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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post oflea at
Nome, - Alaska, under the AU of March 9. 1179.
Ndme. Alaska, January 20, 1918.
AND NOW THE CLERKS.
“It’s fine for us!’’ a correspond-!
ent writes on the letterhead of a
large corporation. “We read in the
newspapers every day or two that
switchmen or miners or men in
shipyards have demanded twenty or
thirty per cent more pay to cover
the increased cost of living, and
the President is sending some big
wigs out to fix it up. Usually the
men get what they demand. Maybe
you know that when the price of
bread and milk goes up for a steam
fitter It goes up just as much for
an office man; but nobody else
seems to know it. The seventy
dollars now, which is about seven
per cent increase. Nobody has any
time to bother with us, except to
tell us to economize and buy Liber
ty bends.”
About the lonesomest and least
considered person in the country to
day is the clerk—-using that term ]
in the loose sense which includes
office men and salespeople.
No one is afraid he is going to
strike and tic up an industry—j
everybody knowing very well he
cannot. His money is worth about
a third lcis than it was before the
war, and in the general run of
cases he—or 3he—has not a third i
more money.
Among those whom the census!
classes as salaried employees there!
are a great many who have emerg
ed from the general run and achiev
ed such a relationship to the bus-'
incss that they are counted as indi-1
victuals, instead of merely as un-|
distinguished items in the clerical |
and selling forces. They can keep |
up with the cost of living and beat
it, because the people up i:i front, j
who fix salaries, are personally in
terested in these individuals. But
as for the general run—over a mil
lion in manufacturing and trans
portation alone—their needs are
considered '.as:.
Organized wage-earners can com
mand consideration. Some unorga
nized workers at the margin, who
are always slipping oft into indig
ence, get constant attention from
the charitable. The clerk who can
manage to support his family is
mostly let alone.—Saturday 10 v *n
ing Post.
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THE MEANIXH OK RUSSIA.
The crisis in Russia that is giv-1
ing the master class of the world:
such concern at present, is caused j
by the inevitable conflict between
I he two factors of rising capitalism
on the one hand, and the old com
munism on the other. The estab
lishment of a national existence for
Russia by Peter the Creot came in
to conflict with the old community
life of tire people, but finally seem
ed to have rooted out the latter and
set up a strong national govern
ment.
When the revolution of last
spring had overthrown the Czar
there were two forces that contri
buted to that result. One was the
old communistic ideas of the pea
sants, the other was the now eapi
tilistic ideas of the rising commer
cial classes. These are the two
factors that overthrew the monar
chy. As soon as that event was ac
complished there at once developed
a conflict between the two groups
as to which should be the domin
ant factor in the new regime.
The commercial interests wanted
to continue the war, and make cer
tain of the overthrow ol Germany
soythat they could develop their
own Industrial life. The peasants
wanted to establish peace for the
workers of all nations so that they
mights live their community life in
their own way. It was inevitable
that as toon as the Czar was out of
the way, and they could got at each
other’s throats, that they should
find themselves in opposing camps.
The commercial interests are ag
gr,.salve and trying to take the po- ’
e.ition that was held in the uionar
chy by the Czar and his minions.
The communistic interests are of a
peaceable disposition, and arc try
ing only to prevent slavery for
themselves and their posterity. It
is these two factors that now seem
to hold the stage in Russia, regard
less of the statements regarding
German intrigue. In this conflict ofj
interests it is inevitable that the oil j
concessions obtained for standard
Oil by the Root Commission last
summer should be Jeopardized.
WAR’S EFFECT OX READING.
A grim witticism of the early
days of the war was that If. is a
great instructor in geography. Now
we learn lrom competent author
ities that the war has greatly im
proved the taste of the reading
public, and the New Yors Times
quotes Mr. E. Dcnhe, of the New
York Public Library, as saying:
‘‘It is the future that seems to be
bothered a great many of the peo
ple who come hero from day to
day and spend hours with their
heads buried in books. Conse
quently they are not satisfied with
history alone. They go (to the eco
nomist and the philosopher for in
formation and enlightmcnt. They
feel that facts alone, as recorded
by the historian, do not explain the
problems which confront us^ They
are grasping out not only (for the
abstract facts of life, in a> deter
mination to see things for l!hemsel
ves, and see them straigt.
“Reading of German authors in
general has had a big decline. The
classics, ouch as Goethe^ Schiller,
and Lessing, are still in demand,
but modern German waiters make
little or no appeal to {the average
reader." _ j
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TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY.
The Russian revolution having
finally shown sign;; of becoming
actually popular, England and our
best people are becoming really
alarmed. Perhaps h was a mistake
to hail “the free Russian People”
—it may be that the Council of
Workingmeuis and Soldiers’ Dele
gates (who only represent the vast
majority of the people) is going to
have soi&nning to say.
This hns lead the British Govern
ment, we understand, ta offer the
cx-Czrr a home in England, and an
income—like the ex-King Manuel’s
—collected from the British tax
payer. Nicholas Romanov, then,
will be held by England as a sort
of club over the luad of the Rus
sian democracy, to prevent it from
becoming too democratic. ,
There is no mistaking the atti
tude of the British Government to
ward Russia. A general airnetty
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f having been proclaimed by (be Prc
j visional Government in Potrograd,
1 the British authorities proceed to
! arrest and intern. Leon Trotzky and
several ether exiles who are hurry-;
; ing home, not on the ground that
I Russia objects to them—but be
; cause England thinks they might
plot against the Russian govern
ment! .
And our own mentor, the New
York Times! With what bitterness
it now speaks of that “free people”
it erstwhile greeted so rapturously!
L!slen to its present opinion cf the
Council of Workingman's and Sold
iers’ Delegates:
“Those men calling themselves
representatives of the workingmen
and cf the soldiers are extreme ra
dicals and syndicalists, correspond
ing to the I. W. W. agitators in this
country.”
In other words, at last t'.-.o Times
has discovered that the revolution
is being conducted by revolution
ists.
My friends, tho deeper we got
into this “war for democracy and
civilization appear on any side. De
mocracy wculd er.d this war and
all wars. Democracy would do away
with legalized soiling of the instru
ments of murder. Democracy at
least would take the profit out of
butchery. Democracy at least
would forbid the starving of the
great masses of the people to en
rich tho fnw.
Therefore not only Gcrnu ny, but
the United States, England, France
ard Italy all fear Democracy, and
all crush it whenever it is found.
Even ir. Germany it would :.ot be
permitted long.
The bridge and Struciural Iron
work rs’ Union, McNamaras orga
nization. is the only one surviving
in the otcol industry. The rest have
been wiped out by the trust.
The trej of liberty must be rc
frerhed from time to time by the
bloGd of palriotis and tyrants; it
is its natural mr.nurc.
—Thomas Jefferson.
If you have built castles in the
r.ir, ycur work need not be lost;
that is where they should be; now
put foundations under them.
—Thorcau.
My call Is the call of battle. I
nourish active rebellion. He going
with me must go well armed. He
going with me goes often with
spare diet, poverty, angry enemies
and desertion. —Walt Whitman.
“As for the safety of society we
commit honest maniacs to Bedlam;
so judges should be withdrawn
from the bench whose erroneous
biases arc leading us to dissolution.
—Thomas Jefferson.
No man has imagination enough
to paint the agonies, the horrors,
the cruelties of war. Think of
sending shot and shell crashing
through the bodies of men! Think
of the widows and the orphans!
Think of the maimed, the mutilated
the mangled!—Inger’.oll.
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