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NOME, ALASKA THURSDAY, JULY 2i>, 1»18.
THE l'.\ EASY ONES
East winter when Lord Lansdowne
published his famous letter express
ing a desire for peace by negotiation,
the storm that arose thruout Eng
land was by no means confined to
that nation. It stirred France, Italy
and America and upon Lansdowne
was hurletfctihe most bitter invective.
Lansdowne is a rich man and a
large landholder and he belongs to
the m,ost reserved of the British
nobility and among whom their
titles are by no means meaningless
symbols of a by-gone potency.
Lansdowne has watched this war
throw men and institutions into a
"melting pot and watches this pro
ceeding not without uneasiness. He
would rather a Prussian peace than
■a, proletariat ascendancy and. lie
looks far ahead scenting danger for
his class and the power and privi
lege of his class.
There are lots of Lansdownes and
there will be more of them before
this war is thru and as it gees on
tirelessly, remorselessly and ruth
lessly grinding privileges and powers
■and building up a great industrial
structure that is of unknown power
arid t the possibility of proletarian
emancipation is ultimately scented,
there will be many letters announcing
views not wholly different to those
of Lansdowne.
Comes at this time one Dr Mueh
lon of Krupps. Dr Muehlon is a
German capitalist interested in the
manufacture of dyes, in tile manu
facture of guns, ammunitions ar.d
explosives, a steel king of parts
like our Charles Schwab, a land
hV’der of considerable extent, a
coal bare*, interested in shipping
■combines and many millions. The
Herr Doctor is growing uneasy and
says so. The war has hi d a very
bad effect upon German trade and
this effect will last he feers for
years after the war. Industries arc
dislocated; flourishing prospects oblit
erated a d thing; generally ..re on
the hummer. So he himself inclines
per-cowards and to ease his responsi
Viltiy of war, he blames the Kaiser.
That’s exactly what he has done, this
leader the Krupps organization
blames the Kaiser. - .
He tells how the Kaiser ere the
war was declared gathered unto
him tile financial and industrial
lead rs in the castle at Berlin as
guests of the Emperor. He describ
es the momentous scene as the Kalsei
declared “Now gentl men advance
void as wo grasp hands promise ms
>:©n will stand by me to the Iasi
bveath.” Muehlon thinks that ai
arifatr advantage was taken of therr
■and they were made involuntary
supporters of the war. But the publii
knows full well that that’s pun
buncombe and that they had. ever;
■bit to do with it as much as har
the Kaiser
Muehlon thinks that peace shoulc
be negotiated and is so argulnf
from his prudent retirement. Then
is no telling what may happen. Thi
Russian situation has shown tha
possibilities lie before the contin
nance of the war and if in Ru3sli
why not In Germany and in Aus
trla.
Just as Lansdowne fears for th
proletarian ascendancy in Grea
Britain others are concerned, abou
it in Austria and Germany am
tkvse men once rabid militarists ar
pacificism personified. The longe
it lasts the more certain it Is tha
such will develop and not a fen
long ago have come to the con
elusion that It has already gone a
far as it should. It may hav
averted a revolution when it startei
there or elsewhere, but who may sa
It will not create a revolution ma
be more awful than any that couh
have been imagined. And for t)r
iMuehlon, as for Lansdownc- there
I were his pleasant estates and his
marquisates and his earldoms ofi
Kerry, there are his stocks and
shares and coal mines and steel mill
all likely suffer in the overthrowing
of oligarchies.
The legend of Frankenstein that
Mrs Sheliey evolved is becoming an
accomplished fact for these European
militarists. They can no longer
control it and the creature of their
hands is now bent upon destroying
its own creator.
The prospect may well create
pacificism in those who care more
[ for power and privilege and the
| right to rule than anything else in
1 the world.
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CON'TEMl'TI IVIjK WORKERS
Most people imagine that the
worker who stands for his rights
has some particular axe to grind
against the employer as such. That
i is not the ease. Most employers
j obey the same economic urge as the
| workers, and the main grievance
of the workers is against their fellow
! employees who have not the back
bone of a piece of boiled macaroni
to stand up for_their rights.
And it is against these contenpt-1
ible creatures that the workers who
do put up a fight to better their j
iconditions, d.irect the justified I
shafts of loathing and scorn.
From the outside this summer'
came a number of curs with two feet!
who had no reason to come here
except as strike breakers. There j
'was lots of work outside; w^ork at'
[wages, other things considered, bet-1
^ ter than are paid in this district. I
| These men left that work to come [
| up here to scab and to work longer
■ hours for actually less pay than they
recejved outside. They ousted, the
men wild live in the various camps
of this peninsula in soim cases amt
have been doing such work as was
available in the scab camps since
their arrival. They know no such
thing as shame. They are impervious
to decent sentiment and they know
and feel that while they are fcdoud
to all decent minded, people, they
will be able to cover up their
despicable actions and they will be
forgotten and overlooked.
Union men should never forget
them and that now or at any time
The traitors to their class who to
fawn around a boss submitted their
names to the lickspittle class sur. ly
are unworthy of even personal r?eog
nition of any fair minded man.
Employers may have no us? at
such for union men. But b sure
th" man who Woks the. employer in
the eye and lemands his rights will
be respected of men, and the toady
ing lickspittle whose voice falls to
a tremor in the presence of his
master when he takes )>is orders
to scab is despised as much by tin
employer even when he employs
, him as he is by the worker who
, knows him for the spineless creature
that he is.
An employer is not as such sub
ject to any principles of elevating
. philanthorpv. Business enterprise
and humanitarir.nism are quite in
( compatible if profits arc to be mair.
r tained. And so the boss - is not
t looking to be ter tha conditions of
[ the worker, the worker must do that
, himself. The bettering of condi
• tions by the workers could bo
l easily accomplished were it not for
r the Judases in the ranks of labor,
. but cvcnlscnrlct betrayed, for a
, price, the scab betrays simply for
s the right of a job when the jobs are
1 so plentiful outside that he cannot
i escapo them.
j Here’s r. man says he ieft a good
job in a shipyard to work winching
r
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on a dredge for actually less medey .
twelve hours a day. Do you sup
pose that mar. has the p’uck ana
grit of a louse and ' that U ' is
ven in the vertebrate class, when
a mining operator will hard him a
cigar and to be seer, .liking to him,
he will swell up like a poisoned
pup.
This dlsast'cv.s mentality, this
mentality the very reverse of what j
freemen should have, is porsibly
excused by the hereditary slave con
ditions under which such scabs an
cestors have lived. They want the
master r.r.d they want the master's
whip. They want someone to drive
them to lash them to swear at
them and they have the same men
tal vigor of the mule that or.Iy
work when It feels the hard hand
skinner crack his reins and well
known blasphemy urging it to a
faster pace.
On the square it’s a pity any one
should believe that such alleged
human beings were the created of
God. If they are, they were sure
created in His anger.
HIGH BROW STUFF
Some writ r in some magazine has
been boosting the war verse that is
now being turned out. It is com
pared favorably with the great poets
at their best. And there la such
a maze . of it that the patriotic
critics are lost in the embarrasment I
:of riches that overcome them.
During the whole Napoleonic wars
English literature waS enriched by
only one poem and that is the poem
alone of all his others that have
come down to us. There were all
'sorts written from the battle ofj
Hohenlinden by Campbell to the
Byronic efforts as to Waterloo and
the rest, but alone of all the3a ‘‘The
Burial of Sir John Moore” stands
Put as the complete masterpiece.
No word used to excess, not a verse
misplaced, not a line that falters—a
plain tale in all the naked majesty
bf real literature.
Contemporary criticism did not
hold Wclff’s poem as for what it
really was. Ladies clipped it andr
pasted it in scented scrap books and
Occasionally when the pre-Victorian
entertainments lagged, the wonderful
child was asked to declaim it.
But contemporary criticism is us
ually wrong. Ninety per cent of the
war poesy and, then some will be
forgotten, while the poetic verse
that issues from Cook County jail
these days will be treasured. Wars
do not excite the Muse. The Civil
War did not, even if the quaker poet
wrote tolerable verse thruout those
struggling years. The great poem
of the war was written when Lincoln
was shot and Walt Whitman gave
his soul free vent in “Captain O
My Captain.” '
Contemporary criticism saw in
Haynes Bailey a greater than Byron
and only when a phonographic art
ist resurrects Isle of Beauty is his
name even recalled. It saw in Lytton
upon the completion of Richelieu,
another and a greater Shakespeare.
Surely he was of that stock who
could conceive that “Beneath the rule j
of men, entirely great, the pen is
LuiKiEiEX'jrirLcui'ric'jr'Ji^irii^icy:
mightier than the sword.,’’ as it the
Bard ot Avon would ever be guilty
at such a yawning platitude.
Those who want real literature
today wil have to get off the high
ways where is heard nothing hut
the roar of the war god and reach
into the by-ways where radical tliot
has been forcibly enough removed,
to utter for itself the thots that
breathe and the words that burn
md which will re-echo the world over i
some of these days. The poet that
feels the taste of iron in his mouth,
as one of them says, spoke for a
multitude of voiceless men.
WHITE GUARD . LICKED
PETROGRAD,—Moscow advices
show that the final effort of the
White Guard, so called, with the
aid cif German officers and others
to bring about the overthrow of the
Bolshevik! has been a failure fol
lowing the capture of Jaroslav and
the anihilation of the commanding
force. The action of Germary in
promoting the revolt of the so
called White Guard is bitterly re
sented and the army is being mob
ilized for “a larger field c(f action.
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against W. L. Springsteen and
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1918.
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