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thy Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. *40. W estern Federation of Miners.
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•early as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
anranam Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1311, at the post office at
Nome, - Aiassa, under the Act of March I, 1873.
Nome, Alaska, Juno 20, 1010.
MORAL WAVES.
There is no good reason why if
any one man or any one official !
feels like it Nome should not enjoy
the privilege of a reform wave. 1
These things have swept over many j
more pretentious cities and the mere
fact that they dissipate their energy
in a series of well advertised vibra
tions that came to nought is imma
terial.
So we all take a great interest in
«he movement :o close the restrict
ed district which the District Attor
ney has so lately begun. It might
have been done sooner, but obvious
ly with some men and with some
officials there is no account
ing for notions and some
may think better late than
never. The desirability of enforcing
the statute against prostitution and
the like may only be questioned if
its feasibility is in doubt, and seri
ously if Nome is to maintain its vir
tue by sloughing off its vice upon
some other city or district, the
country at large is very little im
proved.
Moreover every one knows that
prostitution cannot be conducted
ulono. It involves at least a male
t.nd female and why attention
should be directed to the residents
of the restricted district and not at
•ill to the patrons is due without a
doubt to the dual system of moral
ity that prevails.
In the humble estimation of this
paper, morally there is not a pea's
difference between the man who
enters the restricted district and
the woman who caters therein
to his wants. And a reform can be
brought about just as effectively by
prohibiting men from entering a re
stricted district and if they insisted
upon so doing arresting them, in
stead of harrassing the women from
place to place, subjecting them to
all kinds of coercion and visiting
upon them the entire severity of the
law as if they were the only guilty
ones, when they are far more sin
ned against than sinning.
A long residence in Nome has fa
miliarized us with the fact that
members of the very elite of Nome’s
four hundred, patrons of the
Churches, respectable and well to
do citizens of the community have
been steadfast patrons of the re
stricted district. It did not seem
to disturb their friends or their
friend's friends and between them
selves and even now they admit or
affect to believe that the restricted
district is social necessity.
As we see it, the vice exists not
because of the depravity of th6
women, but because of certain in
stincts in the men to which women
who otherwise cannot make a living
have to cater to exist. It is cer
tainly a matter of absurdity that
when this question is considered .t
is solely considered as if the wo
men were the only persons involved
in the violation of the statute, or
involved In the breach of conven
tional morals which the restricted
district represents. Now that vice
exists outside such districts. And
its most vicious form is seen in the
degradation of many native girls
which we see on the streets from
time to time, but that is only an
incident.
Any way, first dispose of the
fact that the males who patronize
the restricted district are just as
much guilty as the women therein
sand then inquire why it is no coer
cive measures are taken to affect
such patrons. That is a question
which was settled long ago by the
suggestion that he who was without
stain should hurl the first stone
against the woman, and on that hi
storic occasion there were no stone
throwers.
Prostitution is an evil—an unmi
tigated evil. But it’s the product o\
the system. It’s one of the ulcers
which society, fattening upon capi
talism is not proud of, and which it
conceals in restricted districts and
covers with wooden walls so that it
will not be seen or heard. But it
ulcers all unseen and spreads its
pestilence in the shape of venereal
diseases throughout the community
so that from time to time the com
munity sits up and takes notice of
the domestic tragedies which are
melancholy expressions of the so
cial horror at its own filth.
Here are the majority of these
women driven to the life they lead
either by men's betrayal, or by eco
nomic conditions unable to follow
any other vocation except in the
dreary prison of some so-called re
forming home. The economic fact
that few males can support wives
drives them to be the patrons of
these places and the system flo Ir
ishes.
How many people know that with
the industrial growth of each com
munity, with the number of lowly
paid workers, the evil keeps even
step? But that is the case. It is
necessary to provide this perversion
of instinct for the prevention of
criminal assaults or out and out
sexual degeneracy. In frontier
camps like Nome to reform the
place is not to be sure impossible,
provided within that community
the male sex have reached a stage
whore they can regard continence
a3 possible. If not the consequences
of the abolition of a system of mo- I
rality is hallowed by hypocritical
antiquity will be worse than the ac
tual evil itself.
It is a hard lesson to learn that
never yet has anyone succeeded in
legislating morality into a com
munity. The community is
just as good as its individ
ual members. The reform must be
gin with the individual and to re
quire a community to lift itself to
some high plane of morality witn
its own boot straps is to try the im
possible.
They tried that elsewhere and
they tried it in Nome, but never yet
anywhere not even in Nome with
any success. They were glad to get
back to former conditions because
the conditions were adjusted to the
needs of the individual.
We understand and sympathize
with Mr. Saxton's position in this
matter. He is the duly accredited
official to see that the laws on the
statute books are enforced anfi he
is doing his duty. We only regret
that he does not show the same ar
dor in looking to the enfo.cement
of the eight hour law, but that is
by the way.
Yet it is quite clear that the
blame cannot be saddled wholly
upon the women. Every patron i3
equally guilty; everyone profltting
by, supporting, aiding or abetting
the condition that is illegal is surely
breaking the law.
How many in this community then
ore scatheless? How many are
there who do not profit directly or
indirectly by the traffic? The store
keeper enjoys a revenue, the land
lord gets his whack, the light, tele
phone and even the city by taxing
excessively the landlords indirectly
profit by the condition of things.
We all share in it. And while we
see in the evil all kinds of vicious
ness we thank God that the money
that comes from it doesn’t smell
and is untainted.
It is untainted. The Industrial
Worker has a few subscribers in
the restricted district—not many,
but just a few. We notice nothing
foul or vicious or tainted about
their money. Yet in contributing to
the comfort or enlightenment of the
women therein, doubtless this paper
also does its share to keep it
agoing.
But, and here’s tho point, the In
dustrial W'orker has many sub
scribers also among those who pa
tronize the Institution, and so far
we have never seen any difference
between the morals of the women
and the morals of the men.
Taken altogether surely under
he canopy of Heaven there is nc
nore pitiful object than the prosti
ute. Subject to official scrutiny
md tyranny and coercion at all
imes, at the beck and call of every
petty larceny grafter, the victim of
Wan’s inhumanity to women in ad
he calendar of sorrows whose
Might is so helpless and so miser
ible as hers? We have nc. time for
;he man or the men who scoff at
these women, anil when so many of
them do, sneak into the all"y in the
alack of the night like the moral
thieves they are, what can we have
[or them but so much contempt?
Human beings are not all bad
jven the worst of them; but our
system of morality i3 not improved
by making us hypocrites. When the
women flaunt their vice and the
men cover up theirs, in our humble
estimation the man is worse than
the women for he is adding to his
depravity the vice of hypocrisy.
However that is not a general
view and may be passed up.
There is another aspect of the
case worth consideration and that is
that either of two things have to
be done; either the women will
spread around town where formerly
they were located in a restricted
district, or they will have to be put
out of the country.
In one event the law will only
have apparently been complied with,
in the other its letter will have been
lived up to. But will it end any
kind of sexual immorality in this
community? That is the practical
side of the question. Will it render
those who are not prostitutes safer
or those more likely to be thi vic
tims of men’s passion less easily as
sailable? Lecky in a memorable
passage in his history of European
morals says that the fallen woman
is really the protector of the cha3te
woman's virtue. That is hardly de
niable. The reform in this case
must begin not with the women but
with the men. This system of dual
morality, different standards for
women and for men is wrong in
fact and theory. If we are to be
come chaste and continent, and most
of us from our youth to old age
have to confess with Holy Willie in
the prayer “Oftimes I’m fashed wi’
warldly lust”, it‘s In ourselves and
with the male section of this com- j
munity that the reform must begin, j
The women of the restricted district |
ire the effect of male immorality, j
OVERSTOCKS!/.
ro the Public:—
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased the
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
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we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
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REPAIRING
Ladles and Gentlemens Clothes.
CITY BATH HOCSIlt.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Boll
ing Hot).
M. O. SOLBERG.
BUTTER
WE HAVE RECEIVED A SHIP
MENT OF “SWEET BRIAR” BUT
TER. THIS IS OUR OLD RELI
ABLE BRAND WHICH WE AL
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TO INSURE THE ORIGINAL
SWEETNESS.
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PHONE WHITE 17.
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Ol'KH IIAV AND NIGHT
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4. way points, including Bluff, ■]
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S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
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JULY 25.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 15.
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JULY 11.
AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1.
OCT. 29.
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bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enough to al
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the railroad
j | to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct
by the outside route to Seattle.
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1R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
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HIPRESS
Rubber Boots at $10. a pair
Shoe Packs at $5.50
ONE PRICE TO ALL
Cheap John Store
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MR. MINER
For Hose, Tents,
and Canvas, See
PHIL MURPHY
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