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.:.nu i > si .is second class matter March 1, 1911, a; the post office at
l ;uc, Alan.a, nDuer the Act of March 3, 1879
Nome, Alaska, April !?, 1 !)!<>.
There is a bill now before Con
gress which seeks to establish a fed
eral board of censors over the Mo
tion Pictures.
The idea is of course to suppress
those which “'are ovil, obscene, "in
decent or dangerous". That’s wide
enough to include everything.
It is not sufficient for the promot
ers of this movement that the man
agements of any film display that
places upon exhibition pictures
which outrage the moral sense of a
community are thus subjecting
themielves to prosecution and pun
ishment. They want to say what we
may and may not see.
There's a whole lot of people stay
awake nights wondering what’s to
become of the other fellow. Thev
plot and scheme and plan and de
vise ways and means or preventing
the other fellow straying from the
narrow path and it’s their own par
ticular business to say what is and
what is not the narrow path. They
want to control, govern, rule, regu
late the other fellow. It’s a disease
grown of the sure knowledge that
if you can rule you can exploit, and
if you can govern you can make a
profit out of a man, an instinct born
of slave ownership as a human ln
sitution.
It’s a pity people wouldn't think a
little more upon that torse saying
of the great escayist. “The sure cure
for the evils of liberty is more li
berty”.
That’s the last idea occurs to thes;
np-lifting minds.
Now take these movies. Why in
the world should there be any such
thing as a board of censors? If the
Dream or the Eagle show were to
place on the screen anything grossly
indecent, District Attorney Saxton
would hardly bo sltitng in his office
of a morning before a dozen com
plaints would be sworn and they
would land the theater folk in
M’Nelll’s Island before they knew
where they were at. They woull
show once, may bo, but popular
clamor might prevent even the film
being displayed its full length.
No motion picture show is going
to be a bit worse than its patron
ago, and you are not going to re
form the moral ixsrvert or the de
generate by making the shows pure
as the lily. As far as corrupting the
public morals is concerned, that is
not possible because the moral peo
ple will not stand for anything that
might do so. There is a natura.
moral sense in every community
and that requires no board of cen
sors to see that it is enforced.
Take the papers you read. Why
should not they be subjected to cen
sorship? Because everyone knows
that it would be utterly impossible
to pull off any sort of obscene stun;
without all kinds of prosecutions
following in the wake of such pub
li ition.
The trouble with a censorship is
that it is nevor confined to any
thing like moralty in the ordinary
sense of the term. These few moral
up-lifters are always butting in, and
they are almost invariably the tools
of the capitalist class. They doni
stop at censoring things which are
supposed to be inately immodest, but
they would destroy things that are
all that could he desired because
they see in its art, things suggestive
to their own minds.
When the suppression of a French
writer’s works was sought to be
brought about, a great critic saio
that in the every day lovey-dovey
novels there was more suggestion
that in the whole of the French
man's works, and he said that he
would take the most realistic writet
and he had rather place those books
iu the hands of a youth than such
suggestive works as those of Ouida
or Harrison Ainsworth or other “po
pular’ writers, now forgotten. The
romance was simply the cloak of at
exaggerated instinct became sugges
tive because of that very cloak, jusi
as clothing often artificially accent
bated the charms where the naked
ness of the savage is purity itself.
Most of the boosters for Uii3 cen
sorship were church people, or socie
ties of a strongly religious cast. AlJ
it is peculiar that they should wani
to effect through the law what they
have through.,their Christianity fail
ed to do.
| If they persist in making good
people of citizens of the state
through means of legislation, it
might perhaps be possible to ad
journ the churches sine die and
consider the legislators preachers,
and the legislatures the churches of
.the land.
i If the churches or any other edu
cational institution cannot keep up
the public morals to a .certain point
based upon rationality and intellig
ence it's a positive certainty that le
gislation is not going to do so.
I And it is about time those church
people who are beginning to legis
late purity into the nation, began
and asked themselves the why of ito
necessity?
i Oh, Ho! Here's the evaporating
gasoline once again! The price is
expanding even at a faster rate than
its own vaporization. Prom 11 to
23 and from 23 to 30 cents and the
end not yet in sight!
And here's the Christian Science
Monitor after declaring that we
have trust laws and anti-monopoly
decisions in the courts, asserting
that it's about high Mine the people
learned which is supreme, the oil
monopoly or the government.
Wouldn't that jar you? It does
not matter what sort of a jump
wheat or beef or spuds take once
they leave the producers’ hands, ana
are en route to the famishing con
sumer, but when the Master’s auto
is affected and tho price of his pe
trol soars, Gadzooks, there's heii
to pay.
The gay and giddy trust that
plays in a rake’s abandon with the
prices of the national necessities is
not like to be disturbed by the lucu
brations of the auto owners whose
bubble wagons may stink no more
for lack of gasoline. They kn >w
where they are at; and they know
even if the people do not, that they
are “legitimate” business and may
not be disturbed.
The trusts have been denatured,
Mr. Man, they have been rendered
innocuous and reasonable and it
(that is not quite observable to you,
it’s because you cannot see with the
eyes of a supreme court which
knoweth its owner as the Ox knows
its master’s crib.
There's devil a doubt in the
minds of the men who have charge
of enforcing the monopoly laws
where is the real power, and there
is no doubt in the minds of the
trust magnates where the power is.
They’ve got it, thank you, owning
the resources of the nation, being
proprietors of the industries, having
the say whether John Doe, Richard
Roe or Charles Coe will have a full
dinner pail or not, being arbitiators
of the professional destiny of the
banker, the lawyer, the judge,
sheriff, the politician, the busines -
man, they know very well that
thereby they control the whole
works. So although tho Senate talks
about Investigating the soaring price
of gasoline, while suffering from
blindness as far as the prices of
grub are concerned, we can be sure,
that nothing will como *f it and that
the trust will continue to do busi
ness at the old stand. Please all
stand up when singing Psalm four
eleven forty-four: “Praise John
from whom Oil Blessings flow".
The turning down of the men'H
demands by tho railroad companies
is quite according to schedule. In
deed one of the higher officers In a
newspaper intervlow satd that “first
wo will submit our eight hour day
demands; the .companies will then
probably reject them and submi.
counter proposals; wo will reject
the counter proposals and Insist
upon our original donmnds; the
companies will thereupon submit
plans for arbitration; those will be |
rejected by us and we wilf then sun
mlt a referendum to our organis
ation to order a strike. This Will ;
be voted upon overwhelmingly. We1
will then submit our demands in j
the shape of an ultimatum to the
companies and then—wo will ?oe".
By Heck, all the comic opera plots
have not been used up. This Alfonso
and Gaston stunt comes with exceed- j
ing propriety from tho “officals o1 |
the brotherhoods”. Some day the
workers will kick the whole shoot
ing match out, and tho rank an':
file run things themselves—rat the .
risk of hurting the feelings of dis
appointed syndicalsts with an iten
for leadership to show the misguid
ed majority the real path to pro
gress with their little gimlets boring
from within.
MiTici; <>i roiti KirruK.
To G. A. Adams, Fred Seidel,
Arthur Gloor, Ed. Roberts, Frank
Kribs and Gus Aspen, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal re
presentatives.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum ot
one hundred dollars each year for
the years 1911, 1912, 1913, 191*
and 1915, on the King Claim, an as
sociation placer mining claim situat
ed on the Niukluk river and record
ed and more fully described in Vol.
21 at page 209 in the records of
the Council City Mining and Re
cording District, in the Second Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended on said claim under the
provisions of the law concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, be
ing the amount required to hold
said claim
And you and each of you are
further notified, that if within nine
ty days after the last publication
of this notice you fail to contri
bute your proportion of said expend
iture your interest in said claim will
become the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under se Uoii
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
Stales.
CHAS STROM.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 28, 1910.
Date of last publ., May 29, 1918.
WHEN IN TOWN
I>rop into the
MERCHANTS CAFE.
Tiie Home of Good Eats.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To • 6tto - Halla, your heirB,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has caused to be ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollais
each year for the years 1912, 1913,
1914 and 1915 on the Constance
Bench, a placer mining claim situ
ated on the 2nd tier opposite Dis
covery and No 1 above on Mystery
creek and recorded and more
fully described at page 464 in Voi.
144 of, the records of. the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording Dis- ]
trict, in the. Second Division of the
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upon
Hi niff! Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
-And you are further notified
that if within ninety days after the
hast publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said cl^im will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner ;
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
•W. L. BETTELEY.
Co-Owner.
By Chas. D. Jones
Attorney in fact.
Date of first publ., Feb. 15, 1916.
Date, of last publ., May 16. 1916.
NOTICE.
Will all readers help us in an in
vestigation of the co-operative
movement in this country by writing
us the namo and address of any
co-operative enterprise— especially
store or workingmen’s manufactur
Ing co-operatives—that Is known to
them, and by stating any facto con
cerning trade union or other labor
activity or interest in favor of co
operation past or present.
INTERCOLLEGIATE SOCIALIST
SOCIETY.
Educational Building
No. 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City
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VERY SPECIAL OFFER.
From now until the 20th of March
we offer first class tailor made Suits
at outside prices, your choice from
$18.50 up in all wool material. Fit
and workmanship guaranteed. Over
300 of this seasons (1916) latest
styles and patterns to select from,
and 32 over coat patterns. Besides
fancy Vests and rain coats. Order
before the 20th of March so we can
get thorn on the first boat. Please
bring us your cleaning, pressing and
repairing. Wp appreciate your pa
tronage. Yours to please
NOME TAILORING CO.
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zehners Jewelry Stores.
THE WOMAN WHO
CARES
SHOULD SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY OF
MARVELOUS COLD CREAM
ami all the other
STANDARD COLD CREAMS
To be had in the best
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
the most complete line in Alaska at
HILLS PHARMACY
We Deliver The Goods.
1 THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
iiiiwianijanumaiitn
JOB PRINTING
Let us fi
work.
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NOTICE
We have been appointed agents
for the
Dodge Automobile
, The popular, fully=equipped,
pleasure car that satisfies all
HUSH LIGHTERAGE 8 COXl CO.
FOR YOUR
HATS, SHOES,
MEDDLICOTT AND COOPERS UNDERWEAR AND GREEN
HOOD SHIRTS v
v AT CHEAP JOHN’S STORE.
OUR PRICES ARE THE LOWEST IN TOWN.
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Cheap John Store
Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer & Freighting
CmLA OIL
Phone Main 139.
For Summit and Greenhood
Shirts, Midiicott and Stady Un
derwear and Sox, the best ever
sold for the money.
MIIBPHY HAS THE MODS
PHIL MURPHY
ARTIC SPRING
WATER
Always at your Service.
Prompt delivery— Blizzard or
Shine at usual Rates 10 -
Buckets $1.00. 50c. a Barrel. !
A. D. POTEET.
Phone Red 126.
INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
Wholesale and Retail Dealer
in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal,
Ham, Bacon Poultry and Fish
Game in Season. All fresh
Stock. No old or damaged.
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.1S
A FEW SPECIALS
ON OUR BARGAIN COUNTER THIS WEEK.
QUAIL BRAND, BERRIES, Gal. Cans, 65c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND PEACHES, Gal. Cans, 45c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND APRICOTS Gal. Cans, 45c. per can.
QUAIL BRAND, RHUBARB Gal. Cans, 40c. p$r can.
SEA PORT PEACHES .$4.00 per case.
EORCE.8 Pkgs. for $1.00.
SHEEDED WHEAT BISCUITS.. 8 Pkgs. for $1.00.
MOLLER’S GROCERY
•11 QtONI STREET
PHONE MAIN 86
ARE YOU SEEKING A PATENT?
It so It will pay you to investigate
rates ot the Industrial Worker on
publication of application therefor.
Bring your forfeiture notices to the
Industrial Worker.
Let am estimate on your Job Work
WB CAN DO IT.
For Aral class work and pron pa
delivery ph >ne Main 1M and (be
People’s Steam Laundry * 'j| qi ll
and get your laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON Prom
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THE WOKKER.