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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phoae, Blaek 114.
Nome, Alaska, July 18, 11)17.
TAX IMtIM.lVG.
It is quite apparent that white!
Jli rich are nio?t enthusiastic for
ibis war, aid lia'e shouted with the
frudest voice on ail patriotic occa
sions it is the peer man who will do
the fighting and it is the relatively
poor man who w 11 do the tax pay
ing
while the wealthy have flags in
evidence about their mansions, on
their autos, in their offices and
upon their persons, they are just
the same going to let the other
fellow do the fighting and the other
fellow to a great extent do the tax
paying.
Mr. Gilson Gardner for example
made public a private circular sent
broadcast to the richer clients of a
well known brokerage house, part
oi which read as follow*:
“Has it occurred to you as a man
of large income how very favorable
present conditions are for invest
ments in vacant lands? For some
years to come you may expect in
creasingly high income taxes, and
while the present revenue bill only
provides 33 1-3 per cent tax on all
incomes over *300.000, yet it may
be confidently predicted this per
centage will be considerably in
creased. and some go so far as to
predict confiscation of all incomes
«->f over *100,000.
It would therefore appear good
business for those having such in
comes to switch their investments
from revenue producing securities
or trade such securities for vacant
lands. Vacant lands will produce
no immediate income and will
therefore bear no federal tax. State,
county or municipal taxes that may
be paid upon vacant lands are al
lowed to set off in making up in
come tax returns”.
Furthermore, it is declared on
positive auhtority that the very rich
are now buying vacant lands as
they never did before.
Apparently the win the war loans
are merely for the masses, while
the well to do acquire more of the
soil and entrench themselves in
the property of the nation.
A RKAL yCKSTlOX.
A correspondent in a recent is
sue of our brilliant exchange, the
llritish Columbia Federatlonist, one
of the most untramelled, fearless
and unquestionably one of the
clearest and ablest of labor papers
in the western world, asks the per
tinent question as to the Asiatic
somewhat this wise: if Australians
Insist upon a white Australia, bar
ring all the orientals, if- America
suul Canada does likewise, what
i* to become of the surplus from
the teemingly pregnant nations ot
(the east—Japan, China, India.
And it is a question which the
correspondent intimates must be an
swered even if the solution can only
he brought about eventually by a
war.
This is surely a fact. It is a mo
mentous question and one that
must be considered sooner or later.
It is imposible to avoid it, for al
though at the present time it is not
pressing very sternly for solution,
the time is not tar distant when it
will.
It is certain also that the peace
ful settlement is not to be found
In the program provided by so
ao-called labor leaders which de
mands Asiatic exclusion in the var
ious countries that the jobs may be
monopolized by them. That view
it* only worthy being held by men
whose narrow vision sees this a
world of jobs and wherein protec
tion against foreign competition in
the labor market is required where
labor is eternally a commodity.
The solution is found we believe
in wider principles of live and let
live, and in co-operation for that end
between the workers fo the world,
regardless of their race, their creed.
or their color.
To imagine that it is impossible I
for the white workingman to make
common cause with any other is to !
hold a view ot their position which i
is at once incorrect and impossible.
The world is now in the making.
It is absurd to think that principles!
of democracy, industrial freedom
and political emancipation are onij
for one race, and not for all. There
is nothing to prevent the idea that
all races can freely intermix and
carry on their different activities in
every land upon the broad plane of
human brotherhood.
These antagonisms of race which
arise from jealousies of an econom
ic, a sexual or a class caste, have
no place in the labor movement.
The oriental workers like his Aryan
brethren have nothing to lose but
their industrial chains and a world
to gain uniting one with the other.
Not a single seetion of the world
has as yet been put to the full test
of its productivity. Because the
rich and powerful in all lands mon
opolize wide sections uncultivated
for any useful purpose, the rest art
compelled to travel afar.
The same reason that made the
peoples of the European nations
come to the Americas are driving
the Japanese, the Chinese and the
Hindus to seek an outlet also. The
land where wealth accumulates and
men decay is not confined to any
one section of the globe, and the
land where the earth is monopol
ized and peons rather than endure
their peonage depart for the free
land countries, is not confined to
Europe by a long shot.
Hence, it is, we have to recognize
the rights of every man, regard
less of his creed, his race, his color,
to make a living for himself. Too
many idlers live upon the activities
of their fathers, and hold that
theirs is the right to exclude be
cause their fathers before them
went into the wilderness and made
it blossom. They forget that the
same momentum which drove their
fathers from their native lands, is
precisely the same social force that
is driving those whom they would
exclude from access to the soil in
their countries.
THE DEPORTATIONS.
For a democracy Arizona is do
ing very well in providing us with
side lights on the elements of free
dom. The expulsion of the workers
from Bisbee at the behest of the
copper barons, through the armed
violence of the thugs of the copper
barons whose anxiety to get out
copper at 33 cents a pound during
this Holy War for democracy
against autocracy leads our national
plutocrats *lo a policy which goes
the Kaiser one better.
Here are men, according to the
census taking by the United States
army officers, officers of the regular
army, whose tradition forbids
playing with the truth and whose
duty compels them to do as they
are ordered, without fear and with
out favor, showing us that the men
who gave of their little savings to
liberty loans to the red cross, who
willingly registered that they might
even sacrifice their lives for the
nation, are driven out by these
copper barons whose lust for profits
overcomes every other sense and
who deliberately tear the constitu
tution into a mess of tatters with
out as much as a word of protest
from any official whose duty it is
to enforce the laws.
This may be all very well for a
time. But it is practically certain
that for all these things there is
coming a day of reckoning, just as
surely as the rape of Belgium and
other infamies of militarism will
be paid for ounce by ounce and
pound for pound in the scales of a
rigid and unyielding Justice as time
goes on.
FACTS ABOUT MARSHAL
(Continued from page 4.)
ation seem to be of igneous origin,,
greenstone, basalt and porphyry
predominating, and there is no
wash. Rich ground it is, but diffi
cult of working, as most of it is
rock. Some of the pits resemble
quarries rather than placer mines.
The work is 8 hours per day, and
$5.00 per day, but there is no lack
of wcrMngmen. and there are about
50 idle men at Willow. No rain
had fallen for some time, and some
of the mines would have to close
down for lack of water. Work was
late getting under way owing to the
deep frost, and even yet there has
been no clean-up to bpeak of. Lit
tle money is in circulation, and
everybody uses the ‘slap-her-down"
system (expressive phrase, that)
and everybody stands everybody
else off. A clearing hoijse will be
a necessity of the camp when
money and dust finally gets in cir
culation.
At present the pay is confined to
Willow creek, and if no more pay
is found, the camp will be short
lived. However, as there are 6 or
7 other creeks heading in the same
range of hills and cutting the same
formation, it seems likely that gold
will be found on some of them.
The ground is wet and is difficult
to prospect. A story is told of 4
men who sunk a shaft last winter
using two windlasses, two men
hoisting water and two dirt. It is
no poor man's camp, as there is
only about 3 month's work in sum
mer time at the best and no winter
work, anf living expenses are high,
meals being one dollar, and it costs
at least two dollars a day to board
yourself. lieindeer meat is about
the cheapest article, being 25c. per
pound. A man named Jack Shu
wart has a herd of about 100 deer.
Waskey was preparing to prospect
on East Fork, a tributary of W illow
REbUDLE TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. * doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do tie best
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING ft
REPAIRING
Ladles snd Gentlemens Clothes.
WK CAN no IT.
For first class work and prong)
delivery ph «ne Main Irtl and tha
People's Steam Laundry will c< b
and get your laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON Prog
S. S. -Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
DIME AND WAY POINTS
weather permitting
From Snake River.
CHAS WECKMAN.
Why worry
About wash day
THAT’S OUR BUSINESS.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
BOSTON
STEAM LAUNDRY
444 Front St. Phone Main S3
A Keystone drill has lately been
taken in which is at present drilling
on No. 2 below, right in town,
with what result la unknown.
Disappointment creek, on the
Wilson creek side, was a failure,
although on Elephant creek, tile
next tributary, a man named Pil
cher is taking in a hydraulic outlit.
At the head of Willow Tom Plun
kett has some good-looking <;uartz.
In many ways Willow resembles
the typical mining camp of early
days where life is free and easy,
where everybody is as good as
everybody else, and “a dim sight
better”, as an Irishman expressed
it, and where life runs high and
conventions are thrown to the
winds when money is plentiful.
There is no saloon at Willow, but
one is located about half ways to
The Landing right close to a num
ber of mineral springs. The water
is strongly charged with iron, mag
nesia and perhaps lithla, and hither
one may see any number wending
their way with jugs and pails to
partake of the rejuvenating waters,
which is guaranteed to cure shovel
itis in a few applications, and other
kinds of Elixirs of Life may be had
j at the saloon and roadhouse,
j The latest arrivals, Mrs. A. G.
Oliver and Wm. Mullan. are getting
| acclimated, although the mosquitos
and gnats came nearly finishing
the chechacoes at first. I can still
see Wm. Mullan sitting eating
breakfast at the Pioneer with a
smudge pot between his feet and an
expression on his face, “Why did I
leave Nome?”
In talking with men on the trails
and on the boats from the Koyukuk
the Iditarod, Dawson, Ruby and
other places, one feels that a spirit
of pessimism has overtaken the
prospectors and miners. Nearly all
the interior camps are on the de
cline and everybody is foot loose
and waiting to stampede to the next
reported strike.
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IX)T LETTERS.
LONDON, July 15.—The Lord
Mayor has received a lot of letters
from Japanese schoolboys and girls
accompanying total gifts of ?7,500
for Belgian Relief.
WANTED AT ONCE
FIVE HUNDRED MEN
Let us do your cleaning, press
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clothes look like new. We do Dry
and gasoline cleaning for Ladies
and Gentlemen. We do steam clean
ing. We make alterations. We
guarantee first class workman ship.
Our prices are reasonable.
Once a customer, yo’ll always be
a customer. Drop in and see us,
and we’ll give you our prices before
we do your work. And we appre
ciate your patronage.
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