The Nome daily nugget., 1915-02-17


 1t Is apparent that the growth of hard l times has been steadily progressing | regardless of who was in or who was out: whether Republican conservation | or Democratic radicalism was shaping | the course of the Ship of State. The ultra radical tendencies of the present administration cannot he held alto gether responsible for the disturbed economic conditions of today as it is an
 undeniable fact that the last years of the previous Republican administration weer spent in frantic labor to rid itself of the offspring begotten of its own
 policies While some of the plans of the Wilson democracy may seen uuixotic in a sense, it is nevertheless apparent that the administration is attempting to adopt such legislation as will speedily relieve the country of the heritage of inhibitive conditions be- queathed it by their predecessors, and while there is seeming frantic run ming 10 and fro with an inclination to hack at the very roots of our accepted institutions, it is also developing that deeply studied plan which will ultl-
 mately result in great beneflt to the country. is underlying their efforts But es to whether the best they can do will stili the ever there's sing cry of hard times remains to be seen. II Is an undeniable fact that the pressure of hard times has never been greater than during the past two years. There is idleness everywhere; not altogether oi the incompetent. the improv1dent or the vicious It is from those classes thai
 we expect poverty. But it is not thes who are raising the wall of hard times. Neither does if come altogether from the industrious: those who are seek Ing in vain for work and who through no fault of their own, have learned to know the meaning of hard times In it's hitterest forms The bulk of the icry comes from those who compose the business classes; the small business man and those who have hitherto been in a position of comparative affluance owing 10 moderate invested rights. The strictly poor plasses are little given tc
  suffer the buffetings of an untoward flte with what equanimity they can muster and in the ma tority of cases in silence. Of the other class, the grow ing stringency of the times and the increased cost of living, has caused a necessary curtaiiment Of the scale of living, lessening of the extravagances of dress, the lavishness of enterta in ments and the relinquishment of a vast variety of amusements for all of which the averase Arner,c~n called middle class has become notor- iuus. The great object of the majority of all the American people of today is to have as far as possible what is de termined as good time" and when the P economic conditions become such that this desire can no longer be satisfied the result is announced by wal . against the conditions of the times Il i3 reasonable to suppose that the tive , conditions of poverty and extrava- a eance have necessary connection The na tursl tendencies of the American F people is to have all the fun they ear while the opportunity offers and little thought is given to the act that be whc dances must eventually pay the td- dler" While it is not intended that il shall be made to appear that the vast |. ing of wealth in iuxuries and extrava- , gances is resulting in hard times it is , nevertheless a fact that il has a direct bearing on the subject for in a way, al least among the class under discussion it is good time" that is producing hard times The individual has beer educated to standard of living ir !, keeping with the conditions of pros -. ssz--.z,,..y-,.