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a early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”— I
Abraham Lincoln
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RlIMNt. TWO HOKSliS.
A dispati h says that the conven
tion of Federation of Catholic So
cieties in Kansas City, passed r-so
lutions in accordance with the
Pope's peace proposals, at the
same time endorsing and pledging
the support of Catholic America to
the war aims of President Wilson.
Inasmuch r.s th ■ war aims oi
Wilson and the Pope's Peace Pro
posals are radically different this
seems to be a very cirt umspect
method of riding two horses at the
same time. Who said it can t he
• loti ?
\ I AIM ItC.
Time v. when -fi i'roadway
inundatt d us itii beautifully
printed little pamphlets showing
t lie beau: \ in ‘ le umke: idler pitn
in Colorado where under a union
built nii by Rockcti ler and his
employe s peace and prosperity
reigned. Now the miners have
turned down l'r ulent \\ :lborn :
offer c. s ttk-ment and declared a
strike.
The b t laid plans of mice and
men and Rockefellers apparently
gang :i.: . -i
PORK.
\i . i • :: r> Ala.-kn is siiii privi
b d to enjoy a chunk of pork.
Wont else? is that railroad being
b .ill from tin Nenana? It pro
v;,i .- a number of nv.-n with jobs
n,i educates cjfltein’.s ambitious for
a governorship but wh:.t mu: in-,
urgent netd of u railroad is to th' j
fields of Matanuska or Rering
r vi r from tlie tide water. All th i
>>!.'•rgien of the government should
be directed to that end. The idea
of a couple of streaks oi rust tttr
r.ishing rickettv businessmen of the
interior with a payroll does not
seem in keeping with the polio\ of
offiei ney and pork abolition so
boosted.
If the government would use the
mom \ spent itt the Nenan.a r ;ad to
'.listen the construction work from
Sev.ard to the M it: .. 1: * • -h'- real
good would he done. That is wjtat
is needed.
TWO S1DKS.
Papers with some uniformity r -
porting the labor troubles in the
I'p.ited States declare tliat the strik
ers are embarrassing tlie presi
dent.
Apparently the strikers are alone
guilty. There is nothing nt ali said
about the companies embarrassing
tlie nation by paying such wages as
are insufficient to live upon.
i i,v i\ thh oivt’MMvr.
Now that food conservation is
fairly well under way and the peo
ple of this country are asked to
economize and to go without that
the Allies may he fed. it might not
be injudicious if a word was whisp
ered in John Rail's ear to the effect
that it does not look well for his
brewers to be consuming thirty
million bushels of cereal making
booze while the American people
are going to go on short ration to
oblige him. Hero’s a cr.se where
economy should begin abroad
KKAI. l\ni:i*H.\!>K\CK.
Did you ever see such a newt
item as the following:
“The Blanket Blank Oil Co., an
nounces that on and after the
blank date tlie price of fuel oil
will lie raised twenty cents a barrel
and other products in proportion".
if you didn’t it’s because you
dont read very carefully. it Is
unite common and common in no
tices issued by makers of prncti
raily ov ry commodity. Such no
tices have been appearing regularly
every month on one article or an
other for the past three years and
you have most certainly realized
what it means when you went to
supply your needs.
Companies can do that. That's
their business and a mighty profit
able business it is. They whoop
up the prices and explain or don't
explain just as they feel like it, to
ease the misery of Mr. Slender
Purse who wonders where the Hotel
he is going to get off at.
They are rfally independent peo
ple. There is not as much as a
“by-your-lt ave" about it. If the I
public does not like it. they dont
have to buy.
Tin r<- is nothing to prevent the
owner ol a commodity doing that
when lie feels like it. and he often
feels like it very naturally.
There is an exception. There is
a notable exception and that's the
workmult. lie owns his labor
power. Hut ho cannot go to work
and anm mice that on and after tlie
bh nk date he will demand twenty
• day in< r< ase for his labor.
Mot much, because the buyers of
that commodity say that they wont
hu' it at that price. Tin y rustk
up striving unemployed ; lid buy
their labor power because they
Vnr w that a nan will do most nny
j i king before starving.
Xow why can the owner of the
joticr commodities do it while tin
j ov. :ier At labor power cannot?
That’s e: sy. You have to buy
| from the, Bianki ty Blank Oil Co.
li.eiaure if you don’t buy it from
th'in you wont I.in it tit all. They
;-r‘ organized. But 1I10 workers
are not organized and they have
to sell to the first buyer for what
he offers or go without selling.
The only way to bring about in
dependence on the job therefore is
by organization.
whom; roM hisiov.
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lin K. Lane
Conference of
■■ delivered 1 y Frank
before the Editorial [
Business Papers, lie j
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at length into the cause
the war with Germany upon
irt of the United States.
Advancing from the practical,
a ;pect of tlK American war with
Germany and those overt acts
which caused tlu breaking out ol
hostilities he went out to what one
may call the philosophic- reasons j
of the war.
And he further said America is
fighting merely for an ideal I
not
-That America is fighting for some
thing real, that is vital to us; that
we do not wish to go back to the
day when one man can impose his
will upon a hundred million men,
Unit we wish our country to con
tinue its life upon the basis of com
mon consent, and not upon imposed
power, that the civilian, the
man who works with his hands in
the mine, or on the farm, or in the
factory, or in the office, is the man
who makes modern civilization and
that we are fighting for his right
to live”.
Those are very fine words indeed!
They are very ideal. That they re
present an actual fact in modern In
dustry is scarcely correct.
In America today there are great
interests which have had and still
seek to maintain the power to im
pose their will upon their em
ployees. They i of use to let them
organize, and they refuse to allow
them have any say directly or in
directly in the wages which they
will receive. There is very little
dvanco from political feudalism to
industrial feudalism and when a
man can dictate his industrial will
upon the workers, one is hardly In
clined to realize the idealistic state
of such a democracy.
There is right now, right now
when America is fighting for demo
cracy, a most determined effort be
mg made to impose the will of a
few upon the many in industry.
What about Bisbee where those
who opposed the companies and
asked for certain concessions in
the matter of living conditions are
deported? What about Butte
where the owner of some of the
mines, W. A. Clarke said he would
close them down before granting
thousands the right to organize?
What about Washington where the
lumber barons refused to grant
the request of the Governor to con
cede the eight hour day? What
about the cities stirred by traction
troubles where the police are
warned with the departure of gun
men for the scone of the industrial
strife that the company i3 import
ing some real “bad" men? What
about Homestead where the Catho
lic bishop because of trying to get
men to go to his church had to
close up shop before the might ot
the company's absolutism?
We clout see why this view of
the war is put forward at all. We
dont see why the fact that German
militarism and German commerce
united with militarism—as a threat
against the world's sanity and com
pelling all other nations to embark
upon the same terrific route—is not
quite sufficient without philosophic
generalizations that Jake Schift
himself has to amend by declaring
that the war is really to make de
mocracy sate for the world: a signi
ficant statement indeed.
American interests and Anv-r
ica sympathies to a large extent
were with the Allies and the entry
of this country into the war was
inevitable. It did not need the ex
citation of overt acts of frightful
ness. Lusitania cases, tiie sinking
of liners and merchantmen un
warned. the general and indiscriinl
nate attacks by submarines upon
American lives. although these
things hastened it. The fact that
the fortunes of many of the most
powerful in the country were wrap
ped up in the final outcome of ’ho
! war would have been sufficient to
! have finally landed Americans in
I the middle of it.
Phis question of German foudal
! ism is a pretty big one. It is not
i a question can be fully solved by
I a simple address or a mere news
| paper article. The popular sh:.re
1 in the government of the country
I naturally i limited, but it is im
, portar.t in this respec t to rom- :n
hor that the interests which ex
ercised power in the governn. nt
! exercise'! it oo tally powerfully it
I all o'lor roiintri s. Tip- great
shipping interests, the powerful
nt- ! intere *s the gr at itidu- trial
er.r.c'-rns were able to impose th it
! wil upon the British parliament
i just to the same extent that the
German interests in' similar lines ■
have been able to do on the Reisch
tag. While the German agrarian J
interests maintained their suprem-.;
aey in a good many of the states of j
the Confederation, it is also well
to remember that the Biitish land
ed interests have been able to defy
all reforms in the laws of property
in land. Indeed it is not right to
overlook the fact that British in
dustrial interests have always bean
strong enough to prevent laws
locking towards social amelioration
which long ago were establish ?d
in Germany, so that on the whole
the average German worker was
better off than the average British
worker.
We lose nothing by recognizing
these facts: they simply are facts
and they explain why it is the Ger
man workers have fought so well ■
and so bravely throughout this war -
and have evinced no disposition
to revolt that amounted to any- ■
thing.
To saj that the German workers S
were simply well housed and well
fed political disfranchised does not
alter the situation any. The fact |
remains that following a wise policy j
the employers and the government
saw to it that the German worker!
was well educated, highly trained,
competent and efficient and pro
vided with ample means to live
and clothe himself in comfort. That
resulted in a degree of content
ment and satisfaction and loyalty
that has not been evidenced In
other countries where the employ
er was able to treat his men as he
pleased. Thus he became a docile
worker and a brave and docile sol
dier. It was part of the program j
of militarism and an effective one. j
But better it is we say that such j
a system did not exist: better it I
is that the workers even have to
fight in economic discontent fof
every concession and through
themselves bring about a condition
wherein neither a benevolent mi i
laristic feudalism nor a benevolent
industrial feudalism any more than
ono against which the workers ere
I excited to constant struggle, does
exist.
Real democracy has nothing in
common with any of them. That
j real democracy will be brought
i nearer by iliis war is hardly to be
doubted; that it will be brought
! about in spite of the artier.t
wishes of many who support tlte
war is a matter that cuts no figure.
wrc c an no it
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ton in yard. Briquets will continue at $18.00 per ton in yard.
We aie experiencing great ditlicult.v in securing anthracite
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on hand.
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