The weekly Alaska citizen., 1917-12-17


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 h5 power of tha American snIrf, Our duty. il We are 10 do this great thing and show America To b. what We believe her to be-the ereat..t hope and energy of the world is to
 rand together night and day until The job is finished
 Labor Must Be free While We are fighting for freedom We must see, among other things. tha, labor is free, and that an a number of intoro ung things. l. ! m ans not only that We nut do what ". have declared ou- gu~9o. ro do. see that tho condition. of la bor are not rendered more on"rou by the war but also that W. shM see 10 fl that the in-uum-ntaIi,ios by which the conditions of labor arr. improved. are not blocked or check ed. That we must do. That has been the matter about which | have taken pleasure in conferIing from time to time with your pgoa.J n. Mir GomPera; and if | may be per mitted to do 90, | want to eXpt,. my admiration of his patriotic c2p- age, his large vision, and his stat. manlke sense of what has to D.. done. I like 10 lay my mind along side of a mind that knows how u pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be out in corral,
 Now, to stand together mans th. nobody must interrupt the processes if our energy if the interruption can possibly be avoid q without tn ab#oIuta invasion of freedom. To ut it concretaIy, that means this: Nobody has a right 10 stop tn pro casscs of labor until ali tho m athod of cancellation and sattam.n. he. been ezhau ted. And l mfaAt a well say right here that I am not talking to you alone. You some times stop the courses of labor, but there are others who do the sam, and I believe that I am sp.aEn rom my own experience not on'. Iut from the e=poli nee of otA.n wh n l gay that yo1 are r-a onah, in a larger numhJ of caao" ta.r .ha capital t. l au nor .a i .hn.e things 10 tL n pr on.-l. b cau-a I have not had a c'.na but they have to b. aid. not n an
 pirtt of criticism. but in o-d P clear the atmosphere and com d r. to business. Everybody on lot
 tdos has now got 10 tan act h1 ness, and a sctu.m mt is n.s.r il .osaibI4 wh-n both id went to d he square and right thing
 Set. .ement Hard to Avoid
 Moreover. a sctupm nt is a'wav hard to avoid when the parties can be bsoueht face to face. l cen diC fer from a man much more radicall when he is not in the room then ! can when he is in the room, becau then the awkward thing is he can come hack at me and answer what l
 ay. II is always dangerous for & man 10 have the floor entirely to himself, Therefore, we mu t in.ist in every instance that the pagti-a come into each others presence and there discuss the issues between ohm m and not separately in plac. which have no communication with each other ] always like to r.m.nd myself of a delightful saying of ar Engli hman of the past generation Charles Lamb He ,tuttoryd q lii tie bit, and once when he Wa with ggoup of friends he spoke very hushly of some man who was not present One of his friends said Why. Charles, I didn't know that you knew so and so." "Oo-oh," h. said, Fl d,d-don't: II cant h-h hat a m-man II know" There is a great deal of human nature, of very plea
 ant human nature, in the saying. Ii is hard to hate a man you know ! may admit paronthcucally, that there are some politicians whose methods I do not a all believe in, but they are jolly good fellows, and if they only would not talk the wrong kind of politics. l would loTc to be with them.
 No Sympathy With Mob Spirit
 So 1t is all along the line, in seri- ous matters and things less scriou We are all of the same clay and spirit, and we can get together if we desire to get together. There, fore, my counsel to you is this: Let us show ourselves Americans by showing that we do not want to go off in separate camps or groups by ourselves, but that we want to co operate with all other classes and all other groups in the common cn terpriso which is 10 release the spi. it's of the world tom bondage. l