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MK THAME ECONOMIST 1
Mr Thane manager of a Juneau
#old mine enters upon the scene. He
iis introduced by the Juneau Empire.
His topic is the one dear to all con
nected with gaudy gold-—and often to
those very much separated there
from—the decreased purchasing
power of the commodity which his
company hires men to produce.
Mr Thane conveys to the subject’s
consideration all the power of his
extensive gray matter and under
•those circumstances naturally solves
the problem offhand. He solves it
too in a manner occurs to the Empire
as profound, and as he were Archi
medes running thru the streets of the
city naked, shouting “Eureka, eu
reka."
Say, thatfplan of Thane's has Will
iam Jennings Bryan's free and unlim
ited coinage of silver in the invariable
ratio of sixteen to one backed off the
mpp of political economy. Thane
would have the price increased by in
ternational agreement-—by the Enten
te Allies-—and the handling of the
gold by the governments. As the
Empire says “this plan seems to be
based on justice, right principles and
Svtund policy.” It is in the words of
aK©ther great man, economically
-■■niDiil and ethically perfect. Sure.
“It is estimated that approxmately
■one-half of the gold output of the
world is produced a a loss” declares
the Empire and here some have been
thinking that gold mines were operat
ed for dividend purposes; what a
wrong and barbaric nation!
But if it is possible to establish an
empirical value for gold by govern
mental fiat and since a standard med
ium of exchange Is required at all
•limes, why not use paper? What’s]
the matter with stopping this waste of '
i<rie and increasing the value of a cer-1
tain kind of paper printed in a certain ]
way and telling'the dear peepul that]
hereafter this is the medium of ex
change, this has a certain increased
value as per printed signs thereupon?
Would the Em;V. or ■ Thane
j,lease enlighten us fu.-ii- ' hs to what!
gives a commodity value, in view of i
it.i- Jact that the possibility of the gov
■ rnment’s incr; using that characteris
tic of commodities appears consonant
•with “justice, right principles and
sound policy.”
GOMPKKS 1\ ENGLAND
Mr Uompers has been luncheouec't
in London with all the members of the
government according to dispatches,
> I is visit to Europe was authorized
is? the last convention of the Federa
tion of Labor and has for Us purpose
ft**' destruction of what appears to be
tvivcbling in Europe "a yearning for
Xiree.t Britian and France and the
various nations involved in the war
have been experiencing its horrors for
four years. American labor has not.
And naturally there is a longing for
peace thru negotiations in many
quarters where the delay in a military
‘ decision has caused such a military
' decision to be doubted.
<fc.'^Miis month, September, in Derby
the British Trades Union Congress
*sneete. There the whole question will
form a live topic of discussion, and it
is likely that Mr Gompers will be giv
. on an opportunity of being heard.
■in Great Britian the trouble ap
pears to be that the laborites do not
believe that Lloyd George is entirely
Tree from imperialist designs in this
war, and while the war aims of Presi
dent Wilson have been received with
tacclaim, they suspect their own
sV*. teamen.
The recent American Labor Mis
sion indeed reported this very fact up-;
on its return to this country, and that
mission was sent upon the direst in
vitation of the British Government
Ahru Lloyd George.
Jt would be extremely foolish to
ignore this condition, or the fact that
labor interests and by no means mere
ly committed to sentimental visions
of pacificism per se, have gathered
together to formulate war aims and
peace terms which distinctly fore
shadow the overthrow of imperialis
tic dominance and generally speaking
identical in most respects with the
peace terms or war aims as enunciat
ed by Wilson himself.
The British Trades Union Congress
has not been able to send its elected
representatives over here. Perhaps
Mr Gompers may explain away the
difficulties which present themselves
ta the British workers when they deem
Lloyd George entirely free from the
dross of imperialism. Perhaps not,
but an impartial account of the re
ception at Derby this month, extended
Gompers will be interesting reading.
ANGLO-SAXON
Every other day, due to the fact
that we are now associated with the
British in the war against Germany
writers, publicists, speakers, poets
and what not have adopted wholly
the title as expressing the character
istics of America and Great Britain,
racially as Anglo-Saxon. ,
This view would lead one to be
lieve that there was some such de
cided race as the Anglo-Saxon and
that it was essentially British and es
sentially American and logically that
therefore genealogically we were
one and the same.
This is not correct and is wholly
misleading. It is as misleading con
cerning Great Britain and Ireland, it
is misleading even concerning Eng
land. As for America and Americans
these are not even essen‘ia!ly Teu
tonic as the appelation Anglo-Saxon
would lead one to infer.
The English themselves are a con
•-ioi ’.oral race. They are composed of
earlier British, earlier still non-aryan
races like the Basques of Gaul and
Spain, 'later Jutes, Saxons. Angles,
Frisians, Biots or Scots, Danes, Nor
mans and French.
It. would be very hard to decide
.vhieh tribe piedominates Most are I
content, to .accept the fact that be
cause the language spoken today is!
Teutonic in origin, therefore the Brit
ish race is Teutonic also.
One might as well conclude if one
v. ere to ficept the language as the
guide that because the immigrant
Slav's descendants in America speak
English, ho is also Teuton. Of course
this is ridiculous.
lu fact the ruling classes of Great
Britain for centuries maintained as
the legal language of the nation dot.n
to v.ilo ia'c, the French language
and e.en to this day when the mon
arch approves a bill in the English
parliament that royal assent is regis
tered by the Lord Chancellor in the
original legal French of “Le roi le
veut”. The King wills it.
But it is as much a myth that the
government is Anglo-French as it is
a myth that the king willed any such
thing as four fifths of the legislative
measures that become law thru the
utterances of this archaic formula.
Only those immersed in the Anglo
maniac; superstition will affect that
Americans possess identical charac
teristics with th* English. To be
sure the modern publicists these days
are searching the hidden by-ways for
evidences of a close connection and
when they drag to the light of day
some trumpery stuff they denote evi
dence, they manifest all the idiotic
delight of an insane man who holds
that all that glitters is gold.
The fact is that whatever political
connection there may have been be
tween Great Britain and America,
and the political institutions are con
nected one with another, there is no
blood relationship dominant in the
ethnic life of the nations. Quite the
contrary. The Celt and the purer
i —1 . .m
Teuton, the Latin and the Slavic races
have all contributed their quota to the
present national entity known as
American.
To be sure even this national entity
varies in its racial ancestry different
ly in different parts of the country.
In some places it is peculiarly Eng
lish, in some it is more distinctly
Anglo-Norman, in some it is Irish, in
some purer Teuton, in some Italian
or other Latin origin, and so on down
the line, but all coalescing under con
ditions of coherence that are more or
less perfect.
It is a distinct error, therefore, that
ought to be corrected, which goes to
insist that America is part of Anglo
Saxondom. Anglo-Saxondom never
did as such have any existence. It
never had any existence as a pure
society of Angles and Saxons. It was
a name given to the conquering na
tions either by the conquerors or by
the conquered, just as the Normans
referred lovingly to their social pre
dominance in England as theNorman
French civilization.
Its application to America is ab
surd. While it may be intended to
be in the nature of balm to those feel
ings that were hurt in 1776, the fact
is that while the national composition
may be part English, it is part some
thing far different and only in name
American as we understand the term
will we have any clear idea of the very
important fact that no name imported
trom Europe will express the ethnic
contents of the United States.
MOB LAW
Both Attorney General Gregory in
a strong letter and later President
Wilson himself, have denounced and
in the severest terms reprobated the
cowardice of mob law.
But the fact is that the mobbers in
most cases are led into their detesta
ble work by shrewder but more cow
ardly minds who wish to mask their
profiteering sentiments in a garb of
patriotism. And the fact is also cer
tain that an appeal to their manliness
is of little use to souls that have been
long immune to manly sentiments.
The Attorney General seems confi
dent that he can wipe out the I. W. W.
by the rigorous prosecution of the
leaders. Surely there ought to be
no hesitation in applying the same
yard stick to the mobbers who are
dressed in broad cloth.
Furthermore had determined ac
tion been taken by the authorities at
the very beginning of these despicable
outrages' the hanging of Frank Little,
the deportations from Bisbee and the
riot of tar and feathering instigated
by profiteers thruout the country, the
government would in state and nation
have quickly found an immediate
method of suppressing the outrages.
Punitive treatment is not without de
terrent effect upon the soul of a
coward.
PAID ADVERTISEMENTS
WASHINGTON STATE
FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
EVERETTE, 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. The
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
ersham.
It is because we believe Mr Wiclcersham is fighting In
Congress against the 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 bog
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 Sliinglo Weavers’ Union of America.
WILLIAM SHORT
Sec.-Treas. Dist. No. 10, United Mine Workers of America.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
HON. CHAS. A. SULZER
(Democrat)
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 5, 1918
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
ALMER (Slim) RYDEEN
(DEMOCRAT) of Candle.
ELECTION NOV. 5th, 1018.
For Re-election
JOHN A. WILSON
For Road Commissioner
Election, November 5, 1918
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