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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."—
Abraham Lincoln
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entered as second class matter March 1. l&U, at the post ofllee at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska. February 2», I !>l
In a communication from Dime
Creek, a writer to the Industrial
Worker after reviewing conditions,
concludes:
"Try to imagine tiiat you wantea
to file a proof of labor for your
claim on Dime creole and you have
Mix weeks to do it in. There is a
notary public at the mouth of the
Koyuk twenty-five miles away, and
after he swears you in, you trust to
some private individual to drop it
into the first post office. And in the
meantime your job on the windlass
is waiting for you, while you are
gone no money is coming out. Is
that fair? Now that Is the fix some
of us are in just now. The law al
lows us ninety days, but that law
was not made for miners on Dime
creek.
Someone ought to be ashamed.
<lont you think so.'”
It is really not a question of being
ashamed; it is a question of treating
men who are opening up the coun
try fairly and squarely.
Never in all the writer’s experience
in Alaska have we ever known the
■openly expressed wishes of a yonng
and growing camp for a recorder so
llatly ignored never have we seen
before in any section of Alaska, the
I ^foapectors, the men who practically
are'responsible for the building up,
development and welfare of tills
country treated so unfairly.
And what makes the case so unu
sually anomalous, one can see no
good reason for this action.
It costs the government abso
lutely not a cent. It subjects the
govornrnent to not a particle of In
convenience. It embarrasses the ad
ministration of this district in no
possible way, shape or form. And it
is so exeeedinly unjust, unfair, ana
so my: teriously unusual, that like
most of the people in the
any
suggest itself for the* course fol
lowed, they take it that there Is
something behind the whole matter
that has obtained no publicity here
or in Dime creek.
It is somewhat difficult to un
derstand why a Wade-Ham pton re
cording precinct should have been,
established when < • r Hip
actual developin'. :t lias not been
nearly as advanced or hopeful as at
Dime.
iboence 01
plain explanation that would
The Industrial Worker is informed
That one outfit alone on Dime tills
winter will tako out a dump valued
at about $50,000. That is more than
the Wado-Hampton ties taken out
since it was established. Besides
the inconvenience to which the set
t.ler3 at Marshal were subjected go
ing to St. Michaels is not a whi*
more than are the Dime creek min
ers subjected, for the difference in
distance between Marshal and St.
Michaels and Dime and Council is
very slight indeed.
Why the miners and prospectors
should he left without a recorder is
certainly one of those mysterious
matters that cause so much irrita
tion among Alaskans, because there
is no apparent reason for such an
inaction.
In the first place it suggests a
lack of sympathy with the men who
are doing groat work in this north
ern country and enduring groat sac
rifices and hardships in so doing.
The Industrial Worker says with
confidence that one of the reason*,
why in Alaska there has boon a per
distent demand upon the part of the
•people of this territory that all offi
ces be filled by Alaskans, is be
cause they instinctively feel that
the needs of Alaskan miners and
prospectors will be dealt with fairly
and sympathetically; that their po
sition in isolated districts will be ap
preciated and understood, so that
they will get a square deal directly
and openly and without hesitancy
or the consultation of any secona
hand authority who has axes to
grind and ulterior motives-in doing
so.
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f We have no hesitation in saying
that because Judge Tucker is some
what unfamiliar with conditions In
new camps, and fails to realize the
hardships to which the Dime creek
miners are put by having no re
corder, he has not before this ap
pointed one.
So far no arguments have been
brought forward to show that there
is no immediate need of a recorder
That the camp is still in an unccr
tain stage and may peter out to
morrow is no reason at all, even it
it were true which it is not. The
need for a recorder is existing now
and in the present, and as no costb
are entailed the failure to appoint
one means that the miners are sub
jected to great unnecessary hard
ship and obstacles which have no
reason at all to exist are thrown in
the way of the prospectors.
The industrial Worker's view of
the matter is this, that every ob
stacle thrown in the way of the min
ers, hinders the development of the
country, and nothing will so retard
its growth as that very fact tint
tlie miners in the pursuance ot
their work opening up a country are
compelled unnecessarily to endure
hardships because someone, for some
reason, thinks that it is well that
they should be so subject.
liig camps have been opened up
in Alaska by miners meetings where
at a half dozen prospectors estab
lished their own precinct and their
own recorder. There are men in
Nome who have had that honoi
thrust upon them in days gone by,
and the very locations which they
thus presided over have become
household words in Alaska since
that day.
Anything that favors settlement
and brings with it some ease to the
routine labors of the prospector 1s
surely wortli some consideration.
And why it should not be is
certainly not very clear to Alas
kans.
It has been said with absolute
truth that tlie refusal to appoint ;•
recorder to a young and favorable
camp like Dime creek is the firs'
time that any such thing has oc
curred in Alaska. Never before has
there been any hesitancy in favor
ing the miners such a reasonable
requost as that. Why should there
be? it costs the govrnment nothing,
it on tailed no additional district
labor. Even if the camp proved a
fizzle and its existence ephemera:
the offices could be closed up with
out any difficulty or trouble or e\
infse in the slightest.
On the other hand if a recorder is j
appointed, the miners staking claims
are subjected to no hardship. There
is no uncertainty ot title. There is
no inconvenience in recording deeds.
No time is lost. No labor miscarrljd
and wasted on trail. No money is
thrown away in useless travelling
expenses that could be used in pros
pecting. ,
The whole theory of the Alaskan
mining law is founded on tho sup
position that tho records of any di
strict are of convenient access and
can be reached with little d .lay anil
less cost. The regulations are
founded upon that theory. The sec
tions of the code are actually to be
carried out only strictly on that
theory.
it is not supposed that miners and
prospectors are to waste half a sea
son on the trail or all a grub stake
in roadhouse expenses. It is not
supposed that the miner to record
his proof of labor will have to trust*
% the tender mercies of a private
individual to get them recorded in
time.
That line in the communication
certainly struck this paper “some
one ought to be ashamed”. We cer
tainly think the man or men who
misrepresent conditions and customs
in Alaska so to Judge Tucker, have
every reason to feel that they acted-'
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In a mean, unfair and underhand
spirit.
Because a doctor allowed a blind,
deaf, dumb, milhapen infant to dio
instead of performing an operation
which might have saved its life al
thought it would have been perma
nently an invalid and defective, the
doctor was not only indicted, but a
chorus of hypocritical rant against
this outrage filled the capitalist pa
pers.
The best thing that has been
written on the subject comes from
the pen of Kathleen Norris which is
below reprinted from an exchange:
THK UNDEFECTIVES.
In the world there has died a baby:
eager to part with breath,
He has slipt from the world’s hot
noises back to the cool of death.
Sightless and dumb and unheari.it,
be is done with his days of pain:
And an eager army has risen, aghast
at a baby slain.
Parents, clergymen, doctors—public
debate runs wild
Among hundreds of men and women
who know the love of a child.
And their right to dispute his sen
tence which one of us will gain
say?
But what of the other baby who will
die of neglect today?
Not a defective baby, shut in a world
of his own,
But a conscious child, who is hung
ry, or sleepy, or cold, or alone.
A whole, sweet, confident baby—a
baby with eyes and ears,
Who clings like a little soldier to
the scanty hope of the years.
Until, in the cruel summer, or the
winter’s cold, he goes,
A gallant baby outnumbered by a
hundred subtle foes!
Foes in the milk we give him, foes
in dirt and disease,
Dangers of street and gutter, and
greater danger than these. •
Born of a social system that counts
the rent and the wage,
And keeps the heart of the baby
shut up like a beast in a cage.
You, who have risen in protest, call
THIS a crime if you will^,
Or, better, go find a baby—perhaps
one is living still—
Who will not be here tomorrow,
whose battle is nearly done;
Who has lost the unequal struggle
for comfort and food and sun.
Bring back his tiny conviction that
the world is kind and right,
And that hunger and want and fever
are only dreams in the night.
And when he .is strong and happy,
with his own little place on earth,
Then form your organization to save
the deficient at birth.
The butt of the ridicule of two
continents and* all belligerents, as
well as most neutrals, Henry Ford
in many ways is the most remark
able man in America today.
Possessed of millions, as far as we
can see at the end of his present
pacificist policy thcro are no profits
in sight, and that being the case and
as it is impossible to accuse the man
of material motives, we may ques
tion his sanity but never hlo since
rity.
To start a peace paper for the pur
pose of opposing President Wilson's
preparationist plans may seem the
acme of foolishness, but no one can
charge him with hope of gain as the
ultimate motive.
Somehow we must admire the
man that has definite ideas and de
finite principles unmixed with any
hope of gain and pursues them de
spite every power that exists. Henry
Ford appears to be such a man. He
has apparently discarded the driving
incentive of modern capitalism, Don
Quixote like to bear a -lance against
the preparationlsts windmills that
are rolling their arms in terror over
the continent.
Not all the absurdity of action is
of Ford. Indeed no. At least mu
nitionists have won wonderful con
verts within the past few months.
And it is singular to hear those
loudest in berating Prussian mili
tarism, foaming at the mouth in
mad urgings to arm and arm and
arm.
Besides these Ford is cool, col
' lected and sensible, and only the
lack of humor inherent in so many
ardent partizans of certain policies,
will account for the fact that these
munitionist tools take themselves so
seriously.
We are under no illusion concern
ing preparedness. We know it is go
ing to be adopted. We know further
more that it will provoke consider
able flag waving and hurrahing in
doing so. We believe that next
election in the United States will in
many respects be remarkable, for
politicians will deliberately and in
cold blood make terrorism an issue
and endeavor to obtain votes from
an excited people on the score of be
ing prepared to meet an unname
' able foe.
Nations have principles which arc
as the breath of their life. They
must have them or they are destin
ed to decay and degeneracy. Those
are the principles which make na
! tions great, honored and respected,
They are the principles which are
worth fighting for and dying for.
And you cannot blame the million
Fords in the United States if they
insist that there must be something
more worth fighting for and dying
• for than the mere accumulation ot
| wealth or the fostering of the mu
( nition industry.
You cannot blame the Fordites it
they invite some explanation as to
what principle of democracy causes
j the United States to quake with
dread of its own unpreparedness,
I and to question whether indeed it is
1 to uphold any principle of govevn
j ment, any ideal of democracy, any
j life-giving sentiment that they are
asked to prepare for.
They are reasonable enough
surely in asking who and what are
they that threaten, and who and
what are they who are in danger.
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