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NOME, ALASKA SATUIIDAV, JULY 20, 1918.
THE KAISER’S ETHICS
The German emperor feels the
urgent need of his people being fed
upon a little idealism lost they be
come at last imbued with the notion
that after all their country has
naught but imperialistic designs and
the sordid motives of conquest with
which they are charged by their
enemies as their sole war aims.
So when at his Main Headquart
ers last month the anniversary of
his accession was cel bra tod he laid
down that two world views wore
locked in a deadly struggle “either
German principles cf right, freedom,
honor and morality must be upheld
or Anglo-Saxon principles with their
wolatry of mammon must be vic
torious.
It is late in the day that the
Kaiser realizes that which the whole
system of Germanic propaganda has
long preceived with an acuteness
may have b en half instinctive, that
back of the Might which is to make
Right, there must be the acquie
scence of the social Mind.
The sword is powerful, but it
gi ts its power only when the Mind
of the public assents thereto, and
it has been the tremendous work
cf German militarism to educate
the public mind to such a degree
that it would not only accept the
tyranny of militarism, hut would
lend, it the strength which would
operate, and enable the otherwise
inanimate objects such as machine
guns and cannons and sword' to
exert the power that the few who
controlled that Might longed to
exert.
It’s rather a compliment to the
success of the Wilson declarations
that this is a war for democracy,
that the Kaiser should have sub
mitted his anti-thesis that it is a
war cf freedom, morality and so
forth against Mammcn worship.
It’s the socialist who knows that
the Anglo-Saxon has no particular
monopoly on Mammon Wor hip. It
is true America and England may
providq striking exabples of such
in times of peace and examples of
profiteering in times of war. But
where such firms as the Krupps
and the Imp rial Gorman Bank and
the Hamburg American line and the
Dye masters on the Agrarian mo
nopolists exist in any nation one
may w ll question any slurring of
' the other fellow.
Fnquestiorably the great anxiety
for a place in the sun, including in
jts elaborate program, the displace
ment of the other follow from his
sunny corner, be he great or small,
had with it the germs of such col
lqsal Mammon Worship as the world
had never seen. Nor are such facts
as come out of Germany likely to
outsiders any confidor.ee in
sincerity of the Raise” when we
know the rich have all men want
and aro still wanting more, while
the poor aro suffering most In
tensely.
Yet it is well that this criticism
of the so-called Anglo-Saxon prin
ciples including intensive mammon
worship should be taken to heart
by the Allied nations. For those
who are now profiteering and in
the national necessity taking ad
vantage of conditions -.o enrich
themselves at the expense of the
people are literally playing the Kai
ser’3 game and propagandists ol
the Kaiser. They are making it
possible for the Kaiser to bolster
up his otherwise quite obvious fal
lacies by their example and enabling
him. to make out a case for his
crude and somewhat belated, ideal
, ism to prevent the people realizing
the ruthleesnif-ss of German im
perialism.
This evident fact has of course
been already observed and dwell
i upon in official circles. Hut it can
never be dwelt upon too often and
too emphatically. The need of the
■hour is the obliteration of the profi
teer from the scheme of things and
the demonstration by the nation that
as its p ople are making the ulti
mate and the most complete sacrifice
that the people can make, so for
the ideals for which the sacrifices
are made, the nation must purge it
self of every semblance of impurity
that might befoul those ideals and)
give basis to tile eager arguments of
a desperate enemy. In its purposes
in this war not only must the nation
be above suspicion but those who
in any way are connected with the
war industries and war activities
must be as Caesar's wife as well.
THU MOW YORK CONVKNTION
Yes, indeed, lit was last year that
the republicans said very cheerfully
that ther' could be no party politics
in the war and even as late as last
winter they' begg.-d the radicals to
kf? p quiet and let everything work
along smoothly, so that the nation
might present a nice united front
politically as well as otherwise of
the enemy.
So, so, but that’s a very long
time ago. It is so long that they
have now forgotten all about it;
and the republicans with that long
ing for power that has bo n denied
them now for some time .have i
thrown over board such a silly and
dangerous and entirely objectionable
shibboleth r.s no party politics dur
ing (ho war, so that now they
want it entirely manifest that their
hats ar- in the ring.
Great sympathy is felt for Colonel!
Roosevelt in the loss of his son, but]
he himself attaches such vital im
portance to the political question
itliat he attends the Saratoga con
vention for the State of New York
republicans to denounce the admin
istration, to attack its manner of
carrying on the war and to demand
that tho republicans everywhere
oust the present administration party
from power.
Hore’s an astonishing condition
and so sordid that one reads of
these bickerings of the capitalist
parties with not a little wonder. No
matter what criticism may be made,
there is hardly any doubt that
Secretary Baker and the War De
partment has accomplished wonders.
It has appeared, wonderful to both
British and French and Italian ex
perts -in military organization and
adjustments to emergency needs,
so that those men who know are
lost in admiration. Ytft here ts
Roosevelt has bo n from the very
start, grinding out his dust for the
eyes of tho public to make them
believe that the war has been hope
lessly bungled by Baker and the
President from the very beginning.
It’s almost amusing to hear the
poor common stiff regarded as bring
ing aid and comfort to the enemy
when he makes a casual remark on
the street corner about the accomo
dations in a cantonment of the im
propriety of the caste system and
social discipline in the army. Judges
and courts waste th?iir eloquence in
denouncing them. But hero is a
man like Roosevelt whose every
utterance because of the imaginary
power is in other nations attributed
to him, providing matejial for the
enemy nations which must of neces
sity give them comfort.
If to pretend that the war has
Jieon hopelessly bungled., that as
long as the present government con
tinues it will be bungled, If to at
tempt to show that oquipment, man
agement, organization is lacking and
to have these assertions distributed
thru the four quarters of the globe
a scomplete and carefully collected
facts is not bringing aid .and com
fort to the enemy what in the
name of common sense is it.
The man who has some pacificist
ideals, even tho a nonentity that is
never heard of outside his little vil
lage, gets it in the neck when he
makes his break about the war
management. The socialist who is
an enthusiastic supporter of the
extension of democracy even tho
lit has to be accomplished by the
overthrow of autocracy on the bat
tlefield is watched and warded, but
Roosevelt carries on his systematic
obstructionist propaganda ‘^f criti
cism and his remarks are justifiable.
! It’s hard for the man in the
street to got the hang of this thing
but it would be interesting to know
what would happen were Teddy in
the White House if some man stood
at the street corner and delivered
himself of the same criticisms of
\the war work as Roosevelt feels call
ed upon to utter.
Roosevelt is a man who would
not spurn tho name of militarist.
He boasts of his red-blooded love of j
fighting. But that the dyed in the
wool copperhead has anything „ on
the Colonel when It comes to jam
ming the works, is not a self evident
fact.
THU EIGHT HOIK DAY
Tho determination of the miners
in this section to insist upon the
eight hour dax, is in line with the
progressive tendencies of labor
everywhere.
In but few remaining sections is
a longer day customary and even in '
industries where it was contended
that such a reform was impossible
it is found that the eight hour day
is not only possible but is meeting
the requirements of every industrial
emergency.
The d cia-ation that the eight
hour day in Alaska is r.ot feasible
because of the short season is su
premely ridiculous. If three eight
hour shifts cannot as well be work
ed in 24 hours as two of twelve
it is not explainable why they can
not. The short season has not got
a thing to da with it. But tho
operators who fight figure that it
mav cost more to have three than
two shifts in 2 4 and hence their
NEWS NOTES
TWO BUSINESS BEALS
Ref tv nee is made elsewhere to
important business deals that were
reported pending. It is now under
stood that both of these have been
completed' and that Lomen Brothers
have bought out the Hill’s Parmacy
incuding stock ote. and Webb has
acquired the meat business of
Woechter Brothers, lately owned by
the Pacific Cold storage Co.
The Republicans at a largo at
tend d meeting in Burgh Hall last
evening after oiling up their ma
chinery started their campaign by
naming the following committees.
Finance Committee. J J Cole,
Chairman, Ira D Orton and Will
iam A Gilmore.
Campaign and. Publicity Commit
tee. J V Sheldon Chairman. Andy
Anderson, Joe Hendricks, Charles
Letcher, Carl M.riam, Ira 1) Oiton
and C W Thornton.
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opposition.
Thcro is hoard also the cry that
tho ground is too poor.
There is ground in Alaska, that
will not be worked at a profit even
if men worked 24 hours a day and
were paid a dollar a. day. If
'rev.: c! urder such day's length
of work and such a wage could
bring the owner a profit from the
labor employed, is that any reason
why it should, be worked.
The ground, that will, not pay the
wages which are sought r.rd the
eight hour day ought to lie idle
for 365 days in tho year and the
owners betake themselves sine die
from the country. They are no
good to it, to thoxhselvos or to any
body else and when the argument
is put up that the ground is too
poor to pay wages, the suggestion
s that it be token from the hide
of the workers.
The idea of keeping men in here
to spend, ten dollars worth of labor
in taking out nine dollars and one
cent worth of gold is too prepos
t rous for anything, and especially
when that labor can bo put to
the work of building ships, produc
ing food and supplies for the na
:on when the nation needs it. The
idea of wasting this labor power so
that some ch ap skate of an opera
tor can pose for Ins picture in a
millionaires club would be ridiculous
if it was not so serious for the ter
ritory.
The idea of wasting labor—of
throwing good labor power and its
equivalent in the medium of ex
change in larger quantities after
a lesser quantity of gold is a vic
ious one. It is not producting, it
is wasting the national wealth, and
wasting it when the nation wants
to husband its resources and make
every ounce of labor power pro
ductive for the nation’s gotwl.
The eight hour day cause is a
justifiable cause, a progressive cause
and it is a cause that in itself is
but the stepping stone to an im
proved. condition of labor and a
higher standard of living consonant
with the spirit of the times and the
ideals of a nation embarked upon a
fight to spread the light of democ
racy all over tho world.
MEETS HIS EM)
PARIS—On Thursday M. Duval,
the manager of the Bonnet Rouge
had. the sentence of death executed
upon his person as sentenced to
die by the Court Martial nhich
tried him for treason.
Duval was arrested crossing from
Switzerland with five hundred thous
and francs paid to him by a banlcer
from Mannheim nam d Marx.
His. efforts to explain the pos
session of this money not being
satisfactory further investigations
were mad- involving him, M .Malvy
md M. Caillaux in difficulties. His
?ditor stayed in Switzerland. He
was sentenced fco death. The Bon
net Rouge was an intellectual paper,
Duval claimed, not meant for the
jommon people.
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