation, is to be
one ot the main outfitting points for
Siberia, is assured in itself. It can
hardly be doubted and it will do
| mere to restore Nome to its ancient
* glory than the fortunes tha* may or
1 may not lie back of its hills, but
: which are being slow enough in
th°ir own development. Nome, logi
' rally, will he the point of depar
ture for the new El Dorado and the
i time is coming when stampeders
will fill the streets. It may take
some time yet but eventually it
will ron e.
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