WORKINGMEN!
Our Prices Are Lower For Your
Clothing, Boots and Shoes
THAN ANY OTHER STORE IN TOWN. GIVE US A CALL AND
WE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT.
MAMMOTH CLOTHING STORE
Central Saloon
Where you get the finest
Wines, Liquors & Cigars
Old Eagle Saloon stand
JOE O'CONNOR Manager.
Fairbanks Alaska
OLNESS
CARRIES FIRST CLASS
Ciorhlag, Cigars, Tobaccos
STATIONERY, CANDIES
AND FRUITS.
Large Circulating Library.
WM. VOSS, Prop.
MRS. SHARP-WATKINS. Prop.
MOOMS
With or without Board, by day,
week or month at
Reasonable Prices.
Tub, Steam or Turkish
Baths in connection
PaJronizefhe
Miners Home
Restaurant
ALEX. HUSAii
GRAEHL, block upstream from
Golden's store.
Best Equipped Roadhouse In the
Interior of Alaska.
In the Heart of the
Quartz District.
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TOM BjHMil CLEARY CITY
DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS PLAY
THEIR TRUMP CARD
politics had nothing to do with it.
To go to the root of the matter, grand
juries ought to be abolished altogether.
They had their inception in the dark
ages, they were twin of the inquisition,
and they ought to go the',way of the in
quisition. The practice of hearing one
side of a case and then bringing in a
secret indictment is valuable^onlv to the
master class when they want a few labor
agitators put over. They dpu’t accom
plish what thej- pretend to accomplish,
as the grand jury of Fairbanks has prov
en.
In closing, we might invite Crossley
and some others, who have been treated
to a taste of what a combination of cap
ital can do, to take a brief course in Soc
alism. The parties 'which uphold this
system of robbery and the defamation of
women who offend it is no place for a
man who has much respect for himself.
We have n o pie counter i n our party
but we have the promise of a day when
those who toil shall eat the bread of
without feediug a lot of parasites fiyst.
We are not a party of hooch peddlers,
nor do we allow a pie-man to think for
us. We don’t have much to say about
law, but youj have probably observed
that the only ones], who have gone out
over the trail in irons were Democrats,
Republicans and so forth. Socialism may
not be all you think it is, and any way,
you have^probably learned by now that
the 'pie-hunting,, old party politicians
will defame man, woman and God for
the sake of loot. If Socialism were all
that its enemies say it is. it would still
be better than the present form of an
archy and moral night.
The PALI
Restaurant
Home Cooking
FIRST AV KNUE Next to Tennis Court.
.THE BEST & CHEAPEST IN TOWN.
Mrs. ERANS. Prop.
If 70a are a worker you need
THE ALASKA SOCIALIST
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SOCIALIST LETTERS
Luziness &Dirty Work
Under Socialism
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Dear friend Charles,
It is said that under Socialism lazi
ness” would find a ferttle soil, and that
nobody would be willing to do the 1 ‘dirty
work.” So say our “friends” the oppon
ents, and argue that would make Social
ism not only undesirable, but also pre
vent its realization. “Men are generally
too sensible,” that’s about the refrain,
“to allow the bringing about of such
conditions. ”
Let’s examine the first objection. Let
us imagine w e lived in the Socialist
Commonwealth. Here is a man too lji?y
to work. What would be the conseq
uence ? He could not live by begging,
inasmuch as he would not find anybody
foolish enough t o hand him a s much as
a crumb, for the simple reason that the
Socialist Commonwealth guaranteed ev
eryone of its members, capable of work
ing, the right to work and the full pro
duct of his labor,—but also the right to
be lazy.” If an individual desired to
produce only as much as just to protect
himself from starvation, it would be his
concern. Socialism is not a conpulsory
institution. But you rest assured that
such men are vanishing exceptions, and
even these exceptions can only be indiv
iduals in whose ‘‘upper stories” some
thing is not altogether in order. On the
whole, we need not worn' about such
exceptions. We know the power of the
influence of environment on men, and
the “laggard” will not be satisfied with
dry bread when he sees that all his
neighbors are living on roasts.
The incentive to work is the necessity
the desire to live. Toasted sausages do
not hang in the air, pastries do not grow
on elderberry bushes, nor can hats or
houses be fished from streams. As I ex
plained to you in a former letter, with
the necessity to produce the means of
life comes wholly unconsciously and as
a matter of fact the desire evermore to
develop and improve the methods for
the production of these necessaries of
life, so tbet in ever shorter time, with
ever less exertion ever greater qnantities
may be produced.
Work under Socialism would there
fore not be the nerve-racking drudgery
that it is under capitalism, but a joy,
which for the first time in the history of
mankind would make possible of real
ization the old German proverb, “Work
sweetens life. ”
Now to the question, “Under Social
ism who shall perform the dirty work ?
The question could be easily answered
by pointing to the development of mach
inery, throgh the citing of the fact that
some dirty work which was formerly —
before machinery appeared--- quite an
unpleasant task for men, is today per
formed by an “iron colleague”; and
may therefore justly be expected that
this development cf machinery- and the
general progress of invention will not
cease under Socialism. For instance, the
modern sewerage sy-stem connected with
the plumbing In houses, has made the
surely unpleasant work of emptying
privvies a thing of the past. This is only
one of the many examples which I could
cite. But I shall throw light on the ques
tion from a different angle.
What is ‘'dirty-work” any way ? Wash
day- for our women is surelv no clean
and pleasant work, but they perform it
nevertheless without a murmur, because
it is necessary. Modern public laundries,
equipped with the moat perfect machine
will, under Socialism relieve our women
of this “dirty work.” liven at present
many women of the prosperous classes
would not think of tolerating the laun
dry in the home, and they have their
wash done in "laundries.”
Much dirty “work” today is performed
not by- “common” badly- paid workers,
but by highly educated and well situated
men. t
The work of the phy-sician, the sur
geon, and the midwife is nothing less
than “clean,” but then it is well-paid;
secondly-, it is necessary-; and thirdly, it
is o f great interest t o the one who per
forms it. No work it “dirty” which is
necessary and of interest to those who
perform it.
Who will clean the streets in the futuue
The machine. Who will shovel dirt? The
machine. Who will clean the stalls o f
horses, cows, etc.? The one who has a
liking ar.d a n interest i n the caring o f
animals. You could not name a siugle
‘dirty” job that would stump Socialism.
But there is certain "dirty work” which
THE FAIR Reopened on Friaday 9th,
January at its NEW LOCATION, Formerly
Simson Bros. Dry Goods store-Entrance on
Second Avenue
Where we will be Pleased to serve
Oar patrons as heretofore
Goldstbeam Hotel
JOHNSON AND BAKBETTINE
TELEPHONE EOX CITY, ALASKA
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
rooms and:bunks good warm stable
Oldest And Largest Hotel
In Fairbanks.
Warm Stables And Dog Houses.
DAVE PETREE, PROP.
FRISS’ COFFEE HOUSE
Thoroughly renovated aud rebuilt
First Gass Baths, Furnished Rooms, Lunches,
Reading Room and Writing materials
Electric 8ight|and|atl accomodations. The worker’s home
FRONT STREET FAIRBANKS, ALASKA,
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Wholesale and Retail Bread; Cake$ and Pies
See Cream Parlors In Connection
Creek Orders Promply Pilled
Hot Bread For Dinner
Second Avenue Next Orpheum Theater Phone 184
no doubt no one would like to perform,
and it i s well that i t i s so. I mean the
‘‘dirt}’ work” by which to-day certain
judges, lawyers and politicians "earn”
money a-plenty, dirty work which, true
enough, does not soil hands and'clothes,
but besmirches character. And it is just
these morally corrupt sinks that thunder
loudest against Socialism.
As in a well ordered family the un
pleasant housework i s allotted and per
formed without a murmur, so also in the
Socialist Commonwealth,-—which in the
past analysis is nothing else than a great
family with common interests— wjays
and means will be found to have the
most unpleasant work performed. Who
desires to eat bread, must not shirk the
work—of sowing the wheat and knead
ing the dough.
In my next letter I shall try to answer
your recent question, “Will not reforms
help?”
Till then, best greetings.
Your friend Paul.
—THE WEEKLY PEOPLE,
GARDEN ISLAND BRANCH
Of LOCAL OLNESS
Socialist Party
will hold their regular meeting
every Saturday, at 7 P. M., at
•
Emil Pozza's Cabin, Garden Island
until fqrthe arrangements are made
EMIL POZZA, SEC.