The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-06
SOME FACTS.

Contrasted facts. which are close Iy related, have all educational et- feet. Let us give few.
 Firts of all: money! Everyone n- stinctiyely likes to read of money. Every patriotic American likes to boast of the wealth of his country. Every American liked to cheer M'Adoo when he said that they had the soundest financial system in the world. You bet we" have.
 Last October or whereabouts high financial men in the United States asked the British government not to ship in any more gold for spell. They had too much of 1t. Get that? There was too much money in the country for the country's good. The people couldn't absorb the doggoned thing fast enough. It was coming in at such a rate that all available space in the assay office of New York had been filled and the local federal reserve bank forced to take chunk of it for safe keeping, On October l, 1916, according to the Foreign Trade Department of the National City bank. the volume of gold in the United States was two billion, SIX hundred and thirty six million, nine thousand six hundred and thirty four. or exactly $74S,73S,904 more than when the great war started!
 That is certainly some money. It is far more than the mind that is not naturally mathematical can grasp at all. The figures are just so much sound, and no more.
 In other words i've" have made over seven hundred million clean profits since the war began, and We just do not what to do with "our" money. It is slowed away in vaults, in barrels. in safes and other places where it can keep safe and snug for those whom the Almighty in His Wisdom decided should attend to it for "us'-and they certainly mind their business.
 Let us turn to other things:
 Because meat is practically prohi- bitive as to price, the New York Board Of Health authorized the sale of horse flesh in the city of ->ew York. It didn't go at first but later on, the only chance of getting their grinders on a piece of flesh being from these defunct stoeds. the work CTS gradually and quite beneyolenty began to patronize and assimilate the horse markets. So the old ami mals that used to go 10 the knack- CTS for their hide and hOofs are now contributing to the up-builidne ot the brain and brawn of American labor And don't forget that seven hundred odd million lying in the banks because it cant be absorbed. Some thrifty are "'we" horsehesh eaters'
 Tn the Fall a benevolent Agricul- tural Department saw that with the belligercnt nations wanting wheat, there would q shortage in the country, and hence the prices would go away up, and they did But our government is nothing if not solicit ous for the workers welfare. They look ahead and the administration keeps awake O nights thinking how it can help "us".
 So having observed this crisis com ing upon us, the Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin show ing how the working classes could make bread out of spuds and flour. The receipe can be got for the ask ing, so there is no use any one go- ing hungry, especially with that seven hundred odd millions lying there in New York. Sure Mike!
 And furthermore leather dealers have been holding convention. What is worrirng them is that there is no leather to go around. They have discovered that the belligerents have been using them for accoutre- ments, tor harness, for saddles, for boots and shoes. Accordingly they said and said quite positively that the time was coming when wooden shoes should be used by the workers. Leather uppers may be, in some cases. but certainly wooden shoes as to soles. And they believed