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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1*11, at the poat office at I
wome, ■ Alasisa, under the Act of March I. 187*
"To secure to each laborer tile whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good goyernmeiit.”—
hhrabam Llncola
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Address all Communication to Dally Nome Industrial TTorkee,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black IS*.
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Nome, Alaska, November 2,’t, 1017.
MAN.
.lust how long mail has existed
on the earth is not known. It is
safe to assume, however, that it
ha. been many thousands of years.
The written history of the human
rare reaches hack into the past but
a few thousand years at most. All
that we know ol' the race prior to
that has been gathered through a
study of the relics of ancient civi
lizations and conclusions drawn
front the ol> creations of the more
primitive peoples now extalit. The
result of the most careful research
leads conclusively to the fact that
man was not always the wonderful
creature, as we know him today
with his highly developed faculti
ties and his wonderful control over
the force, of nature. It is gener
ally conceded that back in the per
iod of remote antiquity he was low
in the scale of being, with ill de
veloped faculties and little if any
thing to distinguish him in habit
and instinct from the other ani
mals that roamed the earth. But
at lasl he raised himself above the
other.- h> taking on one peculiar
i haractcristic or habit which ha
.■Vi r since lr cn the distinguished
merit : , :.rating him from all other
animal kind. Thai chara.-terislic or
hai'ii was li e making and using of
tools with which to p. : his 'living.
Ail other animals rely solely upon
tho e nuans which nature has sup
plied then), tooth, fang and riav..
oi l i \mo\> «ii sot i \i.inm.
l Standard Dictionary, i
"Socialism is a theory of civil
policy that aims to secure the re
construction of society, increase of
wealth, and a more equal distribu
tion of the products of labor,
through the collective ownership of
land and capital, and the public col
lective management of all indus
tries. It motto is everyone accord
ing to his deads." (This same defi
nition, word for word is given in
the Standard Encyclopedia.)
(Century Dictionary.)
Socialism i. at > theory or sy
- ni of social organisation wuirh
v on id a hoilsi. entirely, or in great
pa; t. i In hull . id n . i < ii erl :i\d coin
j cl it ion on wn cli a. o • a > • a t .•
r sis, cad i ,t it ilto lor it incpi
I'Miii s\ ten v.hii n ..'I intro
duce a mor > perfect ami •"I’t'il dis
tribution of the p.-odin es ot labor
and would make Ian 1 and capital
as the tnstruiscc;s and means of
production, tin* joint possession of
the members of the community."
l Web ters International Dictionary)
‘Socialism: A theory or system
| of social reform which contemplates,
la complete reconstruction of society
with a more just and equitable dis
tribution of property and labor.
In popular usage, the term is often
employed to indicate any lawles ,
revolutionary social schemes.”
(Encyclopedia Britiannica. I
"Ethics of Socialism and the
I ethics of Christianity are identical.
I The general tendency is to regard j
j socialistic any interference under-.
I taken by society in behalf ot the
poor. In general it may he de
j -cribed as that movement which
I seeks, by economic changes, to de-j
| strov the existing inequalities of j
| the world s social conditions."
■ (Johnson's Eniversal Cyclopedia.)
"Sociali-m is a moral reform; it
is the vices of mankind asd the
miseries resulting from these vices,
to which Socialism wishes to put an
end, and it seeks it. means not in a
new religious issue, bu! in a new
i social organization.”
j (American Year-Book, Cyclopedia |
and Atlas.)
"So word has been more abused
j and misunderstood than the word.
i "Socialist." The Social) t is not an
'anarchist, the'. ..re opposed in theo
. ry and practice. The Socialist does
not propose to destroy the family,
j a hi lisli religion or divide up pro
le riy. tier does he seek to carry out
litis ideas by riot and blood bed. In
a single phrase Socialism means
public ownership of the means of
production and working class con
i trol of the government, a chance
' to work for ail who will, and to all
workers the full value of their pro
duct. The typical Socialist i. a
rather quiet apd thoughtful work
ingman. setene in time of trouble
ami self-ocntainc d in the day of
victory. He realizes tnat the world
will move on very well after he is
dead, but he remembers that while
he lives it is is his hunities, tc help
the world move. He considers him
self an ally ol eternal laws 01 na
ture and is proud to do his little
pact in the great cane."
SLAVES.
Slaves were at one timi black in
color. But now they generally are
i white. They are of all ages— from
ten years up—and are very useful.
| not only because of their labors
j but also from the fact that they
furnish our leading magazines with
artic les to supplement tlit ir adver
tisement-, and our clergymen with
topics for their sermons.
it was thoif. u at one time that
slaves might go out hut. in having
been demonstrated that they are
necessary for the maintenance of
Clnistian idea’s they have become
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more firmly e tablidhed than ever. J
At one time rtaves w- re bought j
and sold in market planes >v pri->
vate men ot' means, at retail. Now
that they are employed by whole
sale and rosn ed by the govern
ment. this practice has gone out. I
There i„ another difference he-1
tween the one of to-day which j
might be n; 1’itioi ed. The old-time |
slave knew that lie was a -lave.
The sia\e i today doesn't know
it. He thinks he is free, it having
been discovered that when a slave
is laboring under this delusion lie
call no about twin: as mu n work. I
111 an hour o solemn and stup
endous, so fraught and so swift, j
there is no place for compromise,
there is no time for neutrals. In
sui h a crisis neutrality is hypocri-y
or delusion. Humanity's days of
judgment recognize no neutrals.
And there are none In tact, What
passe for neutrality, if it is not a
covert trea-oil to the right, is an
evasion, springing from self-decep
tion or cowardice; it is a moral
incapacity, a spiritual sickliness. In
a war between good and evil, the
failure to discern and supoprt the
good is an a-aential choice of the
evil.
An outside paper says that it has
been estimated that the war has al
ready c*. st $100,000,000,000; nine
and three-quarter million have been
killed and twelve million more have
been crippled for life. In view of
such trifling cos' and at tlie same
tin e taking nto con ideration the
noble purpose of making 'the world
safe for democracy’ especially the
kind we now have it should be per
missible to kill every pacifist on
sight. There can be no reasonable
excuse for their existence in our
mo=t glorious civilization. Of
course, should the cost of the war
run up to unreasonable proportions
a lew of the detestable breed might
he tolerated in order to give ex
pression to the skimmed milk phi
losophy of peace and keep th" me
mory of the gently Nazarene fresh j
and green in ca-e we again find it j
politic to profess his faith in order
to evade penalty for our sins and ;
i ii ai the devii of what is his due |
on our account.
Viet -President .Marshall, in an I
address it .New York city recently. ]
tated "that the world cannot tie
made safe lor murder and arson
and pillage and anarchy aiul every
thing fo- Which the syndicalist and'
the 1. \V \V. nay stand." Quite
Irue. brother, quite true. Hut. by
the wav. excuse us for mentioning
it but neither the syndicalist nor
the i. W. W. are responsible for
\ the delightful exhibition of “muru
I er and ar-cn and pillage and anar
chy" being pulled off for the glory
and. gratification of an admiring
ruling class world, over in Europe
just now. At least let us give them
credit for that. They may be a
I mut derous lot, but somebody has
I go' them skinned at the murder,
arson, pillage and anarchy game.
Mr. Deal, the undertaker, was
liefer at a lo s lor an answer when
anyone attempted to poke fun at
I him or his profession. One da> a
j would-be wit. meeting hint, re
I marked.
‘Yours must he a gruesome busi
ness. Mi. Deal. I suppose you un
dertaker,,, never look at a man with
oui wishing him dead?”
‘You are mistaken,” replied the
undertaker. "I know some people
| whom 1 would he perfectly willing
; to bury alive!"
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