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THK .NEW YEAR.
Because human beings have mark
ed the passage of time into certain
empirical divisions they console
themselves with thinking that time
itself may stand still a while and
forgetful of the fact that every day
marks the advent of a new year they
renew their wishes and their hopes
and their resolutions every New
Year's Day, so-called.
The New Year these days has lost
much of the significance which it
had in other ages when it marked
the passage of the winter and the
return of the Sun which came to
drive away the chilling snow's and
bring once again some earnest ot
the spring to human hearts.
Nowadays the celebration of the
New Year is more symbolical than
ever, if that symbolism is more or
less concealed than formerly. We
have not the sunworshipping festi
vals of our ancestors which sought
to appease the god of day and
warmth and heat and light that he
would revitalize the fields and the
seeds, and deliver later on Mother
Earth of a bountiful harvest which
would feed the hungry ones who
therein dwelt.
Nowadays we regard the passage
of each old year and the advent ot
the new more as the passage of old
and unhappy conditions and the ar
rival of the newer and more hopeful
prospects, and w’e embody that idea
of tills division of time in an expres
sion plentiful enough about this
time: when a happy and a prosper
ous New Year is wished all and
sundry.
Indeed there are many things that
mark each year in the passing that
we would he willing to see never re
turn, and to live in the hopes that
the New Year may not be stained
with those unhappy records. And
there are few lives socially or indi
vidually which cannot find matter
for hope that this will be so in the
coming time
And that is really the wherefore
of the New Year festivation and
why it always was. It was the tide
when human beings revived their
hopes and made it the day of sacri
fice to the goddess whose genial and
life-giving sentiment still sprung
eternal in the human breast.
If we were to wipe away hope
from the human breast, ii would he
a poor old world indeed. That it is
which has illumined many a dark
life and beckoned to many a bright
er vista. That hope dies often
enough in tbo horning may not be
denied; that hope deferred makelh
the heart sick is doubtless true. But
for all these things who is it that
would not rather take this life of
hope and die fasting, than pass his
existence unbrightened by a single
prospective dream of better things?
There is no reason for despair.
Although life may for many present
what appears the most hopeless com
plexion, it is almost certain the
hope for better things will stimulate
to action leading thereto.
The New Year certainly for the
workers whose life of toil has seen
many enriched and made happier by
the annexation of the product ot
that toil, is the harbinger of a tide
of affairs which with effort will be
brought about whereby the workers
will themselves be enabled to enjoy
the full product of their labor. It Is
quite true that such things will not
be brought about without some ef
fort, and that the millenium will not
be handed to us on a silver platter.
It is quite true also that there is
no royal road to such an achieve
ment without such efTort. But at the
same time that effort Is likely to be
the more successful and to be surer
of ultimate attainment If hopes of
success will add encouragement to
the labor for the ends sought.
Therefore it is that the future, all
uncertain as it may be, has nothing
but hope for the workers as a class.
The future is to them. And that
future will be to them in proportion
to the effort, the effort that In
volves strain, persistency and some
sacrifice.
IX HOT WATER.
The inadequate Adamson bill seems
to be in hot water in that it iiiiy
satisfies nobody except those politi
cians who possess the peculiar delu
sion that economic questions can all
of them be settled by legislative
fiat.
The desire of the politicians to
defer action until the illimitable wis
dom of a Supreme Court shall have
passed upon its validity does not
seem to be approved of by the broth
erhoods who see in such a survey of
the Adamson Law, merely a round
about if conventional way of undo
ing what Congress has done to settle
the eight hour dispute.
While many may not often agree
with Secretary Morrison of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, he un
doubtedly is correct when he said
that Labor had better settle its de
mands by the economic action than
through legislation. That the dis
putes that are settled by a strike
reach finality in that settlement is
not correct. But when labor ac
complishes its end even by that
means, labor is not subjected to the
judicial whims that now and then
astonish, delight or madden, accord
ing to the economic status of the
critic of that judicial action.
Strikes are not always successful.
In the majority of causes however
there have resulted some gains from
such direct action, and those gains
are not subject to overthrow by the
courts.
Moreover, it is a self evident fact
that labor to obtain control will be
doing it in a very circumlocutory
way if labor is to do it by political
action.
The experience of labor on labor le
gislation has been more or less of a
joke. There never has been one
single law passed in favor of labor
which had not to be torn from the
bosom of congress literally.
Recently a very great authority on
labor legislation, John B. Andrews,
said: “The phosphorus match bill
made no progress until it was pub
licly disclosed in a presidential year
that it had been refererd to a “se
cret sub-committee” for indefinite
postponement.
The new federal compensation bill
made no progress although twice
favorably reported until approaching
campaign conventions and a national
election gave vitality to a comatose
platform pledge of 1912. Other
striking illustrations could be given.
Are we to be forced to the conclu
sion that the way to get good labor
legislation passed by Congress fs to
drive congressmen into a political
corner and by publicity kick ’em ir
the political stomach?”
Unquestionably that is the case.
And when that “good” labor legisla
tion is an accomplished fact just as
often as not there arises some Solo
mon in ermine who is pleased to de
cide that it is against the constitu
tion.
On the other hand the facts of the
case for economic action are simple
and easily applied. Men have power
only through what they own. With
out any ownership the individual is
powerless. But when they have pos
session of something that the other
fellows need, and from which they
can exclude the other fellow, they
hold a certain amount of power. The
workingman owns just one thing:
his labor power. To that extent he
has some economical control. Press
ure of circumstances may compel!
him to sell it to another and thus
exchange it for a definite something.
Capital must buy that labor from
the individual that owns it, and In
relation to capital labor would be
absolutely powerless did labor not
own its labor power. Now the indi
vidual extent of that ownership is
small. And hence the individual ex
tent of that power which comes
from that ownership is small. But
when these individual rights over
labor power are consolidated into
a big Union, there is no end to that
power. It is as prime an industrial
necessity under capitalism as credit
or gold or the ownership of the ma
chinery. But it can realize Itself
only in labor solidarity and one
big union. Organization is the es
sential therefore of all success.
Without organization all economic
action must per se be futile. It is
practically impossible.
It is no use beating around the
bush in this matter. The victory
in industrial struggles comes to 'the
side that is possessed of the greatest
power. Ownership of the mq^nt
whereby the workers live gives that
property holder a great legal power.
He can deny the workers access
thereto. He can close down the
means whereby they live and can dc
it indefinitely and legally. He car
by placing such an alternative as
unemployment and hence starvation
before the workers reduce them to
submission. He has done it and will
do it. The lock-out is not so fre
quent as the strike, because the
lock out is not necessary; by the
constant threat of a lock-out hang
ing over those employed like the
sword of Damocles suspended by a
hair, the workers have been com
pelled to accept what is given them
or starve. That power is invincible
unless the individual power that is
hired by the owner of the machinery
of production and distribution is
also organized for defense. The onlv
thing that can be placed against the
power of property to control men’s
lives is the power of organized labor
to protect itself. That power will be
great or less according as the orga
nization is coherent or not, accord
ing as the greater or lesser solidarity
has become an accomplished fae;
or not.
This in fine is what is known as
the class struggle. It is really at
home on the economic field where it
was born and where it will die in
the abolition of the classes,
ployers and employed. Political fiats
usually are made in the interest of
one class or another. These laws
will reflect the power of one side or
another, and it happens that now
and then when organization is
strong enough to kick even the capi
talist minded in the political
stomach labor has wrested fron- the
politician with capitalist leanings
tolerable labor legislation. But it is
not permanent. It may be over
ridden by courts with capitalist
leanings or it may be repealed by
stronger capitalist legislatures. The
only labor accomplishments that
stand solid are those that are build
ed upon the rocklike foundation of
well organized economic strength
and are '.lie social realizations 4^
that will its strength and determi
nation that they shall so exist and
be so realized.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 1G, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good ) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. XJ. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 26
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office Hours: 2—5 and 7—8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
Greetings
TO OUR CUSTOMERS AN1» FRIENDS
Mitli l>est Wishes for your Prosperity and success for the
coniine Tear we extend to you.the
GREETINGS OF THE SEASON
and assure you of our earnest desire for a continuance of tiie
cordial relations existing be-iveen us
Respectfully
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, Hire M.
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Arctic Bakery
Wish to thank their many triends tor their patronage Past, Pre
sent and Future and wish everyone a Happy and
PROSPEROUS NEW TEAR.
v REMEMBER! We give one chance on a beautiful Work
Basket with every twenty-five cent Purchase or paid on account.
DRAWING JANUARY 1ST, AT a O’CLOCK AT THE CANDY
STORE. !
PRICES AGAIN REDUCED ON
FORD AUTOMODILES
Chassis price is now $ 325.00
| Runabout $ 345.00
Touring $ 360.00
F. 0. R. DETROIT
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Kemember it comes only once a year.
Christinas isn’t Christmas without a tree.
Nothing pleases and delights the children more than a Christmas
tree.
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them a tree.
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General Transfer & Freighting
C°al & Ql±
Phone Main 139.
TRY
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WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CAPS, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
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Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opening of Navigation we have received 3270 pairs
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