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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Boi 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4.
Nome, Alaska, September 21, Util
nn: iiiiMi <o\\ i:\riov.
The Irish convention is not a re
presentative convention. It is to
.softlt the Irish question. The de
legates must he approved by the
s»o>rrnmi nt auu its secretary is an
Knglishman. All the representa
tion has been settled by the Lloyd
Ooi.oge government and it has been
t'ori.'.dden in Ireland to criticize in
anv wav .is delibcrntioivs or to sub
ti»-i ' any of its delegates to harsh
criticism. It is an Anglo-Irish plan
to settle the Home Rule question
, n-1 its %er> nature forbids any such
a settlement.
J'ossibly it is to he regarded as
nan .'.meri.au editors affect to
regard it . videm-,- of a new era
of iR-mocra. j for Ireland. Judg
ing iiv the acid remarks of the Irish
nap its on the subject it possesses
in no small degree the peculiar li
mitations placed upon these later
tiny conceptions of what in demo
crat y.
Ill:A l> NOTH SI 111.S.
All those who desire to hold fast
to the truth must read every side
of tlie question. They must devote
as much attention to the writings
e>r those who ar? opposed to them
:is ot those whose ideas are in ac
cord wit!) their own. The man who
rends only one side of any question
uid not be posted. He will more
over be from time to time subjected
to crushing arguments which he
cannot answer. To be confident ol
fhr truth one must read every side
.and to hold fast that which convin
ces as the truth.
We believe the superiority of the
position of the radical is because
nr .'tins penetrated the truth through
.a forest of doubts after a painstak
ing review of every side of the
question. One often wonders why
socialist economists find it difficult
to induce men to debate question!
with them. But the real reason if
that the average socialist who ha:
studied economies knows both
diies. his opponets ns well as his
own and lias picked his o-vn be
i nisi the facte eonvii. ed him of its
correctness.
Without knowing well tlie posi
tion which an opponent of one's
ideas will take, and without know
ing upon what he has based his
beliefs, no man can be said to know
a question, nor has he any intelli
gent basis for his opinions. How
does he know that his opponent
may not have unanswerable urgu
raents against him.
ABOLITION Ol-’ ASSK.SKMKNT.
We do'not know what senator or
representative introduced the bill
abolishing representation work dur
ing tlie war for non-combatants as
well as members of the military
and naval forces. But we do know
that it was introduced simply to cm
abe the very wealthy land grabb
ers to hold their land which has
been grabbed at a minimum of ex
pense.
It places a premium upon non
development and its a most short
sighted policy during this war time
It is almost impossibb
to conceive anything that
rannol be put over on the peo
pie in the name of war and patriot
ism.
Here is the nation clamoring fin
mineral products: for the product!
of the mine and smelter. Never it
all the years has there beep such ;
reason for if possinle compelling
men who own mineral land to dev
elop it and open it up, or failing
rhat to surrender it again to tin
public domain.
A’ct hero is Congress adopting
a resolution which lias for its our
solely the purpoe of preventing
vsny such development and allot
men to hold pocsc-Fion of mineral
land which it is not their intention
now to open.
Land wlii-lt is net mined and
which year after year is held
without development work is held
for purely speculative purposes. It
is an infamous condition that this
should be permitted even in times
of peace. It is enabling one man.
one firm, one corporation to retain
propcit: to the exclusion of the rest
and to prevent its exploitation.
Th.- only tiling that worked to
prevent wholesale absorption of suc h
land has been Hie assesment work I
!
which the law required to be done
on every twenty acres. I'tuler such
a i revision the holders were nut to
sonic expense wherein the propriety
of prospecting and upon prospect
ing if anything is found, of devel
oping tin land is obvious.
This acted as a preventive measure
against holding wild cats for purely
speculative purposes and it added I
to the quar.Mty of productive mine
ral land in the country.
Now capital is relieved of that
responsibiity. Rich corporations
can stake and hold everything in
sight, keep Tom and Dick and
Hair; from entering thereupon and
this in the time of war. this in the
preset.t crisis when the cry of the
nation and of the world is for the
further opening of metalliferous
mines.
Condidly and quite frankly le
gislative idoio'V and congressional
stultification tan hardly go any furtli
er. And that our delegate to Con
gress should have wired the fact
concerning it to Nome with a note
of triumph is a final mark of the
matt.
What to think cf the legislator
who could not see such transpsrent
lvidiotie folly is self evident.
All 'his comment is. we konw
quite useless. The resolution hav
ing passed both Houses'will likely
he law before many days. Nor is
any action which the people of Al
aska might take against such a
regulation likely to he of any
avail.
it is quite evident they put otic
over tit- people of Alaska and Sul
zer stood by and din’t know ;t. At
least there is nothing to observe itt
his dispatch to the Chamber ol
Commerce which would indicate
that he knew this was being done.
THK ALIKN.
The Chambreli.in resolution re
quiring aliens to submit to the
draft has been the ocasior. of con
siderable discussion especially about
Americanizing the Alien.
It has been astonishing to many
Americans that aliens presented no
very great enthusiasm for the na
tion where they worked and they
blamed the aliens, w hich 'was ex
tremely natural.
They never had reason to inves
tigate the question and find the
measure of economic justice and
industrial fair play which the alien
received.
The alien has been extremely
useful to America. Much more
useful as a human being than Am
erica has in quite a good many
cases been to him. It may well be
that he bettered his lot financially
in coming to America, but if the
betterment is to be tested by the
most scientific test, namely long
evity, tiie facts hardly show that he
did so.
It has not been the fault of the
American people. But it has been
the fault of American industrial
chiefs ami American corporations.
Tli" American corporations are
not necessarily controlled by Am
ericans. The Kmpress of Germany
owns silk mills in Xew Jersey ami
the Tzar of Itussia is one of the
most extensive stockholders in the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Foreign elements have control ot
American steel to almost the same
extent as they are controlled by
American financial groups, which
in turn have foreign alliances and
ramifications which de-nationaiize
such l.ouses as Morgan or Kalin
Loeb and Co., the American repre
sentatives of the Uoeschilds.
Now tlie alien immigration was
in demand and is in demand. He
was in demand with no intention ot
affording him an opportunity of en
joying tlioct' blessings and privileges
which tlie senators and legislators
dilate upon. He was in demand to
labor in the mines, the mills, the
factories, and the railroads for a
wretchedly incompetent salary,
more oiten than not for twelve
hours a day and for seven days a
week .at toil which tested his en
durance for the full extent of that
Cine. He lasted an average of foul
or at most five years, his industrial
death ruee is greater auually titan
the losses during the Civil War and
he is thrust into warrens and tene
mens notable only for filth and
diseaes and higli rentals.
if he worked for a railroad lie
was given comfort in a rehabilitat
ed box car of too small carrying
capacity to be a profitable freight
carrier and left on a side track tc
stink in numbers in double bunks
thick as herrings in a barrel.
Notwithsanding this, the alien
who lias g >nc through it all, is ex
pected to develop a love for the
country in the same degree as the
alien who has come here with some
degree of wealth and made money
and prospered.
That is merely thinking upside
' ' ~
down. The fact is that as men arc
treated here as elsewhere, so they
wi’.l act. And the various industri
al Surveys have been astonished at
the different attitudes, mental and
physical, spiritual and political, of
foreigners of the same nationality
according to the treatment which
they have received.
When the M'Kees Hocks strike
was on it was shown that the men
averaged a pay so small that life
was hardly supported at all. let
alone supported with decency: if a
man had a good looking wife or
daughter the foremen or superin
tendents or higher clerks felt jus
tified in exerting the feudal chiefs
right of seizuie and the jus primae
noctis has existed in manv Amer
ican industrial baronies.
This system no one identifies with
AmtVicanism, but it is the Amer
icanism that was offered many of
the aliens. especially those from
southern Europe and who knew
nothing ot the English language
and who were handicapped from
the start.
To be in a position to know these
things and to affect amazement
then at the indifference of such
aliens to American institutions is
only hypocrisy.
The welfare workers whose in
vestigations have gone to any
depth beneath the surface of things
know very well that the mental at
titude of men towards things Am
[ erican is directly and powerfully
| a fleeted bv their economic state
Surely tne person who has not ob
| served that loyalty to American
! laws and institutions vary directly
j as these laws and institutions favor
I him muet be blind indeed. Just as
' we see tlie rack rented tenants of
l Oklahoma and other like states and
■ other like classes offering tlie stern
! est and bitterest opposition to the
draft lias the good foundation in
tHe fact that they failed to indenti
fy their interests as fighters with
the war.
Moreover we can all discern the
very clear fact that war finds little
' if any disfavor as such in the ranks
of the munition makers, those en
thusiasts who have been preaching
it in any and every form for several
j years. They know that their good
fortune is wrapped up materially
in the prosecution of this war or
any other war and they line up
with a loyalty is notable for its en
thusiasm if not impressive for its
sincerity.
The beat way to secure the loy
alty and devotion of the alien to
ttn* country’s laws and institutions
is to see to it that he is not tlie
victim of industrial tyranny and
the unfortunate material vhich Is
to be used in the production of
wealth with the same indifference
to their Human side as might be
shown in a factory devoted to ihe
production of fat and chemicals
trom th ’ bodies of human dead.
One process, as applied by some
corporations '.s as soulless, unjust
and as foul as the other.
The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
Agency for Augustine & Ivyer Chocolates and Bonbons.
The (Quality of our Home-Made Candies and Nome Dairy Ice
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