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NOME, ALASXA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBElt, 24, 1918.
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TAXING THE PROFITEERS
The unanimous passage of the rev
enue bill, the first measure that aims
to collect revenues from excess pro
fits, is compelling proof that the ar
guments advanced by those fear
less men who insisted that profiteer
ing should provide the revenue or the
main revenue of the war, have been
found to be invincible. Yet a short
while ago Amos Pinchot and Robert
Lafollette wore making this demand,
when senators and others were fear
ful to support what they knew to be
right, the reptile press thruout the
country was engaged in the congen
ial task of branding every such person
-as attacked the profiteers as Pro
Cerman. But the facts could Hot be
denied. Profiteering was flagrant,
abandoned and audacious. And when
finally President Wilson directed j
attention belatedly to this condition j
and when the Federal Trade Com
mission supplied details to the gen
eral facts, it was impossible to ignore
them longer.
This is not all. When an attempt
was made to tax excess profits, there
went up a wail thruout the press
that it would hamper production and
curtail output, the nation was pretty j
well persuaded that business had to j
be let alone and allowed to indulge
in a wild saturnalia of profit.
So these gentlemen and those news-1
papers which winked their eyes un-j
seeingly at the tremendous profits,
concerns were making out of the na
ional necessities, turned to the labor
demands and insinuated that here
was a phase of profiteering that they,
could afford to consider.
The disgusting insincerity of this
fooled but few. Yet the reptile press
5:opt on denouncing every attempt:
made by labor to have its wage scale .
reach the expanding costs of living
as unpatriotic profiteering of the
most abandoned description.
l,abor is fighting this war in trench
and field and works’io-> D >- going
thru with it in the :r , ■ in to J held
and' in the workshop to the oral with
out faltering and without hesitaion.
But labor is just the same chalking
up a score against these profiteers
and the press of the profiteers that
viil be settled after the war. The
score is not a small one. And it is
evident that in the admission that ex
cess profits may be taxed, the profi
teers themselves are beginning to be
-alarmed over its magnitude.
ITU\ ATE M \NAGEMENT
One Professor Mullock, an interest
ing Professor of Economics in an
English University, and a man of parts
in the British academic world, was
some years ago brot over to this coun
try by Rockefeller and other inter
ests to explain and justify immense
private accumulations of wealth with
in the nation. You recollect that
John Stuart Mill justified similiar
accumulations under- the general
heading of the reward of abstinence,
but seeing that most who so accumu
lated it Were not famous for their
abstinence, poor Mill’s explanation
and justification fell by the wayside.
Mallach saw in the wealth accumu
lated at once a justification and an
■explanation because it was the re
ward of superior ability. Marx tore
ithe wool from the Mill reward of
abstinence and Daniel De Leon did
the same thing with Malloek’s theory
of a reward for superior ability.
This war has done more fully what
Daniel De Leon showed in theory,
that there was no connection between
private ownership and superior busi
ness management and the fact is now
so obvious that even while it is ob
vious attention may well be directed
to it.
When the war broke out the entire
railroad system, the entire transpor
tation system fell to pieces. The gov
ernment was compelled to take over
its direction and reduce those gen
tlemen who had passed themselves off
as men of superior mental attain
ments in the transportation industry
to the very simple function of coupon
clippers.
With practically every industry
needed to supply the war requirments 1
of the nation the same thing occurred,
and governmental supervision had to
oust the exclusive private control of
those men who had Malloch justify
their wealth accumulation by reason
of their superior mental ability.
Coal, fuel of all kinds, lumber, mu
nitions, shipbuilding, transportation,
telegraph and telephones, shipping,
and so forth are now under the im
mediate dominance of the United
States government. Private control
broke down; was found wanting un
der the test and the superior mental
and executive ability of the master
classes found to be buncombe pure
and simple.
De Leon said Marx squelched Mal
loch. in point of fact, Malloch and
his theory is squelched completely by
common experience.
BULGARIA
The Great War had its origin, his
torically, in the assassination of the
Austrian Grand Duke at Sarajevo
It began therefore so to speak in the
Balkans. It would not be at all sur
prising if the first signs of its ending
appeared in that section of Europe.
The drive upon Bulgaria directs!
attention to the little nation. It has;
been the ambition of the King and the
dream of his statesmen to make Bul
garia a new Tzardom, ruling the Bal
kan states. That was the reason why
Bulgaria entered the war, because
Serbia had to be eliminated.
The Bttlgar individually has no
very intense sympathy with the aims
ofVhis king or the king's statesmen
and the socialist paper when Ferdi-j
naiul took on himself the title of j
Tzar made bold to sneer at his pre |
tensions and to write scathingly of i
the sacred name, for which it duly
was punished.
The Bulgar is“a fine soldier and
l;ke many tine soldiers within the|
pad few years he has had his bellyful.
Hardly was he through fighting the
Turk and then his former Allies, the
Serb and the Greek, when he was call
ed upon to fight with Germany. He
fought well. But the war has been
filled with none of those glorious j
and victorious enthusiasms that made
defeating the Turk worth while. He
found himself to the south fighting a
wily, a careful, a powerful and unex
cited foe that wras willing to wait
days, months and years to accomplish
his undoing. The most phlegmatic
of the Balkans the Bulgar nation
found itself facing a foe whose lack
of zeal seemed to him to be incom
prehensible. It could not be explained
as lack of determination—there was
too much determination when he at
'acked *Ue enemy on the Doiran or
the Vardar. It could not be explain
ed by lack of means—ampl6 ammu
nition. food and guns were felt sting
ingly when the Bulgar tried to make
an advance in Maredonia. This damp
ened his own zeal and weakened his
own determination and the Bulgars
are very earnestly considering right
now whetheV all the comforts of
peace and home are not worth a whole
lot more than a Tzar's ambition and
the discomforts of the trenches.
CANT RE DONE
Those who have begun complain
ing that labor is leaving the coun
try should remember that there is
no ground for ‘he wailing. Haven’t
they held time and time again that
all^Alaska needed was Capital, Let
Capital do it!
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 w» 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 Wickersham 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 beg
leave to remain,
Fraternally Yours,
E. P. M \RSH
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.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
ALMER (Slim) RYDEEN
(DEMOCRAT) of Candle.
ERECTION’ NOV. 5th, 1918.
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For Re-election
JOHN A. WILSON
For Road Commissioner
Election, November 5, 1918
FOR IlOAD COMMISSIONER
SECOND DIVISION
BARNEY Q1BNEY
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION, TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1918
FOR TERRITORIAL RpAD COMMISSIONER
AL WINKLER
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5, 1018.
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