'Democracy
In Mexico
Ou' correspondent writes from
Mexi .o to the effect that political
di verner t is almost completely
suppressed in consequence of the
continuation of the civil war. It is
imjossitle to bold meetings in
m ny towns, the few progres-ive pa
pets have been suppressed and agi
tators shat. arrested or sent out of
tire country. In spite of all tins, la
her troubles continne in the indus
trial districts, but they are sup
pressed with a brutality which can
not be worse even in Russia—they
are literarally smothered in blood.
At the recent elections the workers
put forward their Candida es, but
as was to be expected, without suc
cess. In nr cy places the opponents
of the pre-u nt regime were forcibly
{ revented from voting The unjus
tifiable baseness with which the gov
c* f i
eminent managed the clectiou is
to be seen from the following: ex
tfait from a decree which was Bent
from the government to the gover
nors and which became public
through the usual chance happen
ings.
1. All mavors who belrn® to the
revolutionary party are to be remo
vtd secretly from their positions.
2. Only trustworthy persons who
carry rut tl eir in.-tructiocs without
delay may be appointed as election
officers.
S. Care must be taken that elee
tion*.tat e place in not more than
ore-tj irj of the primary election
d'sirirtn
4. U here i lection tak^s place, a
sufficient number of blank voting
papers mud be available and used
in older that there will he an abso
lute majority for Gen. Hurta as
jret-ije. t, a; d for Gen. Blanquet
ns vice president.
5. Only such re;ults eg corres
M . . -■
pond with these instrudions are to
be sent to the prrliament house.
6. Voters of alt kinds may en er
a< many protes.s as they like btat
these are not to al er the result pre
scribed in section 4.
7. Trustwor hy persons are to be
appointed to deal with euch pro
iests. I
It is not difficult to understand
tnat the people, under such condi-j
tion-, must travel ajong a very
thorny path before they reach effi-'
eifj cy in their activities iu econo
mic and political matteis.
Socialist Ticket.
The Socialises are putting a full
ticket for tl e Council in nomina
tion. Mr. Kris'-, who at fijst jefussd
to run, at the earnest so icitation
of his S^eisdist friends, finally ,pon
sented to aTow bis name to head
tho ticket which is as follows—
Bern td Fries,
Frank Buteau,
Geo. Brinkema,
Ja?. T. Morgan,
Henry T. Woodcock,
N. It. King,
R. P, MacGowen.
.
Wife: I am. a bundle of nerves!
Sympathetic buebend: Well as
long as the string .doesn’t break,
you will be all right my dear!
*
A certain mfllisnai-e did not ap
prove i f foreign missions, One Sun
day at Church when the collection
was being taken up for these mis
sions, tl.e i ollector approached the
millionaire and held out the collec
tion bag. The millionaire shook h s
head, wh’spering, I never gi e to
mission’.
Then take something rut of the
bag sir” whispered the collector.
‘‘The money is for the heathen.’
Hard Times
In Servia
The hope that there would be a
sudden boom in trade as soon as
the war was over attracted many
mechanics to Seryitt from tho neigh
boring countries. So many came
that the trades unions have Leon
forced to iesu&.a warning telling
men to keep away. la all Indus
tries unemployment ^exceedingly
high and in ma-qy trades as for in
stance in the tifchsr (irade, oniy a
few days work is dopy .each week.
At the same time (fi^pyices of food,
etc-, are continually increasing and
are now fifty to one burred per
Cent higher than at normal tin.es.
The mass of the pent le ar^.in dire
need,
“According to this pjipor.” obser
ved Mr. Goodwin, “a man has liv
ed for a year on beer alone.”
‘ Well that’s as it should be,” ob
served Mrs. Goodwin. “Any man
who drinks beer ought to be com
pelled to live alone.”
Mrs. Tightwad, visiting at the
preacher’s home—What beautiful
buttons you are sewing on your
husband’s coat! Do you know,my
husft i d .once lud some just like
thei* , "
I (teachers Wife—Yes, we
found tY-^fei each Sunday in the col
lection bag.
“Heilci j Plodders, bow’d you
Snd tha-r/nig haystack so easily?”
“I kijutb wnz here because I
dent in «• 3 fear ago.”
Bpt ait jl t a purprise to you
hat the ji*'l as hate .’t eaten it by
iow?”
“Nope-Wot after I slept in it.
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Correspondence
Jack \Vi.d“, A'acka
Feb. 7, 1014
Mr?. M. L. Gertb,
Fairbanks Local.
Dei r Comrade-, Enclosed ulease
find,twenty- five dollars to applv
on ext erne fund of Lena Mono?
: Lewis. 1 do i ot know whetner we
shall be ab eto Send ary more or
i not, but hope to be ab’e to do s .
i Our comrades are so rcatie: red th
it is almost impossible to reach ma
nv ot tneiu There are only ten of
i •
our Local in the entire Forty mile
| country. The remainder are scatter
fed all over from here to Lo3 Ange
les and one in Germany at present,
j Should yon need further assistance
hejceyer we will try to come thro’
Now Comrades, I wish to make
a little statement,perscnal of course
| not from the Local in regard to a
j so-called communication from tpy
jself. that appeared in ttie A'aska
Socialist of Dec. 20tb, 1913. N ov
if I had written that communica
tion as published, I would have had
no kick eoming, but I sent them a
personal letter cri iofsing an article
in which they said they were going
j to publish an article exposing some
; of the members of Fairbanks Laca',
claiming they had boosted some
old party school directo s at the
! last election.
I Bimply wrote to th> m te’.linc
them that in my option if they
had charges to prefer against some
of the members of Fairbanks Local
then tbe place to do it was befote
tne Loral, that failing, then to Na
tional Headquarters with them but
not to do it thr ugh the paper as
people outside of Fairbanks, know
nothing of these comrrdt* and care
■ lestw
Now instead of publishing the
letter in full, they pick out a oara- ]
graph or so from the lelier, fill it in 1
with seine more bunk ai.d publ s.i
it,
This raav not intereft yon com
rades but I think it should inter,- t
anyoue to know the methods u-e,t
by tne publishers of that sheet.
They puplish what suits them, lime
which do, s rot suit them Hey side
track at d fill in with treir own
makeup. If this method is to he pnr
sued by the Alaska Socialist then I
fear the comrade- in this end of the
division will b© obliged to disten-o
with said paper. With best wishes,
to the tom rad-g.
I icnoain,
Yours for the cause,
A. A. McCandla-s
Sec'y Jack IVade Looal,.
We shall he plersed to publish
communications of my nature, nn
any subject,. This is ihe purpose
fox wuieh the paper is published.
The Fr e I’re.-s < an be as free as o.ur
contributors wirli to make it*
Editor
Holy John.
Toe tax commission of Cleve
land, Ohio, the legal residence or
John D. Rockefeller, called on Ho
ly John tl.e other day and oskedi
him to pay $12 690,000 taxes on
$900,000,000 personal property.
John considers it an outrage
Chat a wealthy and influential gen
tleman of hie caliber should have
to pav a tux ou. of his earnings in
the same ra'io as does the hotU
carrier out of his
Whoowns this government ar v
tvay. John is not losing any sleep
over tne expectation of having to
pay the tax. He remembers that -
Landis sentenced him to pay $29.
000,000 and he also knows that ha
ceter paid it.
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