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NOME, ALASKA, DEC. 4, 1915.
'1 here is always something to worrj
iu ou: — a condition perhaps designed
lor some benelicient purpose, as Father
Giegun once hinted in the words:
Ferudvanture this world is made
troublesome unto us lest we be de
lighteu by tlie way of it and forget 1
whither we ate going." Anyway, we
oust always be fretting about some- j
.nipg. Awhile ago it was the interna- I
no:ial situation, then national defense
and now it is the problem of indus
.nal preparedness that is agitating the j
public mind and worry—our financial |
oigb priests and prophets.
U'e have been relieved of the dread- )
:ul prospect of conflict with Germany ;
j.er tne submarine question; the na- j
tional alarm expressed in the defense
agnation lias been allayed by the de
cision of the administration to provide
a powerful armament and everything
seemed to have settled down to a point
where we could peacefully pursue our
genial task of dollar chasing—when
along comes this Industrial prepared
ness business and sets us by the ears;
conjuring up visions of dreadful dis
aster and tilling us with a nameless
forboulng of coming trouble. All of
wnich is decidedly exasperating.
Industrial preparedness, is, as George
W. Fetktns put it, "preparedness for
war.” is preparedness against a ruin
ous traue competition which will be
larust upon the United States by the
European countries at the conclusion
of the great war.
It is pointed out by the long range
prophets with impressive solemnity
that, at the conclusion of the struggle,
the European nations will turn at once
to the ways of peace and to the up
building of the ruined trade relations
writh the world. Commerce and manu
facture will start again with renewed
energy, backed by the overwhelming
necessity for rehabilitating wasted
fortunes; an era of great industrial
activity will commence and the war
impoverished nations will start a tre
mendous competitive race for markets
for their wares.
What more natural then than that
they should turn to the United States,
the richest and greatest market In the
world today, to dispose of their goods?
America, with its one hundred million
people, repiesents a purchasing power
greater than any two other nations
in the wot Id combined. Further, the
people of the United States have
grown accustomed to a high standard of
living and will purchase relatively more
commodities than any three other na
tions. Surely, say the prophets, such
a vast and wealthy market will be
well worth striving for. And, this is
just what our foreign competitors will
undertake to do; to compete with us
in our own markets and try to under
bid us in everything. This doesn’t seem
like such a bad proposition to the
laymen who figures that competition
is the life of trade and is therefore a
good thing. However, the competition
of commerce hungry Europe will, wo
are assured, be something far different
from the ordinary brand of competition
for the reason that Europe will be in
a position to produce far more cheaply
than we can ever hope to. At the
conclusion of the war she will have on
hpr hands millions of men, and also
women, who will be forced onto the
..nor market and who will be driven
.o accept any remuneration utleieu tor
..nr lauors. Wages wiu uiup tar be
low tlie normal wuu a consequent de- {
..case in tne productive costs of every ;
manufactured commodity. Europe
will not only be ab.e to undersell us
.11 our own markets but also in such
oieigu markets as we control. There
fore it seems certain that we are very
.lkely to lose those markets.
Of course w# will retain u certain
portion of the trade because of con
trolling the raw material supply In
ertaln lines, but the rest of the trade
we will probably lose. But, worst of
,11, the European manufacturers will
ntempt to undersell us in the United
j tates, we ure told. They will Invade
ie country with torrents of manu
factured articles produced at prices
. aat we cannot touch. They will at •
mpt to literally swamp us with every -
i .titig from textiles to china at prices
.at will be impossible to meet. In
oed, the necessity of paying the im
mense obligations owed to us for war
munitions and other material will corn
'll them to this course in addition to
. .ie vital fact that the purchasing pow
*■ of Europe will be greutly curtailed,
•pecially in the matter of luxuries.
Everything aside from the bare neces
—ties of life will find little market in
urope as the major portion of the
people will be driven to the strictest
measures of economy. Thus America
■•’ill be practically the only great cash
market in which the products of Eu
opean mills and factories can be sold
nd theie will be one tremendous
crumble to see who can get there
rst. This great competitive race will
me, according to the wise ones, no
ther effect than to cause America to
ecome the battle ground of the greai
st industrial war that the world hus
v er known. Hoods of every character
! ill be bumped upon our markets at
rices far below the cost of local pro
motion; our manufacturers will be
reed out of business by ruinous com
titlon; our commerce will fall away
0 the bare distribution of raw ma
nia! anu hundreds of thousands oi
eopie will be thrown out of work, in
,ct industrial and commercial disastei
ill follow unless adequate measures
ie taken to guard against tnese woe
.1 possibilities. Hence the rise of this
ew cause of alarm; this dreadful bus -
-boo which comes like iianquo s ghost
j disturb our dreams just when we
•are settled down enjoy our new tounu
rosperity begotten of blood and
.ouuus and death, its an interns.
..ante, isn't it?
High tariff, you say? Yes, true, we
.n put up a high tariff fence and so
..rotect our home market, liut that
von’t save our South American trade
.• any other outside of our own boun
daries and in uddltion it is, according
.o tne financial nigh priests, almost
are to cause us a lot of trouble with
,ie nations who owe us millions on
millions of dollars in debts for which
,e have no other security but their
..otes—which can be easily repudiated
.id, then cannot bo collected save at a
-St in blood and treasure far greater
.ian the debt itself. Truly, if the
rophets are to be believed, we have
nwittingly got ourselves into a dickens
1 a mess with our greedy trafficking.
However, it is pointed out that We
an escape a part of this disastrous
robabillty by the simplo process of
xiycotting foreign made goods. Not,
f course, a national boycott, insti
uted and recognized by the govern
.ient but one undertaken and carried
ut by the people themselves—by the
.mple process of refusing individually
j purchase foreign made goods when
like commodity of domestic manu
acture is to be had. We are almost
ure to lose our outside markets for
manufacture. That cannot be helped,
ut, we can save our home market by
| illowlng this course. In addition we
an give a greater economic strength
> the nation than it has ever pos
essed before by spending our money
t home for home products and manu
actures. In some quarters it is held
hat this will probably compensate us
or all monetary loss incurred by the
Tabbing of our foreign markets by
European competitors.
As remarked before, there is always
omethtng to worry about, but we can
void a whole lot of worry by adopting
he policy of spending our money
There it belongs—at home. "Amer
ican goods for American people,” and
Patronize home industry” should be
come the motto of the nation in such
■ n emergency.
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The actual amount of road built this
year by the Aluskan Engineering com- ^
mission was 23 ^iles, leading out of
Anchorage
Owing to the absence of an electric
light plant at the new town of Anchor
age, a number of business houses have
installed acetylene plants.
Four prisoners were sent to the pen
i.entiary from the third division during
the eurly part of last month, each one
0uing over for a term of one year.
—
A Juneau man who has kept close:
tab on the canneries of southeastern j
.Llasku, says that the salmon pack for I
tile past scasoimvill total 773,600 cans. I
The federal officials at Fort Kiscum
stopped ail proposed boxing and wrest -
i,ng bouts which were to have come
oil" at a smoker planned by the boys
at tile post.
The Ketchikan council has passed
un ordinance closing all saloons, pool
looms auu bowling alley s at midnight,
uiiu remain closed until o o'clock tue
showing morning.
Peter Jonnson, who was convicted at
\ aluez on the charge of selling liquor
to Indians, was lined »60u and given
twenty uays in wnich to raise tne
money, fie was piuceu unuer a nomiu
I ai uund for that period.
1
! Two new sidewalks, seven dogs and
one new baoy is the sum total of Val
th blessing*. Lite past week. At tne
J late the dogs are increasing over file
j .auies our population may yet prove
a howling success.—\ aloes prospector.
I
—
j Jack fvobarts, formerly of Fairbanks,
j arrived at Ancnoiage on a recent boat
with a oowlmg alley equipment and
..gluing plant sufficient to illuminate
tne builu ng. lie has a ceuLial loca
tion anti is pulung up an "amusement
milace ’ Seward i'ost.
That 1,296,000 acres, at the least, of
good agricultural land lie adjacent to
uie route uf the government's new Al
aska railway, hail of it in the imme
uiate Susitna and Matanuska valleys,
and 1,500,000 more acres to he found
between the Tanana and Yukon, in tne
region to be opened by the upper
reaches of the road, is the judgment
of the experts of the department of
agriculture.
Private parties at Seward have for
mulated a plan whereby they expect to
build what they are pleased to call a
.unatic asylum for Alaskans, and with
that er.d in view have taken the mai
ler up with the government. They
have been notified that a contract with
tne Morningside asylum, near Portland,
nas still three or four years to run, al
though the contract is of such a na
ture that it can be terminated at any
time.
The Northern Commercial Company,
| which has the contract for handling
|,he mail between Chinina and Fair
banks will try the experiment of re
placing the stages with automobiles on
ihe trail. Two Jeffrey Quad trucks
will be used. The first trip leaving
Fairbanks they run all tho way through
to Chitina. Later when the snow in
tho passes becomes deep, they will be
operated on either end of the trail,
while the stages and double-enders
pulled by horses, will handle the travel
on the central part of the trail.
Large assortment of late records re
oeived on the Victoria. Lomen Bros.
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