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NOME. ALASKA, SEPT 5, 1916.
Although tin lUiuocrutic party hits
I h i n vomyiundably prolific of legisla
tion beneficial to the working classes
it might well go a step farther before
laying aside its arduous toils by adopt
ing the minimum wage bill for gov
eii inent employes which provides for
0 minimum wage of three dollars per
days for . 11 employes of the federal
Itoi. l ament.
Although this measure was intro
duced in the house of representatives
by Congressman Nolan, of California,
something over five months ago, con
gress has apparently been too intent
on preparedness and pork slicing to
devote its attention to legislation of
this character.
Public sentiment is undoubtedly in
favor of the government paying do
vent wages to all of its employes but
knowledge mat, while paying princely
salaries in some departments, the gov
ernment is inclined to shave and pure
in others to the degree that hundreds
of workers in its employ receive a
wage that scarcely suttices for the
support of themselves and families,
.According to Congressman Nolan,
1 In- government pays, in some branches
of its service, the smallest wages paid
m the I oiled States. Congress nat
urally does not pay much attention to
this laid, nor has the bill introduced
by the California representative made
much of an appeal. Most of the toil
ers who draw the pitiful pittance are
persons of no influence and there are
doubtless few, aside from Mr. Nolan, 1
wlio really know their situation. In
addition, I hey represent only a small
Part of the four hundred thousand
employes of the government, so leg
islation in their behalf is hardly prof
itable as far as si curing votes is con
cerned, If it was, one may be sure
tlial their needs would have been at
tended to long ago. The best eon
gu ss ha- been able to do for the No
lan loll so mr was to grant a few
eoinmittn hearings which disclosed
•hat there was more than a little
truth in the contention of the Californ
ia statesman that while Pncle Sain
w-8 frittering away millions on useless
public buildings and equally useless
water ways he is keeping many of his
servants on the ragged edge of starva
tion through pay ing them a wage that
• met la- designated as disgracefully in
adequate.
Some of the stories tohl by wit
nesses called to testify at the commit
tee hearings held last May would
aioust the pity of a savage by their
pathos. Tales of hardship and priva
tion suffered by some of those whose
names adorn the government payroll
were so often reiterated at the hear
ings that some of the lofty minded
legislators doubtless became quite
iiied of listening to them. Some of
these pathetic tales have been col
lected by Mr. Nolan into a small vol
ume which hi Inis significantly titled
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a "book of heart throbs" and has se
cured permission to have it printed at
the government printing office as a
means of enlightening Ihe public con
cerning the wage conditions obtaining
under the groat government which
claims humanity and the protection of
human rights as the* cardinal princi
ples of administration. Extracts from
this little book have been printed in
the public journals and their perusal
cannot but arouse a sense of shame In
even the most callous citizen that the
greatest and richest nation under the
sun allows some of Us employes a
wage that scarcely suffices to keep
body and soul together, especially in
these days of highly Inflated values.
Most of the employes of the govern
ment are fairly well paid but hun
dreds on hundreds are compelled to
exist on a wage that can be compared
only to those paid the unfortunate for
eign born wage slaves who were not
so long ago shot down by dozens at
Youngstown and Pittsburg because
they could not endure their suffering
and privation longer.
Only a few years ago our high mind
ed legislators raised their own wages
from five thousand to seven thousand
five hundred dollars per year because
lliey found it difficult to make ends
meet so it is hardly conceivable that
they can refuse to grant a living wage
to the uninfluential and neglected toil
ers who labor in obscurity at the gov
ernment wheel. If the true facts were
known we believe that public senti
ment would demand that as long as
the government can stand eighteen
million dollar battleships and pork ap
propriations approximating hundreds
of millions, it can pay all of its em
ployes a decent wage. Every citizen
should write to Mr. Nolan for a copy
of his little book and, after reading
the pitiful tale of human privation and
misery contained within its pages, lend
their assistance to its compiler by in
sisting on the passage of his minimum
wage bill.
DESPONDENCY.
I sometimes think when I am tired
of writing dippy verse that naught to j
which I have aspired is worth a tink
er's curse. 1 look around with gloomy
eyes, in these, my woeful moods, and
everything beneath the skies seems
bargain-counter goods. “All men are
false, all women fierce,” 1 cry, with
scornful jeers, and then proceed to
shod a tierce of effervescent tears.
"There’s nothing permanent hut woe, ;
nnd that’s a cinch,' says I; "there is I
no virtue here below .and truth itselfs !
a lie.” Rut when I stop to think a 1
while, this fact comes home to me; :
m.v system is too full of bile—I need !
-.. Mviiesci tea. And when I drink ■
about six i|uarts, this life seems a
delight; my liver actively cavorts, my
stomach's working right. And then
all men. and women too, seem lovely |
and serene and thus, per chance, it is |
with you, <> specialists in spleen' You
roast this good old merry globe, and ^
make the swear words buzz, and thing
you're harder up than Job, the gentle- j
man of I s; you cry nlaekaday! alas! j
and rend your tear-wet garb, when all
you need is sassafras or t’other useful j
yarb!—Walt Mason.
HUGHES RAISED WHISKERS
TO ESCAPE SCHOOL RIDICULE
Charles Kvans Hughes, the republi
can presidential nominee, was born in
Glens Falls, N. V., April 11, 1882, and
is thus four years younger than former |
President Roosevelt and six years j
younger than President Wilson, says ,
a recent Washington dispatch. His I
father was a Raptist preacher and his !
mother was a devout woman who I
shaped his early education with the!
idea of preparing him for the minis
try. The family moved to Newark, N.
.1., when he was a hoy, nnd during ;
his young manhood settled in New
York city.
Brilliant always as a student, young j
Hughes was graduated from a New i
York high school at the head of his j
class at the age of 15—so young that i
his father would not permit him to
enter college for a year. He was
graduated from Brown university in
1881, one of the five Phi Beta Kappa
honor men of his year. Finally he at
tended Columbia university law school
holding the prize fellowship from 1884
to 1887.
At the beginning of his career
Hughes’ was an instructor in Greek
mathematics tit an academy in Delhi,
N. Y. A chiding remark from the
principal of that academy to the effect
that young Hughes would have trou
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hie e. I .rolling the discipline of his
claeues because he had no more
beard than an egg" is cited in innum
erable biographical records of Hughes
ns having been responsible for the
Hughes beard, which since has figured
so largely in political caricatures.
MORGAN A MINING INVESTOR.
While not generally regarded as in
terested in mining the appraisement of
... estate of tile late J. 1'. Morgan,
recently published, disclosed the fact
ihat tie held at the time of Ids death
nulling securities valued at more than
* 1,000,000. These included $268,000 of
Cerro de l’asco Mining Co., 6 per cent,
debentures, valued -at $102,960; 5,5o0
shares, Cerro de l’asco Investment
Co., $550,000; 27,784 shares, Champion
. Cold Mining Co., of India, $69,
'64; 4,730 shales, Mysore Gold Mining
Co., $121,716; 12,000 shares, North Star
Mines Co., $132,000; 20,000 shares
Stratton’s Independence, Ltd., $9,715;
1,125 shares, Transvaal Gold Mining
estates, Ltd., $15,759; Mr. Morgan
owned worthless stocks of a par value
of more than $7,000,000; among these
were shares in three mining compan
ies, probably acquired through trade
as most or them were not of a type
ihat would have appealed to him for
investment, they included 4,000 shares
of ordinary and 2,857 of pref. rred
shares of the Nine Keefs Gold Alin
ing Co., 30,000 shares of Cadelaria Alin
ing Co. and 100, ooo shares of the 1 las -
sick Gold Mining Co. The total esi.it.
was appraised at $7', 149,024 of which
$18,933,951 was in stocks and bonds, a
nearly equal amount in art collections
in the Metropolitan Aluseutn of Art
and about $5,000,000 was represented
in his library which was his crown
ing achievement as a collector. It is :
interesting to note that his mining
securities represented about 5.75 per
eent of his slock-and-bond invest- |
nients, an amount much larger than
would have boon generally supposed.
Snake river harbor improvement and
the necessity for same—pictures show- !
ing wrecks of schooners and barg. s at
mouth of river Pictorial edition of
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