The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1919-04-22
THE NEW TYRANNIES.

OF the kaiser or the dictatorship of
the working class the newspapers
must do as they are told. Freedom
of the press is just as strange to the
They do not understand liberty be-
cause they have had no training in it.
When one kind of absolutism tri-
umphs over another the people have
no opportunity to study the operations
of free institutions.
Berlin has just appropriated all for
tunes over 10000 marks and will pay
the owners but 3 or 4 per cent for
the remainder of their lives. 1t has
also Mathematical" newspapers. The
peoples commissioners declare that
the liberty of the press-something
that Germany never has possessed
would in nowise be curtailed. They
add that in this way the press con-
tinues to be the slave of the govern
ment. The only difference in it's
status is that it must call the pro
letariat'' master in place Of the EN-
peror.
The workmen of Russia who adhere
to Bolshevism or some other form OF
red socialism frankly admit the one
sidedness of their government. They
believe in "class distinction" and
"class hatred, and the "class strug-
gle" The idea of equal opportunity"
and mo special privileges" which is
our shibboleth, makes no appeal to
them,-at any rate not for the pres
ent. They concede that they are es'
tablishing their rule by force because
they believe, as earnestly as do the
kaiserist, that might makes right.
But even in it's ultimate forms So
cialism will not guarantee liberty. 1t
is based on wholly different idea.
Just as the old German imperialists
declared that the individual existed for
the state so the socialist decry ind1-
vidual liberty of action and insist That
the individual must do what he Is told
by the power above him. No organi-
cation can exist without discipline
and the most delicately complex Or
ganization ever conceived by man Is
socialism. If one wheel goes wrong
the engine "dies."
haf thaSn element
ary principles should have been
Understood at the outset by the Rus
fian Bolshevik leaders, and perhaps
tley did understand them, but FOR
long time anarchy was permitted
among the laborers although all other
classes were vigorously repressed. II
socialism does succeed in establishing
itself in Russia or Germany and set
ting its machinery in operation the
workman must submit to discipline
without parallel for rigor In our IN
dustrial civilization.
In our country new system IS
developing out of democratic lndus-
try. In the, east many factories nave
already adopted the cooperative
method of operation. The employees
take charge of many phases OF the
cnerations that intimately anect
them. In some instances, through
their organizations, they even employ
and discharge the workers. whether
the system will meet with success
only time can reveal, but it Is clear
that It Is a natural development OF
industry in land where the CLASS
struggle" is repudiated and Wners
,iberty cherishes as its ideals "equa
opportunity for all"
In this country we sometimes see
writer work himself into rage over
the .subsidized press" He asks ~
d,gnantly If that is "liberty OF tnf
press?" According to the criterion 9
equal opportunity It is. what =
writer has in mind is not freedom .
the press but human perfection.
naturally labor paper does no
nr,nt much that Is detrimental TO tnt
interests Of labor. A paper Wnlcn =
established to advocate German q
Russian socialism does not go in''