NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1S79.
NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, JUNE, 22, 1918.
Place Burden of war
Upon The Profiteer
(By Amos Pinchot.)
It is hard to make Americans
thing—harder, in fact, than to get
them to give their time, their lives
or their money.
We, the American public, have
gone along through the first year of
the war without thinking. We have
gone on the principle that the gov
ernment, the big newspapers, the
bankers, the dissatisfied politicians
and silk-stocking patriotic socities
should do our thinking and talking
for us. We have shirked our respon
sibilities. We have trusted Ameri
can thought. We have allowed our
guardians to dsicourage all opinion
other than their own. And this th>-y
have done with such extraordinary
thoroughness that today it is almost
les majesty for an ordinary Ameri
can citizen to speak his own opinions
or even to have any.
Heine cynically observed “Revolu
tions do not occur in Germany—
they are forbidden.” In America
public opinion does not exist—it is
considered unpatriotic. While liber
al opinion has been threatened, sup
pressed, prosecuted and sometimes
jailed into silence, the reactionaries
have held the floor. Up to the pres
ent time, proctically the only peo
ple who have been hoard on the sub
ject of paying for the war, have
been the Tories, the bankers, the
agents of the corporations, in fact
the people who are making money
out of the war, and, at the same
time, escaping a fair share of tax
ation.
We. have got to raise colossal sums
to pay for the war. The estimate
of twenty thousand millions for the
war’s first year has turned out tc
be far below what it will actually
cost. This money will not come out
of the air. It will come out ot
somebody’s pockets. The question is
whether it will come out of the
pockets of people who can afford tc
pay or out of the pockets of those
who cannot.
Congress has passed an income and
excess profits tax that can not h
collected, because it is too compli
cated. If it could be collected, i!
would still hi both unjust and inade
quate. Under its provisions, a mar
ried man (without a family) who
has a net income of $50,0 00 a year,
pays an income tax of $180.; he
keeps th ■ remaining $44,S20. Under
its provisions a million dollar cor
poration which netted $70,000 a year
before the war, and which now nets
$500,000, pays a tax of $154,200
and keeps th© remaining $245,800.
That m ns this corporation makes
almost 400 per cent more than it
did in normal iimes.
Is. this bearing a fr.ir share of the
war’s privation;, rnd ruff-rings’;
Compare tin racrifice mr.de by the
$50,000 a year man and tea $500,
000 a your corporation with that
<of the. poor mau. to whose family
war has ■■>'.-a,,t ’ vnger, cold, clos d
schools, sickness, doctc r’s bills and
debt! Is this a case of equal sac
rifice, or is it a case of appalling
.sacrifice, for the poor man and little
rr none for the rich man?
And yet the American people
have looked on in silence. W have
been told t.i cur trustees of public
opinion, that to talk about taxing
wealth would lie unpatriotic. Wo
have not dared to speak. Only
the millionaires, the bankers, poli
ticians, profiteers and big newspa
i pers that represent them, have clis
I cussed taxes. How shall we pay
! for he war? “Why, out of the poor
man's pocket, of course. We will
| pay with bonds, and the bonds will
be redeemed by taxes on the poor.
That is the way to finance a war
J It is the way ail wars have been
j financed, av.d anyone who disagrees
is a pro-German, a disturber ol
the peace, a demagogue.”
Of course, we have to have wai
bonds. You cannot raise twenty
billions of dollars by taxation alone;
but you can raise a largo part oi
that sura by taxes, and, in additior
to taxes, by direct confiscation o;
capital, as the Briiish cabinet now
proposes. Naturally the capitalist!
prefer to have the war financed by
bonds rather than by taxes or con
fiscation. The purchaser of a bone
becomes a patriot and gets a sah
four per cent investiment. But th<
corporation or individual, whose in
comes and profits are taxed, get:
only a tax receipt. Therefore wai
bonds are sacred institutions, anc
war taxes are anathema.
The people of England, however
have not gaped in open-mouthed sil
ence and let the great and wisi
write their tax laws. Nor have the;
stood like cows waiting to be milkei
while the profiteers approaches
wfith the stool and pail. They hav.
passed a substantial and workabl
set of tax laws and they are preparini
to proceed to confiscation of capita
in the near future. Already Eng
land lias a tax of 80 per cent 01
all net profits over and above tin
j pre-war average. In the case of tin
corporation mentioned by me. tin
profits tax ill England would lx
$344,000 instead of the $154,200 eo!
lected by our revenue bill (if, in
deed, it can be collected at all.) Ti
England the amount of net earning
this corporation would be allowct
to keep would be $156,000, insteai
of the $345,800 conceded to wealtl
by our generous legislators.
It is time for Americans to wak<
up. There is nothing unpatriotic
about demanding a fair distributioi
of the war's burdens. The Britisl
Labor Party is not bashful abou
makinug its wishes known. It ktatei
them in no whispered tones, am
parliament and the cabinet listen
most attentively. But in the Unitei
States it is different. Here wo mus
not ask for just tax's. We mus
thank God that the rich are willini
to pay anything at all.
There is a strange tiling abou
rich people in America—perhapi
everywhere. They will sacrifice evei
life itself more willingly than th ;
will give up their guarantees o
financial power. Accordingly, w
see that property has become tin
only sacred thing which the country
may not demand of the rich. Uncb
Sam may draft tli sons of tin
privileged class. All well and good
But when conscription of ' property
is proposed a shriek goes up tha
can bo heard from coast to coast
For property is not raor ly the con
veuient possession of the ludividua
in the privileg'd class, it is tin
rock-bottom foundation pf the clasi
itself; and the class instinct pro
tects it more jealously than any
thing else. Touch property, and tin
control of the country by a i?mal
and organized minority becomes i
thing of the past.
According to an estimate of ex
! pc-rts, based on quarterly reports,
: American corporations will make in
j our first year of the war in excess
i of profits alone, over and above
j their pre-war average earnings, at
j least $3,600,000,000. This sum is
j slightly larger than the whole money
J cost of the Civil war. $3,600,000,
000—an inconceivable sum, piled up
by the labor of the fighting and
i producing classes, and from the
! necessity of our allies! This wlli be
j the war monument of American
plutocracy and of the congress that
obeyed it, long after the war itself
is over.
But there is no use talking about
these things unless we do some
thing about it. Congress is going
to redraft the revenue bill. And
congress is not an impregnable fort
i ress of privilege. It has its weak
| spots. In fact, there are many pa
I triotic congressmen and senators
I who will fight for a fair revenue
j bill, if the public will back them up.
Some of them have already done so,
but they need the public support.
If every man and woman who
reads this would write to Washing
ton to his congressman and senator
(and get his friends to do likewise)
demanding a pledge that they will
openly fight for income and excess
profits tax that will go at least as
far as the English ones, it would
j give our legislators something to
! think about, and get them into a
| more healthy frame of mind.
Just at present, there should be
j more fearl ss thought and action by
all Americans. They should remem
ber that this is a democracy and
that they are citizens and not sub
jects. They are officeholders, from
pound-master to President, are their
servants—their hired men, selected
and paid by them to protect the ma
jority’s interests. If you, the peo
ple of America, would demand from
your governmental employes half the
obedience that your capitalistic em
ployers demand of you, there would
be no trouble in making the rich
pay their fair share for this war.
FEDERATED U\!OX CHURCH
Rev. Olios. Howard f'ank, Minister
Residence: Pilgrim Parsonage.
SUIYDAY SERVICES.
11 A. M. Bible School arm
children's service. R. B. Julian,
superintendent.
SERMON TOPIC
The Coming Kingdom, as Influ
v enced by the World War.
Excellent music by Chorus Choir,
’this chufch extent’s a cordial in
vitation and a large welcome to all,
. to these services, rich and poor alike
, regardless of cre.d or nationality.
Olil lumber at Crooks' for $35.00
per thousand.
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LOCAL NOTES
The Kobuk river lias swamped
its banks wl*>- a record flood, ac
cording to word by wireless from
Noorvik. Natives from Sliungnak
or LangbeacL as it is otherwise
called, s:.y that tliG water is higher
than they ever remember. Tile
flood evan entered the school house
which is about twenty five feet
above the normal level of the river,
the water climbing to the top
of the school teacher’s desk.
Most of the village of S'uungnak
wias also flooded out and the gar
dening has been ruined or delayed
This is a serious handicap to the
people, for under the direction of
their teacher Fred Sickler they have
been producing each year a Winter’s
supply of vegetables in the alluvial
gardens there.
Just what effect the flood will have
on Kobuk prospecting is not known.
Mining in the Kobuk region is
limited to small outfits.
We've been informed that prep
arations are being made for the
installation of the city ferry across
Snake River.
Balzar and Hendricks have dis
mantled the machinery, and they
are successfully removing the hull
in sections from their barge which
recently sank near the entrance of
Snake river.
The Divisional Exemption Board
No 2 of the army Draft met at 11.30
a. m. today and passed upon the
appeals of Alvin C Dilg and August
C Wheeler, each of whom had taken
an appeal to the District Boa^d
fromthe action of Local Exemption
Board No 9 in classifying them in
class 1. A. and refusing to allow
them time to secure and file neces
sary affidavits in support of their
claims for deferred classification.
Each registrant claims deferred class
ification upon the ground of having
| a mother dependent upon him for
j s upport.
| The District Board in each case
| ordered the record returned to the
I Local Board No 9 with instructions
i to such Local Board to receive the
j affidavits of the mothers of such
! registrants, one of which was shown
j to be in the mail on one of the
I boats now past due. The Local
I Board w:vt further directed to rc
i turn such records together with
! such affidavits to the District Board
| after the arrival of the boats and
within ten days. After the return
| of such records the. District Board
will classify such registrants.
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