THE ALASKA SOCIALIST
AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST
PAPER, NOT SUBSIDIZED BY
ANY POLITICIANS.
Issued bv Socialist Publishing Co. at
Fifth Lacy Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska,
A. KNOWLFS Manager.
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''Published on the Fifteenth and
| 0 • Thirtieth of each month*
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCATING POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
. The reason the Lena Lewis-Brooks
political machine is after John Conna is
because he was chairman of the Socialist
Campaign committee for the Fourth
Division, in the campaign of 1912 for el
ection of delegate to Congress, and act
ing in that capacity, opposed the treach
erous wprk of Lewis and Brooks in trav
elling through the Interior ot Alaska to
gether against his wishes as chairman.
And also for inquiring into certain other
acts of theirs, which were, to say the
least very suspicius. Conna knew that
Brooks was a candidate for delegate,
knew that he was repudiated ^by the
Socialists presumably on account of his
connections with the notorious scab O’
Connor .in the 1910 ccmpaign. Conna
had got wind of some other things that
happened during the 1910 campaign in
which the saiil Brooks was supposed to
know considerable about. Campaign
funds were said to be plentiful that year
in Fairbanks. Wickersham is quoted as
saying that many thousands were used
ill Fairbanks alone, and it is common
. talk that several members of the O’Con
nor gang handled some of those funds.
The story of the Brooks conspiracy to
become the candidate of the Socialists of
Alaska for delegate to Congress had its
inception with the birth of the party i n
. Alaska, and apparent was to be adminis
ed from Juneau the headquarters of the
Brooks political machine, a ii d where
Brooks is supposed to have run a saloon
The story will coifnnence in next issue,
. and will show political chicanery and
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trickery that til e unsophisticated would
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liar Uy believe those guileless Comrades,
who charge everything that is bad in
present day society to capitalists, to b e
guilty of.
Since the advent of George Goebel a s
organizer of the Socialists in Alaska the
* workers in this territory have contribut
ed thousands of dollars in money to the
movement believing that by doing so
they were helping to build an organiz
ation that would assist materially in im
proving the worker’s lot in Alaska. In
stead of a labor organization,a pcliticaj
machine has been built with Lena Lewis
i-.nif ji brooks as the pblituktl bosses and
laying their wires,'as they think, loj; tlip
grand coup.
When this story, which we will sub
mit, is told, and our evidence presented
— evidence which n,o highlv-imaginative
ir
fiction story-writer o r booze- guzzling
would-be-editor will be able to success
fully contradict, the workers of Alaska
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will repudiate the politician Brooks the
same way that they repudiated his pal
O’Connor in 1910,' along with their
machine, and they will also repudiate
Lena Morrow Lewis, with- her many dif
f-.-Veiit brands iCi Socialism and her false
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doctrines, for allowing herself to become 1
| the tool of ilie notorious O’Connor gang.
Lena Morrow Lewis, having apparent*
: ly formed a co-partnership with the lit
erary-degenerate- booze -inspir ed-irres
ponsible outcast, seems to have gotten
an imaginative, fiction story writer to put
the scrapings of his dull and sleepy brain
into print, and calls it “Showing them i
up’’ and tries to convey the idea that
Knowles and Morgan are bad actors and ;
exaggerates the action of local Olness in j
refusing to accept their resignations and
dropping their names from the member- :
ship roll.
There some men in that local that
Lena Lewis cannot handle and she is j
beginning to find this out. We submit I
herewith a copy of a letter which ex
plains itself.
Local Olness Dis
trusts Lena
Morrow Lewis
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Headquarters of Olness Local Socialist j
Party, Garden Island, March 21, 1914.
To the National, and, Executive Com
mittees of the Socialist Party, Chicago,'
111., and the WalterLanfersiek National
Executive Secretary:
Dear Comrades:
This Local respect
fully calls your attention to the follow
ing facts: We enter our protest against
the manner in which Mrs Lena Morrow j
Lewis has pretended to represent the i
Socialist party in Alaska, and especially
in this Fourth Division, for the reason
that she has not organized a single
branch of the party since her arrival in
the Territory last July, 1913. She has,
however, constantly advocated the nom
ination of John M. Brooks for ,Delegate
to Congress. We have positive proof
that she and Brooks were continuously
stating that Brooks should have received
the nomination instead af Krauczunas,
and Brooks’ expense to the amount of \
§56.00 was paid by Mrs. Lewis out of the I
collections taken up on the creeks near
Fairbanks, and she had n o authority
whatever to pay suca expenses by any
one. She reported to your office that she j
was authorized to do so by the Fairbanks
local, which was not true, as the records
of the Fairbanks local will show. We
herewith enclose you a certified copy of j
her report to our campaign committee 1
of 1912. This iocal has served notice on
Mrs. Lewis, as your temporary, Territ
orial Secretary, that we will not support
Brooks should he receive the nomination
We have further notified her not to;
place his name on the referendum by j
reason of the law, a copy of which we
herewith enclose.
We are convinced that Mrs. Lewis and
Brooks have been playing the old party i
polities in order to nominate Brooks, i
and we will not support him if nomin
ated. We demand Mrs. Lewis’ removal t
from the office of temporary' Territorial
Secretary for the reason that we believe j
that we cannot get a fair deal at her
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LOCAL OLNESS., tjqcialist Party,
By E. POZZA, Sec.*'
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Too Mach Booze!
Hinton Henry, the* famous Hot ed.tor
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from'the Springs must have uruuk an
awful lot of election gin as he js alleged
^.tb have seen syme strange things around
^election time2 Jtf Henry had been in on
: that deal which he savs he supposes
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Knowles was m on, it is our opinion
that he would have, had as big a jag «s
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the one he is said to have been on after
he, to-getlier with his partner, Klopscii
got that issue of “Facts” of Jan. 2Stli.
i Where did that windfall come from ?
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i The emancipation of the working
, class must bethe class- conscious work
: of the working chis,;.'—-KAKL MA-KX.
Was Christ Merely An Imitator}
. By VERISSIMUS
Is Christianity entirely a borrowed
system of moral’ philosophy ?
Can there be found absolutely nothing
original in it ?
Was Christ a great teacher ? Or mere
ly a very poor imitator ?
My pupil, these are pertinent and sol
emn questions, and they demand of us
an explicit and truthful answer. We
must not sidestep the issue ; we must
not evade ; we must not equivocate. It
is our duty to play fair, even tlio at the
end of the game we shall be compelled
to relinquish some of our most cherish
ed illusions.
Yes! Christianity is entirely a borrow
ed system of moral ethics.
No there is absolutely nothing origin
al in it.
Y’es! Christ was an imitator and a very
poor one at that.
Now however able and careful a critic
may be he must not .make such positive
assertions as these unless he is prepared
to produce the' most unimpeachable
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authority to sustain his contentions,
hence we turn to history to corroborate
our statements and to prove our postul
ation. In our study of history we stum
ble upon at least cue very strange and
startling fact—a fact that sheds a flood
of intellectual light upon the subject of
this lesson—and that fact is “The hu
man race has had many saviours; fully
two score, and perhaps many mere. Of
this number about if»lf have suffered
crucifixion; nearly all lm-e been called
the sons of God and savins of mankind
and practically all have been reputed of
virgin birth.
Let me offer for your edification the
names of a few of the saviours of the
human race, the date of their crucifixion
and also some fragments of their eth
ical teachings: some of the golden pre
cepts that have fallen from their lips.
And remember that I shall make no
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statements regarding these so-called
supernatural men—-I shall quote no his
tory bearing upon their birth, life, death
or moral teachings except such as is
accepted and indorsed by nearly all of
our great institutions of learning
and by the ablest Christian scholars of
the age.
Now here we have the tragic and un
happy record of these reputed, divinely
begotten sons oi God and mediators for
the human race.
Thulis of Egypt crucified 1700 years E. C.
Chrishua ,, India ,, 1200 ,, ,,
Crite ,,Chaldea ,, ,, ,, ,,
Atys ,, Phrygia ,, 1170 ,, ,,
Ilesus ,, Celtic Drukls 854 ,, ;,
Bali ,, Orisa 725 ,, ,,
Indxa ,, Thibet 725 ,, ,,
Thammuz of Syria SCO ,, ,,
Sakia of India 600 ,, ,,
Ouirinus of Rome 506 ,, ,,
Prometheus of Greece 547 ,, ,,
In addition to these, we have Devatat
of Siam, Ixiom of Rome, Apollonius o f
Tyuna in Cappadocia, all reported in
history as having died the death ot the
cross; and the births of all these incar
nate Gods were foretold by the stars.
Thus we behold, that long before the
Christian-era; long even before Moses
the fabled Hebrew lawgiver was born;
centuries before lie climbed the Rocky
slopes of historic old Sinai, and met face
to face that divine Stonecutter, from
whom we are told he received those pre
cious tablets of stone, on which were
chiseled the words of our Christian Dec
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alogue, long years before that strange
phenomenon occurred, the human race
in piauv lands believed implicitly in the
coming of a Saviour who would offer
himself as a vicarious atonement for the
curse of sin. According to Christian the
ology that burden of sin was brought
upon mankind by the reckless disobed
ience of live, our great materuul ancest
ress. »>
Wliat was her sin did you ask ?
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