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Nome, Alaska, .June .‘50. 1017.
f'.VUAVKH SOAP.
There is something ghoulish in
the idea that bodies of men killed
on the battlefield are bundled and
tagged and shipped to a chemical
company which reduces the human
remains to soap and candles. Such i
stories have now come repeatedly |
from Germany, told by refugees and j
prisoners, much to the disgust of j
the Allies, especially tlie Russians, j
The German government has oftici
allv and emphatically denied the
truth of these stories but they per
sist. The very latest is the arrival
of a physician with a sample of
such soap which at least in? sus
pects is cadavor soap and proposes
to have the same subjected to ana
lytical examination to test whether
it be made from human offal or
no.
There is something depressing in
the idea, but human necessity such
as may exist in Germany may not
be finicky and except that It may
lead to awkward complications upon
the Day of Judgment when one
looks for the same bodies as one
had in this life, possibly not such a
serious matter. No doubt the oils
made by the human fat arc excellent
for certain purposes and waste could
wisely be eliminated.
It is possible that human beii gs
should object to their bodies being \
disposed of in this way: but if
Great Caesar dead and turned o
clay may stop a hole to keep the
rats away, why should a tallu.v
candle be a more inglorious purpose
In any event it is in order to point
out that while human beings have
a very particular abhorrence <t
abusing dead bodies, many regar t
abuse of the living temples of tb
soul without any abhorrence what
ever.
After ;i 11 Kin is plead, In is dead.
He is dead to the ills and scorn»
and scourges of tlic living. His
sorrows are over; his troubles, hi
headaches and heartaches are >n
more. It matters litle whether his
carcase is turned into bars'of soap
or strings of candles, or allowed to
pulrify beneath the sod. The el -
mental chemicals in its make up n
any event will be redistributed ami
likely enough aids in re-fertilizing
the soils. Let the dead bury the
dead, said one who knew right well
that what duties we mainly owe to
out selves and our fellow men >ve
owe them living. And surely if we
cast our eyes over this old world
and consider plainly how man has
treated his fellows, we can hardly
feel that there is anything sacrilegi
ous in subjecting the remains to
chemical treatment may result in
useful commodities enough, when
the living have been subjected to
the scorning of the insolent, the
tyranny of the powerful, the exploi
tation of tlie privileged.
Here are we grinding the flesh
and blood of the living into proPts
that may provoke another debauch
or may corrupt another official.
Here is our civilization day in and
out buying and selling the living
like herrings in a market, compell
ing them to labor or else starve for
whatsoever these who own will tc
pay—exacting the life energy of all
and sundry that the wealth of the
l'ew may grow.
IJut, instead, we turn to the her
ditary instinct within us, a super
stition of a past and a kindlier age,
and regard the ill-treatment of the
dead as matter for horror and dls
gurt. If human beings would
only feel the same degree
of loathing. of horror, of dis
gust, of detestation for acts tha1
ar^ inhuman but against the living
what a changed world it would be
Most remarkable is this fear ol
using the dead. It comes down froir
a dim and distant epoch when hu
man tyrannies began and ghosl
ideas first chilled the human mine:
with their icy horrors. It’s not ar
uncommon thing to find tribei
which are still in a state of barbar
ism which will absolutely refuse to
touch a corpse. It is infested with
evil spirits and to touch is to arouse
the wrath of the evil ones. Elabo
rate hooks have been written trac
ing down this ghost idea to the spi
ritualism of our own day and that
it is still strong is seen in the plea
sant horrors that are felt when the
supernatural is dealt with in book,
in play or picture. None are so
powerful in the estimation of many
as are these and there have been
many writers and artists who deli
berately appealed to the sense of
the uncanny and the spiritualistic.
Consequently there comes to the
mind when considering this latest
report of German efficiency or Ger
man frightfulness, and one ma;
have doubts which to consider it.
a ieeling of horror that such things
should be.
I3ul there was no horror what
ever telt in the activities which led
these cadavers to be what they are:
which drove them belted and spur
red and armed to the battlefield to
there suffer maiming and suffering
“I could not forbear shaking my
head” said Gulliver when telling of
the Houyhnhnmr,, “and smiling a
little at his ignorance; and, being
no stranger to the art of war, 1
gave him a description ol cannons,
culverins, muskets, carabines, pi
stols, bullets, powder, swords, bay
onets, battles, sieges, retreats, at
tacks, undermines, countermines
bombardments, sea fights, ships
sunk with a thousand men, twentj
thousand killed on each side, dying
groans, limbs flying in the air
smoke, noise, confusion
trampling to death under horses
feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields
strewed with carcases left for t'ooc
for dogs and wolves and birds o
I prey; plundering, burning, stripp
ing and destroying. And to se
forth the valor of my own dea
! countrymen, I assured him that
' has seen them blow up a hundrec
enemies at once in a siege and a
! many in a ship and beheld the deai
1 bodies drop down in pieces from tin
j clouds to the great diversion of tli
| spectators”. *
I ‘1 was going into more particu
lars when my master eommundei
me to silence. He said whoeve
| understood the nature of th
Yahoos easily believe it possible fo
so vile an animal to be capable o
every action I had named, if thei
strength and cunning equallei
their malice. But as my discours
had increased his abhorrence of th
whole species, so he found it gav
him a disturbance in his mind, t
which lie was wholly a stranger be
Apparently we have not attained
that degree of civilization which the
Houyhnhnms had attained, but it
is at least a good sign when we are
shocked that dead bodies are turned
into bars of soap. Sometime we
will be able to loathe the idea of
turning men's flesh and blood in
the living into gold and silver.
HIHAM ADVICK.
Way there for Senator Hiram
Johnson, war economist and fiscal
expert. In the Senate his speech of
Thursday may well have occasioned
a stir. His appeal to conscript
wealth, profits and property for the
war upon the part of the stay at
homes seems sensible advice enough
If the nation goes into the war why
not heartily. If the young men
must give up «heir lives why not
the rest their property. If the need
of money is a3 great an urge as the
need of men, why not draft it also.
Surely the country would then be
upon an efficient basis enough.
And how many will agree that
since this war is the most serious
of all wars that the nation has ever
been engaged upon, who will come
forward with a plan for universal
service: service not necessarily
upon the battlefield- but right at
home. How many are going to turn
over everythirg that he has got in
the world ami give to the nation all
of it as the conscript is compelled
to give his life? Right cheerfully
1 they talk of mobilizing labor, of in
dustrial and military service, but
where are the advocates will follow
in the steps of Hiram Johnson and
advocate also full and complete
finajjjial service?
It is a proposal of some magni
tude. But this is a war for demo
cracy and why not treat all alike,
take service from those who are
able to give service. labor from
those who can give labor, wealth
from those who have it and from
all in full and complete proportions.
i - 1- -
That would be something of a test
of one’s patriotism indeed. It is
easy enough to shout and to wave
flags and challenge the world but
actions do happen to talk so much !
louder than words which of these
financial millionaires have come for
ward and urged the government
not to ask for volunteer financial
service but urged that financial
conscription be the order of the
day? None that we have noticed,
but that it is the only democratic
equal way who can doubt? It is
the man with much to be drafted
surely who says that it will never
do.
MINING CONGRESS APPEALS
HELP AGAINST I. W. W.
SPOKANE, June 29.—The min
ing Congress is opposed to the ac
tivities of the I. W. W. which has
been instrumental in making tlie
employers of labor in the mines,
! woods and farms pay approximately
' living wages.
I They say that they apprehend
serious troubles in the industries
! by reason of the wage demands of
I the industrialists and they have ap
| pealed to Washington for protec
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With prices higher than ever be
fore. and the profits being made in
all lines gigantic, the industrialists
have been active in demanding in
creased wages and shorter hours,
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the mining Congress.
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