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Nome. .Alaska. April 24, 11)10.
THE SPY SYSTEM.
A good deal of criticism has
been made in many papers which
cannot be considered very friendly to
Germany over the elaborate spy
system which that nation is alleged
to havo established all over the
world, even during peace. And It is
denounced as a charactoristic of
that Culture which is to bo consid
ered impossible in America.
Only a national hypocrisy can visit
condemnation upon Germany on that
head, especially in America, for in
this country systems of spying under
a variety of names have found not
only favor but wealth:
We need only refer to such names
a3 Pinkerton and Burns and Thiol
to show that groat fortunes have al
ready been made by tho profession of
spying so that today there Is no ac
tivity whatever that is not worm
holed with the most contemptible
form of espionage.
Some years ago there was pub
lished the story of his experiences
l>y a Pinkerton operator that re
vealed to the public the extent to
which this spying had proceeded.
The' spy Bystom was elaborately or
ganized and almost militaristic In
its efficiency. Labor unions, social
organizations, private homes were
invaded by those wolves in sheep's
clothing to ferret out secrets that
would be of value to thoso employ
era hired' tho "operators’'.
The Industrial Relations Qomml#
tdon had brought, .to its notice the
enormous extent to F.hicl| _ tpls (.s^
atem has footed* itself into industrial
. life, s5j that literaliy and trply one
cannot be at all certain that one Is
speaking to a fellow untonman or a
labor spy In mitny industries.
Dally reports are furnished em>
ployera through theso agerts of
evory thing that has happened
throughout’ the day: who shirked
upon the job, who agitated for
higher pay. who bolleved In. a short
er working dry, who fomented dis
content and who favored tho side oi
employees as against employers.
This condition is well nigh, uni
versal and thore Is not a militant
organization in the labor movement
which from time to time hr.s not
tieen confronted with such as these.
In the present Industrial situation
it Is perfectly safe to say that there
is no Industry which is not literally
wormholod with spies who are paid
t» discover and report a multitude
of things which the employers want
to know about their employees.
Therefore it is only a national
li> pocrise to condemn the German
system when there is no country in
world whoreln the tine art of spy
ing has reached the same degree
of efficiency as tho Pinkertons ana
the Thiels and the Burns have
brought it to. The dictagraph is an
essentially American Invention and
lias been the bosom frlond of tho spy
and the sneak since it saw the light
of day.
Moreover the German spy is in
spired by motives which are not
sordidly material. Right or wrong
lie believes in his country and he
serves that country for gain. He
takes tremendous risks and he dares
tremendous dangers for the sake ot
serving what he hns ennobled as a
sentiment.
Cut tho labor spy has no such re
deeming feature. He is the most
despicable of all tho breed. For a
fow lousy dollars he betrays thfe
doss to which he belongs and servos
to defeat their every effort for ad
vancement. He serves no country,
is inspired by no line sentiment,
has no Ideal; he follows no flag and
possesses not one ennobling im
pulse.
All he is concerned with is to be
tray for money those whom he has
welcomed and by whom he was wel -
corned as brother. The miserable
dollars that he receives Is all the re
compense for pawning his soul and f
prostituting his body and hts mind
to men who are willing to pay his
! little price.
We say to emphatically that the
men who employ him are no better
than he. They are Just as filthy
minded and as foul as he is and
they are the same mental degene
rates that take pleasure in the use
of such a social excrescence. More
over, it cannot be doubted that the
most appaling symptom is the spread
of this spy system throughout the
United States. It is impossible to
believe that the country where such
a system is tolerated is making any
progress morally or politically; it is
impossible to believe that in coun
try where men are hired to spy and
sneak out the secrets of their fellow
men for the sake of promoting the
interests of a few Industrial over
lords it is anything else but a sign
of social degeneracy.
Wherefore we would welcome some
criticism upon this feature of the
national life upon the part of those
dailies which have been deprecating
the German spy system in high
sounding language. That might be
very well received did we not k ;ow
how completely the Pinkertons and
the Thiels and the Burns have pene
trated with their functions the mar
row of the national life. That might
be all very well did we not know
that at least the German spy is a
vigorous patriot nine times out of
ten who has immolated the c&ubo of
self in the cause of service and did
*•' nqt know that the industlral spy
is. a sneak a crook and a vlrtuoless
t It is impossible... to conceive of
gay q>or,eu deeplpablo, celling then
that qf the labor spy. The strike
breaker is a man compared to him;
the burglar wtih bis Jimmy, and .his
mask a hero before, such no,he, .The
industrial spy strikes at the very
foundation of national sincerity ..and
national. honesty , .and his only
weapon .Is deceit and hia reward a
few dirty dollars. ,
The Oerman spy serving, his coun
try with aims however mistaken is a
courageous mr.n who gains little and
dares everything. He may be the
victim of a national sentiment
which is to be deplored but he re*
deems his calling by hie high valor
and his fine daring.
Now while we have noted many
and many a paper and periodical de
nounce in unmistakable terms the
Germans system of espionage wo
have never noted one single one these
denounce the national system of in
dustrial espionage.
Yet that system is universal. It
has been discovered in almost every
community and it exists in every In
dustry. Its presence has been
shown to exist in every strikj zone
while one railroad president dwelt
upon it as one of the most import
ant functions in railroad administra
tion. An American traction king
stated in open court that without his
spotters they couldn’t hope to ope
rate their cars although the pay as
you enter system has greatly re
lieved them of responsibility. It was
stated that every transaction cf
every local union in Colorado was
reported by the labor spies which
Infested thorn. This system we say
is everywhere, Its hateful hypocrisy
spreads its foul slime over every
industrial Hold and squirts ita poi
son Into the body politic.
It Is outrageous then and hypo
critical beyond words to denounce a
national spy system when the life of
a nation is at stake and tolorate the
industrial spy sysem at home where
nothing is at stake at all but where
It is used simply in order to make
a few additional dollars for the
employers or to prevent any im
provement In labor conditions by
nipping all agitation for that end in
the bud.
What Frederick Engels, co-laborer
of Karl Marx and author or several
Socialist classics, though about a
future world-wide war is clearly
Rwn in a part of the preface
tten by him in 1887 for a n*w
edition of Borkhoimo book, "Zur
Erlnnerung an die Deutschon Mords
patrioten,” (A Memento for the
German Jingoes).
In this foreword Engols places
the responsibility on the system of
competitive armament, and declares
this to be the factor which wilt
finally bear fruit in making war ine
vitable.
The most remarkable passagr
written by Engels, almost THIRTY
YEARS AGO. is as follows:
“And, finally, no other wars wilt
be possible for Prussia (Germany)
but a world war, a war so extensive
and frightful as has been hitherto
unthought of. Eight or ten million
soldiers will murder one onother
and incidentally devour Europe as
would a swarm of locusts. The de
vastations of the Thirty Years’ Wat
pressed together into three or four
years and spread over the entire con
tinent; famine, epidemics, a partial
return to savagery on the part ot
the armies and the masses of the
people, brought about by acute
suffering; demoralization of trade,
industry and credit, ending in gen
eral bankruptcy! An absolute im
possibility to predict how all will
end and who will be the victor.
One thing is absolutely certain,
general exhaustion, and the bring
ing about of tiie conditi.un which
nil! be necessary for the Until vic
ory of the working class’
“This is what must be looked for
ward to when the system of com
petitive armament will have borne
its inevitable fruits. To this pass,
princes and statesmen, you have
brought Europe, and if nothing else
is left to you but to start the last
great war dance, we may as well be
satisfied with it. The war may per
haps, force us into the background
for the moment; may even take
from us many a position we had
conquered, but if you loose the
forces which you are afterwards
unable to control, things might ■»
well go as they will."—Translated
from the Volkszeitung by Philip
Egstcin.
CONTRIBUTED.
THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN
I would like to discover some wond
erful place
Called "The Land of Beginning
Again",
Where all our mistake*'and *11 our
heart aches ~
And all 0!*r poor, selfish grief—
Could he dropped like a shabby Old
: ! coat at the door
And never put on again.
awares
Lilje.,* fTho1* found .* loat
t , trail r»n
And J.'d wl*h>*Jiat Ah* «»«;•; i
Whqw.Piur blJndRq* hfl4 done, '
The greataiJt loluatioa ot-ali. ..
Would be at tJhe ***«*>
Like,,an old friend that wait* ;'£•
For the opmradft hi* aladdest to
f " ball. ,,
III.
We would .find *U the thing* w* In
tended to do
But forgot and remembered—too
late:
Little promises broken,
And praises unspoken
And all of the hundred and one
Little duties neglected that might
have perfected
One day for one less fortunate.
Nome, Alaska, April 20, 1916.
D. E. W.
,^iiaftfgi««Branj^!faiHgfarirsfMnwfagB
V. W. LEWI*.
Successor to W. Del bar.
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snuff 6 for 25c., 6 in. stove pipe 20c.
6 in. elbows 25c., Cube Sugar 3 lbs
for 25c. Leno^c Soap 5c. Lepages
Glue 10c. 2 in 1 Shoe polish 10c.
Lowell ever ready percolator 50c.
Heavy Wool Socks 25c., 2 for 25c.
Handkerchief 10c. each. 50 feet
wire Clothline 25c., 30 feet Linen
Gill net for trout, white fish and
grealing $6.00. Stove backs 12 1-2
cents lbs. Barrets tarred felt $1.50 j
roll. Yukon Stove $2.00 and $3.75 j
and $6.00. 2 hole laundry Stove I
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Sales.
U. \V. LKW1S
Successor to W. Delbar.
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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 business 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 Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, 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, whence U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S. 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 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. 65 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of l7.625- acres.
This claim ta situated on Melsing
Creek- about four miles north of
{Council City, Council City Un
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monurr.ohi No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x30x6 ins.
18 las. .in the ground; with mound
of earth 4 ft high, 6 ft. base, situs
ted «*boutv8Q ft. above the bed of
Mejatngi:- iCreek, on the soutb side
thereof, in latitude ** deg. 66 mint*
N., longitude-IdS dag. 89
The location notice is-recorded in
Vol. <10, page 182, of the records
Council 'City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. Id
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek!
on the southwest. No. 13 Above Dis
covery- on Melsing >Creek; atalmaffits
unknown-; » on the 1 northwest ana
southeast, -claims unknown;-"all nil
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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