The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-09-22

son, Mr.. T. NJ. Hunt, Mr.. Dick
O'Neill, Mr. H. w. Kirby, Mr. w. B.
Gilbert, Mr.. Geo. Kennedy, Mr.. AL
Norgren, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Nor
gren.
NJ. Finkelstein will be passenger
on the morning train to Chitina,
where he will arrange to start the
sale of the goods in the Finkelstein
& Sapiro store. as it is the intention
to close out there as soon as possible.
In order to do this some great bar
gains will be offered.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. F. Mcclellan and
son N. D. Mcclellan are at the
Windsor, the men having returned
from a season in the Chisana They
will go to their home in California
and as usual Mac will return to
Alaska next spring.
Dan Stacey, who has been in the
Chisana for the past year was re-
turning passenger on Saturday in
company with a large number of
miners WIG have been in e in
terror for months past. Dan says
they will all return shortly after the
first of the year and that there is q
more hopeful feeling than ever that
a good small camp will be estab
lished.
The transport Buffalo sailed away
at o'clock yesterday morning and
as a consequence there are num-
Der of mourners about town.
On Saturday night the Empress
theater was about two-thirds filed
with men and women. who went tc
hear Lena Morrow Lewis talk Oh
"War, the Handmade of Capitalism.
She is an earnest and forceful
speaker and recited many instructive
and interesting features of the
great European war. She holds that
capitalism is very largely responsible
for the bloody slaughter that is now
going on across the sea. To most
quickly and effectually end the strife
she would stop the importation of
foodstuffs from America to the war
ring nations. among other things
she said:
''On the surface, it seems the
wars of the present and the past are
originated because of certain ideals
of patriotism and national honor
which move men to action, but
deeper inquiry reveals the real and
fundamental cause. War is started
for economic reasons. The ruling
classes, which in all countries con-
sist of those who control the pro-
duction and distribution of the
necessities of life, require a larger
or more active market for the pur-
chase and consumption of their CON-
modities. War brings about this
desired condition of things in vari-
Gus ways. 1t increases the terri
tory of the victorious nation, it
ture of war necessities and it at
fords ample opportunities to the
money lenders to loan their money
to the nations engaged at a high
rate of interest. Hence they favor
war for their own selfish interests.
Capitalism and war form logical
and inevitable union. They are
Joined together in vital kinship.
War is the natural offspring of the
present industrial and economic
system.
when Socialism is triumphant,
war will be thing of the past. The
working men do not start war.
Their common interests lie in the
other direction. They realize they
have to do the fighting, make the
sacrifices and foot the bills or pass
them on TO their children, while the
ruling classes remain at home and
reap the profits.
When Socialism is supreme the
patriotism of the working class will
show itself, not in the clamor for
war or in the crossing of swords, but
in the maintenance and development
of those industries and institutions
which make for the peace, happiness
and welfare of humanity. The COM
mon interests of the human race will
blend all mankind into an immense
brotherhood where there can be no
stimulates certain industries which
are directly engaged in the manufac-
war, for the cause of war shall for
ever be removed from the heart of
war.
eff GERMANY. or any other one of
the civil;ze7 nations win the present
war, what have we to fear. Is it
their art, their science, their music
or their industry? No! What we
do fear is their spirit of militarism
and their burden of war taxes and
the systems of capitalism"
Harry Fasset is now the govern
ment agent at the Pribilof Islands