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Vol. 10 No. If)
WILSON AS AN ORATOR
Mr. Wilson is at once the foremost
statesman of the world and its greatest,
art ist, says (’ollier’s. We know of no
more, enjoyable treat than to hear him
at any time. Wot now becomes to us
at the very peak of his fame, his -kill,
his self-conlidonee. wearing, as it were,
the sheaves of victory in his button
hole.
Waving heard him more than once,
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we can assure the adoring public that,
they will not. be disappointed in his in
terpretation of one of the most stupen
dous events in history. They will hear
the* very ton notes. To say that his
power of statement is marvelous is to
give him faintest praise. In our time
no one has approached him as a plat
form speaker. He has all the arts and
graces, natural or acquired by long and
careful practice. His opponents and
rivals are badly matched against him.
Lodge is cold; Ho rah violent; Knox
talks like a lawyer pleading a case;
Hryan is a mere ballad singer. The
President beguiled the intellect and
soothes the senses of his hearers. Al
ways himself at ease, he never create-;
in his audience the disquiet mg appre
hension that he may strike a false note.
He has the *‘l)el canto.” but always in
complete cont ml. He is as certain of
his cadences as a good singer, and ap
parently indifferent to them. No mat
ter how carefully prepared his speeches
have been, they sound extemporaneous
and effortless. He exhibits none of the
ext ravagances and over-emphasis of the
'■popular orator," but speaks as if in
pleasant and familiar but earnest con
versation with his audience, whom he
wishes to convince of something which
has deeply impressed itself on his soul
Orderly, convincing, logical, blandly
humorous, he yet. continues to suggest
strong feeling managed by a stronger
mind. If you admit a single promise,
al ways carefully veiled, you are lost as
an opponent. In any case, your antag
onism, however alert when he begins
to speak, eventim11v is soothed to sleep
by the grace of his elocution and the
melody of his voice. He speeches
sound even better than they read.
THE PART OF PRODUCTION
The origin of the propaganda foi
shorter and less exacting hours I'o.
work lies in the remote past. The ad |
vocates of democracy foresaw clearly
that unless a majority of a nation could
be emancipated from body-breaking and
mind-wrecking toil, that, nation would
never bo capable of self-government.
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Organized labor was quick to appro
priate this idea and has used it with
telling effect to shorten the hours of
labor, for the avowed purpose of in
| creasing at the same time the number
of jobs.
During the long period when there
was a world surplus of goods and a world
surplus of labor this policy was not un
justifiable. But clearly what might
have been justified under such condi
tions is indefensible under the existing
ones
For labor to use its strengthened po
sition to force working hours below the
point of health requirements is merely
to promote vicious idleness, and to pro
mote such idleness at this time, when
civilization needs more of the products
of industry than ever before, is to com
mit a moral crime against civilization
and to invite economic disaster.
In their campaign for shorter work
ing hours labor unions in the past have
had the support of medical science and
the aid of all right-thinking men and
women. The reduction ot hours to a
just standard has been of immeasurable
advantage to all organized society.
But in their effort at this time to re
duce the working day beyond the
health limit fixed by experience and
medical science they are arraying labor
as a class against all other elements of
the body politic.
No one who is looking for the remedy
for the high cost of living can escape
the conclusion that many factors enter
into the problem. But no less can be
escape the obvious fact that the one
fundamental permanent factor in any
effective remedy is that of greatly in
creased production.
Decreasing production is one of the
chief causes that give to a legal dollar
only a 5:)-cent purchasing power. Scar
city of goods makes profiteers of manu
facturer*. middlemen and retailers al
most against t heir will.
Even [’resident. Wilson, whose policy
of unprepa redness and whose ill-consid
ered dealings with organized labor
created tin* vicious cycle of constantly
ascending high prices, has now come to
the couclnsion that the only permanent
sol ui inn ot the high cost, of living lies
in iuci production. -Philadelphia
North Anu'i'can.
For Dog Lovers
“Well. no-e is ;i dog story that can't
be bca.. My in-ml Suiilli had a most,
intelligent rotri.-ver. One night
Smith's ni-use oatr;lit lire. All was in
Slant e.iiiinsion. O'd Smith and wile
flew for ihe children and bundled out
with i hem in quick m-der. Alas, one
of tiiciu had linen left behind! But up
jumped the dog, rushed mlo the house,
and soon reappeared with the missing
child. Everyone was saved; hut Rover
dashed through the Humes again. What
did the dog want? No one knew
Presently the noble animal reappeared
scorched and burned, with -what do
you think?”
"Give it up," cried tlie eager listen
ers.
"With the fire-insurance policy,
wrapped in a damp towel, gentlemen.’'
—Ex. _
Dan McGinty, James Foley, Jack Mc
Donald and Chris - started from
Flat last Tuesday morning for Nixon
Fork, where they will be employed
during the winter at Aitken’s quartz
mine. _
The charge of gambling against H.
Hohbaek. of Otter creek, was dis
missed in Commissioner Moore’s court
last Monday. On Tuesday F. Deeming
and T. Corcoran, of the same place,
were each fined $100 and costs on a
similar charge.
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JACK GASLOW
FOUND GUILTY
Juneau, Sept. 24. After being out
a short time today, the jury returned a
verdict of guilty against John Gaslow
lor the murder of Myra Schmidt, here
last December. The verdict is for mur
der in the first degree hut without cap
ital punishment.
I he evidence in the case was all cir
cumstantial. Jt, was bitterly fought
from the beginning, and has attracted
wide attention all over the Territory
Onslow is an old-time Alaskan, lie
has lived in many parts of the country
including Fairbanks. Dawson and Idit
arod. He came, to .Juneau several
months before the murder and is said
to have been an intimate of the woman.
He was apprehended in Skagvvay about,
two weeks following the crime and
some of the personal property of tho
dead woman, was found on him. He
claimed that she had turned this stuff
over to him for disposition and that hr
was not even in Juneau on the night of
the crime. No sentence has been
passed on him vet.
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