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'OLD GLORY"
"America For Americans
RICH .MANS1 WAR
Bj Harvey O'Higguis.
He had been drafted. He had bee
refused exemption. He was a youn.
hack driver, with no one dependent
on him But h^ was not eager to
fijrat; he had been reading The
Musses. {"WliatT® I got to fight
for?" he argued. "It's a rich
man's war."
It 19. But not in the sen.se that
h* meant.
A* long as this country, at
peace, was supplying Europe with
tool and munitions the rich man
sained. The munition makers drew
eiKirmous dividends. The Steel
Trust, the Coal Trust, the Meat
Trust, the railroad and the shipping
urinates charged ail that the war
time traffic would bear, and had
no taxes to pay. It was their in
teiest to keep thij Nation out of
thp conflict in order to preserve
their gains. With our entrance up
on hostilities the Government ob
taiitv*. thg power to tax profits, to
fix prices, to control the food sup
ply. io protect the poor from ex
ploitation. That power has been
sought, for how many decades, time
of peace, by hojv many social re
formers? The won it. If it is
a rich man's war, the rich have
be**i singularly deluded in procurin
And. in the matter of the draft,
they have been equally blind. The
tlr,t conscription act of our Civil
War allowed the rich man to buy ex
emption by paying $300 for it.
There is no such. clause in the
present law. in the later days of
the Civil War the rich man could
buy exemption, by paying a substi
tute to take his place. He can
not do so in this war. The only
exemptions allowed today ar© j al
lowed to the poor man who has de
pendents or to the workers in! the
industries and professions that are
tecessary to the lif§ and efficiency
of a modern nation in war time.
It Is a rich man's ,'war, there
fore, In the sense that the sons of
th* rich are th9 most liable to die
In it. Jt is a rich man's "war in
th* sense that the rich are chiefly
pacing for it with their lives, with
their money, with their time and
service, and with the loss of their
special privileges, while the work
ingman, the . small farmer, the Pro
ducer, the productive laborer and
th« pocr are everywhere compara
tively exempt.1
For the first time in the history
of the world a war is being waged
that falls most heavily upon jthe
classes who, in times past, have
moet oroflted by war.
In jthfe country, ag yet, the ra
«ults of that new aspect of the con
flict ;are not glaringly evident. But
in England they are so striking that
they amount to a revolution. There,
It la;the poorer classes that have
gained in material comfort, in po
litical fiOffer, in control of ht«ir
conditions of Ufe, in tiafypinots and
in freedom. It is not. toerely that
wase» havo been raised, that the
Decpio have j taken over the direc
tion of the railroads, and of the
coal mine*, and of the food Bupply,
and of the organized Industries of
the nation. It is not merely that
tne workingman has been given a
larger ulace in. the Government
councils and tjie rich man a
smaller place—his income taxed to
the bone and his profits reduced to
.extinction. It is, above all, that
industry itself has obtained a demo
cratic government of its own, so
that the workingman now sits with
the emplover at the board of busi
ness management and helps to
make ilie jrules under which he
works and to regulate the condi
tions of his labor.
The reforms for which, British
soc.alists have been struggling for
50 years have been obtained over
night. A revolution that could not
have been effected in a century of
p.ea^e has been forced by three years
ot »ar. The conditions which for
warded that revolution are tha
conditions, that are so ra
pidly advancing a similar
revolution here. Our eociliots, who
cry"This is a rich, man's war; let j
the workingman oppose it." ure 113
blind as those socialists in Great
Britain who originally raised the
same cry- and similarly opposed
their own advantage.
We have already obtained, in this
country, measures of state social
ism that looked as far away Jas
the millenium to our socialists three
><*ars ago. Wo shall have to carry
tha still, more incredible reforms
that hare carried in England If we
are to defeud ourselves as J well as
the English are defending them
selves. We, too, shall have to
"democratize industry," as the
phrase is, if we expet our working
Ill a Li to reoiuiurw cui ^~vv.v ——
as the British, workingman has re
inforced the British, front. And not
only that. After the war Is over,
our industry and our commerce—
to cay nothing of the French and
German—iX our workingman ts not
as loyal and satisfied and haPPJ"
aod efficient as theirs. Our revolu
tion will have to continue, because
the life of the Nation in jpeace,
as in war, will depend upon contin
uing it.
A ,rich man's war! A war that
has exterminated half the evils
oppression which the predatory
rich have been accused! A war
that has reduced their power, cur
tailed their privileges, confiscat
ed their profits! A war that hair
made England, in three years, a
radical democracy, not only politi
cally, but industrially! If |any
socialist thinks that such a war is
a rica man's war, he thinks (so
because his mind has ceased to
tunctiou—because he hag reduced
rhougnt to a dogma and bleats a
mechauical utterance like a toy
lamb—cecause he h.as taken his
stand cn the economic formula, like
the lamb on its bellows, "nnable to
change its note under the pressure
of any circumstances, baaing its
invariable aujwor to any confrauta
tion cf fact.j
RE-LOCATES IlIG SILVER LEIHJK
George Armstrong returned Satur
day from the east fork of the
Wheaton river, 40 miles from Rob
inson station on the W. P. & Y. j
R., says the Wliitf horse Star, where
he had gone a few days before, ac
companied by Claude Irvine a.ud
Adam Bernie, to re-locate au jim
ciensejj; big silver-lead vein that
had been discovered several years
ago but had never been worked on
account ot its inaccessibility, the
low grade character of its jores
and the low price of silver. Now
tJiat the price of silver bids fair
to reach par before stopping On its
upward course, the ledge above re
ftma to may, in Mr. Armstrong's
opinion, become a valuable pro
per y and eventually a big produc
er!.
While on the east fork the party
encountered cold, windy weather,
the hills being covered with ice
and hard to travel over. Before
they lef-. for home 12 inches of
snow fell.
There is a big glacier on the east
fork or the Wheaton river, and in
order to reach the place for which
tbey had set out it was necessary
'or the party to cut over 1000 6teps
in the glacial ice.
Bernie and Irvine are interested
in the Tally Ho group of claims
in the Wheaton district, and for
the past few months have been do
ing development work on the pro
perty with the expectation of
bringing ore out over the ice! this
wiuter to Robinson station, | from
which place it can be shipped to
gone outside smelter.
Becker and Cochrane are also 3o
'inj development worfc on the Whirl
wind group in the same district, and
they, also, expect to ship their ores
out this winter.
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