THE ALASKA SOMIST
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AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST
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Published on the Fifteenth and
Thirtieth of each month*
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCATING POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
THE SECRECY
OF THE BALLOT
Lena Morrow Lewis is
Condemnee by Many.
The action of Lena Morrow Lewis, in
compelling the members of tlje .Socialist
party to write their names on the back
of the ballot, while voting on the refer
endum lor candidate for delegate to
Congress, has been severlv condemned
by many Socialists and others, and it is
said that a great number of them have
stited that they will not abide by the
result of the f orrupt method used by
her to carry out her apparent purpose—
the nomination of Brooks.
Livery, the Badge
of Servitude.
Livery is worn by a few servants.
Why not by all ? The object of Livery is
to advertise one’s servitude. But at pre
sent it is incomplete. It is only a frac
tional display. It is principally confined
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to bellboys, butlers and bishops.
Hvery corporation lawyer ought to
wear livery; not all editorij, but a fair
proportion; a considerable number of
liu ibauds apprenticed to women for a
lifetime, and some Senators.
v Also, why not many philosophers,
poets and artists ? Serving a literarvGod
even if he is false, should have its app
ropriate regalia.—Life
The Lewis-Brooks faction of polit
icians, who arc oat after political pie are
having a hard time trying to make their
schemes go, and so they have tried an
other method—that of passing *‘re:*>i
utions” against the Alaska Socialist. If
the said politicians do not get any more
facts and truth into their statements
than that contained in said resolutions,
they will certainly not convert many
people to Socialism. The resolutions ev
idently were drawn by that famous char
acter, Lena Morrow Lewis, who if she
could get enough people to join her
machine, would then, through such
machine become political boss of Alaska
and we would then have the same kind
of government, probably,in Alaska that
they had in the National office of the
Socj ir-t party about 1910. We want no
political bosses in Alaska, not even Soc
ialist bosses.
We Know Them A
Little Too Well.
There has been much talk about har
monizing the factions of the Democratic
| party by those who bolted the conven
j tion, but not a single one of them, or
| any of the bolting delegates to the nat
ional convention, have ever whispered a
hint to the chairman of the element of
I the party who remained in the hall and
j carried out the business ot the conven
j tion. a desire to “get together.” This
1 shows the hypocracy of their claim that
i they have tried to have harmony in the
party.
If a regiment of soldiers should desert
the army and subsequently join the en
emy’s forces, and then, without saying
a word to their former comrades, begin
to talk “harmony” by having the sol
diers who routed the enemy secure this
harmony bv going over en masse to
them, it would be immaculate gall,
wouldn’t it ? Well, that is the way they
have attempted “harmony.” Not a soul
of the bolting faction has ever said a
word to the chairman of the 57 delegates
j who remained in the hall about “har
mony.” They have '‘harmonized” with
Silas P. Chapin, Will A. Steel, Louis P.
Shackleford, Charles Herron and the
entire Republican press of the Territory
but whenever they have opened their
mouth to us they lisped the word “el
\ iminate” and expressed some desire to
have us on the “inside,” provided we
would be the lamb and they the lion.
| No, no. We have known Stubbs Erwin
for 25 years. We’ve heard what’s in his
pantry, we do not wish to see. ’ ’
—VALDEZ COMMONER.
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Why Not A Pub
lic Defender ?
On one side of the American criminal
court stands the public prosecutor. On
tile other side stand a horde of private
practitioners, some of them most hon
orable men, so me of them men who
would disgrace any calling. And in the
middle ground stand a large number of
others, who are even as you and I—not
surprisingly good or surprisingly bad,
but regardful, first of all, of their per
sonal interest in the case, which dictates
that they shall w in it if possible without
doing too great violence to their con
sciences.
A defendant is free to employ any of
those practitioners or as many of them
as he can pay. Out of the conflict be
tween them and the public prosecutor
come the delays, quibbles, exceptions,
appeals, hired experts and manifold oth
er scandals that were indelibly* exem
plified, for example, in the Thaw trials.
Long ago a public defender was sug
gested, and the idea has found favor a
mong many broad-minded lawyers. The
public defender should be appointed and
j paid by* the public, exactly* as the pub
lic prosecutor is. The defense in every
criminal action should be in his hands
just as the prosecution is now in the
hands of a public officer. The desire of
| society* is simply- to know as surely* and
expeditiously as possible whether an
; accused man is guilty. The prtsent sys
tem of private defense tends to prove,
rather, how smart liis lawyers are.
We hope the legal profession will
. thresh out this question of a public de
fender. That criminal procedure in this
country urgently needs some radical re
form is not denied by anybody worth
considering.—Ex.
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The emancipation of the working
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class must be the class-conscious work
of tl:t wcikh g ties?.—I- /. FL MARX.
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CALLAHAN GOES TO
ANNIHILATE THE
When the good ship Tanana left the
dock at Fairbanks on the evening of July
16, she carried on board Dan Callahan
who is bound for Skagway on a very
hazardous and dangerous mission. Dan
is bound for Skagway to attend the show
that is to be held there m August and
incidentally to slay the great big eat-him
up monster, the Erwin-Strong political
machine. Dan knows his business and
has lots of proxies, so something is
bound to happen.
Notice
The Alaska Socialist is not affiliated
or associated in any way with Lena Mor
row Lewis, Louis Klopsch, Hinton Hen
ry, W. T- Nicely, or with any paper with
which they, or any of them, are asso
ciated, whether it be called “Facts" or
fiction, “Free Press" “Socialist Press”
or any other name. The Alaska Socialist
is an Independent Socialist Paper and
cannot be subsidized to further the pol
itical schemes of Lena Morrow' Lewis,
Brooks, or any other politician, Social
ist, Republican, or Democrat.
EUGENICS
&
ECONOMICS
Th Eugenists dream of a race of Sup
ermen and Superwomen. Let us dream
of them, too. Imagine such a race sud
denly created in the United States.
Thirty millions of Superpeople—each
one having the strength of Jack John
son, the mental efficiency of Edison, the
moral greatness of Lincoln. Meanwhile
the economic scheme remames unchang
ed-—a small class of Superpeople owns
all the land and machinery, while the
other Superpeople compete with each
other for jobs.
What about the Superpeople who
don’t get jobs ?
Supermen in the breadline, Supermen
piling into the Bowery Mission to get
out of the wind and the rain, Super
women on the streets selling their bod
ies for bread, Subermen on the street
corners in the Supercold of a winter
evening waiting for some Supermillion
aire to give them the price of a night’s
lodging. . . .
It is a pretty scene, and provokes re
flection.
P. H. D., in the Masses,
Subscribe for Alaska Socialist.
WHY HE LOM ORDER Of
MOOSE APPEALS 10 M
There have been many fraternal or
ganizations m Alaska lor years but none
of them have appealed to the workers
like the Loyal Order of Moose. No ob
selete or ancient tomfoolery has any
place in the business of the Moose. This
order is a progressive one and aims to
keep up with the times. The working
man will find in the Moose Lodge an or
ganization that fills a long felt want.
The Loyal Order of Moose not only pro
vides benefits for him and his family
in times of sickness but is also a club
room to spend liis leisure hours. See
Howard Barnes at Mendham’s, or any
moose.
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Pool Room & Bowling Alleys
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Where you get the finest
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Old Eagle Saloon stand
JOE O’CONNOR Manager.
Fairbanks Alaska
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