The Ketchikan miner., 1912-03-01
THEY "cOT TOGETHER"

dllClClltS dilN lilC Al cDo Oi pouuS who treat with sacredness akin to worship one who has partak- en of salt with them, was again attested at the Stedman Cafe. Tuesday night. To rub shoul- der to shoulder with our neigh bor and business competitors and associates, and to feel the common bond of union arising from the fact that we must all eat, goes far towards creating a congenial atmosphere in which noble ideals may be born. New CT before in the history of Ketchikan has there been such a representative body of busi- ness men gathered around a festive board, and it speaks vol umes for the future of our city. When men of business ability and integrity meet in com mon cause, bury the hatchet of previous contentious, and unite for definate end, there are no impossibilities.
 When man emerged from the primal wilderness and began the toilsome march upward to- ward civilization, there was born in his mind the conscious ness that he was not an isolated individual. The caveman dwelt apart from the tree climbers, and the fire users from those who used it not, yet the indi- |vidual became merged in the group with certain degree Of 1unity, and from that time to the present the march of the ages has been a continuous strengthening of the group sence and a continuous weaken ing of the idea of individual sell sufficiency.
 It is of course true that there were many groups and a wide scope of individual effort, but ever the constant tendency has been to subordinate the good of the single entity to the welfare of the mass.
 In each group special bodies have arisen 10 perform certain specialized labors, and at times these even warred against each other. But underneath and ever present has been the inevitable law of association insiduOusly working outward into the intri- cate maZes of our modern life.
 The elimination and very es- sence of this law is found in the later day commercial body, or ganized to accomplish for the community or group what the individuals themselves. Owin g to their very individuality, are incapable of even undertaking. This has been demonstrated a. gain and again in the civic and commercial world of today, and there is no reason for assuming that history will fail to repeat itself here in Ketchikan.
 "Terrible Teddy" Roosevelt lo,- JoalonoJ hi,Y,raIf o cnn Ii date for the presidency, and the indications are that the Chi cago convention will witness a fight to finish. or the states which actually cast the regular Republican votes-the North Roosevelt will probably have a majority, especially if his run ming mate is Governor Johnson lof California, while President Taft will of course have the sol i'd delegations from the south enr stales, where the Republl- can party is composed largely of federal office holders, who of course will have to get busy to hold down their jobs. The result will be scrap glngery enough to satisfy any body. No matter who wins, Alaska Will be benifited, as there is no ques ton but that either will try to make record here III the north the last frontier. One thlng must be kept in mind though, and that is that if the fight at the convention is at all close, there is every probability that it will result in the election of the Democratic nominee, Tor human nature is bound to as- sert itself in the defeated fac ton, and they are almost sure il,o;,, e4co r, nft fn fbp