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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
DISENCHANTMENT.
Dr. Karl L'ebknecht is a victim of
the monstrous tyranny of Prussian
militarism. Ho was a Socialist mem
ber of the German Reichstag. He dis
believed in war, and announced it
with rising vehemence until at last
he was ordered to lace himself phy
sically at the disposal of the army.
The state is at war and the state Is
greater than /Dr. Liebknecht. The
state wants war; Dr. Liebknecht does
not. They come info conflict and one
must prevail. That is tyranny, bitter
ly denounced by all Socialists. Dr.
Liebknecht, being a Socialist, would,
if he had the power, erect a German
state that should be always for peace.
His Reichstag would be related to
peace as the existing Reichstag is re
lated to war. And then, any one who
should protest too much against the
sacrifices the state felt obliged to
make for peace, who threatened to
create a dangerous sentiment for war,
exactly as Dr. Liebknecht sought to
create a dangerous sentiment for
peace—he would be required to put
himself at the disposal of the state.
He would be deprived of his personal
liberty, as Dr. Liebknecht was, be
cause of his opinions. That would be
tyranny, too.
A large body of involuntary exper
ience with the despotic power of a
working Socialism may ultimately ap
pear to be one of the great benefits
conferred upon society by the war in
Europe. Those experiences have been
by no means one-sided. They have
contained some unexpected lessons.
They have proved that the state can
do many things well, and also that
Socialism ii. practice would put one
kind of tyranny in the place of an
other. That it was bound to be so,
many thoughtful people had already
deduced from the premises of Social
ism, but no Socialist would admit it.
the practical object of Socialism, let
us say, is to abolish private property
in the means of production—that is,
to abolish the capitalist system. For
that system it would substitute the
power and authority of the state.
Then, instead of many employers, in
a capitalistic system which does ad
mit of some competition, there would
be only one, and that one would be
the state. The ideal of state might
exclude thought of tyranny, but alas!
The business of the state would be
to get the people’s work done. Ideals
would have to wait. Existence is the
paramount thing. Efficiency may be
a tyrant.
In Great Britain the experiments
have been most interesting. Practi
cally, England has been socialized.
The government bought up all the
sugar, and Socialists said, “See how
the s*ate can do impossible things!
It can abolish speculation in com
modities!” And it was so. The sug
ar dealers were deprived of a free
dom always before enjoyed, but sugar
dealers are a very few persons. The
government fixed food prices to pre
vent extortion, and that seemed a
suitable thing to do, though it entail
ed difficulties of an almost insuper
able character and was not carried to
its logical conclusion. The govern
ment took over the railways, and that
was the biggest thing of all. At a
stroke it was as if the country 'had
gone from private to public owner
ship, and the railways went onr un
ning In an efficient manner, especial
ly efficient for military purposes.
Then it took control of the country’s
finances and kept everybody solvent
by postponing payments, and later it
laid an embargo upon the exporta
tion of capital. Foreign issues could
not be floated in the “City.” Thus,
for the government’s direct financial
aid in keeping the “City” solvent, the
individual investor sacrificed the free
dom to do as he would with his own
capital. But investors are not the
people.
These and many other steps to
ward socializing Great Britain’s
means of production, including cap
ital itself, were generally approved,
and were pointed to by many Social
ists as triumphs, until the program
suddenly reached the widest, deepest,
largest human strata—the laboring
classes. Their experience with prac
tical Socialism has been extremely
discouraging. Before the war is over
Socialism may have been able to ex
plain why it so miserably failed to
keep peace in the world, but after
that it will have to *ell the laboring
classes whether, to abolish the tyran
ny of the capitalist system and put
the Great State in its place, one mils*
sacrifice on’s right to drink what one
likes at what time one wants it, per
haps even the right to drink at all,
and the freedom to refrain from work
when one so pleases. The capitalist
system never dared to go so far as
to say that a civilized man should
work whether he wanted to or not,
or to make him sober against his
will to increase his efficiency. The
English government has gone so far
as to require dockers to work over
time, on no other ground than that
the state needs their labor. That,
under Socialism, would be reason
enough for requiring anything. None
could withhold what the state requir
ed. Would not that be tyranny?
And from it what appeal?—New York
Times.
VANCOUVER BRIDGES
ARE ON FIRE
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 4.—The
bridges of this city were set on fire
again last night, indicating cleariy
that the fires of a few days ago were
of incendiary origin. The guards on
all public buildings and bridges have
been doubled. The hunt for spies
continues and it is expected that any
one caught attempting to destroy pub
lic property will be lynched by the
mobs.
BIG GOLD BRICK
FROM IDE GRANITE
Superintendent Ray Millard Comes.
Up With $10,000—New Stamp
Mill Is Ready To Start.
Supt. Ray Millard, of the Granite
Gold Mining Company, reached Val
dez last night on the launch B. P.
M., bringing $10,100 in gold for ship
ment to Seattle. The new mill is
now in fine running condition and
the company will immediately in
crease its output.
The $10,100 was taken out in three
weeks run.
swedisTboaT
ISJORPEDOED
LONDON, May 4.—Another Swed
ish boat was torpedoed in the North
se» yesterday. The fate of the crew
is not known, blit it is understood
that a trawler rescued them.
ALAMEDA DUE
THinVENING
The steamer Alameda left Seward
at 11 o’clock last night and was ex
pected in Valdez at noon today, but
has failed to make her appearance up
to the time of going to press. The
big ship, however, should soon reach
the dock and will leave for the south
shortly after her arrival here.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Ed. Dickey is in town from out the
trail.
Mrs. N. Bouse is confined to her
bed suffering with rheumatism.
G. O. Reinke, the watchmaker and
Jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
Ml work guaranteed.
Fresh Koenigs, Augustine Kyer,
and Shull’s candies at Valdez Drug
Co. tf
pheum change tonight.
Nick Welch, the carpenter, return
ed from the Granite mine last night.
The launch B. F. M. came up from
Hobo bay last evening.
Another assortment of fine spring
coats arrived on the last boat for
Mrs. Winter. Prices reasonable. tf
Liquors At Reduced Prices.
All liquors to be sold at reduced
prices. See Mrs. W. H. Blackwell, tf
The bay is full of herring.
STILL PROBING
Industrial Relations Commission Will
Examine Number of Trust
Magnates.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The In
dustrial Relations Commission will
hold several sessions in this city and
a number of the largest corporations
in the United States will be investi
gated.
The officials of the big trusts have
been called to testify, while labor
ites are also to be examined and the
relation of the workers to the employ
ers will be taken up and examined by
the commission in order to draft leg
islation that will secure for the work
men a fairer return of the output of
their labor.
TRICK OF A HOTEL BEAT.
Plausible Scheme by Which He Swin
dled the Confiding Clerk.
A story detailing how relentlessly
the detective department of the Amer
ican Hotel Protective association trails
bad debts was told recently by a Cin
cinnati hotel man.
It appears that a man who register
ed as "John B. Smith, New York,”
failed to pay a bill of $50. As the
Smiths of New York are almost as
countless as the sands of the beach,
the finding of the particular “John B.”
wanted was looked upon as a hercu
lean task. However, the signature was
traced on paper and sent to various
cities. Finally the owner of that par
ticular signature registered at a hotel
in the north. He was promptly made
to pay the bill.
A hotel “beat” used the business let
ter scheme to swindle hotel keepers.
His trick was to open a letter in front
of the clerk, take out a check and then
allow the clerk to read the letter. The
missive, presumably from a big busi
ness house, gave the recipient a re
buke for not turning in more orders.
“Now what do you think of that?” the
swindler would say, simulating anger.
Then he would have the check cashed
without question. The manager of
the hotel, however, recalled getting a
warning about the letter swindle and
caused the arrest of the guest after
the money had been turned over to
him. It developed that the man had
forged and passed sixty-six checks
with great profit to himself. He was
convicted.—Cincinnati Tlmes-Star.
BELTED AND COATLESS.
Pen Picture of the Typical American
by an English Artist.
The Americans as a race -walk better
than the English—more freely, with a
taking swing and almost with grace.
How much of this is due to living in a
democracy and how much to wearing
no braces it is very difficult to deter
mine.
But certainly it is the land of belts
and therefore of more loosely moving
bodies.
Also Americans take their coats off,
which is sensible, and they can do it
the more beautifully because they are
belted and not braced. They take their
coats off everywhere nnd anywhere,
und somehow it strikes the visitor ns
the most symbolic thing about them.
They have not yet thought of discard
ing collars, but they are unashamedly
shirtsleeved.
Any sculptor seeking to figure this
republic in stone must carve in future
a young man, open faced, pleasant and
rather vulgar, straw hat on the back
of his head, his trousers full and slop
py. his coat over his arm. The motto
written beneath will be. of course,
■‘This is some couu|py.”
The philosophic gazer on such a mon
ument might get some way toward un
donJraiKllng the making of the Pana
ma canal, that exploit that no Euro
pean nation could have carried out.—
Westminster Gazette.
SLIGHT DAMAGE AT
LAST NIGHT’S FIRE
The fire alarm was rung last night
at 8 o’clock when fire was discover
ed in the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Tjosvlg on Nizlna avenue. The chil
dren playing with matches are sup
posed to have caused the curtains to
catch fire, but the prompt work of
Mrs. Tjosvig and her neighbors, with
the assistance of Fireman Randall
Ashby, soon placed teh fire under
control with the loss of the curtains
and the wall paper about the window
and on the ceiling. The firemen start
ed with chemicals and the hose cart
but were soon recalled. The big city
fire engine was quickly under heavy
pressure of steam, but it was not
needed.
Mike Bryan came up from the
Granite mine last evening.
15c and up for double roll of wall
paper at Emporium. tf
Many sole and cod are being caught
from the two docks by fishermen.
Rudolph’s for the best boat paint
made—canvas back. k6
STRAW HATS
FOR MEN
This beautiful warm weather will incline your
thoughts to lighter wear. You may feel that
you wish to emulate your brother in the states.
A STRAW HAT
might appeal to you even if you may not be
able to use it all summer.
In order to make it easy for you we have
CUT THE PRICE so you will be sure to get
your Money’s Worth in wear.
All Our Straw Hats Go At
*
S. BLUM & CO.
GOOD GOODS
GERMANS RENEW
WESTERN OFFENSIVE
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kaiser and Gen. von Hindenburg,
who, next to the emperor, is the most
popular man in the empire.
Petrograd Denies German Victories.
PETROGRAD, May 4.—The German
operations in the Baltic are" merely
the work of a small party of raid
ers, who will be quickly dealt with
by the troops sent to the scene.
It is pointed out by military experts
that an invasion of the Russian prov
inces in force would place the Ger
mans in a position from which they
could not extricate themselves, as
they would be attacked in front and
also in the flank because the Russian
forces in Poland have been undefeat
ed and constitute a constant menace
to any force operating north of them.
The war office insists that von Hin
denburg would never place a large
force in a position from which he
could not expect to withdraw them
if attacked. The Russian efforts are
being concentrated upon the Carpath
ian campaign, which is being push
ed as fast as possible but with a de
termination to win without the loss
of many men. as was done when the
Austrian fortress of Przemysl fell with
its store of over 1,000 cannon, many
of them of the largest type used by
the Austro-German forces.
Thaw Stops Operations.
LONDON, May 4.—The arrival of
spring has brought almost to a stand
still the battle in the Carpathians.
The Russians are still attacking in
the neighborhood of Uszok pass, the
main road through which is com
manded by the heights held by the
Germanic allies, but with the melt
ing snows, the overflowing streams
and rivers, and * the whole country
covered with deep mud, for which it
is notorious, nothing on a large scale
can be attempted.
The same conditions are interfering
with the Austro-German outflanking
movement in the direction of Spry.
Beyond the repulse of attacks the
only success achieved on either side
has been the capture by the Russians
of some heights between the villages
of Telepotch and Zuella, which lie
on the southern slopes of the Car
pathians to the southeast of Lupkow
pass. This indicates that the Rus
sians are trying to get in the rear
of the army defending Uszok pass,
which they have been unable to take
from the north.
Austria Calls More Men.
VIENNA, May 4.—The following
statement was given out by the Aus
trian war office last night: "Owing
to the possibility that the war may
last a long time, and in order to
secure the necessary reserves, the
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VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
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UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
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EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova^ Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell,
Douglas Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouohe. Explosives. S S Seward.
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F B. Tracy, Gen’IJAgt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt
untrained landsturm, men between
tne ages of 18 and BO, will hereafter
be liable for military service.”
Weather Report.
Valdez, May 3, 1915.
Barometric pressure .30,246
Temperature at 7 p. m. 37
Maximum temperature. 51
Minimum temperature . 28
Mean temperature . 39 1-2
Partly cloudy air, wind northeast 6
miles.
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senddns nBpoij pub sjiBpoii uBraisea
Boys and men’s pants, overalls and
socks at Emporium. tf
Carl Hauser arrived from his placer
property on Lowe river yesterday.
Administrator’s Notice.
In the Commissioner’s Court for Val
dez Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Liz
zie Stropp, deceased—Notice of Filing
of Final Account and of Hearing
Thereof.
Notice is hereby given that E. E.
Ritchie, administrator of the estate
of Lizzie Stropp, deceased, has filed
bis final account as such administra
tor, and asked for settlement of the ,».
same; and that Tuesday, July 6,1915.
at 10 o’clock a. m., has been set by
order of court for the settlement of
said final account and hearing objeo
tions to the same.
Dated May 4, 1915.
E. E. RITCHIE,
Administrator
First publication May 4, 1915.
Last publication May 25, 1915.