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3>y Nome Mine Worker*'’ Union. No. 2U>. International Union of Mine,
Mill ami Smelter Workers.
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Knteri ti jib second class natter March 1, 1911, at the post otflce st
some, Alassa, unaer the Act ot March 8 187*.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
e«r.rly its possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at bIx
o'clock each evening to Insure Insertion in the following Issue.
Advertising rate3 made know.! on application.
Add-tss all ComcnurlcationB to Lilly .Non*- Industrial ork*-r,
Hot £ 10 Nome, Alaska. ['hone, black 1*,.
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VI'-* ( •■!!:-■ -riui, ill newspaper.- b;
‘n.rring tin in from the mail in
iv.-s lun point-first tin- <|Ues
■ ion of censorship itself, and. se< ond
tl,.. n. or applying t!i>' e nsor
p. As to tin- first point, tlie
•espionage law provides definitions
rules of procedure and penalties.
nr tills prAision no newspaper
). i.s ii..*-ii adjudged guilty of break
ing tin- law. and the editors and
p i lisin i.s retain their «itizeiTs
rights and privileges. But under
into law and mon e peeially,
lino, r : v.• H r ei.gniz ! < x-'oni anil
i.r.e ' • • tie- of!.- of tIn post
oil: ■ i- earl.... :.l fiivi adjudged 11
■ . . ' i. a iiii;. and stripped
li ;• • liter- ini ; tl lisin rs of th !r
,1.. i.'s rdl.i- ti. use of the mails.
Thu is raised tie poll.: that, while
i li • ! ran- h of govi rt.ntet.t i harg. d
with enforcing th - law and re
fer. and punishing violators
linds no fault i ..a.n.itt. d another
depart in.-t ' oi tlie govern
i-harged '-'I; the pt'O
itii ;t i<-tl of the e\ 1: tinge of in
1 li. 1 - I'!; . and liaving no constitu
lioi -i! rttti,; to judge or p i tisli,
ill a • s .. matter ei faet. pas? j pig
ment and administer punishim lit.
. ’r- .• rmi.- :. - ::••!: a ttt: l.idj tst
.j - u nr.;, s • in. it is not due to the
1 •• sent i risis. Imt is of long stand
I; originat'd in the early day.
. a th* government, when the postal
- .nr: meat was given power by
. , gross to exclude obscene matter
from the mails. Later power to ex
clude fraudulent matter waj : tided.
.ann 10 (ins loutTi iinins nni- in
cluded. None of these provisions
of law need have woked much hard
ship had not the courts chosen to
treat the postal department on the
same basis as the military depar -
nients and denied appeal from ts
rulings. I'nder this condition a
practice has been built up by means
of which the postmaster gencnl
inn and does regulate businesses
that depend upon the mails. Sin h
citizens as he beli v s are doing a
fraudulent business In- < an v.-’t! o •:
other procedure tV-tv U !• ova
liepartment, ex< mail
privileges. Ily tilt.
I.e.vis banking business of St. Louis
in 1 ft01 was wrecked. 1m-teeth- .
of the postofli'-e liepartment invest:
ytated the hank, dn-land it to be a
fraud, and tlie postmaster general
withdrew its mailing privilege. 'I his
threw the business into the hands
of a rei ejver. who found the bank
solvent, paid all deposits in fllli
and had left for the stotkto !e-s
not only ther investments, hut iargi
dividends. The receiver and a
suited banking authority declared
tine bank to be sound and to be run
rung on sound principles. Ye- the
• ourts would not interfere to pc -
serve the rights and property ol
men who without due process ol
law. had been deprived of thos
rights by a governmental depart
ment.
• This is the essence of the preseni
situation. I'nder cover of author
Itv built up by the accumulation o!
accretions and precedents tlie post
office department assumes the pr-sei
to deny mailing privileges to news
papers that it thinks have broker
the Espionage law. It is not r
question of breaking of censorship
it is onlv a question of what th<
pots office department think", Th<
-suppression of these newspaper!
may or may not have been just in
.dde; the question h:is not been pas
sv-d upon by the regularly const i
luted authorities.
Vost offic" censorship is r.n «-x
Viiession of an evil practice that i:
ev-ry vlii !n springing ui when no
pular vigilant, relaxes. It is :
.subtle means of doing by indirec
lion what popular opinion will no
permit to he done by direction. I
ia to executiv; functions v> 1 i..t lh<
- j-id. is to l. gi.dative action, and
v no
injunction i- to court
i favorite trick if poli
m < s.- if l in* tank of
statt.-n. a is to attach a measure
that i• r. he j.: . scrl on its own
tner':- to a not nor measure that must
aside ti;e guarantee of trial by
jury do ro by having a court en
join an act ion that is already for
bidden : v law. Tli n the offender
can Ik tried, not for breaking the
lav.- but for disobeying the in
junction. which is inti air in the
hands .4 the judge. The parallel
Ibef.vt tin- i nhsor.-hip of the post
< flic." ti: ti-c of t it ii: jut" ion
iu h<' i ' ■ is i ompV-ti , Ti: t
one |.-■ i c y inlet.d for p " o‘ lit r
I'll . - u • ■ , i . . on.; ': t: ; .
i. ! r :.!!y conies within tin
author.-., of aiii'iur ’ ual power:
a lid ■ . : of this use of the
wrong l.c t i y things are dor that
woui.i no: lie possibb under tile re
And men who wish to set
gUlarl;. < .instituted rour.-f of pro
cedure.
The 11u( : it: of whether tii<- post
off.. •• ih part men*. is to exercise the
power to punish citizens who have
not he. » tried according to law is
of grave importance at this time
In- n.'. of the enlargement
of on. rnmint funetioiis. Thf*re
j is little doubt that tile t. te
jar. ph and telephone will at an early
; day I). add d to the postal func
tions. Would that mean that tits
eitizens suspected by the depart
ment would be shut off from the
teh graph and the teletihone. as he
is now barred from the mails? And
there are those who believe the rail
roads wiil soon be tak 11 over by
the gov rnment. Would the same
principle apply there? Would the
editor or other person thought
guilty by a government official tie
pr; vented from riding upon or
shipping freight upon the railroad?
If. indeed, the governraent-by-in
jumtion principle is to be revived
i:i a government by departments
tin people will liestate to entrust
to their care any of these tunc
t ions.
This whole censorship fiuestic:
is quite simple. All the confusion
; and working at cross purposes by
Mite government and the publishers
j is due to the assumption of powet
by one department of government
that of right belongs to anoth. r
department. The determination .01
guilt and punishment and restraint
of the citizen lies in the legal de
partment. The post oifice department
can aid in discovering offenders
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LARGEST RUBBER COMPANY IN THE WORLD!
ALL
"CLOVER LEAF BRAND” '
RUBBER BOOTS &PACS
ARE NOW MADE BY THE NEW VACUUM?'
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PATENT
PRESSURE
PROCESS
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PATENT
PRESSURE
PROCESS
THOUSANDS OF WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH lor-U'A’C
rtvV-.r'* OTHER BRANDS HAVE COME BACK TO EUREKA S
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GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU'LL SOON LEARN
< WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
At ALL FIRST-ClTASS DEALERS
OVER FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES!
but it has no legal means of de
| termining their guilt. If it be de
I tided that we are to censor the
j press. let it be done by order;.
! procedure that will give to the : -j
| .-used all the legal safeguards tlim |
j society has provided for offenders, i
j The present method t omes u;. ;■ t ,
| i . itht r martial !;.w nor civil l..w; j
i it is irrit tins in tit ' extreme; and j
. , , ... i
it visits upon lncnviouals hards;.
that should he suffered by no e;
: tizens except as punishment for
|- rime of which they have be; n riuij i
j convicted by law.
Even were the present course o;
I the government ot malicious iticep- |
j lien, wi.it h it surely is not. it would j
| defeat its own purpos-. While the
j withdrawal of mailing facilities!
| may suppress a few papers alread>
in fmam i..i sirai -n it will stimulate1
others. The very matter that is
found too dangerous to he mailed,
may be hawk-, d about the Stroms. I
r sent by freight and express to;
iisiunt parts of the t untry. This!
. ion . in th • minds of the.
victim - : less f lir.g ct bit ■ r-;
| and a si use of mar;ynii m ,
| II; it j.r-'inpt.' per-i—’- : . e in th- ior
t hidden i f’.irse. The abmini/'r: tion '
j v.-iil sav- itself a great deal of uu
! nci - care t r ; -1:»i;* by restraining i!.
misdirected zeal ot tii • postal au-|
j thoritii-s: and Congress will fare
the best int rests of the citizen by
tratisferring from the post ofiict
department to the legal department
the work of detection and punish
ment of crime. Attaching riders to
bills is considered a low order ot
statesmanship, and government b>
injunction is in disrepute; how long,
! shall we have to endure the apple j
i cation of the same principle in the,
post office department?—Tile |
Public.
(.i tti\<;
LafolleUe i.as 1- -n a mar'.-: -.1
11 ■ an by ib i rivili> •! powers in
'lie I'nitcd Si:,i.'or many a b ; g
year. He ros.- in 1 In Senate anil |
lout lit tli- people's battle when tin- :
'people's battb was far from popu- j
ilar. ib- established insurgency in '
the republican party that purg.-it j
th" Cl. O. 1’. ol' its corrupt influen.es
' the great betrayal by Roose
velt brought back to tlie fold the
1.arose and the Cautions.
11 is fight lias never for one in
stant been allowed to reuse and bis
fight for r.n extension of popular
rights as against an . xtension of
private privilege lias been the hall
mark of the man’s public career.
This is saying something that every-I
! one knows is so.
I Xow when lie sees his duty,
| rightly or wrongly, leading him to
a certain policy in wartime anti
when lie particularly objects to the
efforts of the great interests to
escape responsibility for war tax
ation. he is to be denounced as an
obstructionist and under the cloak
of patriotism, the Black Hundreds
of America arc uniting to seal his
career by having him removed from
the Senate.
If an elected Senator of any
State is to tie branded as a traitor
because of representing the views j
of his constituents and himself as j
indeed he is sworn to do. the na
tion might as well dig a grave and;
• inter all that is
of this little old democracy.
! ii>S!MlSTir Views.
There are many people in Nome |
who have satisfied themseves that j
the wiiiter outlook is one that is no
thing very cheerful. They contend
that the number of people are go
ing outside will materially depress
business conditions and that for
that reason the prosp: ct is nothing
very encouraging. Those people
will if they arc fair minded admit
that they themselves are responsible
in no small degree for the exodus,
if exodus there will be. for the
Nome r< .ddents have coni" to be
■ • that if they remain in Nome
'h"'' will remain simply as easy i
marks to be skinned by Noma
husim -s men and they have r,o in
tention of again paying sevr n bucks
a crate for spuds, to cite a homely j
. x.imple. the same spuds that were |
shipped in tic previous win; r and;
sold fri dy af from fS.75 to >4 a]
cr:.t».
So if the businessmen will take
steps to reasure the people that
they will not lie subjected to the
same flaying process as they have
experienced last year, they might
do something to remove the i ause
of the pessimistic feeling that now
engulfs them in gloom.
But if they have succeeded in
reducing the people to the belief :
(hat if they remain in, they are toi
he subjects for the businessmen of J
Nome securing wartime price for
goods have been in stock for man>
years, it will take something to re- !
move this condition.
But it is not too late.
i
CITY HATH HOUSE
has the !a/gest
and only ft feet
Bath Tubs Ir Nome.
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The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
for Augustine *V Kjer Chorolates anil Itonlmiis,
riio (Jualitj of our llomc-Muile C'aiulic.s anil Nome Dairy Ire
( ream speaks for itself. ISreuil, I*astry anil good I.unrhes.
wokivi\<;mi:vs i.iNciii.s itt re.
SI A DAYS A X I) UKHMSDA VS I'KKSH WHHTIA) CHEAM
I> I l l'S.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP GO.
S. $. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE: LEAVE NOME:
Via Seward, Valdez and Cordova
Without Additional Charge.
Oct. 10th. Oct. 25th.
SAILING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
From Nome From Seattle
Oct. 3rd vssCN Oct. 15th. g
LAST SAILING OCT. 25TH.
RIGHT RESERVED TO CHANGE THIS SCHEDULE.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ALASKA L. & C. CO.
AGENTS
At Dork.
F. J. O'CONNOR,
Commercial Agent.
Front St. and Steadman Ave.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER ANI) OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
S. S. Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
DIME AND WAY POINTS
weather permitting
•!!
From Snake River.
CHAS WECKMAN.
INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.18
FOB SHE
ONE !S 111’. Corliss Enaine.
ONE <> Ell*. l airliaiiUs-Morse Engine.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER
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