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Nome, Alaska, October 2;5. 1 !»17.
GETTING COM) I KEY.
The following editorial is repro
duced for the edification of our
read rs. It is one of maiiv recently
have been emanating from New
York papers that sate up an1 took
notice when ;;g in the Russian
workers demonstrated against the
monstrous things that are being
♦ lore against the worker's ii> the
name of law and order. 1 is is
from the New York G’obe and
would apeak lor itself wot? it not
lor the tact .hat while ea. tern pa
pers are courageous enough to di
flounce this judicial tink. the San
Francisco journals more accustomed
to the malodorous condition tin re
jn'cvails are quite silent where not
approving of th - v’llainiea of the
< ourt official.', and their tetainers
or their boss.:., lb re is the art’ de:
Halting A Hi)! t'viiwe.
Tin time lies arrived for every
..orious-m'.iideil. patriotic A merit'an
i( take le.t.e of the Moot ey case itt
San Francisco. This week tilt
Supreme cor t ot f’al'tornia lets
nftirni'd tlte regularity of the sen
tence of death pronounced rgai.mt
Mooney after a farcical trial. It si
time to .1 i mie- the assumption that
Die tnnrde- ius conspirators r 'spons
ible for t'.ie crooked and corrupt
verdict will not dare to go farther.
Mooney is innoetnt of the crime
< barged against him. No on ■ in
San Francisco or outside of i* whc
has studied the evidence in the
case has any doubt.
He fs the victim of a group of
wild niMi, controlled by the fiercest
kind of dass hatred, who happen
temporarily to he in control of San
Vranciscc-s judicial machinery. The
testimony given against him is ad
mitted to be a mass of crude per
jury. It is contradicted by the
mort convincing evidence and by
documents and circumstances whose
weight no one challenges. The ease
thus appeals to every lover of law
and order who realizes that It will
go ill with tliis country when con
fidence is lost in the courts.
The accusation thus entered
against the courts of San Fran
cisco is not a matter of opinion. It
is a judgment entered by a regular
cmjiiiiielled jury. Against Mooney’s
wife was brought the same charge
that was brought against him. The
<une against her was the same as
against him. The witnesses who
swore that they saw him in a taxi
cab with a suitcase near the semic
«if the explosion swore that she rode
Jiv his side. The jury in her case
rejected the testimony as false. If
false as to the one defendant it was
false as to the other.
Mooney has been brought under
the shadow of the gallows not be
cause he is a murderer, but be
cause lie sought to organize a strike
on the San Francisco street rail
ways. A powerful corporation,
whose record has been out of cor
ruption and crime, vowed to ‘get”
.him. Its detectives “framed up”
the testimony, controlled the dis
trict attorney's office, and packed
the jury. From one end of the
•country to the other there Is not
a labor unionist who does not un
derstand the issue, and if the con
spirators are not balked of their
prey the consequences will tic so
cially disintegrating. It will be
said the courts cf this country are
not just if the defendant is a labor
n n ion 1st.
The case, moreover, has an inter
national aspect. When the Atner
ican mission was in Russia a meet
ing to protest against the crime
ngrinst Mooney was held. The
loaders of Russia are not likely te
liave faith in America as a land of
democratic justice and freedom If
Mooney swings. They ascribe the
capitalistic prosecution of him as
comparable to the race savnge-y ot
which we complained when Botlla
wr.s on trial. Few are the Russians
who do not know all ahout Mooney
*jud what his case involves. 'Our In
flucnce in Russia will be greatly de
creased if we do not see that jus
tice is done, and this will make it
more difficult to win the war.-—Nev’
York Globe.
SIGNS Ol THE TIME.
We judge that Governor Strong
has reason to doubt the likelihood
of his re-appointment. Wo base
without prejudice our conclusions
on his more recent appointments,
all of which he. filled with republi
cans or Wickersham men.
It would be highly improbable
that he would adopt this course
were he not satisfied that the de
mocratic party lias nothing more
for him. for it may be assumed that
the republicans have not a mono
poly In line for any position which
the democrats could not fill as well.
It is a pity in a way that the
Govcrnor has seen fit to pursue this |
course for it rather endorses
everything those who have been
after his scalp have been charging
right along: to wit. that he was
not a democrat at iieart and there
fore was not entitled to hold office
as a democrat.
In any event, however, in this
instance tiie Governor lias taken
something like squareajawed ac
tion and those who have boon
charging him with being a guber
natorial mollycoddle might change
their minds when they observe
with what apparent deftness, firm
ncss and love of tiie work lie can
fill position after position in his
power to bestow, with republicans
or Wickcrslianiites. In this he is
following his own bent. In the per
functory fulfilment of his office as
governor appointed by a democratic
administration lie is democratic
enough, in the appointments where
he consults none but himself he is
republican or Wickershamite: As
of the Douglas he may say.
My Castle is my King’s alone
From turret to Foundation stone —
The Hand of Douglas is his own!
We judge that Goveroor Strong
rightly or wror.gly surmises that
another will occupy Juneau’s guber
natorial castle and his hand is gett
ing busy in appointments before it is
stilled again into civil life.
CKNSOHSHIP.
The announced intention to close
up every paper which advocates a
certain line of policy government
officials may regard inimical
lo tho public good is part and par
cel of the modern theory generally
accepted that the war can best be
pursued by an autocracy. This,
genial theory was first promulgated
in a most indelicate manner by Sana
Blythe. So far no one has arisen
to tell us why if autocracy is good
in war, makes for national offici
ally and productivity, makes ono
field of grass grow where a blade
or two blossomed before, tt is not
also excellent in peace.
The point is however that the
saltation of a democratic nation at
all times is not autocracy but more
democracy. Autocracy is simply a
handy means of concealing mis
takes. coveting up graft and grind
ing the masses. Those advocating
it ate hypnotised bv a fallacious be
lief in Herman efficiency.
SOCIALISM.
The Menace of Socialism is be
ginning to make amny peace advo
cates and one writer in ihe Spring
field Republican urges every effort
to support the papal peace plans
because of the socialist menace.
"For these reasons every patriot;
American ought to pray for the
success of the Tope's peace efforts"
Those are his words. It is quite
apparent that it is only a matter
of time until heavy burdens for the
little businessman and his fear or
socialisn. is going to make the pa
cificist propaganda mighty strong
in the United States as it is making
it strong in certain powerful com
mercial centers in France, in Great
Britain and in Germany.
Only recently an article declared
the “international financial inter
ests opposed 'lie idea of abolishing
the German oligarchy" and
Haldane's warning that socialism
would c me if not p.-ar" has not
been lest at r'.l open his follow
poet's.
Russia has been the final eve
opener and there Is quits a good
many who realize that it is not
going to lie plain saili-g for the
oligarchies anywhere and the long
er the war last.; the worse for the
oligurchists. Tluy do not like thin
idsa of beholding capitalism com
mit suicide. Apparently some "so
do not like
that suicide
eialists”
either.
AN INTKUKSTIN'G FACT.
I
The American Red Cross sends
out in its ccstly and voluminous
news service an item of more than
passing interest. ^
It directs attention to “the grow
ing misuse of the Red Cross Em
blem commercially" and warns that
this is a violation of the law.
Apparently the Fed Cross people
are only just beginning to realize
that patriotism like everything else
has a high commercial value, and
that the dollar chasers with the in
stinct of a fox hound on the scent
foi its quarry long ago have noted
the fact.
Hence to promote the sales of
sundry commodities the Red Cross,
like the American or other flags, is
made use of for the purpose of
making money.
The disinterested observer would
very much like to know what mat
ter of the kind is not subject to
abuse of a sitSilar nature. Not reli
gion. not virtue, not morality, not
patriotism—not any of these things
but is taken hold of by the dollar
chaser and used to increase profits.
Moreover who will be indignant
as the dollar chaser who uses it
a3 if anyone should dare to ques
tion the highest motive of the user?
If the abuse of such things is not
consecrated by precedent, then it is
hard to say what is blessed by pre
cedent indeed.
The mare fact that a law exists
against this abuse merely makes
certain of the existence of that
abuse.
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