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First Summer mail to leave Seattle about June 1st for Nome direct
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First Winter mail to leave Seattle about October 15 for Nome direct
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All packages or parcels intended to reaching destination during win
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MONDAY, MARCH 17th. 1919
RELIEF IMPERATIVE j
The prospect that peace settlements will be practically concluded be
fore the opening of the next congressional session leads to the hope that the
new legislative assembly, instead of wasting time in windbag denunciations of
the alleged shortcomings of others outside of its own perspicacious personnel,
will devote some of its energy to resolving the numerous and vexing economic
questions with which the nation is confronted as a result of the war
It requires no prophetic eye to discern that the present economic and
industrial situation is pregnant with possibilities of serious national distur
bance if permitted to continue under the same favorable dispensation as
granted by the Democratic regime. Indeed it may he said with truth that a
perpetuation of the same conditions threatens not only the national peace
and prosperity hut the very fabric of government as well.
Despite administrative denials and supposedly ameliorative adminis
trative agencies, profiteering is still rife. (Maims that the administration has
(hocked the tendency to squeeze big profits from the barter and stile of com
modities are futile in view of the numerous evidences presented by the Federal
Trade Commission that the public is being exploited on a scale hitherto
unknown.
Throughout the length and breadth of the land the cry is going up
from the toiling masses that conditions of existence are harder than ever
before. Strikes involving thousands are reported daily, practically every ono
of them based on the plea that wags are inadequate to meet the constantly
soaring costs of subsistence. Presuming that a portion of these claims
arc false, it is illogical to assume that they are all based on a profiteering
inclination on the part of labor. The prospects are that for every trade union
which strikes in the hope of squeezing more money out of the employer, there
are a dozen which strike because they have no other recourse In order to
properly provide for the physical wants of their members.
The reaction from war conditions in industrial fields is fast ap
proaching a stage where only ^he most heroic endeavors will -prevent a state
of unemployment unheard of in the history of the nation. It is true that in
time industrial conditions will resume their normal status, but what is to be
done to prevent a state of practical industrial chaos during the intermediate
period between the immense industrial prosperity of the war period and the
leHirn to natural industrial levels ? ^
A vast vanguard of a still mightier army of unemployed which is ul
timately sure to develop in the near future unless heroic measures are in
stituted. ha6 already appeared in the land and is growing greater daily as
the factories and workshops turn from the inflated Industries of war to the
lighter demands of peace. Is this to continue so long that -unemployment
will lead to a situation where the masses will be ready to seek relief in the
doctrines of Bolshevism or other radical theories?
The question of what is to be done to prevent this possible eventuality
has already become of national'importance and is causing serious worry to
the administrative heads of the government. In a land teeming with plenty,
the populace is plainly facing conditions s'imiliar in many respects to those
confronting the'inhabitants of the war tom lands of Europe, where production
has practically ceased and destitution is rife.
What is to be done about it? The answer appears to rest entirely
with Congress. Mere prophesying prosperity and an era of unparalleled
good times, will not relieve the high cost of living or restore industry to its
pre-war stability. The army of the unemployed Is growing greater daily: the
tost of the commodities of life rises higher and higher: the workers are com
pelled to strike to secure enough of tin* essentials of existence to provide for
the wants of themselves and families.
Relief from one of thes c inhibitivc and disaster breeding condi
tions lies inlands of the government. Through the maintenance of closer
government control of the productive and distributive resources of the
nation, tho high cost of living can be controlled and the army of the unem
ployed can be, if not eliminated entirely, at least reduced to the degree that
the unemployed mass will consist primarily of those who shun labor or arc*
mentally or physically unfit instead of being made up of honest toilers who
are forced to raise appealing and empty hands in vain.
Although entirely successful in handling matters abroad, the adminis
tration has been singularly ineffective in attending to troubles at home. The
much vaunted Food Administration has been a flat failure in the matter of
controlling the prices of food. Living costs have continued to soar in spite
of its so-called "restrictions." The only phase of its activities in which the
results were plainly discemablc was in the line of food saving. The efforts
of the Fuel Administration possibly prevented the costs of fuel supplies reach
ing a tremendous altitude, but it produced no appreciable reduction in the
hugely inflated prices already established at the time of its inception.
And the matter of providing means whereby the present and growing
state of unemployment might be prevented has apparently been entirely over
looked by congress.
"What the Republican congress will do to relieve the situation remains to be
noon. One tiling is certain; they can do no less than their Democratic pre
decessors, who, whatever their intentions, have failed lamentably to provide
for eventualities which were plainly discernable long before the close of the
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Safe to say President Wilson will never wake another sleeping
elephant—Boston Herald.
The first German commercial traveler should take out a heavy accident
policy—Pittsburg Sun.
A lot of people will pick up their 1913-14 thoughts where they laid
:'iom down—New York Evening Sun.
\\ hen we know what the party leaders In Germany have to say about
i .ich other, then we will be able to judge whether or not It Is a republic—St.
Louis Star.
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