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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
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Entered as Becond class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Itome, < Alaska, under ihe Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, August 10, 11)10.
CHIU> liAHOH LAW.
The passage of the Child Labor
Law may be, as is asserted by
its opponents, purely a matter ot
politics. Hut at any rate it is due
to a manifestation of economic
power that reflects itself in the poli
tical world, and compels those who
as men might do nothing of the
kind, to act for the sake of human
ity even while driving a nail or two
in their political fences.
Most interesting is the line-up for
and against this bill. Those solons
who felt the greater influence of the
textile corporations, and those who
felt the greater influence of the
workers fought against and for it
as the case may be.
• The influence of the opponents of
child labor won out in the halls of
Congress, but the Courts have yet
lo have their say, and while the
Voice of the people may be the
Voice of God, it often enough falls
upon pretty deaf ears in the courts.
Till; CONGRKSSIONAL KKCOHI).
Any person that takes up the
Congressional Record and begins to
peruse it under the impression that
one is reading the Record of wliat
transpire i in Congress is utterly
mistaken. The Record just now Is
a campaign document which enables
Congressmen of both houses to send
campaign speeches through tlie
mails and that privilege comes
through, the permission which is
given to extend their remarks in its
subsequent pages, which remarks
were never uttered in Congress aiul
possibly never read by any of the
legislators. While Congress passes
laws to prevent storekeepers anc
manufacturers selling goods laoelled
falsely and mifeleadlngly, the} ought
to begin at home and rigidlv excl'.de
from their so-called Congressional
Record all matters which aVe no!
ai tually part ot' congressional pro
ceedings.
At any rate no better demonstra
tion could be imagined of the
flim-flam nature of the political
game than this dishonest circulation
of copies of alleged record of pro
ceedings in Congress which are in
truth and fact no such thing.
THK DANISH WKST INDIK8.
In the year 1867, Congress re
fused to ratify a treaty whereby
the Danish West Indies were ac
quired for the sum of $7,500,000.
Cater an effort was made to acquire
the islands for five millions, but
then the Danish parliament refused
to listen to the sale.
Now the price stipulated is
$23,000,000. And the increased price
is a demonstration of a rise in val
ues of West Indian real estate.
Yet the land in St. Croix, St.
Thomas or St. John, the three
Danish islands, is no dearer today
than some yeasr ago. But the stra
tegic value has been enehanced by
the construction' of the Panama
Canal.
The islands could well afford to
another nation needing a place in
the sun a convenient coaling
station, and is dangerously near
Puerto Rico to be allowed to be held
by even a potential enemy.
These islands also were at one
time regarded as exceedingly profit
able. But with the passage of
slavery in Danish possessions, in
the year 1848, the sugar planters
alleged that they could not profit
ably operate their fields and in con
sequence they deserted the land.
The great factor in reducing the
sugar cane culture all over the
world however has been the beet
sugar industry, and even slave labor
could not profitably compete with
that.
For the United States the islands
represent possessions of no practi
cal worth except as naval posses
sions may be of use negatively in
war. But for the United Fruit Co.,
they will offer fields as fertile in ex
ploitation as has that trust in Porto
Itlco. Not that this will benefit the
people, any, and if the recent legis
lation as to Porto Rico is any cri
terion, the workers in the Danish
Islands are likely to lose rather
than gain in the measure of indus
trial and political freedom will now
be theirs.
But they are not consulted in the
matter.
THK PASSING OF BACCHUS.
It may not be generally known,
but four-fifths of the veneration in
which the saloon has managed to
keep itself in the estimation of civi
lization is not due to any values
connected with it as an institution,
but to the fact that in Pagan times,
Bacchus was a god.
Archaeologists exploring Greek
ruins come ever and anon upon
tombstones that bear the inscription
“Asleep in Dionysus”, Dionysus be
ing as well as the wine God, also
the God of Immortality. That was
an interesting symbolism because
the ancients saw in the destruction
of t lie grape and in the manufacture
from the juices of the crushed,
stripped and destroyed fruit a po
tent and stimulating liquor, an ex
ample of life after death, they con
nected the Wine God with immor
tality and worshipped hint with De
meter the divinity of life sustaining
Bread at their wonderful mysteries
that have never fully been elucidat
ed.
In any event when the Christians
borrowed tlie headstone inscriptioi
substituting Christ for Dionysus
and carrying forward their myster;
of Bread and Wine much further
we can readily understand that win<
itself received a quota of its saneti
filiation from ancient paganism also
that would Dike some time to over
come.
Hut in this material age, even i
powerful hereditary superstitioi
like' the sanctity of wine and the
respectability of its temples, glvei
way before a rational consideratioi
of its obscene properties and iti
poisonous effects, and so instead o
the Wine God being interpreted ai
the God of Immortality were we t<
carry forward the symbolism of th<
pagans, we would literally identify
Bacchus with the divinity of suet
an abstraction as the extinction o:
existence and mortality itself.
As it is, scant attention is paic
to an old superstition and the Pass
ing of Bacchus at long last comes
from the exercise of individual anc
social intelligence that can afforc
to destroy itself no longer at till
hands of a l\igering paganism.
HEAL ESTATE SHARKS.
fiecause Henry Ford raised the
general wages in his establishment
in Detroit, real estate owners also
and with even step, increased tin
rents which they had been demand
ing, so that the workers were verj
little better off.
The Ford Socialogical Departmeni
says “Within one week of the an
nouncement of the Ford profit shar
ing plan, the value of real estate
jumped up fifty million in Detroit
or the value of the expected distri
bution in five years. The main re
sult of the Ford $5 a day plan is
that living expenses have so in
creased in Detroit that the working
man receiving five dollar a day findE
that he cannot live as well as he
could before the introduction of the
profit sharing plan, on $3 a day”.
The Chicago Herald asks if there
is a way out for the workingman.
But that is really only an incident
The entire idea of business is pot
human welfare but profits and to
exert the power that property pos
session gives one to extract as much
of that profit as possible.
Under the present system, it is
about as absurd to talk about rea
sonable profits as to talk about rea
sonable wages. Prices are founded
upon the various factors but sup
ply and demand is the main law
If there is a demand for homes and
one man owns them all, his price
will be proportionately as high as
he can get and if Henry Ford pays
his men ten instead of five dollars
a day they will increase according
iy.
It’s part of the system. As lonj
as the system prevails, there is nc
real remedy. But if human activ
ities are directed with the end ir
view of satisfying human needs and
increasing human happiness ant
promoting human welfare, and tin
profit system is wiped off the mai
as an entirely vicious economit
system, the remedy is found. Ca
pitalism is the fault and the caust
and until capitalism as an economit
scheme is wiped off the map, then
is no use blaming the effects units:
with the object of forcing hom<
the lessons of capitalism's complett
social failure.
PREPAREDNESS.
Now that the most prepared na
tions in Europe are enjoying tin
fruits of their preparationism, i
must afford them a melancholy plna
sijre to discover so many in thii
country falling for the same fal
lacy.
COMMENT SCPERFLUOUS.
Senator Stone didn’t like to se<
Hughes nominated. He said s<
quite plainly, and his remarks wen
to the effect that: “The experimen
is full of danger. Hereafter it i:
more than probable that men ap
pointed to the Supreme court wil
begin to regard it not as honorabh
and the final goal of their ambi
tions, but as a stepping stone t<
what they will, as Mr. Hughes does
regard as a political advancemen
beyond the judicial position the;
hold.
In that view of things it will fol
low that the decisions of the judge
of that great tribunal will becorm
the subject- of suspicion .... Tin
tendency will be to undermine con
fulence in that great court”.
Apparently Stone has never heari
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It will interest you.
Our new and up to date lino of
samples have just arrived, showing
the best and heaviest weight wool
ens that have ever been on display
in the city of Nome. There are over
five hundred of -this seasons latest
styles and patterns to ejioose from.
We have also fancy vests, overcoats
and raincoats. Please leave your
! order before the 30th of August so
j we can get them before the close of
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appreciate your patronage.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zehners Jewelry Stores.
OVERSTOCKED
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are' making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
j withstanding immense advances out
jside, especially in Hardware and
' Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
i let us figure on it; we can save you
■ money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
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RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
■ Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
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