The Nome daily nugget., 1916-12-28

Board of Trade

the Lewis gun immediately to repel our foes. Dou0aess everyone remembers reading something ot thIs sort. IL sounds reasonable. Most of us 2gree on prepareune.S We know that Hiram
 Maxim .s..lea tI fln>, a market for his Inv, ndons in lis own country and
 look them to England to his and th4l uvuH4s i.-u,u~I etuyants.ge. So we are disposed to b-leve that the like is
 true of Colonel Lewis and his ma-
 eh ne gun.
 Now what are the facts? Why,
 nothing more than that the Savage Aims Company h~s the patent rigll.s in America to the Lewis gun and 'hat
 having found the British demand :1l. ing off. the company wants to bult up q market al home. The Lewis 3'ln $ not being bJomed in the prtss be- cause it is the best gun Of i;s '1nd or from any Iatriouc impulse U 1id
 n .the protec ion of our common ooun.ry. Far from it. The Savage com.
 parry has a big plant specially equ.p- ped to make this gun. It has paid for this new plant and made two and d halI m4lLoa dollars additional from i,s English war orders. Now it wan $ to make a like raid on the Unitad States treasury. So strong is it's .ie- sire to educate public senament ID to the Lewis gun that it allows it's press agen,s io lie repeatedly ana regardless of the harm done the rep utations of some of our ablest army men. The press stuff states that Lewis offered his gun free to Ihr government This is a lie, it was of fered by a company presumably on the same terms as other arms are of- feled. The gun was tried and per formed badly therefore il was reject cd. Since the gun has been put 10 such extensive use by the British 'he war depar .m-n mt has asked for 2n- other test. Two guns were provided. one to use English ammunition. tie other des.gnCd Aor Inited States array cartridges. The one with the En- glIsh cartridges passed the test very well. but the one using our army cart rIdge did not do well at all whi n perhaps Was not astonishing as it Was not spit-d to this ammunition whiea is stronger than :he British. Thesa are t'a facts subs ,antialiy as stated <. Gcnoral William Croz4er. chief ol ordnance of the war departmenL
 Ii certainly makes one fell cheap To ha"e grown indignant at a st;I necked army bureau-crat because through professional jealousy. of course. he turned down a meritorious invention which would have saved 'h- lives of all of us only to learn 'ha
 the gun was offered for sale. w:ta .esteu, and found unsuited to our ann munition. that ,n short we do moi wan the gun at any price. The though. -..aI he liant at Utica may lie idle does not both-r us bit when we learn that it has served it's purpoie and besides paying for itself has earn ed a profit of 2jO per cent. But the idea ,4 eur s t..ag taken in by this press . agents s.u4 IS bitter pill.
 If this were an isolated case the 1! harm would not be great but IS a ] matter of facts i; is typical of a great l deal of gross nli5represe1tation foisted ! on us as news and put forth rega rd , less of all else except the private gain of "soul-less corporations" A case in point is the immense amount oI pr.n.ed matter in magazine, news paper. and other forms that was sent forth to decive the public regarding the CT ction of a government plant to manufacture armor plate. It is as- serted that the amor plate trust, : headed by Chas. NJ. Schwab of .he | Bethlehem Steel Company. spent mu-