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ENVIRONMENT.
No country has experienced so
many changes as the United States
has experienced within the pas*
hundred years. Today its economic
status is entirely different to that
which it was a century ago. It has
developed an immense industrial
system; its production of wealth
is enormous; great cities have
sprung up everywhere and the ex
treme between the richest and the
poorest is relatively greater than
the world has ever seen.
In the past it was an isolated
frontier republic with an immense
amount of land open to settlers. Its
manufactures were negligible and
mostly done by hand or rudimenta
ry machinery. Communication be
tween distant points was slow and
difficult. Travel was a matter ot
months. With other countries com
munication was so restricted as to
he hardly worth taking into account
There was no very great wealth and
little very great poverty. Every
thing tended to make the people
herein strongly individualistic ana
independent. The change in condi
tions is familiar to every school boj
and the man in the street knows it
so well that it is part of hi- every
day thoughts.
But what the man in the street
rdoes not know is that ideas have
changed witli that changing econo
mic status of the country and that
human beings vary their views with
their environment.
The Fourth of July orator seeks
for his inspiration today just the
same as did those of preceding gen
erations in the spirit of ’7fi, in the
Declaration of Independence and in
the American constitution.
All of those things reflected tilt
spirit of an age which is totally
different to the present and it is
just as important that we obseivo
the changing viewpoint as we do
the changing industrial conditions
which haev created it.
As a matter of hard fact the avst
masses may have changed their
ideas consciously but little, bui
their ideas change for them because
tiiose who are supreme in an indus
trial organization like society today,
create those ideas and make the
masse accept them as their own.
The other day there was put on
for example a motion picture of
story that has already appeared in
novel form. This is “Graustark”.
It is written by an American. It
idealizes two things. Tlie European
system of militarism and monarchy
and the American system of great
and leisure weary rich Americans.
Both fascinate and if the play be
comes half as popular as the novel
it will have a great run.
The enormous production of
wealth and the possession of it has
enabled a number of Americans to
spend most of their time in Europe.
Europe has an established lackey
and menial system. It has come
down from the feudal system. Ana
it appealed to the rich Americans
who had not been accustomed to
it to such an extent in their^wn
country unless when they import it.
They find that as wealthy American',
they afforded pickings to an ef
fete nobility and they are treated
with a delightful deference by the
entire lackey world and they ob
tain an obsequious service that is
grateful and comforting to them
notwithstanding that they believe
their republicanism has been un
tainted. Inter-marriage of the very
rich in America with the titled of
Europe, constant association with a
European aristocracy, has cradually
produced a condition in the United
States when the wealthy do their
best to imitate it here. The reason
for that effort to imitate is be
cause their entire viewpoint is
changed. They demand the same
obsequious service from their me
nials and from their lackeys as they
receive in Europe and when they
I cannot obtain it, they import their
] menials. In turn the effect then
association has had with the Euro
pean upper classes has precisely the
same effect upon those who asso
| ciate with travelled Americans
(here, and the same extension ot
snobbery is witnessable even in the
remotest corners.
| Moreover this is only an example.
It refers merely to the social side
of life, but in almost every way,
the rich America of today is totally
different in spirit to what it was
one hundred years ago and it can
not be otherwise by reason of its
industrial development.
The latest of the results of an
association with Europe is the effort
to foist militarism upon the peo
ple.
The methods that appeared de
lightful in the English army to \I
siting Americans and to visiting
American officers especially, have
resulted in the system being adopt
ed bolus bolus in America, and even
now American officers have gone fo
the extreme of copying the eu. cl
their garments from the British.
They adopted khaki, they intro
duced putees and the leggings
which distinguished the legging ot
the private from the officer is that
the officer wears what the British
officer wears, while the private has
the much more efficient and com
fortable American design.
As everyone knows the English
army has been the happy hunting j
ground of the English aristocracy
whose members joined it for plea- I
sure. The man promoted from the
ranks was a rare bird and made
to feel it. The distinction between
the two men—the officer and pri
vate was carried to a ridiculous
extreme that only became modified
after the Boer war had shot a little
sense into the officials.
If any one takes the care to read
any of this propaganda stuff that Is
urged in favor of preparedness, one
! can easily see that the same idea
is uppermost in the minds of both
military and naval officers and bus
i iness men as well. The officer class
is to be recruited solely from unl
\ versitles and from the ranks of the
! business man while the serving
man in the ranks is to be the
wage worker.
Why it’s only a short time ago
. since a petty officer in the navy was
turned down from promotion be
! cause in the opinion of Admiral
Sampson he couldn’t dance the
waltz or perform some other equally
imbecile social stunt that would not
add to and might impair his effici
ency as a naval officer.
The Idea is due to the Industrial
system that prevails, for this indus
I trial system has developed a condl
I tion precisely similar to what feu
. dalism was and the expression used
by Byandeis, industrial absolutism
j was far from unhappy although
; industrial feudalism would have
.suited it better.
If any person has any idea that
a big army or a big nayv has solely
for its purpose the defense of this
country they can well take to heart
the circular recently issued by Pa- j
cific Coast Businessman’s Prepared- j
ness League. We select a few para- j
graphs: •
“In the general apprehension for j
greater preparedness to cope with
foreign nations it is believed that
a necessity fully afc grave and seri
ous is being overlooked or at least
greatly minimized, and that is the
need of an adequate military estab
lishment to. act as civil police force.
Due to the lack of sufficient mili
tia, businessmen in the United
States have frequently been placed
under the undue burden of having
to engage and pay for the services
of men recruited privately and to
have them commissioned as depu
ties by the civil authorities. In the
nature of things these private forces
are without sufficient military train
ing as at Youngstown, Ohio and
elsewhere. In the single month of
October in 1913 the meager milita
ry force of their separate states
was required in the field against
labor, in Calumet, Mich.; in Indi
anapolis: and in Colorado and West
Virginia.
In this entire matter business
men should be sensible of the ad
vantages to be had from military
training in point of greater effici
ency and discipline of the work
people for their ordinary civil em
ployee returning from training
camp and military drill will forth
will show himself more obedient
and faithful and the trouble maker
will disappear”.
What the employer wants is dis
cipline and obedience. He wants :
the employer to be as the servants
are: obsequious, deferential, obedl- i
ent, faithful, loyal and generally a j
good slave. It's a very pleasant
ideal for the guy that gets upon the
slaves’ backs, but it’s not very at
tractive to the man that has to
keep him up.
And that is the idea however
which is now circulated as good
Americanism. It is not the spirit
that animated America hundred j
years ago but it is the idea that has
been imbibed by the master class
of a republic from their association
with the master classes of other
nations.
And they are going to bring about
this condition if they have to have
militarism to produce it. They are
going to have the workers obedient
and generally good dogs.
The man in the street who ob
serves very little can observe that
great are the economic changes
which have taken place with the
pas-ing of a hundred years; because
their education is not properly de
veloped under the system they for
get or do not know and certainly
fail to see that their ideas have
changed just as much as have the
industries of the country.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop into the
MERCHANTS CAFE.
The Home of (iood Eats.
OVERSTOCK tSD
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tail
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware ana
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oj
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
HOLT’S NEW & 2ND HAND STORE
WATCH US GROW.
2nd hand Quicksilver pr. lb $1.25
I Silver Plate per foot.$1.00
, Sewing Machines .. .. $5. to 10.00
Phonographs .. .. $2.50 to $20.00
Stoves, Ranges & Heaters $2.50 to
| $35.00.
Mason Jars, per doz.75c.
Mining Screen 15 and 20c. per foot
Electric Washing Machine and
motor.$30.00
3 h. p. Boiler, complete... $35.(Jo
16x20 Tents.$15.00
Furniture, Trunks, Guns, Rubber
Goods.
SAVE 50 % at
HOLT’S CASH STORE.
Tel. Main 06. 411 Front St
The House that Saves Yon Money.
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JOHN H. NICHOLAS.
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U. S. MAIL BOAT
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Silver Wave”*
Making scheduled trips be- t
tween St. Michaels and all
way points, including Bluff,
Solomon, Nome, Teller, York,
Tin City, Deering, Candle and .j,
Kotzebue. *
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ON STEAMER UMATILLA: CAULIFIiOWER, GREEN TEAS,
CELERY, RHUBARB, GREEN ONIONS, CABBAGE, CHERRIES,
BANANAS, PEACHES, PLUMS, WATER MELONS, TOMATOES,
CUCUMBERS, HEAD LETTUCE.
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 86.
Steamer Arctic
will sail for Teller, Lost River, York, Tin City, Wales, Deer*
ing, Keevalik and Kotzobne, MONDAY, JULY 17TH, 7:30 P. M
For Information call up Al-aska Lighterage & Com. Co. or
U. S. Mercantile Co.
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“S. S. UMATILLA”
For Seattle Direct
SAILING FROM
NOME
AUG. 3RD
AUG. 20TH.
SEPT. 25TH.
OCT. 25TH.
SAILING FROM
SEATTLE.
JULY 20TIL
AUG. 15TH.
SEPT. 11TH.
OCT. 7TH.
SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
F. J. O'CONNOR,
Commercial Agent,
Front St. and Steadman Ave.
ALASKA L. ft O. CO.
AGENTS
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
JULY 25.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 15. V
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LEAVE NOME.
AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1.
OCT. 29.
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VICTORIA LEAVING NOME JULY 11 AND AUG. 7 wlR
call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Colon*,
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enough to
low excursionists time to mahe special trip out over the railroad
to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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| i We have reseived on the
11 Umatilla a nice line of
11 SLICKFR COATS before
| buying see
Cheap John Store
9 ONE PRICE TO ALL. TELEPHONE MAIN M.
Kent Transfer Oo..
General Transfer 6t Freighting
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Phone Main 139.
MR. MINER
For Hose, Tents,
and Canvas, See
PHIL MURPHY
MURPHY HAS THE EOOSS
WK CAN DO IT.
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ARB XOU SEEKING A PATENT®
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