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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1919.
CHARLES A. SULZER
The death ot Charles A. Sulzer
comes as a personal sorrow to every
resident ot Alaska. Even his political
enemies are moved to expressions of
grief and of sympathy with his sor
rowing family. A man in the prime
of life, he had 'shown himself to be a
true Alaskan, meeting every emer
gency with the spirit of the true pio
neer.
Called from the prosecution of his
personal business affairs to enter the
territorial legislature, he had shown
such marked ability and enthusiasm
in the work of' shaping the destinies
of the infant territory that he became
the certain choice of his party for the
nomination for delegate to represent
Alaska at the national capital. With
no particular training or aptitude for
the game of politics, he made such a
splendid impression that in his first
campaign he almost overthrew his
veteran opponent, in spite of his years
of intrenchment in the position, and
compelled that experienced politician
to extend his activities in the second
campaign, with the result that the
bd red returns, received on the day
of is death, showed that he had been
si ssful.
re has been a disposition evident
tc. .npare the work in congress of
Mi Sulzer with his predecessor, to
the disparagement of the former. An
unprejudiced view, however, will re
veal that Sulzer’s work in behalf of
the territory during the year and a
half that he served in the house of
representatives was of the utmost im
portance, and brought out qualities of
diligence, far-sightedness and grasp of
public affairs which were in the nature
of a surprise even to his friends. He
was a hard worker, and there is little
doubt, that the fatigue and worry con
nected with the work of looking after
the interests of his constituents, taken
in conjunction with the immense labor
involved in fighting the contested elec
tion case, greatly weakened his al
ready enfeebled constiution and hast
ened the end.
And in that contest case, brought
face to face with as arrant a lot of
Ipmcombe and insincerity as ever was
laid before congress, Delegate Sulzer
made an enviable reputation.* His
straightforward, manly address to the
house in refutation of the absurd
claims of his opponent at once
stamped him as a man of marked abil
ity and a conscientious public servant.
The territory of Alaska can ill af
ford to lose such men as Charles A.
Sulzer.
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THE FIRING SQUADS AT SUNRISE
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, on his
way home from the Paris conference
which has been drafting “Magna
Carta of international labor,” assures
us that the workers of the United
States are building a dam between
the civilized world and Bolshevism.
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labor, he tells us, which “fits It to
play this all important part in this
supreme crisis in the history of the
world."
These words are of salient signi
ficance. If we can trust his sound
nes of judgment we shall have reason
for hope that anarchy will not sub
merge civilization.
Most of our hundred million people
have been resting quietly and pleas
antly on the sunny slopes of the Bol
shevist volcano. So different are con
ditions in America from conditions in
darkest Russia or ruined Mlttel
Europa that there has been little fear
of a Bolshevist revolution. The affair
in Seattle which brought defeat to
the foreigners who were trying to run
American labor is taken as an
example of the triumph of American
intelligence over imported ignorance
and anarchy. But was it?
It is true that at Seattle the Ameri
can workmen quickly wearied of the
“dictatorship of the proletariat" and
s.ought an adjustment when they dis
covered how little public opinion
sympathized with the strike. But the
amazing thing is that, being intelli
gent, they ever should have been
misled. The foreign agitators were
basing their appeals on conditions
which did not exist. They were spout-J
ing and haranguing about economic,
conditions and class hostilities which
they had remembered from their
European days.
Jhe chief complaint of labor in this
country has been that the rise in
wages has not kept pace with the
increase in living costs. The foreign
agitators employed that hardship to
talk socialism and communism and
harp on the undying conflict between
capital and labor. There is no such
conflict in this country. There are
points of difference—big ones, in fact
—but the revolutionary conflict to
which the foreign firebrands alluded,
the conflict which strives for the
complete destruction of an old
system, was practically non-existant.
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tionary spirit will spread unless tho
intelligence of American labor is as
high as it is rated by Samuel Gomp
ers. Tf ignortant, low browed savages
from the slums of Europe can take
our intelligent laboring men by the
noses and lead them at will into
Bolshevist follies then there is danger
of class conflicts which cannot be
suppressed without violent revolution.
There is something ferociously,
fantastically laughable about the
propaganda of these foreign agitators
who come here to urge Bolshevism,
“the dictatorship of the proletariat”
on American labor. It is almost as if
they were trying to persuade Ameri
can labor to adopt “free love, dirt and
cooties” as a battle cry.
The spouters who talk about apply
ing Russian communism to America
forget to say that communism was
prevalent in Russia even under the
czar. Even before the revolution the
peasants had a form of communistic
government. It was a form adapted to
conditions of life wholly unfamiliar to
us in this country.
Our industrial developnfent, com
pared with which Russian develop
ment is as a pigmy to a giant despite
the fact that Russia’s population is
twice our own, was the result of
co-operation between intelligent labor,
and intelligent capital. If we should
pull down that structure about our
ears we would^ produce a chaos com
pared with which the Russian chaos
would be as Russia is to hell.
Bolshevism has made even the in
sufferable conditions of Russia more
intolerable. Think what it would do
were it able to hurl to the earth the
American indutrial structure which,
for magnitude and efficiency—as the
war has proved—has no equal.
We are prompted to make this com
parison because, in our larger cities
and in great industrial centers, bar
barians from Europe, who were
reared amid conditions of which we
had small knowledge until they
brought them into our midst and who
imbibed the poisons of class hatred
amid degradations unimaginable to
Americans who had passed their lives
in God’s open spaces, are agitating for
revolution, crying “down with the
American government,” and escaping
punishment. How long can that go on
without disaster?
But we cherish the hope that Mr.
Gompers is right—that * American
labor and the American people gen
erally are too intelligent to trade their
democracy and th^ titanic machinery
of production which democracy has
produced for communism and the
ramshackle industrial system of
Russia.
We think we have made it clear in
our criticism of North Dakota solons
that we do not think much of their
venture into socialism, of their laws
which tend to cripple private busi
ness, but we desire to point to one
elemnt of hope In the North Dakota
experiment. It was a bloodless revo
lution. It was achieved by the ballot,
in an orderly fashion. The American
political system operated smoothly
and effectually to accomplish the ends
sought by the voters. In that sense it
was a triumph for our representative
form of government. And when the
fitful fever is over the people of that
state can retrace their steps In the
same peaceful, orderely fashion. Their
experiment will be a lesson to other
states which have been allured by the
glib promises of feather-brained re
formers.
If we must have revolutions in this
country let them be by the ballot and
not by the bullet and bomb. We shall
find voting pleasanter than the firing
squad at sunrise.
But for those who would overturn
our government by violence the bomb
and bullet and the firing squad may
be necessary.
In conclusion we take occasion to
quote a striking piece of advice, to
British labor In a dispatch sent by
r. ■■ —
John Ward, a labor member of parlia
ment, who is serving with is regiment
in Siberia: v
“For the love of Allah, never more
talk of the glories of revolution—I
am in it here. Friend strikes down
him he thinks his foe and finds the
dead man his brother. Princes, peas
ants, plutocrats, workmen, rich and
poor, go down together in one welter
of blood and dirt.
“The Bolshevik thinks nothing oi
standing five hundred social revolu
tionists against the wall and shooting
them down before breakfast because
of some small, petty difference oi
opinion as to whether the railways
should be national or comunal. How
the gods must'cry with rage that men
can bo so mad. How any of our
leaders failed to grasp the Bolshevik
creed of blood and presumed to con
done the horrors committed by this
mob of fanatical maniacB I cannot
imagine. Rather pray Heavenjdefend
our old country from such a
calamity.”
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS.
Well, who’s going to “blow up”
next and attack our railroad project!
—Anchorage Times.
The abolition of the Alaskan Pub
licity bureau is a source of surprise
to those who have the best interests
of the territory at heart. The bureau
was well organized, and doing much
good for the territory. To secure
settlers we must advertise; and the
advertising done by the bureau was
bringing good results.—Valdez Miner.
It Is getting the time of year for
the sporting magazines outside to
waste columns of space telling
Alaskans why the big brown bear
should be protected; and how it is
cheaper to eat truffles and chop suey
than to kill caribou for a meat supply.
One of the kid gloves sportsmen will
waste more game in one trip to
Alaska than a resident would in a life
time, but his first; act on getting home
is to write to some magazine telling
of the “waste of game in Alaska.”—
Valdez Miner.
We really believed that Mr. Wick
ersham on his recent visit to the ter
ritory would continue his trip on to
the westward to receive the plaudits
of his many faithful constituents
there and their congratulations for
his stewardship of their interests.
They would have welcomed him with
fopen arms, we are sure, hut* the hug
that those arms would give might
crack a few ribs.—Douglas News.
Colonel Edgerton, formerly of the
Alaska Road commission, is now as
signed to the river and harbor district
of Fldrida, which embraces the coast
line from the mouth of the St. Johns
river to Pensacola and all the inland
Waterways except those west of Pen
sacola. The colonel wishes to be re
membered to his Alaskan friends, of
whom he has many, for he was a
popular officer and citizen.—Seward
Gateway.
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