Seward gateway., 1933-10-05
"BAKSHEESHEE! FOR THE LOVE OF ALLAHv'

Who in the conception of boasted modern civili- zation would have been so bold to have predicted that the cry of the faaheen of India would ring thru the land of the free the home of the brave?
 And who would have had the courage to predict that the promised land rich in the things necessary to mans welbeing, would in this year of our Lord 1883 prove garden in which things stale and musty possess it ever.'
 Yet history teens with similar epochs dating back to the oldest known chronicles to even recent times
 The first of such conditions of which we have writ sale ot Joseph by his brehren only in turn to be sold by Joseph to Pharoah The fat years of Pharoah's dream and the seven lean to follow were prophecies based upon knowledge of humanity
 Like the ancient Hebrews and Egvptians the non latlon was profgae in the years of plenty The sbrewd men, armed With the historical background of the dav -ook pans to encourage profligacy great cities were pie ana 5he people Hooked thereto; ranteectuasm Supplanted the homespun pllosophies of the sages , Joseph found solution by first taking the money hen the land the cattle and finally the bondage of the people III return for bread No encouragement was offer ca those who sought quit the urban ceners and to the primitive for sustenance To degree the tde IS being maintained respecting the peope of inc nation Those who have buded great cities desire to hold @ czerly-so long as they may be made to produce 1V e possessols may amass greater hoards of monev
 Inc f1rst break of the chains which have held tbo publc III the same state of bondage as that oi the He6rews under Pharoah has come with the trek i Le seekers pack to precincts where Nature had yeded to their woong Evidence of this fact is shown in ne report ot Walter W. Bradley, state mineralogist of california; who says that thousands of goldseekers of a ooth sexes who moved thru California the past year. took approximately million dollars from the soil n bae o Mt M Bradley @ forgets himself designedy seeks 70 Keep the goldseeker in California when he makes the additional statement that Although there are no ]onper any traces Tn the Alaskan fields the Black Hills area o South Dakota the government is continuing to make surveys on the theory that rich veins may still be uncov cred in these regions"
 Between the lines one gains glimpse of the sordid seshness which responsible for the present condition m the natlon California wants to retain its productive population that the nonproducer may fatten The same mas applied the attitude of the press of all big cities in an effort to stem the tide of deseron by those who have been despoiled.
 Mining has been the target for the inspired press lest serve as an agency for emancipang man from the clutches of the exploter with highly yuminated schemes
 But there are some things potent than balyhoo and beating of drums under the guise of the hgh stan dard of living They grim necessity Pity that more people cannot grasp the idea and work their own sal vaon independent of the sefappointed guardians of the big beehive cities.
 Perhaps the most serious menace to a carrying out fho ll~