The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-17
PROFESSIONAL AGITATORS

Men who make it business in Alaska at this time to SOW of discontent to create class nat red, to set citizens against citizens to orSah!ze strikes and spread the doctrines of Bolshevsm are not serving the best interests of the worklngmeh' their communities or their country They are sim ply throwing obstacles in the path of progress ana obstructing readust things to an orderly and stable basis
 Successful strikes in Juneau mines, for instance could only result closing the mines, causing other enterprises fail throwing men out of work ill all lines and reducing the population of Juneau and Alaska. Those workingmen who have savings would quickly exhaust them, those who have homes here would see their property become waste material in their hands, and there would be benefit to no man.
 Experience has shown that the poor man is the worst sufferer during periods of stagnation The we'll to-do hold his property and wait, and he can buy the belongings of the poor, when they exhaust their in life and can hold on no longer for song There is nothing for the poor man when the opportunity a wage is destroyed and that would be the certain result of strike here'
 No people have more to hope for from return normal and prosperous conditions than the worK- ing men and women of Alaska When conditions are prosperous ill Alaska and progress is in full swing the wage worker of today is the employer of tomorrow Experience has shown in Alaska that there a constant demand for wage workers, when times are good to take the places of those whom op portunity has given a chance to become an em- ployer. Those who have been in Alaska any length of time have that promotion in the mines ana elsewhere rapid in times of prosperity That is because the opportunities so great when there is expansion and developments.
 Workingmen understand this, and the large ma jority of the workingmen in Alaska, of those who work are contended. They anxious to do all within their power aid in increasing production and bringing about condition of prosperity There would be danger of labor troubles in this Ter ritory it for profession agtators who make a living by working the workingmen-men who have no other purpose in life than create condition of chaos and trouble. Mostly they are men who have never fitted themselves for anything and are too lazy do They against the Government, against society against everything that is, be- they have been able to get all they wanted without giving anything in return for it.
 William J. Bryan the great commoner, once upon a time in speech, replying to the neck ling of professional agitators said, in principle, there is difference between them and the preda- tory interests of Wall Street Both of you, de- clared Mr Bryan. you agitators and the predatory ing it. The only difference is that the predatory interests have had brains enough to get wealth without producing it and you professional agitators have been able only eke precarious exis- tence."
 Of all the than useless citizens in new and developing country the harmful is the pro fessonal agiator trouble maker who is too lazy to work, and who makes living by preyng upon workngmen while pretending to them.