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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government/'—
aDraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, January 4, mill.
Chairman Lawrence Vciller of the
New York Committee for the pre
vention of tuberculosis thinks that
the tide ie coming fast when tuber
culosis will be a thing of the past.
Said he “It is a question of edu
cation of expelling ignorant and vic
ious customs, of teaching wholesome
living. The work dono among in
fants especially has been encourag
ing, and a Oner, stronger stock is
on the way with each new genera
tion. The immense progress which
has been made against tuberculosis
forecarts the day when the race win
be free from the white plague".
When committeemen praise their
own work you cannot blame them.
And when social workers dealing
with offccta, expound exaggerating
ly the results of their effort, it is
to be considered natural.
Now the fight against tubercu
losis has been accompanied by cer
tain definite results. It i3 not un
accompanied by progress. But it is
at the same time all done withii
certain circumscribed limits, beyond
which strive as they may, they can
not go.
Medical authorities tell us that
under ordinary conditions there
are tuberculosis germs in the major
ity of people, but these are con
trolled or destroyed by other germs
which function thus usefully in the
individual body.
Under ordinary conditions human
beings having access to sunlight,
fresh air jujd reasonable exercise
maintaireTuelr healthy body in such
a condition that the germs of tu
berculosis can make no headway.
The ideal therefore is to provide
ail human beings with this condi
tion so that their bodies may be in
a position to resist the inroads of
the consumption germs all the time
A decline in the nervous condition
of the human being, mal-nutrition,
the inhalation of impure air laden
with more or less minute solid par
ticles, lack of healthy exercise and
' existence in dark and unwholesome
places, predispose to tuberculosis by
weakening the resisting power of
the body in that the germ3 or cor
puscles which would otherwise over
come the. noxious germs are enfeeb
led and inpotont to do their work
Now any committee can teach
these facts, and thoj -sv generally
known by the public. Bat to teach
men and women the facts of healthy
and wholesome living and to en
able them to secure that wholesome
and healthy living, are two entirely
-different things.
By what means for example can
llie rules of health enter into the
daily labor of an employee in a tex
tile works? The employee is tend
ing a machine whose vibrations
even affect the body in an evil de
greo. It women they cause them 13
become in a state of hyper-sex ex
ceedingly lowering to the system.
They breathe air that is rendered
impure and is often choked with
tint, contains exceedingly minute
dust, atomisod oil, other foreign
particles and Is unfit for breathing
no matter how perfect is the venti
lating system. To avoid any such
evil effects as those which distinctly
drive towards tuberculosis, exceed
ingly short hours should be worked
there, and the employees should
have reached all of them an adult
stage of perfect health even at that.
Or in a chemical works, the poi
sonous fumes exercise a deadly and
dangerous effect upon the system.
Apart altogether from tho ability of
the worker to resist metallic or che
mical poisoning, often Incidental to
tho Industry, tho stamina become?
deteriorated and the employee pre
disposed to consumption.
In almost all Industries the same
can be said; modern spoeding up
and efficiency, extracting as such
systems do Buch a tremendous
amount of vital energy and result
ing in such a deterioration In the
health or nervous system of the ©m*1
ployee, they drive towards tubercu
losis.
In modern mining, especially, as a
result of the Introduction of ma
chine drills, the stopes and drifts
are choked with dust and when not
choked with dust, laden with pow
der smoke. It has become notor
ious that phthisis is growing more
and more common in rock mining,
and in coal mining what in known
as miners’ asthma is only another
name for tuberculosis.
In another survey of the situation
we have to consider the methods of
living in the larger cities. Tenement
life is a life that perfectly predis
poses to tuberculosis. Bad air, over
crowding, lack of sunshine, impure
water, mal-nutrition—these are the
avowed allies of the dreadful di
sease. Now tenements exist because
of the necessity which drives the
workers to cheap rents. And while
a source of enormous profit to some
few individuals, the tenements have
always been a menace to the health
of society at large. Doctors are quite
candid about industrial conditions
pre-disposing to a spread of con
sumption and those who work
hardest against the fatal disease
will readily admit that they are
powerless to overcome an evil which
is daily and hourly being created in
society by the system of industry
which prevails.
And it is because they dare noi
tackle thi3 sysetm, that the limit
of the work of societies or individu
als in the prevention of tuberculosis
is definite and well determined.
Just as soon as shorter hours ars
suggested'in mills,, mines and fac
tories, just as soon as the abolition
of the tenements is spoken of, just
so soon does private profit get up
and “pooh pooh” the whole thing,
as an outrage and absurd to even
think of. It’s not because human
beings are naturally evil or natur
ally inclined to mercilessly exploit
men, women and children at
all. But because the system insists
that business shall be operated not
for social well being and to acco
modate the needs of human beings,
nut to provide pronts ror those who
own the means of production.
This is an elementary fact that
the Industrial Worker has insisted
upon often enough. You cannot ex
pect business to be carried on at a
loss. There must be profits, and it
is immaterial what results from
the operation of business just so
long as gain is carried forward
from day to day, and month to
month, and year to year.
Therefore it is conditions which
predispose towards tuberculosis are
maintained, because to change this
condition would result in a diminu
tion or total loss of profits.
Tenements are requisite in cities
because therein sweat shop workers
who obtain not a living wage can
obtain rents below the normal. If
is true that relative to the amount
of air space provided thero is nc
difference in rents, but by sharing
rooms with other families and thus
restricting the air space, the inmates
are enabled to pay less rent as in
dividuals and hence to more care
fully husband their sweat shot
wages. Thus, and this is the reallj
Important fact, the less wages art
demanded in sweat shops for humar
beings will accept just as little as
they can Hvo upon; such is th«
force of competition in the laboi
commodity market.
The optimistic declaration of Mr
Veiller therefore counts for verj
little. It is the satisfaction of th:
child who bails Us little hole in tht
sand of the sea shore, when the
ocean water Beeks its level to re
plenish the displacement effected
The tuberlulosis committees hav<
obtained great results, but thei
work has been palliative work mere
ly. It has not and it dare not strik<
at the roots of this disease. Fo:
there Is no kind of question tha
tuberculosis is an Industrial disease
It is a disease that .is easily defloc
when human beings live normal
healthy, open air lives. . Tuberculo
sis is overcome hy sunlight; oxygei
is it# antidote; exorcise moderate
and wholesome Is its bane. It Is
overcome by healthy sleep in u
healthy .atmosphere; end it is tri
umphant only when no.aioua condi
ditions of labor, foul air, evil’ha', ■its.
unhealthy conditions of living pre
dispose towards it.
Given half a chance the human
body will take care of itself without
any drugs and without any physi
cian. But when the human being
is redured to an industrial machine,
badly cared for and lacking in nutri
otin, in leisure, and working always
at a high pressure in unfavorable
surroundings, no physic can prevent
it3 break down, and the daily and
yearly creation of consumptive de
relicts.
It’s the system—just another ot
the innumerable damnable effects ot
production for profits.
Whatever else may bo thought of
the sinking of the Persia in the Me
diterranean, it is certain that the
Gods are playing into the hands oi
the preparatlonistc.
The sinking of this steamer will
be cited as a fine example of the
flouting of American ultimatums,
because back of the ultimatums
there is no big stick.
No one who has the preparatlon
ist bee in their bonnet is going to
see anything else in the significance
of that sinking.
Patriotism will call for blood, but
the call will find inadequate means
at hand to gratify the demand
Therefore there must be a bigger
navy ahd also a bigger army. In a
world in arms the unarmed suffer,
and so forth and so on, ad infini
tum
Exception has been taken to the
statement set forth in these columns
that the saloons themselves by their
methods abolished themselves. It
Is held that the saloons were abol
ished by the women. But why did
the women oppose the saloons par
ticularly in the state of Washington
instead of in California or in Nome’.'
All women are not prohibitionists
by a darn sight. And we are Just
as likely to go to one extreme be
holding in the suffrage a panacea
for all evils, as seeing the suffrage
a relief for none. The work of
women and men politically is about
a stand off, and in some cases not a
very creditable stand off at that.
The fact is that when evils are
attacked denounced or opposed iu
any way, it is because they become
palpably unpleasant to those oppos
ing them. The Seattle saloons had
this effect upon men and women
alike, and hence they were abol
i Ished. But—-it wasn’t the vote ot
the women In the cities that put
them in the clear even at that.
Comment upon the execution ot
Edith Cavell the English nurse who
was courtmartialled and convicted
for aiding the escape of enemies Is
certainly frenzied. Without a doubt
it was a monstrous procedure, ana
revealed the utter cruelty of this ut
terly cruel war wherein human life
is as nothing. But respect for the
person of woman has not been a
characteristic of war at any tlce,
nor if the truth bo told, very much
In evidence In peace. Under the
economic system many women are
driven by want into the brothel, the
victim of the lustful rapacity of the
well to do—are compelled to labor
at wholly unsuitable occupations,
and to drudge a living death where
in the labor is often enough the
least of the heard3hips endured.
It’s only a few years ago since
forceful feeding destroyed the con
stitutions of active militants in
Great Britain, and the London bob
bies slugged many a suffragette.
Even in Chicago it is positively
certain that many a “fine” mind
which very sensitively denounces
the Teuton barbarity of Miss Ca
vill’s execution will take no stock
in the deliberate cold blooded thug
gery of the police and strong arm
men employed to break the garment
workers strike when clubbing down
women pickets who were struggling
for a living wage.
So four fifths of this stuff that Is
peddled about Miss •'Cavill is all
buncombe—nauseous maudlin insin
cere buncombe. If any real regard
is had for women, it will be a3 piti
less in Its criticism of the applica
tion of force to repress the activ
ities of poverty as of the well to do.
Surely the execution of Miss Cavill
was barbarous and horrible, but
society at that is constantly barbar
ous and horrible in Its treatment ot
woman. Germany is no exception,
nor is any other country.
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