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“To eocure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nsnriy us possible, Is a worthy object of any sood government.”
wbranam Lincoln
r.ddri sh ill Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
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No-A that Thanksgiving is passed
lor the year, ami every person who
pt as shown gratitude
to tli Makt i o', i'rosperity lor them
hy gorging them a ives with tlie good
ilih.gs of earth, we can approach
; in that calmer mind that
always marks the morning alter.
Gratitude is one of the most hu
man of virtues. Not that it is con
fined to human beings, but in that
it is supposed to develop human
svtnpathy more highly than any
other, psychologists have lately tig
ged up a platform of consider
able praise for it
flic grateful workingman who .s
thankful to God am! his Goss that I
lu> has a job. lias been the hero or j
Sunday School song and story iron, j
time without mind. The grateful
slave that si r\ed It is master alter
evil fortunes had fallen upon him.
has lingered since slavery days long
after the lash and the block have
been forgotten. It is all exceeding!.'
beautiful and pretty. Essentiall;
Thanksgiving, extended to God for
national and individual well being,
is a remnant of that conception ol
the Deity when he had Terrors as
well as Loves to dispense, and when
lie inflicted miseries and misfor
tunes upon an abject humanity with
t pe same equal dispensation where
with he rewarded those whom lie
chose to regard his own people
It is therefore quite impossible
front any reasonable point of view
10 overlook the fact that in 'Iliankr
giving for material well being, we
are trying to saddle upon God res
ponsibility tor those things win h
human beings had they done their
part, could very well have avoided.
When a Rockefeller thanks God
for his prosperity, is he not at tl*<
same time saddling the Creator with
responsibility for those conditions ir. I
Bayonne and Colorado which hut |
lately had the nation shuddering in
horror? When a neutral nation maK
ing munificent millions out of wet
munitions thanks God lor Prosperi
ty, is it not also thanking God for
that war which has so blessed it?
When a nation thanks God for being
at Peace, is it not also -.uidling God
with responsibility for all war, inas
much he prevented it for one nation,
could he not have done so for all?
There is no way of getting over
these propositions if we exercise
that intelligence which reasoning be
ing-, are at least supposed to pos
sess. That God does not do the hor
rible things that God might do, and
that God has done good where he
would just ns well have done harm, j
that he has Inflicted happiness where
I: • might, have inflicted misery, in
evitably begets the conception that
tper is more Devil than God in that
com-option of the Supreme Being. j
Over all the country men who had
squeezed their profits from the
health and happiness of the men,
women and children who toiled for
them were yesterday engaged in
giving thanks that the nratit side of
the ledger showed such substantial
gains. That thanksgiving is consid
ered a very becoming thing and a
very beautiful thing, when ah a mat
ter of fact it is a most blasphemous
thing in that it saddles Him to
whom thanks are given with the
responsibility, for underpaid workers,
for little children in the mills and
factories, for five hundred per cent
increase in the employment of wom
en at hard labor within the past ten
years in the United States.
Every person is thankful that-the
United States is at peace. How
thankful? To whom? Who is makes
wars? God or the children of men?
If it is the Almighty that tears the
face of the earth with desolating
misery and gloats over the anguish
of the agonized victims of the bat
tlefields what sort of a divine con
ception is that but plain downright
diabolism? Isn’t it a plain and a
l'alpable truth that we are thus
only trying to remove our own res
porsibility tor social things to an- ,
.tit r, sphere, when as a matter of
■ :act it is the harvest of human acts
| that is now being reaped in tlie
reddened fields of Europe. Isn't it
; plain that in giving thanks for the
material prosperity that may he our
lot or another's, responsibility for
all the dead hopes, dead loves, dead
happiness that strew the path oi
such prosperity is directly placed
! with him who is thanked therefor.
It is true that we are creatures ot
environment. It is true that to a
great extent our environment shapes
our lives rough hew them how we
will. It is true that our hopes and
fears, our emotions and our ideas all
spring from such an environment, in
the past as hereditary experiences
or in the present. But our very
acts react upon that environment
and we can intelligently regard it,
knowing that as we sow so shall we
reap. That power to react upon our
environment implies also our power
to change it. And because we hate
that power and because we have the
unfailing knowledge that unless
we do change our environment, our
acts will be the same and accompa
nied by definite consequences, our
own is the definite responsibility for
tiiose consequences.
Our fault is not in the stars, nor
in the creator, but in ourselves. So
our achievements good or ill,
fraught with consequences evil or
good also, are in ourselves. We may
not shirk responsibility by thanking
God that we are not as other men;
: nor in thanking God that he has
! made us wliat we are, when we have
made ourselves individually and col
lectively, and been a partner in the
j social crime even if sharer in the
I social virtues.
That the countries of Europe are
now at war is not a judgment ot
God, but the carefully worked out
resultant of definite social forces:
the effects of well defined causes,
the consequences of a series of de
finite acts.
The war could have been fore
seen. It was foreseen. It was told
with no sense of prophecy at all that
it was inevitable. The nations
knew it. They built them great
ships of war; they organized great
armies: and they piled high vast
supplies of arms against the Day
they knew was inevitable. To blame
that upon God when human beings
kenw long before that the acts ol
the ruling classes within tlie nation
were travelling with seven leagued
boots towards such a fatal condition,
is absurd and puerile and is super
stitition of the blackest sort.
Why then is it not just as«ridicul
ous to thank God for peace? The
United States and the people therein
if th-y so will can remain indefinite
ly at peace. Wars are not causeless.
They do not coine from heaven.
They are not spontaneously develop
jed within any nation. They are the
culmination of a series of social and
I'conomic causes which evolve ulti
mately to tire battlefield. Human
beings all know that. The reason
that the United States today is at
peace is because it is not ready for
war; because peace is more profit
able; bcause the people do not
want it; because peace is preferable
in the minds of the people to the
horrors of war.
These are not supernatural things
We are not living under
supernatural conditions, performing
supernatural acts which will have
supernatural consequences. Today
as yesterday and the day before as
we sow, so shall we reap or our
children reap. The sins' of the
fathers today as yesterday descend
to the children who reap the harvest
in suffering and death. We cannot
violate the laws of our existence:
abuse our individual or social health
and expect to pass unscathed. We
cannot expect to live in peace ana
build our social system upon a j
struggle for existence. We cannot ■
expect that we shall have freedom
where half, three quarters or four
fifths are dependent. We cannot ex
pect that there will be permanent
peace, stability and freedom from
struggles strifes and wars where ,
the basis of the social scheme is ex- I
ploitation of men, women and child- j
ren by men or associations of men. j
Where the fact of one having, means
also that many have not, and where
to enforce possession, those who pos- i
sess not but from whose labor the
spoil is taken must be held in sub
jection, there can he no stable equili
brium, everything to the contrary
notwithstanding
' Every astounding social outburst,
whether a war, a revolution or sud
den rising, however desperate ii
may seem in itself, is in itself the
effect of preceding cause to which hu
man acts, voluntarily performed
and consciously done finally contri
buted their might of force which
persisted until the ultimate conse
quence was reached.
Our deathlessness socially and in,
dividually is in what we do. Nor is
there to be any evasion to the com
pletest judgment nature will exact
thereupon. We have, before the na
tural consequences of our own acts,
no Creator upon whom we can fall
back, and say that it was His will.
Yet it is certainly a great blessing
that those who have looted labor,
those who have plundered the col
lective effort of society, who strugg
ling against rival looters and rival
j plunderbunds plunging the world
I into an atmosphere of terrible
I struggle, battle, revolution, destruc
tion, disease, death and maiming,
could turn unctuously to a Deity and
give thanks to him that it is through
him, of him and for him that such
things were done.
We may not thus escape, although
we may affect to escape responsibil
ity. And It is certain that it is be
cause of the persistency of evil acts
in reacting upon the doer and upon
| society, it is that men have discov- I
ered that evil, like murder though 3
! it have no tongue, will out, and it jj
| will out upon the world which will g
j he horrified at the consequence •! g
5 its own social acts and its own soci- 1
! al tolerations. __ E
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered I
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring |
Co., Next door to Segerstroni and 5
Hagen's. ' jj
Brass bird cages $5.50 to $7.00 at jj
Crooks next City Hall.. jj
PBOFCSSIONAIi CAK1). jj
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN <& SURGEON.
Office & Residence:
OVER mi.I/S PHARMACY.
Office Hours: 2—5 and 7—S p. ni.
Phone Main 7.
John Hancock
NIGHT SCHOOL. 212 FRONT ST
From 6:30 to 8:30 p. m.
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,
also Art of Bookkeeping.
Terms reasonable.
rinrmnriric
srcrurmuiZTOlya
FOR YOUR
njuuuuu i.
THANKSGIVING
MINCE AMI PUMPKIXG PIE ETC. Leave jour orders now at
The Arctic Bakery
THIS WEEK AUGUSTINE & EVER WEEK.
Fresh Salted Almonds and Peanuts.
WIN THE RASKET
One Chance with every 25e. Purchase.
THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
134 or call at
si
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER OFFICE
PRICES AGAIN REDUCED ON
FORD AUTOMODILES
Chassis price is now $ 325.00
Runabout $ 345.00
Touring $ 360.00
F. 0.0. DETROIT
PLAGE YOUR ORDER NOW
AIM LIGHTERAGE A COHI'L GO.
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I Do You Like Nice Fresh Eggs?
| Then Use Hollyhurst.
p Remember we receive fr esh shipment, of these eggs on each
boat, thus insuring their freshness.
D.E. CROWLEY
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Kent Transfer Co.
General Transfer & Freighting
Qoal & Ql±
Phone Main 139.
TRY
PHIL MURPHY
FOR LEATHER VESTS & COATS, THE LONG KIND OREGON
CITY MACKINAWS. HATS SHIRTS, PANTS, SHOES, UNDER
WEAR, SWEATERS, FUR CAPS, MITTS, WOOL GLOVES,
PARKAS AND ROBES. >
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Men’s Women’s Children’s
Since the opehing of Navigation we have received 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason". Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
"TTpeterson shoecoT s
»J« •{« «J» »J*
RELIABLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 3 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do the best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING &
REPAIRING
Ladies and Gentlemens Clothes.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WOKKER.
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MINERS !
RESTAURANT:
Opposite Industrial Worker, j"
FIRST CLASS MEALS.
Served in ,+
FIRST CLASS STYLE. 4*
Under New Management 4*
OPEN ALL NIGHT. *
Phone Main 158. .g.
S. H. SIMEON t
Call at the INDEPENDENT MARKET and see the
display of fine Turkeys, Chicken, Geese, and Ducks
also Fresh Killed Veal and Pork
W. H. WEBB
TEL. MAIN 15