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Nome, Alaska, November 3, 11M7.
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The news of the Outside is the
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and tilings to wear, ran he stored
tip and we do not sutler for them,
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< very day. It is the one day by
tiny demand.. It is a heavy de
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CKSSAUV TO PKAfK.
No sooner had the Great War
begun in Europe than it was echoed
by a great detot.ation and war of
words in tiiis country. This mono
tonous combat of words had but
fairly commenced when the sickly
realization tole over us that had
our party in America faced a simi
lar crisis it would have played as
sorry and humiliating a role as did
our party in Germany ,in Belgium
and in France. Our "leaders” here,
not. being under the stress and mad
ness of actual blood conflict, failed
as ignominiously as did our “lead
or-" there who were under much
most severe test.
At once it became evident that
our anti-war program and our anti
inilitarist propaganda was of the
coinage of middle-class sentiment
alism and ideals, if not actually oi
middle-class national interests.
From Mr. Morris Hillquitt. out
greate t herder of sheep, came t lie
nationalist heroic "A working man
has a country even before he has a
class”, et cetera, ad nauseam. From
the ‘‘Appeal to Recison”, greatest of
socialist papers, came an endorse
ment of the sho,er capitalist na
tionalism of Carranza. From Air.
Allan Bem on, most widely read of
socialist writers, came a proposal
that wo "back-up” President Wil
son in his program of middle-class
pacifism. The Metropolitan Maga
zine, with its beautiful cover pages,
widely heradled and embraced as a
now light in socialism, became an
exponent of ‘‘preparedno-s" and
sharing its columns impartially
with Morris Hilquitt and Theodore
Roosevelt! From Mr. Victor Berger
came the pioposal for universal
arming after the fashion of the
militarism of the purely capitalist
republic of Switzerland. O Tem
poral O Mores! O Balls! Small
wondt r that our national executive
committee made a piebald fool of
itself and that our national eom
mitee merely made an improved
fool of itself.
Socialist advising the capitalist
c.lats of a particular government in
the matter of war and militarism
make a disappointing spectacle.
War is not apart from, but is an in
tegral phase of capitalism itself or
of any other competitive social
order. In short, war is the ulti
mate word of competition. The
function of every government on
earth is manage the large affair
of its particular capitalist class and
it is the plain duty of all such gov
ernments to arm to the teeth and
to prepare for war with all poss
ible haste, else expect to he wiped
off the map. In all such govern
ments the workers are .-ubjugated
to the uses of its capitalists. One
government is rot better or worse
in the long run than the others so
far as labor is concerned, although
conditions of living do vary due to
other cause*-. The world today is
one large prison for labor and the
governments may be looked upon
as but so many sections of the same
huge prison wall. If the workers
broke down one place in this wall
theother governments would in
stantly repair it that its own work
ers might not o cape. The socialist,
no matter how learned , or sincere
i lie may lie, who imagines that
“socialism can come in any one of
the intertrading nations without
"coming" in all at or near the same
time, most pitifully deludes him
self. You might as well try to make
an acre of a salt ocean fresh.
It follows that internationalism
i an indispensable fundamental of
our movement. Without it ours
would truly become as a house of
cards and the usefulness of our
party to the workers be at an end.
Revolutionary socialism under one
name or guise and another already
forms an internation, staggering
and wobbly on its pins, hut ju t
the same an internation and the
sole hope of labor. ‘Woi^ters of the
World Unite”.
But how shall the workers fight
and prepare to fight the common
Invader, Capitalism? On the pa
cific dr political field we should
make goed use of such political
means and occasions as we have
available, never deluging our elves
and never forgetting that the chief
means of *he bourgeoise. But di
rectly on the economic field, the
actual field of our existence? I
woud arm myself against a thug
or a wolf and feel it a proper
thing to do to kill, but to arm as a
class and expect to win, never. It
is impossible and ridiculous to con
ceive. We could have no concert
of action and it would all mean
that we would simply bo hunted
and "hot like beasts. It would be
the signal for bloody pogroms the
like of which have never been and
right royal sport it would make.
Xo, I can ihink of nothing more
preposterous than that revolution
ists will shoot capitalism to pieces
and shoot socialism in to the world.
But how shall the workers fight
and in what manner hall we pro
ceed? Organize industrially as well
as politically to be able to enforce
the political changes we con
template.
As to the political strength ot'
the proletariat that is measured
not at all by the number ot ballots
it possessed but rather consists in j
the intelligence with which it uses
them.
John Quincy Adams response do
toast of Decatur in Norfolk in
1820:
"And say not then, ‘My country
right or wrong’,
Nor dra v thy sword in an un
hallowed cause.
Hut when thy country wanders
from the right
Fur! up her banners and avert thy
sight.”
The Typographical Union, (Print
ers) did not wait for legislature
and initiative petitions but enacted
the eight hour law in their own
union halls throughout the printing
trade. Tt was a distinct and brill
iant revolutionary victory won o\iei*
the greatest and most stubborn r g
gregation of capital rver arranged
against labor. During this seige
Murat Halsted, a publisher, stated
that he could lick the laboring peo
ple any day he cho e to. but that
the "hell of it was he had to do
it again next day”.
There is testimony to the effec
tiveness of the United States em
bargo on. foods for nations friendly
to the enemy in the statement, from
Stockholm, that the Government of
Sweden has issued a decree, effec
tive this week, for the expropria
tion of all animal fats, with a few
exceptions. “The la>-t few weeks,”
says the dispatch. “have been
marked by a great shortage in fats.’
At all events, Sweden has none now
for export to Germany.
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Satisfaction assured.
Pioneer Igloo Hotel. Rooms $2.00
& $3.00 per week and up. 50 cents
per night. Housekeeping Apart
ments,
FORTY-SEVEN FACTORIES!
RUBBER BOOTS 8 PAC5
ARE now made by the new vacuumT
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TL1AI ICANnS OF WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH .rarrix A.c
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Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co. j
Charles L. Ross
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HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
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Army Shoes
EARLY LAST SPRING \VE PLACED AN ORDER WITH
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SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
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YOU MAY SOON BE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
SAM" BUT WHY WAIT?
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BREAD
10c. per ic a/
3 Loa\es 30c.
Anvil
Bakery
and
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House
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