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NOMK, ALASKA SATURDAY, AUGUST, 17, l»18.
WISE OPERATORS
Gold mine operators in Nevada are
:said to have urged that the govern
ment pay a bonus amounting to an in
creased price upon their gold produc
ed.
What a fine idea! They set the
premium modestly at twelve dollars
an ounce. At this rate every person
would buy up the coined gold at
twenty dollars an ounce, the manu
factured or raw gold at the same price
from the jewelers and sell the same at
a profit of thirty dollars.
Alladin’s wizard who gave new
lamps for old, had nothing on those
economic wizards from Nevada.
Thirty dollars for twenty dollars—
a truly sensible idea. And these are
they whose superior ability according
to Mallock makes them a “master
class.” It is to laff.
ANOTHER PIjAN
Far different is the gold revision
plan suggested elsewhere. This
realizes the folly of paying more
for an article than its actual value
and also that the value depends upon
the labor power used in the produc
tion of the commodity,—socially
necessary labor power: that is, labor
essential to the very work which it
is engaged in. This suggests that the
government pay a per centage of the
labor costs, generally meeting the
requirements of an increased^costs of
living. This was to take the form of
allowing operators so much per cent
for every employee engaged in gold
production.
Naturally this means that it would
cost more to get out an ounce of gold;
the labor would which was engaged
in that industry be paid wages not
below but on a par with its social
value and the value of gold would
rise accordingly.
This seems feasible enough, but
would require further consideration
to determine what fallacy may lie
behind its seemliness.
IKKE.WO
There is great poverty in Ireland.
It is a chronic condition among the
workers, and altho there has been
effected a noticeable improvement
among the peasantry following the
operation of the land purchase acts,
still as property holders do not con
stitute the bulk of the nation, |he
poverty has not been materially re
duced. In the cities and this Includes
*he cites of the north and the south,
*he poverty is something dreadful.
The drab, sordid, filthy conditions of
Ute slums are shocking. Only the
loyalist who knows no better pre
tends that things are better in Bel
fast* than in Dublin. If so they do
not know Shankhill Road or Summer
Hill, for these are no worse and no
better than the frightful conditions
that prevail in that section of Dublin
ironically enough still called “The
^Liberties.”
No doubt a good deal of this pov
erty is due to the brewers and to the
saloons; the brewers are immensely
wealthy and build cathedrals and en
<dow hospitals. The saloons are own
ed- by the leading parishioners how
ever and are quite formilably re
spectable. •
None the less the degree of ex
ploitation that is carried on in Ire
land of labor is very terrible. Wages
are scanty and the standard of living
Sor the worker is low.
Vet Ireland is a country of great
natural wealth. It supplies far more
of England's food requirements than
■does any other nation: than does
America (except in the matter of
wheat) and much more beef than all
the rest of the nations put together.
That wealth goes to England to some
extent, but more of it remains in
Ireland to be spent by those who have
it for the most part in absolutely
non-productive channels, principally
luxuries and pleasures. The rich cat
tlemen or graziers of Ireland have
literally money to burn and they
burn it or they did before the war.
So hand in hand with the poverty,
there is also great wealth. Ireland
indeed, outside the sentimental out
pourings of their brilliant poets, pre
sents formidable economy problems
which may not be settled off hand
and by political measures. The as
piration for independence is heredi
tary; it fills all the emotional wants
of Keltic spiritualism and it without
doubt furnishes an inspiration which
removes much of the sordidness from
the lives of those who suffer.
But we don't live on cake or upon
luxuries, spiritual or material, but
upon the matter of fact substance of
bread and butter. And our lives, al
tho they may be afforded some com
pensation in the spiritual develop
ment that our souls or intellects may
furnish us, must depend for their
happiness primarily upon the ade
quate satisfaction of our material
wants.
Now putting all extraneous matter
aside and getting down to brass tacks
the plain fact is that the Irish ques
tion, sans romance, sans poetry, sans
Keltic spirtuaiism, sans intellectuali
ty, is right today a question of the
adequate satisfaction of the material
need of the great masses of the peo
ple, A simple question enough, it is
rue, but one that in its right or wrong
solution, has already shaken ipany
a dynasty and changed the direction
of the history of the empires.
GLOBULAR MILLIONS
In the year 1912, 1913, and 1914
the four principal packing houses ol
the United States made a profit ol
-19,000,000. That was handsome
enuff. These great firms are Armour
Swift, Morris and Cudahy.
Then came the war. It may have
been a curse to stricken Belgium; ii
may have been a terrible thing tc
over-run France, it may have been an
awful experience to distraught Rus
sia, but these four firms found thal
it was above all things a blessing
In the years 1915 to 1917 its profits
over and above those of pre-wai
years, not their net profits for thal
time, mind, were in excess of $120,
000,000.
Is it any wonder in the light of this
appaling profit, forced from the
struggling peoples of the world, thal
the Federal Trade Commission says:
"Their (the packers) manipulations
of the market embrace every divice
that is useful to them without regard
to law. Their reward, expressed in
terms of profit, have pocketted for the
years 1915, 1916, 1917 $140,000,000
Howpver delicate a definition is fram
ed for profiteering these packers
have preyed upon the people uncon
scionably.”
Why gild refined gold or paint the
lily by further comment.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Usually when discussing the hap
less condition of Austria and, the dis
sensions within the Empire-Kingdom,
Austria is principally blamed.
That is in essence wrong. The
worst element of that political con
glomerate are not the Austrians, or
the Czecho or the Slovaks. The worst
and most reactionary by far are the
Hungarian Magyars.
Hungary is a country governed by
the misrule of an oligarchy: a landed
aristocracy that takes its pound ol
flesh from its own and the races other
than Magyar within the Kingdom.
It is the most reactionary nation
in Europe, and altho quite consider
able romance has surrounded it and
its Kossuths, it’s the most backward
>n.4t , 1v i
of back numbers in the political sys
tem of continental Europe. Every
one of its few thousand landholders
is a baron and with more than feudal
rights and more than feudal privi
leges. He rules his roost with all
the elemental dictatorship of the
baron in the Middle Ages. He has re
duced the suffrage to a joke, and
where he cannot intimidate he does
not fail to use action more direct to
accomplish his ends.
The ambition of Austria, outside
a coterie of Germanist statesmen who
take orders fram the Wilhelmstrasse
are quite harmless, the ambitions of
the Hungarian oligarchy is the great
est menace to the freedom of the
world. There may be some hope of.
redeeming a von Seydler, but an
Andrasy or a Tirza are beyond re
demption. , , r •
The notion that Hungary plays
second fiddle in the Empire-King
dom is prevalent only in those circles
where the facts are not more careful
ly followed and for complete and ut
ter devotion to its own interests Hun
gary has all other nations within the
Central Powers backed off the map.
The Squirearchy that rules it has
such laws as will amply secure its
continuance in control quite regard
less of the demands, entreaties or
commands of Austria. Bohemia or the
rest. Its food supply is ample, but
not a pound of it is sent out except by
and with the consent of the Hun
garian lords and then only on the pay
ment of extortionate prices for an
insufficient quantity. Hungary is no
seconder of peace proposals. For,
since the collapse of Russian war
plans and the subjugation of Rou
manian armies, the war has no terror
for it. It feels safe and the only
thing that the war can do as far as
the Oligarchy can see is to make more
valuable the product of the soil cul
tivated in serfdom and the increase of
the revenues and the privileges of
those few who have already all the
wealth and all the property.
None the less things are not with
out their danger. Budapesth has a
very radical proletariat and thruout
Hungary Magyar subjection is not
so readily accepted as may seem to
the chieftains desirable. While on
the surface, then, the powers of privi
lege and pelf seem secure, down deep
there is a movement which is not
without its revolutionary tendency,
and it is a revolutionary tendency
not altogether directed towards the
myth of political freedom, but to
wards the much more practical con
siderations of economic emancipa
tion.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS -
In the Probate Court, Fairhaven
Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
Second Judicial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
William Heider, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
undersigned, has been duly ap
pointed administrator of the estate
of William Heider, deceased, and all
persons having claims againts said
estate of the said deceased, are
hereby notified to present them
wiht the necessary vouchers, within
six months from the date of the
first publication of this notice; to
Aimer Rydeen the Administrator, at
Candle Alaska. .
Date of first publication Aug. 3,
1918
ALMER RYDEEN
Administrator of the estate of Will
iam Heider, deceased.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok
Consolidated Mines Company and
Jacob Zeman, your heirs, execu
tors, administrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
during ea'ch of the years of 1914,
1915, 1916 and 1917, upon the fol
lowing described placer mining
claim, situate, lying and being in
the Kougarok Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit: The up
per one half (%) of Creek Claim
Number Three on Dahl Creek in the
Kougarok Mining District.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (?•) days after the
publication of this netioe you fail
or neglect to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, your
interest in said mining claim if any,
will become the property of the un
dersigned, your co-owner, under
section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
Al. Carey
Co-owner.
Date of first publication, May 25,
191S.
Date of last publication August 17th.
1918.
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FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
'"•‘I EVEHETTE, WASH. Sept, 9th, 1916.
To Trade Unionists of Alaska,
Greeting.
Ordinarily we would not think of making any sugges
tions to you concerning political candidacies in your Territory
but in the present situation we feel justified in doing so. Tho
interests of labor in the entire northwestern group of states
and particularly Washington, is closely allied with the Interest
'Of labor in Alaska. We have watched with growing concern
the efforts of large corporate aggregations to tighten their
hold upon the wealth of your country and have watched the
splendid fight waged in Congress by your Delegate Mr Wick
crsliam.
It is because we believe Mr Wickersham ds fighting in
Congress against tho exploitation of labor and the great nat
ural wealth of Alaska by powerful private interests, that we
are taking the liebrty of urging our fellow unionists in Alaska
to rally to his support in his campaign for re-election.
Knowing that you will accept this communication in the
spirit in which it is written and assuring you the continued co
operation and good will of your fellow trade unionists, we beg
leave to remain,
Fraternally Yours,
E. P. MARSH
President^ Washington State Federation of Labor.
CHAS, R. CASE
Chairman Legislative Committee, Seattle Central Labor Council.
J. G BROWN
President International Shingle Weavers’ Union of America.
WILLIAM SHORT
Sec.-Treas. Dist. No. 10, United Mine Workers of America.
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