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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
anraham Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
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Entered as second class matter March 1. 1911, al the post office at
Nome, AiasKa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, January 1, 1016.
Good resolutions are in order.
The stimulating glass is to be taboo,
the vile cigarette is to be eschewed,
the fast life and the merry one rele
gate to the rear and men will cut
their clothes according to their
cloth.
Human nature fashions great
schemes for self improvement, self
advancement and self instruction.
.The vanities which disturbed the
propress to the higher plane of life
where the high brows dwell in in
tellectual ease are to be cast over
board. The pleasures which have
been a Jonah are thrown to the
whales and the human barque starts
out on the calm waters of 1916 with
a favorable breeze and weather
sublime.
Most people begin reforms with
the notion that the most effective
way is the way of the demolition
of the worldly pleasures. Still in
the minds of men, all gratification
of desire is of the world the flesh
and the devil and therefore entirely
evil.
It's a good way to make people
contented to got them into thinking
that they live too well. Over and
over again have papers whose pur
pose in life is to serve the great
capitalist told the people that Am
ericans lack thrift; that their stand
ard of living is entirely too high;
that they eat entirely too much
meat; smoke too many cigars and
drink too much beer. And the peo
ple get to reckoning that that's
about the size of it and they pro
coed to save. Thereupon John Capi
tal comes forward and says that in
asmuch as they can live upon one
dollar where heretofore two ha.I
hardly sufficed, it is not reasonable
to pay so high wages.
The fact of the matter is that
few of the workers at any rate live
well enough. The cigars that they
do occasionally smoke when on a
blow-out are made from tobbacco
leaves are culled a3 worthless. The
boer that they drink is premature
and unseasoned; the clothes tli<jy
wear are hand-me-down and often
shoddy; the grub they get has been
subjected to the wiles of the adul
terator.
Why not reverse the nrocesc and
come to the conclusion that the
workers hayent < :: arable
habits; that they should drink bet
tor stuff and smoke better tobacco,
wear better clothes live in bettor
‘houses and cat hotter food. Why
not reverse the process and say in
stead of cutting this pleasure out
and that, we add another little gra
tification to our innumerable de
sires?
Dont you see that thereupon an
sest he incestive to make it be
lorincoming: isn i u iiuoui nine u
is realised that it’s the ginks that
have cushioned sets and fatly sala
ried jobs with bountiful tables and
silk and fine linen that preach the
-stiffs economy.
Dont ever bi lievc that any of
those peoplo think that you are as
goed as they arc, and entitled to as
good as they get. They dont anil
tho powers that be dont.
In any event the certain fr.fct Is
this that labor will be paid just as
little as labor is proposed to accept,
and what with the enormous compe
tition in tho field of labor, labor is
generally inclined to set a low val
ue upon its work. Certain it 5«
that tho lower standard mat labor
adopts the lower will labor be paid.
Thorofore the idoa that a general
era of thrift and a general disposi
tion to become ascetics and to live
-on peanuts sholls is one that
will redound not to tho benefit of
labor under the system, but to the
employing classes.
This New Yor.r resolution route
is a wrong steor for tho working
men if It comes to e modornticn of
their standards of living. Tholr re
solutions should be directed to
wards enlarging their standards,
and compelling payment of wages
to meet Its new domando. It is all
very fine to talk thrift and economy
to those who have never ljad a
sufficiency. It seems to make an
impression with some, but it should
fool none.
The Now Year is bright with hope
only when an effort backs up the,
realization of those hopc3. What
is needed is more comfort, more
pleasure, more loisuro and the
wherewithal to enjoy all these
They will come just as soon as the
workers make up their minds along
these lines that they will have
them.
Schmidt’s conviction is a remark
able one. It is in direct conflict
with the instructions of the Court.
The Court declared that the evid
ence to prove the main charge was
insufficient and that the jury must
make up their minds before con
vincing that Schmidt had aided,
abetted and counselled the dyna
miting. This had not been dene.
Moreover it is no surprise that
the conviction shocks the court, bu;
it will not shock labor.
When the plans are laid a3 care
i fully to convict a man as have been
the plans laid to convict Schmidt, it
wmilrl hp. n. rltntJnrt. F.hnrk if
Schmidt were net convictod.
We said that it wasn’t Schmidt
the criminal or alleged criminal who
was cn trial.
Everything goes to show that. 11
Schmidt was an orefinary malefactor
who was being brought to justice,
his trial would have been tht* or
! dinary routine that one observes in
the courts. There would have beet)
! no trained witnesses like M’Mani
;gal; no special prosecutor like
| Noel; no high grade exports like
i the Burns men; no special care in
securing'the indictment, no special
care in picking the jury. The trial
J would have been over and done
with weeks ago. There would liavt
have been none of tills superabund
ant energy in convicting a man o
a crime committed or alleged to
have been committed years ago.
Not three raps are cared about
Schmidt the individual. But Schmidt
the personification of unionism and
aggressive unionism is a totally dif
ferent man. In convicting him la
bor is to be convicted and in rail
roading him labor i3 to be railroad
ed. It is to be taught its subordi
nate position; its uiuler-dog existen
ce; its hopeless task in combatting
the organized might of capital
which at the word of command can
move mountains of governmental
machinery and roll over the hapless
laborites as the spiked wheels of
the Juggernaut.
Take that same state of Califor
nia or take any state you can think
of. There have been crimes innum
pi’flhln pntrimitfofl Thprn linvn lionn
cowardly dastardly and fiendish
crimes infinitely more base, infinite
ly more heinous than the Times ex
plosion. The men involved have
been tried and given a fair trial. No
excessive attempt has been made to
convict. Prosecution and defense
balanced equally. Thore was no re
sort to special prosecutors; there
was no resort to special staffs of
expert detectives.
But this Schmidt case is differ
ent. It’s not Schmidt the alleged
dynamiter who is on trial. Not on
your life. It is not Schmidt the al
leged dynamiter who is convicted
Not by a jugful. It is that the
allegations made against the unions
for violence are to be uphold and
the lesson finally inculcated that al
bor is powerless before capital.
And it is doing no such thing, but
just the reverse.
If there is anything certain about
this Schmidt case it is that the case
will increase the solidarity of labor.
It shows labor what labor can
expect from any othor class but it
self. Practically the judges instruc
tions were for an acquittal, but the
well selected jury returned a con
viction. Can you beat that in all
the annals of capitalist criminality?
Where have you heard of a, jury
that erred on the side of severity
against the instructions of the
Court before? Against Capital;'
Never in your life.
Schmidt’s conviction will do what
Schmidt’s acquittal would never
have donef or Labor. It^will nerve
Labor to a light that Labor
would not perhaps have as
heartily undertaken. It is such
hard and gruelling experi
ences that unite all werkers; turns
them from alliances with capital of
any kind and makes then trust no:
in the urgent arguments of uplift
ing and well to do reformers and
philanthropists, but knowing the
truth, in themselves. In themselves
alone can the workers hope to con
duct a winning fight in the econo
mic struggle that they face. Con
fidence in their own class moralities
in their own class convictions, In
their own class ideas of justice, un
til the day comes when there will
be no class but all are equal not in
theory or in fiction or in imagina
tion but in industrial, in political
and in legal fact, that is the prime
essential.
In these days when the rights of
some to exnress their views are
questioned a quotation from a great
and wise and earnest man will he
worth considering:
“What Cicero practised as the
means of forensic success requires
♦ Ko imitntorl hv nil who fltlldv ailV
subject in order to arrive at tbe
truth. He who knows only his own
side of the case knows little of that.
His reason may have been good and
no one may have been able to ref ite
them. But if he is equally unable
to refute the reasons on the oppo
site side; if he does not know as
much as what they are, he has no
grounds for preferring either opi
nion .... Nor is it enough that
he should hear the arguments of ad
versaries from his own teachers,
presented as they state them, and
accompanied by what they offer a3
refutations. That is not the way
to do justice to the arguments. or
bring them into real contact with
his own mind. He must be able to
hear them from persons who actu
ally believe them; who defend them
in earnest and do their very utmost
for them. He must Know them in
their most plausive and persuasive
form; he must feel the force of the
difficulty which the tru- view has
to encounter and dispose of; else
he will never really possess himse’f
of that portion oi mo irum wmci
meets and removes that difficulty
Ninety-nine in a handled of what
are called educated men are in that
condition; even those who argue
fluetly for their cplnicro. Their
conclusion may be true, but it might
lie false for anything they know
they have never thrown themselves
into the mental position of these
who think differently from them
and considered what such perse, s
have to say; and consequently they
do not in any proper sense of the
word, know the doctrines which
they themselves profess. They do
not know those parts of it which
explain and justify the remainder.
Augustine & Kyer, Victorias and
Rutter Crisp at the Rose Candy
Store.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Ed. M’Gettigan, Arthur Divert
and Ed. P. M’Gettigan, your
heirs, executors, assigns or perso
nal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notilied that I have caused to be
expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred
dollars for each year for the years
1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, on
ea«h of the following placer min
fner nloinia Tho Mnrninp’ Stnr ermin
an association placer mining claim
situated on the left limit of Bould
er creek, a tributary of Snake River
and the Electric placor mining
claim located on the right limit of
Twin Mountain crook, said claims
being recorded and more fully de
scribed in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and. Recording dis
trict in the Second Division of the
Territory cf Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount requ*red
to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fail to contri
bute your proportion of said expen
diture, you Ed. M’Oettigan and you
Arthur Divert fer tho Morning Star
group, and you Ed. P. M'Gettlgan
in the Morning Star group and the
Electric claim, your interests in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned, your Co-owner,
under section 2324 revised statutes
of tho United States
(Mrs.) B. M. O’CONNELL.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 0, 1216
Date of last publ., Fob. 6, 1210.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
as successor in interest of E. L.
West, who on the SOth day of
July, 1907, illod in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed In this office hie application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28 th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extondlng the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 ch3.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S. I
: 15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
| thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
i E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
jwith N.' E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in. ,
I sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone i
I mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
Ion S. W. face; thence South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thcnco West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surfaco for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N. j
side of rame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 ch3.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches In
ground, cross chiseled on top for J
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.!
W. on N. face, with rtono mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office c. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
ORGANIZED I.AROR
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters S06 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
^HAS.'MOYER. ERNEST MILLS,
President. 8ec.-Treas.
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
| The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. ot the W. F. of M., Is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m„ 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON, President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local'Union 1789, Carpenters and
oliiers of America, meets every Fri
day at Al Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 18991, American Federation
if Labor, meets every Monday at
’>80 p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSB, Proa.
JENS OLSEN, Seo’y.-Trsas.
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