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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a; the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879
Nome. Alaska, Mart'll O, 11)1(1.
Some time ago near Brownstown,
West Virginia, a little band of Holy
Rollers went out with picks and
shovels to a cemetery and proceeded
to dig at a grave. The casket there
in was unearthed, but the Constable
arriving stopped any further exhti
tion proceedings. The leader pro
tested that God had appeared to him
in a vision and said that if he un
earthed the body or his departed
wife, she would be brought back
again. . He declared emphatically
that he believed his Master.
Now every paper that noted this
strange occurence coupled with it
most remarkable denunciation of its
foolery, superstition and lunacy.
And four-fifths of those papers
would rather suspend publication
than speak in the same sort of terms
about some particular Faith that Is
no less ridiculous than this of the
Holy Hollars.
It is hard to see why ono should
be Considered absurd and outrageous
and grovollingly superstitious and
the other highly religious, noble
and beautiful.
Some time ago when the agitation
was on against the Holy Rollers
in Oregon the most disgraceful
stories as to their immoralities
were published, not one of which
seemed upon investigation by new3
papers to have been really preven.
When Crcfield was discoverd with
of dry bread and a biblo on the
table. That’s not very much like a
graft and far from being evidenc:
of moral depravity.
Why is it that one religion that
many people devoutly follow can
hoist up for rovornco the meet irra
tional and und monetrable theologi
cal doctrines and another net any
more absurd Is visited with genera!
ridicule and indignation?
How is it that the Christian will
ridicule the Hindu who worships ac
cording to the Brahmin, and the Mo
hamedan will despise the Buddhist?
Surely we have all queer notions
One thinks that by praying one will
ci:d tho war. another behoves that
bv digging up his dead wife lie wii1
bring her back to lif\ By the test
of pure rationali.ci " •' one
bo considered any more ridiculous
than the other? Both are matters
of Faith and both, w? apprehend,
upon that are not amenable to rea
son.
Generally speaking tho supersti
tions that the oth< r fellow believes
in are pure and simple superstitions.
These that wo hallow by our cre
dence are the blessings of Faith.
It depends who considers them.
The liastli’nd wli’eh turned turtle
In Chicago liaibor and incidentally
drowned in so doing some thousands
has been purchacod by the Illinois
Naval Reserve and this dangerous
boat is to teaeh the young Ideas tn
ways of naval glory on the Lakes.
Is this a type of Preparedness?
Congressman Tavonner proposes
to take the profit out of the muni
tion industry by having the govern
ment make its own munitions, buil t
its own ships and manufacture its
own guns. The “Call" thinks that L’
about the right way to go about it
It may, but it merely makes the
profit route a little more indirect.
There would still be the iron and
steel and brass and copper and raw
material, the machinery and the
fuel and the power, to be consider
ed; these would fatten on a national
munition plant with just as much
success as upon private ccncornr.,
and although they might have onlv
an indirect way of milking the tre
asury they would milk it still. It
may bo tho socialist party way, but
it's not tht socialist way.
Given ninety million people de
voted to making money as the be-all
and end-all- of existence, the other
scoadary Ideals are likely to be for
gotten when the main incentive is
considered. Why then cavil at cor
ruption, bribery and boodling''
Where does it begin when the
system is built upon and by it?
it has been suggested that the
Chamber of Commerce instead ot
just now reaching over long dis
tance subjects to handle, although
they have done remarkably well at
that, could also with good results
for the community endeavor to di
rect attention to the needs of Dime
creek for a recorder. It is bolleved
that by furnishing the facts, and tht
importance of those facts, to Judge
Tucker excellent results might be
obtainable. The suggestion is a
good one.
A case was tried but ro3ulted in
a disagreement which is of some im
portance to those who havo to use
canned goods. Sophie Ketterer, n
servant by occupation in New York
city brought suit against Armour
and Co. because the plaintiff con
tracted an incurable case of trichin
osis from eating the contents of a
canned pork product put up by the
Chicago packers.
Legal lights said it was an
important case because it might de
cide whether or not the packe.- was
responsible for his porduct after it
had passed through a middleman
and retailer to a consumer.
Anyhow, that does not apirear to
be the really important matter in
this case. That important matter is
how is it that this canned poison
got by the U. S. inspector and was
as a proauct guarauieeu uy
the government. It has been con
tended by those who claimed to
know, that the packers owned the
inspectors who passed what the
packers wanted passed. A very or
dinary examination of the contents
of this can would have revealed the
presence of the trichini and that It
found its way through to public con
sumption is proof enough that the
inspection did not amount to any
thing.
There are pure food laws galore,
and the regulations aro strict
enough, but after big business
clamored somewhat about their en
forcement, that clamor having
ceased, we may rest assured that
no one is too * officious" aud ‘'par
ticular these days.
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Helen Keller said in a recent lec
ture that the only moral virtue
about war is that it compels the
eapialist system to look at itself In
the face and admit that it is a
fraud.
That is doubless what it shoulo
do, but it is exactly what it will not
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do. Instead those who bolster up
the system are busy proving these
days that the war is a wholesome
condition, that it is where not
wholesome a scourge of God come
to purge the discontented worker.",
of their evil ways and a vengeance
upon society for its inqulty.
The last thing capitalism will do
is to behold its own inqulrty ex
posed in thiB war. It will see in
war's hideousness every reflection
but its own, and will accuse every
thing else but Itself of the condition
of war that exists.
You cannot expect it to be other
wise. After it has been busy prov
ing that the glories of peace are alt
its own and accidents and deaths
and starvations and miseries and
slums just the natural punishment
of the naturally evil and unfit, it is
not going to admit that war is the
culmination of this system at all.
The denunciation of President
Lowell of Harvard 'by his own stu
dents for opposing the appointment
of Brandeis to tho Supreme Court
is very unreasonable. In the first
place Lowell'1b representative of a
class which cannot afford to allow
any such thing as liberalism on the !
l»7moU0i:nron0130Cn JITOTOIT
Supreme Bench. He stands for
power, place, privilege, pelf and
profit. He is holding his position
on that account, and he is holding
it just as an efficient butler, valet
personal servant or other menial
holds a position because he renders
valuable service to the class which
controls the Lowells, the Elliots and
the rest..
And why not? Doesn’t Lowell
know what happened to Scott Near
ing in Pennsylvania, and other pro
fessors in otherwheres. Service Is
demanded from University heads
just as service is demanded of the
butlers and valets and other lackeys.
That’s what they are paid for The
students have no proper conception
of the functions of their university.
It would appear that the Gore
. esolut'on prohibiting travel on lin
ers which are armed is not a very
unwise one. Generally speaking
prevention is better than cure and
ps a scheme of preparedness against
future trouble it ought to seem
worth consideration. However the
right of every free American citizen
to rul) his hands against the bust*
saw revolving at full speed just to
see how it feels should not bo Im
paired simply because of its danger.
The right to travel how and where
„ „ .1 n i.nroovi u-o tile t ft alimilfl
be regarded as one of the funda
mentals of liberty.
A unique prosecution is now go
ing through the process of the courts
in Tacoma. A socialist said that
George Washington kept slaves,
drank to excess and used profanity
and for this the socialist is being
accused of slandering the dead.
The whole affair is just a little
nonsensical. Suppose every item
in that is quite true, what differ
ence will it make one way or an
other? The idea of making every
one of the revolutionary fathers
a canonized saint is very absurd.
Slave holding was quite respect
able in Washington’s day and the
ability to stow away a large quan
tity of wine was one of the hall
I marks of the gentleman. Lor.l
Chatham and his contemporiaries
were all able to get away with an
infinite quantity of wine and the
use of profanity was quite an
achievement in those days.
The code changes as time ad
vances, and the ordinary code ot
personal morality is widely different
among public men today to what tt
! was in public life a hundred years
ago.
Many things are discovered con
cerning Washington and othei*s’that
have been forgotten during the pe
riod when their errors weaknesses or
failings were not subjected to some
examination.
Only the other day The Father
land discovered that It was a Ger
man and not Washington who was
the father of his country, and dis
tinctly holds that von Steuben was
the real military genius who saved
Washingon from disaster. It is
very likely that Washington was In
all respects a human being with the
errors of the eighteenth century
ways his in a fairly large propor
tion. The trouble lies in teaching
that he was infinite perfection ana
more superman than man. Then
those who are taught this and Ignore
his human side fear that any breath
of actual personal fact connected
with his name is the breath or
slander. ffll 1
In any event no good can co ne
of prosecuting the Tacoma socialist
for asserting what is not even.infer
entially untrue.
Labor gets as good as labor is
willing to take and hold.
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It’s not tho gall of the employer,
it's the lack of guts on the part ot
tlie employee that does the harm.
Governor Spry said that he would j
drive the Industrial Workers of the
World out of Utah. He justified
this by the criminal methods of the
organization which tho Inter-Moun
| tain Protective Association, a detec
tive agency, had shown him existed. I
There were bomb plots, dynamiting
plans, assassinations, and all kinds
of Black Handery credited to the 1.
W. W. They were to blow up the
governor's home, and bombs were
to be scattered with Zoppellnlsti-i
ease over the faithful and loyal
mormons of Salt Lake. The public
stood for this sort of thing and the
Inter-Mountain Protective Associa
tion was regarded as a heaven seat
machine to rescue the people from
the terrors of lawlessness. Every
1 two-by-four sheet throughout the
| country copied these alarmist
stories and upheld the shooting ot
! Joe Hill on that account.
1 But the glory has departed the 1.
P. A., and like common malefactors
they are now Indicted of black mall
having endeavored, after making
1 the knees of the cowardly governor
of Utah quake at unknown I. W.
, \V. terrors, to collect therefor. But
they were useful to Spry when he
j authorized the shooting of Hill.
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