THE ALASKA SOCIALIST
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCATING POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
THE INDUSTRIAL VOTE
It was ten years ago last month that
Daniel De Leon, in an address on the
“Burning Question of Trade Unionism”
pointed out that the 4 ‘parliament of the
future societv, of Socialism, would be
composed of representatives elected, not
from political, but from industrial con
stituencies. That address, an epoch
marker, is worth any man’s study, and
no man's study more so than his who is
in the Labor Movement. About a year
later the Industrial Workers of the
Vorld was launched) a labor organiz
ation which recognised the ultimate aim
of “industrial legislation,” that is, that
of the workers determining industrial
affairs, of their electing representatives
from the industries to carry on affairs,
instead of electeting representatives
from political district!.
MACHINE POLITICS
Between the Old party (Republican
and Democrat) political machine and
the new party (Lewis-Brooks) political
machine, the people of Alaska will get
enough corrupt politics this summer to
last them for awhile. The bosses in con
trol of the Democrat party require any
one offering to vote in the Democratic
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primaries t > sign the pledge and ag
ree to abide by the result of the proxy
convention at S!- a ;way
Lena Morrow Lewis got herself ap
pointed Territorial Secretary so that she
could get the handling of the nominat
ing of a candidate into her hands. She
had each person who \ oted sign their
name on the back of the ballot, and now
she knows how each man voted. Which
party is working for Democracy.
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DANIEL Df LEO J
PASSES AWAY
Foremost American Soc
ialist Dies of Heart
Disease
Daniel De Leon for twenty-four
years a member of the Socialist Labor
Party and for twenty-two years editor
of the Weekly People, the official or
gan of the Socialist Labor Party, died
on Monday, May II, at Mount Sinai
Hospital, N. Y. of septic endocarditis.
He is survived by Mrs. De Leon and
five children, Solon, Florence, Genseric
Gertrude and Donald.
Daniel De Leon was born on Dec. 14
1S52 on the island of Curacao, off the
coast of Venezuela. He came of an aris
tocratic Spanish family. His father, Sol
on De Leon, was a physician and wealthy
landowner. As a child Daniel Le Leon
was brought up in keeping with the
traditions and customs of South Amer
ican feudal-aristocracy.
At twelve years of age he was sent to
Europe to round out his education. He
went to the school in Hildesheim, Ger
many, and later transferred to the U
niversity at Levdeu. Spanish was his
mother tongue, but he learned to speak
English, French, and German with an
equal facility-; besides this, he read Ital
ian, Du‘c 1, Portuguese, Latin and an
cient Greek.
In the American Socialist Movement
Daniel De Leon stands out as the one
leading character. In the International
firmament of leading Socialists he takes
rank with Marx, Engels Lassalle, Eebel
Lrebknecht, Lafargue, Jaures, Guesde.
If we would judge of the task to which
Comrade De Leon set himself we could
do no better than turn to his preface to
“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
Bonaparte,’’a work which he translat
ed from the German by Karl Marx. In
that peface, written in 1897, we get
this passage:
“The recent Populist uprising; the
more recent ‘Debs Movement’; the
thousand and one utopian and chimer
ical notions that are flaring up; the cap
italist maneuvers; the hopeless, help
less grasping after straws, that charac
terize the conduct of the bulk of the
working class; all of these, together
with the empty-headed ominous figures
that are springing into notoriety for a
tinii and have their day, n ark the pres
ent period of the Labor Movement in
the nation a critical one. The best in
formation acquirable, the best mental
training obtainable are requisite to steer
through the existing chaos that the
death-tainted social system of today cre
ates all around us. To aid in this men
tal training and much needed infor
mation, this instructive work [Eight
eeutli Brumaire] is now made accessible
to English readers, and is commended
to the serious study of the serious.’’
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ADDRESS BY G. W. PENN1NG
TO GRADUATES
Gives Them Lots
of Good Advice
(Continued from last issue)
But attainment! all! that’s the thing
attainment! Even the most phlegmatic
mind can perceive the beauty and feel
the allurement of a lofty philosophy,
but one and all of us echo the hungry
cry, attainment! teach us how to attain
to all this beauty, and my reply to that
desire is the same as that which was
given to the youth of Athens 24 hun
dred years ago by a beloved philosopher
That council was, know yourself—control
and direct your thoughts and you have
the mystic power of the universe within
your very grasp.
But you say how teach me how. Now
perhaps because thought is in itself so
intangible, and njany of us have so little
control of it, their is an impression that,
direction or control of our thoughts is a
difficult and abstruse affair, something
that requires a great deal of hard study
and much book knowledge to reach a
desired result; but nothing i s really
further from the truth. It matters not
how meagre your talents may le, how
backward and uncultured you are, you
possess the capacity- within yourself to
remake your intellectual nature, and I
am sure if parents and guardians would
devote their time and energy- in teach
ing our young people a proper concept
of thought control they- would have to
lay not the slighest stress upon the en
forcement of obedience.
It requires but a trifling and simple
lesson indeed to teach us what pure and
lofty thoughts are, and any young per
son taught to hold right thoughts, and
expel wrong ones; taught to have fair
control of their mental realm will re
quire less external authority, they will j
merge into maturity pure-minded and 1
truthful, because of having nothing to ;
hide or repress. But how ?
Well, to-night, we can give that ques
tion a very superficial reply.
As a method of cultivation I should
urge that you begin each day with some
lofty inspirational thought. I can recall
nothing finer than the * ‘sanskrit salut
ation to the dawn”:
‘ ‘Look well to this day
For it is life, the very life of life
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your existence
The bliss of growth
The GJory of action
The splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And to-morrow only a vision.
But to-day well lived makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness
And every to-morrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day
Such is the salutation of the dawn.”
Now when I urge you to cultivate a
lofty concept of firmness of will and
fortitude, and set for yourself a high
standard of integrity, I do not mean
that you shall pursue such a course in
the hope, or for the sake of some trivial
and delusive reward; why these things
are of themselves, potent, brimful of re
ward; they are so rich in value, that the
very joy of their attainment leads you to
forget all idea of reward, and when you
come to think of it, and analyize it, good
purpose, \ roper conduc t, merely for the
sake of reward is not a high type of
morality at all; it is the mere wraith,
the shadow of morality.
Let your thoughts of justice, your re
gard for the right, the joj-, and the im
provement of your fellow creatures be so ,
fine that all who come w ithin the radius
of your ^influence will feel its refining
touch, and do not underrate your in
fluence-—your thoughts while acting
most powerfully upon your own life, by
no means exhaust their force in your ^
own mind and body.
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Subject your memory and your will to
persistent and determined training un
(Continued on page 3)
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