Douglas Island news., 1907-08-28

and at present, of the moral law.
 Now we come, as the preachers say, to the second part of our text, viz.: Paddle your own canoe." Although last, it is far from being the least inn portant. For some unaccountable reason, it seems to be the universal de- sire to paddle the other fellows canoe. In fact, if he won't allow us, by peace ful means, to steer his bark for him, we most likely use force to make him do lit. And the force used will in all probability be "brute force" We shall likely hit him over the head with our oar, or his own, after wrestling it from him. This spirit of padding the other ] fellows canoe, whether he wishes us to or not, is what has caused all the trou- ble in this old world of ours. We are only just beginning to peep our noses out from this age of dense darkness, into the morning light of new age; an age in which we are rapidly learning the lesson that "the survival of the fit testn is the law of life The sword is being transferred into the plOwshare; old brute force is being relegated, along with other clumsy, unwieldy, | ut-Gyed their usefulness weapons, to the back shelf of oblivion and forget fulness. The world today is dottlng its hat to the man who by touching but ton can transform the black darkness of a great city into instant daylight, to the man who can make the clouds his messengers to carry with lightning to the farthest ends of the earth his spoken wishes.
 Gentlemen, the s. A. Fl. l. 5. has hitched it's wagon to a star. 1t points to newer, truer and better way for the settlement of labor troubles. Our Anglo-Saxon brothers in New Zealand think they have found it. It's opera tion during its short life in that coun- try has been eminently satisfactory. The one hundred men who are mem bers of our organization, (and please remember that they are all working men of intelligence aud sterling worth, Alaska's best, who have each paid not less than 5000 for the privilege of so belongingi, ask you to carefully con- sider their attitude and published platform, and come and help them in the work of making their idea an actu- ality.
 Circumstances have forced organized effort upon us as necessity, if we are to continue to live as a happy, prosper ous business community. The success of the movement is already assured, as far as the getting of a large number ot additional Homebuilders is concerned. When they come, you will find them from every point of view our equals. It is in this selective process we are spending so much time and energy.
 This having been accomplished, we will, if you will rise to the occasion and help in the work, make grand contri- button to the worlds peace and happi- ness by having incorporated In the organic act of Alaska some provision by which an arbitration and concilia- tion boards findings can be made final and legally binding. We are fortunate in having among us, as captains of in- dustry, two or three live, up-to-date, intelligent, right-thinking men, who are in entire sympathy with this for ward movement.
 But, already we hear the voice of the croker, the knocker, the pessimist, with his knowing wink and world-old back number croak, lit can't be done." My friend, the word impossible" should not be in the vocabulary of the twen- tieth century thoughtful, religious" man.
 This priceless boon which we seek, and must and will have, may be like the "Stroller's' juicy ham, at the top of a seemingly unreachable pair of twelve foot stilts. But if we only know, as much as the hungry malamute dog, we will breath our life's breath on the stilts, and the thought atmosphere of grand Alaska will do it's work, by con- gealing and hardening them, and so make of those life breaths, steps by which the desired object may be obtained.
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