THE ALASKA SOCIALIST
AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST
PAPER, NOT SUBSIDIZED BY
ANY POLITICIANS.
Issued by Socialist Publishing Co. at
Fifth it Lacy Streets, Fairbanks, Alaska.
A. KNOWLES Manager.
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Thirtieth of each month*
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCATING POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
THE DUPLICITY Of LOCAL
PRESS
The local papers, which are always
condemning the action of any sour
dough in sending money to outside re
liable mail order houses, are, however,
willing, *o it-aeems, that monev be sent
out to ‘ Green Good* men,” providing
that they get a rake-off in the shape of
adds with a promise of large returns.
Such double- dealing stands exhibited
as the rankest hypocracy. Postal inspec
tors have, in the last few years, uncov
ered get-rich-qaick schemes, where
ficticious companies were offering big
sums of money if anyone could prove
that testimonials which they advertised
were not genuine, when they did not
hare any such sum of money nor any
assets upon which they could realize.
Their complete stock In trade consisted
very often, of a few gallons of ammonia
several boxes of vials and wrappers, a
typewriter, and a stock of paper. Re
liable magazines and journals have ab
solutely refused to take their advertis
ing at any price. Some of them seem to
he paying great attention to Alaska.
Rocky Will Probably
Make Another Donation
to The Church.
The coal barons of Colorado have en
tered suit against the United Mine
Workers of America for $5,000,000 dam
ages as a result of the strike. When J.
D. Rockefeller obtains a judgment for
this amount he will probably make an
other donation to a church or endow
another university.
If you arc a worker you need
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The emancipation of the working
class must be the class-conscious work
of tl;e workirg clnr-.--FARL MARX.
BILLY GORHAM
GOLDSMITH
Watches Repaired
Op?. Gordon's Glass Block
Cushman Street
j Charge of Treason May
be Preferred Against
John Conna
One of the members of Fairbanks lo
cal of the Socialist party who imbibes a
littl** too much sometimes and then talks
intimated to a crowd of bystanders a few
nights ago, that charges of party treason
were to be preferred against John Conna
The act of Conna in shaking hands with
Mr. and Mrs. James Wickersham prev
ious to their departure for Washington
D. C., where the Judge was to attend
Congress, is said to be the basis of the
| charges. Conna, the Socialist bosses are
[ said to have declared, had no right to
J bid the Wickershams “Good bye” un
less he first received permission from
them, and is therefore guilty of the
grossest “treason,”
Conna, who holds several high pos
itions in the party may, however, rule
the charges out of order when they
come before liis local, so it is possible
they may never come to trial.
Government Changed
Now to Wall Street
When President Wilson sent a rep
resentative to plead with Rockefeller to
settle thestrike in Colorado, a great
nian3’ people in the countr>’ came to the
conclusion that the seat of government
is in Wall Street and not at Washington
“Busting the Trusts”
"
It is reported that the net profits of
Standard Oil and its subsidiaries lor the
year i913 aggregated $120,000,000. This
vast sum exceeds by $40,000,000 the pro
fits of an3- preceeding 3-ear in the life of
the Oil Trust.
Regardless of the fact that the Sup
reme Court of the United Ststes dissolv
ed the trust under the provisions of the
Sherman anti-trust law, 3-et Standard
Oil, crushed by a decision from the
highest tribunal of the country, contin
ues to increase its profits.
"Busting” the trusts should excite
the risibilities of a "bonhead.”
Woodrow Wilson Now
A Beggar
The President of the United States,
as the representative or official agent of
uinety millions of people appealed to
Rockefiller to settle the strike, hut the
king of Standard Oil, who is the Pres
ident of the Invisible government, re
fused to pay any attention to our chief
magistrate, who placed himself in the
role of a beggar. A President with the
characteristic traits of a Lincoln or a
Jackson would scorn to supplicate a
mercenary pirate to settle a strike, but
would issue an order that would put the
fear of God into the frozen heart of a
callous and shameless hypocrite.— Ux.
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DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
AIMOST A FAILURE
A great many people have discovered
that the success of the Democratic party
nationally has not brought prosperity.
The high cost of living has not decreas
ed. Tire uncertainty of employment has
become alarming and the idle army has
increased to colossal proportions. The
people will ultimately discover that no
political party that receives its' cam
I paign expenses from exploiters can be
lo^al to tl;e masses of the people.---lix.
“The Green Grass
Grew-"
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Editor Alaska Socialist:
Full many a year have our Fairbanks
papers, both daily and weekly, issued
column after column of editorials warn
ing the common People against the evil
effects (upon said common people, and
our fair city) of sending their hard
earned money to outside m a il order
houses. Expanding with local patriot
ism—Fairbanks for Fairbanksans—they
appealed to the local pride of these fool
ish mortals, advising them to cast their
bread upon Fairbanks waters. Comes
now, the lament of our good sport, the
News-Miner of July 22. Alas! Alack!
Stung to the tune of $—,after long ex
tolling the virtues of “Vigorettes’’ the
artistically devised and seductive ad of
the “Dayton Novelties’’ urging said
foolish mortals to send post-haste their
dollars away off to that dear Ohio, there
by' casting their bread upon the Day ton
waters from whence 'twould return a
hundred fold. The “lament’’ states that
the defunct, get-rich-quick “enter
prises” gave the Times thrice as much
ad stuff, and in ail probability, the corr
esponding amount of bunk. In regret
ful, penitent? tone, the “lament” of our
evening paper hopes that the commun
ity hearkened not to the magic of Vig
orettes or the tempting offers of the
“Dayton Novelties” and kept their suc
ker money at home!—which should help
some!
A Fairbanksan.
LET US PRESS
THE BUTTON
“The Creator,” says Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard
University, in his recent published
statement discarding the orthodox god,
“the Creator is for modern man a sleep
less, active energy and will. He is rec
ognized chiefly in the wonderful ener
gies of sound, light and electricity.”
This easily' explains why prayers are
never answered.
Nobody of any intelligence really' be
lieves that prayer will save a man,s life
who is shipwrecked in mid-ocean. Pray
er will not clothe the naked nor feed
the hungry. And yet people pray' for all
manner of good things—-and never get
them save by natural agencies.
The reason of all this Dr. Eliot plain
ly clears up, Who can suppose that the
“wonderful energies of sound, light and
electricity’’ could be disturbed by mut
tering incantations? You could pary till
your pants are baggy at the knees, and
it would have no effect on sound, light,
or electricity.
Modern knowledge and invention
knows how to call these wonderful en
ergies—this “God” into activity. In
telligent and scientific man builds a
wonderful piece of mechanism with
which to connect himself with the won
derful energies that surround us. When
we want electricity to do our bidding,
we do not pray—we press a button. Dr.
Eliot's God answers not prayer, Lut he
does respond to the button.
Let us quit the mummery of our jun
gle ancessors, who were frighteried at
the elements, and who prayed and off
ered sacrifices to appease the anger of
the thunders and lightenings, that mod
ern man has found to be a useful friend.
Let us get up from our knees. Let us
learn how to get wdiat we need. Let us
quit praying—let us press the button.
Dr. Eliot’s God does not admire beg
gars on their knees-—he wants workers
not idolators.—-Ex.
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During the month of April, 346 coal
miners were killed. No one has been
arrested for murder.
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