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OIUJASIZING" THE VKHOttHD.
Institutions which arc establishtsl
-lrquiie inertia. They resist change
ami become fixed in their ways.
The NEW must always overcome
the OLI>. The OLD gives way to
the NEW through pain and through
travail at every step.
In the writer's boyhood the
< hurt lies were given to frequent
Revivals of Religion. The resident
parson, usualy aided by specialists
in revival effort, would exhort sin
ners to repentance against the
judgement day. In the arbored
open anguished and much labored
prayers ascended to the Most High.
Morning, afternoon and evening!
loud preachment, were thundered
at the young and erring ones. The
pious and godly men with great
earnestness of manner taught a ter
rifying and damning fatalism. They
preached a ponderous theology
based upon a geocentric idea of
creation; that is. that the earth
witli a) its creatures of land and
■sea. was made the center of the
universe by a voice -peaking out
of tie void, and tiiat tin un, tlie
moon and ail the myriad stars be
.lewelling the firmament were made
in Hu same period of six days and
et in the bending skies for the
use of man. They begun the re\ i
vai season with a program to bring
every sheep into the fold of God.
At Hie elo e of each “service'' sin
ners \v»-r invited, nay urged to come
forward to the altar. Here much
unctions singing and praying was
clone. The singing had a certain
folk rvthm that was magnetizing
.and,—for the moment.— convinc
ing One of those grand oi l hymns
ran “ ‘Tis the Old Time Religion,
and It s Good Enough for Me".
Then, if a sinni r became 'convert
ed". and his sins wa bed away as
it were said, lie would lift liis head
and those nearby could see a new
light shining in his face, and they
forthwith set up a great rejoicing,
shouting and incantation.
But the young and erring ones
were attending school in the other
uea. on. There we were learning
the Nebular Theory, and ot atoms
and molecules Mind you so short
a time ago we were Icing taught
of ions and electrons. In astro-j
nemy we were being taught the he-j
lioi entriet idea of the universe, or!
that our sun. and other even great
er suns are the centres of ununibir
-od sy terns of world greater than
ours, that after all the earili is hut
a card member of a union of other
r art ns.
it iame about that year by year
as the revival seasons tame there
were fewer erring ones in the gard
en of life inclined to come forward
and join the “old time religion”.
Skepticism grew apace despite the
increased praverinines. of the god
ly. It was blamed upon the devil,
when the blame if blame it was, be
longed upon the schools.
The point is lure, that the
churches had to change. They
had to teach a theology that would
■sq :art in a way rationally known
facts and experiences. I, person
ally cannot say how the churches
have contrived to progre s. 1 can
not imagine those old war horses
d the Loro giving up their sizzling
lakes ot lire ar.d brimstone. I
fancy that the churches' advance;
or the ir Religion Forward, has been
wrought by the younger pulpiteers.
It remains that, introspecting, they
had. to lay off reviving the old, anu
regenerate themselves.
Unionism face; a similar crisis.
It must progress. It must progress
somewhere lieside in otflcial reports.
It must change. It must catch the
step of new conditions. I)o not the
great n\a s of unorganized workers
know of the unions and the bene
fits accruing to protected members?
With labor organized as at pre
sent, is there a limit in numbers
beyond which the benefit-, of the
tinion cease to flow? If not then
wttr are there great numbers of ex
members of '.miorts'. atvd «vh? tire
[here great numbers of unemployed
union men even in the better pro
• eied crel'ts of -ki'lee artisans'
i ..\ lit ns s'*v \ rito; m.r m \i hi;
In eight cases of ten it has been
lomonstroted that ;U' activities of
lie private detective have been res
ponsible for acute labor troubles in
:he United States.
The astute business man is be
ginning to realize this: that nine
enths of the troubles between ca
pital and labor have their nception
n some clean-cut issue that, dealt
s-ith dlr«.eti> aim by only the inter
red parties, either ceases to he a
icon-cur oreacn between capital
ind labor, employer and employed,
[n nine cases out of every ten,
lowever. wheln the third party—
ha private detective—is eliminated
he issue always remain clean-cut.
rhe issue becomes muddled and
unrecognizable only with the ad
rent of tli? hired -py system.
in labor troubles detectives do
not confine their activities to run
ning possible criminals to <over. in
spite ot the fact that the only le
gitimate function of the detective
s to apprehend lawbreakers or to
lake preventative measures againts
■rime. The labor spy has occupa
tion only 1-0 long as trouble be
tween capital and labor lasts. With
Ihe coming of industrial peace 'lie
labor spy is out of a job. There
fore the minute the labor spy is re
tained he begins muddying hereto
fore clear waters and fomenting
Iroiible. His first function is to so
complicate a heretofore simple pro
positicn that, so long as it remains
complicated, his services will be in
dispensable.
The proper function of the de
tective is not to break the law, in
cite men to deeds of violence and
cause crime. That is the function
of criminals. Vet in so simple a
matter as arresting men accused—
by him only—of crime, our “great”
Detective Burns broke every funda
mental law of arrest and incited
men to violence by trying and con
victing the accused in the public
press. The “great” Detective
MeParland, oi Mollie Maguire fame,
incited men to violence, participated
in such violence and reaped the re
ward of the informer by becoming
a thousand per cent worse than the
men he informed against. And the
methods adopted by these two
“great" detectives are the method
used in greater cr lesser degree by
Hie smali-fry • !' labor spies.
First bring into dispute the legi
i tir.ate undertakings of organized
| labor; cry “wolf, wolf whore there
j is no wolf; get a i -tali ■■ r from
' alarmed employers; foment trouble
■ so that there will he irouble to le
!poi‘t; bring capital and labor at
swcrd->’ points; keep them there as
long as fat fees can be drawn
down. That's the latter-day recipe
to become a great labor detectite.
The more the “detective" eftn
tantalize to deeds of hostility the
employed; the more he can lie «o
employers; the more he can befoul
the clean waters, the greater the
detective. Labor men have under
stood all this for many years. Em
ployers are beginning to under
stand it, and are beginning to un
derstand that the dawning of the
industrial peace will come only
when capital and labor get in touch
and the “detective,’' who usually
is ihc real law-breaker, is kept out
of the problem. For problem does
a tiling become the moment the
private detective appears on the
scene. Prior to that time, ten to
one, it merely was a difference of
opinion between employer and em
ployed.
The hired «py( is the greatest evil
of industrial liTe. If the industrial
war. that many prophesy, ever
comes, it will come bccatie of the
hired spy. Bloodshed will never
come through the honest efforts of
honest American workers and hon
est American workers and honest
American employers to settle their
inevitable differences fairly and
sqiiarilv. and man to man.
If indu-trlal peace or industrial
war depends upon the perpetuation
or the elimination of the private
detective system in labor troubles,
til > answer of public opinion inevit
ably must be that ihc hired spy
mutt go. lie has no legitimate
place in American life, far less in
American industrial life upon which
the prosperity of the country de
pends. The nation'^ bread and but
ler cannot be left at the mercy of
the spy. The activities of the pri
vate detective has, in the divorse
court. broken up thousands on
thousands of American homes. Let
his activities cease there. He cl
ready hr.s done harm enough.
KIHVATKS ITS MKMI5KHS.
You never met an old party po
litiican who tried to get you to
tudv your own affairs, did you?
You never saw such a politician
who tried to get you to think tor
yourself, dkl you? He knows that
the more you think for yourself,
I he worse it will he for him. You
never saw a hook explaining the
principles of the democratic, repub
lican or “progressive” parties, did
you? In reality those parties have
no print iples to explain, and the
only roc on they exist at any time
is to get the offices for the benefit
of the individuals who may be
elected. There ere no such books.
Every Socialist is anxious to get
you to road and to study for your
self. The Socialists do net think
that their candidates arc “better
men" than the other candidates on
the average. In fact, we know that
they are not. We know that human
nature i, pretty much the same in
all parties under the same average
conditions, and subject to the same
frailties and temptations. We do
believe that it improves any man
or woman to be devoted to a great
cause, but we would not have you
vote for them on that account.
What we do want you to do is
come to see that you can depend
only upon yourself and those who
are, and to see that we have de
viled the only plan so far by which
political power can be placed in
your own hands and an end be put
to the robbery and exploitation
which forces you to work lor a ;
bare subslitonce while the other
fellow gets richer end richer .
People who ask your advice sel
dom want it. What they really de
sire is that you back them up in the
thing they wish to do.
Love is the one vital thing. Lov
ers are the instruments God chooes
for perpetuating the speefes homo.
Tt is love that shapes the. plastic
clay, carves all statues, writes all
poems, paint,.: all the cancases that
adorn the walls where color revels;
sings al that enchant our ear. Love
is God.
’Our duties lie in service to our
selves, and we best serve self by
serving humanity.
THU PRODIGAL GIRL.
We all have a heart for the prodigal
boy
Who wa.. caught in sin's mad
whirl.
And we welcome him back with
songs of joy;
But what of the prodigal girl?
For the prodigal boy there's an
open door
And a father’s bounteous fare,
And though he's wretched, sick
and poor.
He is sure of a welcome there.
But what of the girl who has gone
astray.
Who has lost in the battle with
sin?
Say, do we forgive in the ,-ame
sweet way
We've always forgiven him?
Does the door stand ajar as if to
say;
“Comd, enter, you need not fear;
I’ve been open since you went away
Now "close !o the second year?"
Or do we. with hand of hellish
pride.
Close and bolt the door.
And swear, "While heaven and
earth abide
fhe will enter here no more?”
Oh. Christ! it se?m< we have
never learned
The lesson taught in the sand.
For even yet the woman is spurned
And stoned in a Christian land.
Down into the slongli we hurl Jier
back,
Then turn around with a smile,
Aid welcome the boy from the sin
ful track.
Though he may have been more
vile.
We all have a heart for the prodi
gal boy
Who was taught in sin’s mad
whirl.
And we welcome him back with
3ongs of joy;
But what df the prodigal girl?
from date to close of
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NAVIGATION
all goods sacrificed regardless of |
cost. We mean this—come and
see for yourselves. For cash only
(luring tills sale.
DARLING * DEAN COMPANY.
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while going’s good.
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FORTY-SEVEN FACTORIES!
RUBBER BOOTS & PAC5
v ARE NOW MADE BY THE NEW VACUUmT
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PRESSURE
PROCESS
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PRESSURE
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THmmANO^ Of WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH IDCI/A,C
I f1UU5AI\Ua fUV OTHER BRANDS HAVE COME BACK TO EUREKA S
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GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU LL 'SOON LEARN
„ WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
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On “Umatilla” we expect a limited supply of
LIBERTY BONDS
If they arrive, we will sell to (hose desiring.. If they tail to ar
rive, we can take subscriptions and have bonds deposited in anjr
Seattle bank to order of par chaser.
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Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
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Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING 4AKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING A TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF XV. STEIGEL MAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILE RE
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CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
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3RD AND B STREET. . PHONE BLACK 162.
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(Some, Alaska
Capital $100,CXX).00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
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Army Shoes
EARLY LAST SPRING WE PIECED AN ORDER WITH
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT CONTRATORS FOR ARMY
SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON” LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
YOU MAY SOON BE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY “UNCLE
SAM” BUT WHY WAIT?
~TXpirERSON SHOE CO.
I North
Pole
Bakery
& Coffee
House
——w—«iwnr—anM
BREAD
' 10c. per it if
3 Loa\es 30c.
cuetctis£ifiicicti; i
mmmmHMmmmm
Anvil
Bakery
and
Coffee
House
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WBRKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
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work. Call up Black
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