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THU DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION’.
From the political world we learn
many lessons of considerable im
portance to the labor movement.
Although with the great capital
ist parties like the Democrats ann
the Republicans the workers have
little in common, none the less the
historic trend of those parties, even
in such an isolated section as Al
aska, may be considered with con
siderable instructive profit to one
self.
The republicans nominated ao
candidate so far and will without
doubt refrain from doing so. They
have good reason for this. Their
interests are wrapped up in the in
terests of Big Business and as yet
Alaskan voters have not reached
that psychological development
when they will be prepared to
swing directly to the big interests
or take the opposite side, the in
terests of those whom the persons
in control of Big Business exploit.
The people of Alaska most ot
them hope at one time or another
to be independent; and they be
lieve that the enemy of their inde
pendence is Big Business, monopoly.
We see how popular politicians
find it to war upon great corpora
tions; how effectively this one or
that denounces the Guggenheim in
fluence; how they love to display
their outraged sense over the mono
polizing influence of the Fisheries
trust and how they appeal to an
abiding sense of justice in the com
mon people.
Penetrating the vast and obscur
ing mass of buncombe that issues
forth about election time to conceal
the real facts, we observe then the
people of Alaska committing them
selves to the belief in the theory
that competition is the life of trade
and consolidation its death. For
that reason they oppose any person
who wears a corporation garb and
make a popular hero out of him
who breaks a lance against mono
poly in any form.
Not all do this. But inasmuch
as most of the people of Alaska
firmly believe in their future as eco
nomically independent as independ
ent miners or independent business
men, they are for the most part
also roady to oppose all manner of
corporations.
The nomination of Charles Sul
zer by the democrats impresses it
self upon the people as proof that
the democrats are not lining up
with the corporations. Sulzer is
that particular kind of politician
who emphasizes his friendship for
the plain people and the wealth pro
ducers of the territory. It is even
urged in his favor that he has al
ways been good to organized labor
and that he established the first
eight hour camp in Alaska; that lie
supported all the liberal measures
for an extension of popular control
In the legislature and that he is
imbued with the highest principles
of democracy. It is further asserted
by his supporters that he wears no
corporation collar and will be inde
pendent of any machinations Big
Business, the Trusts or the Guggen
heims may practice.
All of these things may be true
and because they are true, the vot
ers are asked to support one who
will be immune from corporation
influence.
The republican party, economi
cally the franker, makes no nomi
nation because they know that be
ing so closely linked to what is
commonly called the interests, they
would stand no chance of election
in Alaska.
Knowing the great forces which
have used the republican party in
the past all the rivals of republican
candidates have to do is to indulge
in considerable denunciation pf cor
poration influence and to intimate
or insinuate that the republican
candidate wears the corporation
collar.
Repeated experience has shown
that this is most effective in Alaska.
On the other hand, Wickersham
| who is the most accomplished as
well as the shrewdest of Alaskan
politicians has repeatedly shown
with what skill he can bring about
his election by harping upon this
particular string. It has been so
obvious to all the politically wise
that now it is recognized that the
candidate must all of them dance
to this music and to be elected
they must go the other fellow, with
dignity and serenity of course, one
better. This condition as it exists
today reveals two things of very
great political and economical im
portance. The first is that this ter
ritory is still in a relatively speak
ing backward stage wherein con
siderable mental independence
based it may bo on a totally wrong
conception of economic facts, ex
ists, and they hope that one daj
they will reach that plane of un
hampered and uninfluenced eco
nomic independence which is the
| goal of every man. This is a con
Idition was quite common in tin
j I'nited States half a century ago
when as there is now in Alaska
there was a wide range of free land
! and one existed so to say on a fron
tier. There was less inclinations
' to submit to the yoke of industrial
dependence which economic conditio
I slowly but inexorably forced upon
the people. The second fact of im
! portanco is that the voters are still
living in a fantasy of political and
' economic errors which are sooner or
later certain to be subject to dissi
pation and their condition reveals
the important fact that accompa
nying the lack of economic develop
ment, the social and political deve!
lopmeut is backward also gcnerally
spealdng.
Taking the average Alaskan in
dividually who berates the tendency
of the corporation to monopolize the
resources and the trade and indus
tries of the country, each of them
on an average would upon investi
gation display the same tendency
upon a smaller scale. Thus we
find men staking entire tracts of
ground where they can for them
selves; we find small employers try
ing to exploit what labor they hire
to the very uttermost of human ou
durance and men in business ir the
opportunity offers and they secure a
favorable petty monopoly charging
all the traffic will bear and then
some.
Consequently we behold the fact
that it is not opposition to the prin
ciple of exploitation which inspires
the people of Alaska to oppose the
corporations, but opposition to the
acquirement by more powerful ri
vals of a control identical with that,
which they would seize if they
could. In their vehemence of oppo
sition te the Guggenheims, they
travel far afield seeking fresh fields
and pastures new where thoy humb
ly hope that some day theirs too
will be the Goldon Fleece to rest
upon and own*
That’s why the friond of labor
and tbe opponent of corporations
finds such favor In their eyos- The
fights of Wickersham against the
fish trust, against the Guggs,
against all the exploiting corpora
tions that have sought to dominate
the political and economic life ot
the country, finds such wonderous
favor and made him strong politi
cally with the strength of a Hercu
les in this territory. And that is
why the more shrewd politicians re
alize that Wickersham can be
fought only by those who are will
ing to oub-Herod Herod at Herod’s
own policies.
It is instructive to contrast there
fore the condition as it exists today
in Alaska with the condition as it
exists say in the Industrial centers
of the East. In the latter place de
mocracy has to shed its popular
frills if it is to survive and Man
hattan Clubs, Tammany Halls and
other gatherings are to solder the
closer connections with the more
important Interests. Their candi-1
dates are very reserved in their
open adoption of any plea for the
common people, and they are sei
with considerable rigidity against
any such democracy as finds favor
in western and frontier comma- (
nities.
The control of the industrial,
agricultural and financial situation
being absolute and beyond any pro
spect of interference, the position
which che owners hold is also un
equivocally one of control. Hence
the vitality of the republican party
which is associated with control of
industry and which can make or un
make, or promise, not without ef
fect, to make or unmake prosperi
ty. _
The distinction between this con
dition as it exists in the east ana
the political situation as it is in
Alaska is very marked. But it is
not due to any superior psychologi
cal state that prevails here, but
rather to the fact that accompany
ing the backward economic devel
opment there is also an obscurer
and more backward conception of
the relation between politics and
economics.
When Alaska becomes great In
dustrially and more closely settled,
when the acreage of free land Is de
nied any longer to the hope build
ers who vision dreams of economic
Independence, when the Industrial
relation is so distinct as to be only
muddled by over-work or by ignor
ance of the most hopeless type,
there will be less buncombe and
more practical issues affected in
political campaigns. Not that either
the one or the other will bring the
workers closer to their goal, but
they will have many less obscuring
issi es cast before them so that they
lose no sight of the supreme neces
sity for economic organization the
only real means whereby politics,
or any other power can be achieved
To the electors doubtless the
various disputes that will arise dur
ing the next few months preceding
election, the discusisons, denuncia
I tions and declarations, will not bo
so much . hot air. They will be
firmly persuaded that the choice be
tween Sulzer and Wickcrsham is a
matter of the utmost gravity and
one involving questions of enorm
ous import.
As a matter of fact, nothing ot
the kind is the truth. Neither one
nor the other will substantially af
fect the industrial progress of the
Territory, and its gradual develop
j ment from a frontier to a highly
! civilized and well settled country.
That will take place through the
efforts of capital to obtain more ana
more profits and will be fast or
slow according as it promises great
profits or little or none.
Under the system that is a cer
tainty, regardless of any condition
that might follow the election ot
one man or the other.
It is quite true of course that it
may affect local affairs throughout
the Territory to a degree. It may
result in different appointees ana
different administrative methods by
such appointees. But that will not
very deeply affect the condition ol
things as they now exist; will not
make easier or lighten in any way
the struggle to live. Village
pump politics be they elevated to
the highest plane and be they re
garded with the profoundest grav
ity never do.
And this constant bickering with
corporations or with different inter
ests which seek to gain control over
the country’s resources may put oft
and delay surfh control but they
merely put off and delay the inevit
able. |
[ The development of Alaska will
not be by leaps but will be gradual
and it is also the same truth con
cerning the industrial development
of nny country. Evolution is a
slow process. The evolution of ca
pitalism is faster than that of othei
! economic systems, but it is still ex
ceedingly slow, and as yet the evol
ution of capitalism in Alaska is halt
a century behind the times wts'b'e
in other sections of the world.
The economic pressure that is
felt outside is here not felt to the
same urgent extreme, and it is only
rational that when the workers are
less subjected, in frontier commu
nities, they immediately proceed to
build day dreams and to found
upon such structures their political
and social faith.
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Season on June 1.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of buclness and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Meloing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alasna, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 69 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 66 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.ont No. 1172 is
a schist shine 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed or
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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