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tty Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill anti Sin elter Workers.
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Nome. Alaska, November 12, 11117.
WOMAN \.\1> THE HAI.I.OT.
Tin- pronuunced victory of tlie
suffrage proposition in the New
York Election is the crowning re- j
ward of a quarter of a century of
rin-4 effort. It is noteworthy that
i her*- is now a g.-ureal acceptance
of tin belief that the political eman
cipation is shorth 10 he nationwide.!
Women generally should ho caution- I
< (1 that the ballot is far from all i
sufficient and does not bring to I
the great majority the desirable
boon of equal right . the movement'
toward .vhich had begun at a date |
much further back in woman's long
druggie for emancipation from the:
long night of sox slavery which lmsl
been her unhappy portion.
About one hundred and fifty year- j
ago. that tedious windbag and un
imaginative “practical man". Ed
mund Burke. (the model for so j
many American politicians from j
John Adams to Ex-President Taft,
sang the swan song of chivalry.
The dying chivalry lie mourned for
was tiie ystem of velvet phrases
and tinsel political etiquette that
gave a pleasant vtuieie to two un
pleasant social facts: the parncitism
of woman on men, and the parasit- i
ism of a few hereditary idlers on
«i.-.'c-n-t ■'_■!; 1 o. the total iioiiulation.
This i ::ct Burke’s dc cription of
i Uivairy. it is what flic word actu
ally stood for And Burke himself
gave the whole show away by iiT
veighing bitterly against women
who demanded Iredorn in place of
all homage paid to the se.\. and
who seornfulh repudiated "all tic
pleasing illusions which made power
gentle and obedience liberal."
Among, thote who answered the
111 u trious phrasemaker was Mary
Wollstonecraft. In her “Vindica
tion", this remarkable woman made
hash of Burke’t “masculine ’ logic
and scorched his polished fatuity
to ashes. Her reply had an even
more startling effect. For (he first!
tine in history. a whole nation
pricked up its ears while a woman,
isi the fir t person, spoke out bold
ly lor women’s rights. li >vas a
piece of dramatic spokesmanship
foretasting the self-assertion of a
whole sex.
Mary Wollstoii. • iv." w.i . but on.
of a group ot nun and wa.nen who
were saying emphatically utat the
time had come for taking a leaf out
of Plato’s Republican and giving
women a direct intern t in affairs
of state. It was a small group, a
paltry minority in the British body
politic. But it was a minority with
one of those bomb-like ideas which,
when exploded, can hoist a nation
from its lethargy. ITihu kily. tin. re
whs l.o force strong enough, in the
Eighteenth Century, to explod'1 this
mental bomb charged with a belief
in the rights of women. And so the
human movement which the VVoll
stonccraft . the Shelleys and their
kind had set on foot descended,
with very slight accretions to a
small minority in the next. Eor a
hundred years or more, the idea
that men and women should hold
equal political rank (to say nothing
of equal scciul rank) was kept in
intelkctna ! seclusion. The great
majority 01 citizens cl both exes
derided er feaied the idea as a mad
notion held by harmless freaks like
the Quakers or by dangerous fana
licti like the Utopian Communists.
Meanwhile, an industrial Vesuvius
belched its horros upon ocietv and
changes of a slow but disrupting
character crept into the workshops,
tin1 market-place, and the home.
The social innovations cane noise
lessly, hut all the same they were
as revolutionary ac machinery,
rims, women, unmarried women. |
began to earn their own livings. I
And though a elf-supporting wo-1
man was at fiis.t an object of great-!
or public odium than a parusiticalb [
supported man, the right of unmar
ried women to nn independent live-!
lihood was at length made triumph
uitly secure.
The new order c.l' things was not
attacked vim ferocity, nr r was it'
welcomed with demonstrations of
piililii gratitude. Either of these
courses lay open hi nier.: the first;
had they b on duller and more cow- I
ardly thru they were: the second,/
had they beer wii.er and more dur-;
ing. As it w:.s^ tlie i tost moment- j
■ ms change the economic position
of women has undergone ir, modern
fines, was received in a perfectly
normal human way, that is, with a
•ni'ture ot suppressed hostility and
Miller resignation.
Thu*. the ell iu.iportoig spinster
led the woman’s movement to its
lint success through a silent econo
mic revolution. A second success
was foreshadowed when young wo
men refused lo surrender ‘.heir ac
quired fa te for self-support to the
irrelevant fact of marriage. This
second revolution is not yet com
plete. All the obstacles with which
bullying majes and kept females
blocked the independence of the
spinster have been multiplied a
thousand fold to block tne inde
pei dcnc? of the wife. Yet no fact
in modern life is .dearer that, that
tie- emancipation of the parasitic
mairied women is following the
emancipation of lie parasitic un
married woman as inevitably as the
right foot fellow the left.
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On tin sccre of immediate gain,
the driving mindss in the move
ment for women’s rights cl; -ris 1; no
illusions. They know that the tote
will not emancipate women in any
thoroughgoing sense, that it will j
no*, put men and women (or even i
women and women) on am equal I
economic footing, that it will not so
much as yield women equal pa^v for
equal work. Yet men who uphold
the great tradition of liberty^ (not
by imitating its forms but by per
petuating its initiative), are urgent
ly inviting women to share the
tranch e. Why? because the vote
extended to the ether sex, will have
a significance out of all proportion
tots face value. It will be a pub
lic record of the two revolutions
that women have queitiy effected
in their economic status. It will
be a convenient tool for putting an
end to the pecuniary parasitism of
one sc-x upon the other. It will be
a symbol of a spiritual change in
the relationship of men and women,
a change from association for
chiefly gallant or matrimonial pur
pose;', to co-operation for chiefly
social struggle ior political equal
ity; enter, the solid strugle tor eco-1
noink equality. For the first time I
in any nations.; history, all the adult j
citizens of both sexes will have the |
constitutional right to make their |
eeinomi' needs articulate in ttie j
first time in any national history,
al the adult citizen, of both sexes I
will have the corstituiton.il right!
to make their economic needs arti
culate in ti.e fir; t person. The si
tuation opens up the most dramath
I i
>p:.oi tuntms. For if men and \\o-j
men can ever learn to assert this
right in effective concert, civilized j'
democracy wi.l begin.
mtnwiz VITON.
For those who deny the value of
voneerted action and who sneer at
organization we herewith present
the tale of the team ter and his
prospective employer.
Answering an advertisement for a
competent ter mster an intelligent
looking young fellow showed up in
camp.
‘Can you drive?” asked the boss.
Without a word the teinrtcr siiot
his whi] thru the air and ; erioved
a buferfly from a tlower without
stirring a leaf, made a quick move
and snapped off the snake’.ii head,
crocked the whip and killed a Horse
fly in midair, then smiled triumph
antiy at the boss as it' to say “I'm
some teamster."
"Pretty good,” said the boss.
"New. .ut thr.t hornets' no t frmi
the limb yonder.”
"Like Hell I will,” replied the
1e nsler. “They’re organizeil!"
WE CAN* IIO IT.
For dr«t clu..s nor» ana {iron pi
dellrery pb >ne Main Irtl and Hie
People’s Steam Laundry all ci L
and get your laundry.
W. J. WILLI AMMO > Prop
CITY HATH HOU3K
has the largest
and only 0 feet
Itath Tubs lr Nome.
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VfOuta^
CLOVER LEAF ERAND
ARE NOW M/aDE BY THE NEW VACUUM
PATENT •
PRESSURE
PROCESS
PATENT
PRESSURE
PROCESS
OF WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH
OTHER BRANDS HAVE COME BACK TO
THOUSANDS
GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU LL SOON LEARN
WHY THE OTHER KELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
At ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS
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LIBERTY BONDS
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Seattle bank to order of purchaser.
GKT BEHIND OUR GOVERNMENT.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
! Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
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JKARLY LAST SPRING \VK PLACED AX ORDER WITH
ONE OK TIIE GOVERNMENT CONTRATORS FOR ARMY
SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON" LAST: GOME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
YOU MAY SOON HE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
SAM” HUT WHY WAIT?
| P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
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Pole
Bakery
& Coffee
House
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BREAD
10c. per it if
3 Loa\es 30c.
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Anvil
Bakery
and
Coffee
House |
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is prepared to handle
all kinds of
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JOB PRINTING
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work. Call up Black
134 or call at
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