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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, al the post office at
Nome, ■ Alaska, under the Act of March >, 187*.
Nome, Alaska, August 22, 111 in.
nebvice.
There is a new philosophy very con
venient for passing it along, which
is now making its appearance in the
industrial world, and which founds
itself upon alleged scientific facts.
That is the somewhat modern theo
ry of service.
Keally as now expounded it.
should he called the thedry of
service through sacrifice, and
when tlie other man is doing the
sacrificing, it is exceedingly satis
factory and convenient if it is done
for your benefit.
Especially these later days has
there been a marked revival of an
old time belief, modified and forti
fied by pseudo scientific sanction,
which gives it apparently a more
sincere veneer.
Briefly the idea is that life has at
all times depended for its individual
success at the expense of other indi
viduals. And it is pointed out from
the realm of biology that life in as
cending plain, lives at the expense
of other lives. Carnivorous amnia’s
kill living tilings and devour tnerr.
Animals which live upon fruits or
grasses or vegetation of any kind
must destroy those things to ob
tain sustenance, and one entity
purchases its continued existence
at the expense of another which
flius serves.
The deduction is brought right
home to human being- by these
self styled scientists jusil.Ving as a
condition of human life tlia' some
were made to be sacrificed for the
i.ci.efit of others, and that that is
tpe very law of life.
in Ibis way they Cv.-ialn industri
al accidents and industrial fatalities,
in this way they explain the need
of individuals sacrificing their lives
upon the battlefields that others
may triumph, and it is held that for
fliis same biological reason, some
must endure poverty and misery
that others Will be happy.
To buttress this position as we
stated they overhaul the entire biol
ogical science anti they proceed to
found upon the conditions of exist
ence the facts of service and the
facts of sacrifice. They show that
nature is cruel and remorseless,
they prove that one r.iecies wars
against the other, and that even
down to the ants which harness to
their service certain forms of
aphidae upon the secretions of
which the ants thrive, just as hu
man beings thrive upon the milk of
cows, the inferior living things are
compelled to serve those which are
superior.
But all this reasoning as far as
It is an attempt to justify the ex
ploitation of one class of men by
another, or one race of human be
ings by another is all founded upon
a fallacy.
There is not a single case in the
entire biological world where the
same species lives at the expense
or other members thereof. It is
true that the ants live off aphidae
to a certain extent, but the latter
are no more cloflely related to the
ants, than is the grain that is
garnered and made to devote itself
to the sustenance of the ants in
stead of giving forth vegetable life
and reproducing itself. Even the
one apparent exception, the drones
in a beehive, are merely tolerated
because they atone possess the func
tion of sex and they are destroyed
when they perform their function,
by the neuter working bees.
But no such terrific sacrifice any
where is demanded as is insisted
upon in the world of humanity, that
men, women and children give of
their brain and their brawn, sacri
fice themselves in toto for the bene
fit of an owning class.
Biology stops short of any ana
logy in the animal or vegetable
world that would be equivalent to
child labor, servitude, enforced toil.
In no part of the animal king
dom however fierce, do animals at
tempt to control all the food, or all
the drinking supply. When they
have had their fill, others are wel
come. and in many cases mutuality
is the marked characteristic even
between different species and often
enough different genera.
Among the same species as has
been pointed out by Kropotkin in
his Mutual Aid, the most important
factor of survival has been mutual
assistance rendered to one another
by the individual members of the
same species. The idea that one or
a set of individuals should be sacri
ficed for the benefit of the few of
the same species is not only never
seen, but never even heard of.
It is certain that those species
which practiced the most intelligent
efforts to assist one another have
been those which ultimately surviv
ed. The basis of survival for all
living things is co-operation adjust
ed to the environment which so
often threatens existence. There
can hardly be any doubt that it is to
iuch co-operation practiced among
the primitive beings from which
, modern humanity is descended,
society today owes its very exist
ence.
In all ages we discover the fact
that human beings gathered to
gether for mutual protection and
not until the very latest ages of
barbarism and throughout that era
known as civilized, lias any service
been demanded, by some inexorably
: stronger on .account of one thing oi
another, from all the rest.
It is probable that human sacri
fice cannibalism and slavery began
at coincident epochs of the race,
and there is hardly any question
but ownership in the needs of hu
manity and the demand for service
' to owners also began simultaneous
ly. We have no trouble tracing the
genesis of wage working from serf
dom and chattel slavery, and indeed
both of those things predicate an
ownership, control or possession
over the means whereby human be
ings lived.
That condition therefore is not
biological. It is economic. It is not
an instinctive condition inherent be
cause necessary to continued exist
ence. Private property in land and
tools, in machinery, and food, cloth
ing and shelter is not in any way
a biological condition, but owes its
existence to the artificial fact that
some exercised savage might to
deny others access to the means
whereby the rest lived. The right
to possess as against the rest of the
people, social necessities is in itself
genealogically akin to the exercise
of power by the liege lord, the
Caesar or the tyrant in all ages. It
is however upon that which this
service theory of life founds itself.
It is this prior condition of a right
of one man to say how the others
should live; to dictate their coming
and Lheir going, their working and
their sleeping that has made it
possible to establish a system of
ethics based upon an altruism
is practiced, but which is none the
less so outrageously anti-social that
it has, right in the present as in the
past, deluged the world with blood
and brutalized it with human suff
ering.
All service which is to be of a
social nature must be equally reci
procal. Without that essential ot
equality even Golden Kules become
a farce. It is true that there may
be neither equality of physical
strength nor of mental ability, but
it is just as scientific and far finer
to demand that that excess of phy
sical strength and excess of mental
ability shall be in the service ot
those who have no such redundance
of either as it is to justify either
demanding of the rest, service in
its already clotted surfeit of power.
There is absolutely no reason why
the genius physical or mental—
using the terms in the sense of one
abnormality gifted—-should receive
the sacrifice of service from all the
rest. It is not to the genius that
the world owes its progress. To
think it is is to think superficialy.
The labor of the unknown man in the
simplest devices has made possible
the greatest of discoveries, and
even the genius has reaped the re
ward in his intellect, from labor
which asked for nothing of the kind
in days gone by. There is not a mo
dern text book but which in itself
is the patient result of average in
vestigation and infinite labor collect
ed slowly and patiently throughout
the ages of investigation; and all
that has been possible only because
of the unknown toilers who mute
ly labored in an average way and
rendered it possible for knowledge
to accumulate and to be imparted
from age to age. The recent efforts
to set forth a doctrine of service in
evolution that wrould justify the
wealth accumulation of a Rocke
feller, a Schwab and a Morgan, can
not therefore begin to found itself
on, reason of any scientific facts.
It can only demand that service
of the rest of human beings be
cause at the end of its demand Is
the appeal to force, which it.
through the various institutions,
is enabled to control. Because it
has enactments and conventions
and customs and laws to uphold its
position and failing that, we have
their resort to organized violence,
! such as commercial rivalry will not
hesitate to inspire in the form ot
national wars. But just as we know
that these wars are called into be
ing for the purposes of furthering
the gainful and commercial objects
of the ruling classes within the
staet, yet none the else by a perver
sion of the conception which the
masses hold of their self interest,
under patriotic pretexts of one sort
or another they make the masses do
the fighting; so in times of peace by
a similar perversion, the exploited
classes are compelled to serve and
to rejoice in the serving, although
such ends in disease and maiming
and deaths, in starvation and lack
of shelter and breadlines and unem
ployment, child labor in youth and
workhouse in old age—all founded
on a shoddy cl* ss-made science.
The ability of the ruling classes
from an economic point of view to
force its own doctrines as to ethics
upon those against whose interest
such may be, has been the wonder
of every age. But none the less it
Ol'KIJ DAY AND NIGHT
Next door to Pacific Cold
Storage.
has also been one of the most pow
erful means whereby such exploita
tion as it was intended to foster,
could thereby be fostered. When
it failed and the parasitic propa
gandists who tried to foster the per
version failed, there was nothing
left but force or revolution.
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY
It will interest you.
Our new and up to date line of
samples have just arrived, showing
the best and heaviest weight wooi
ens that have ever been on display
in the city of Nome. There are over
five hundred of this seasons latest
styles and patterns to choose from.
We have also fancy vests, overcoats
and raincoats. Please leave your
order before the 30th of August so
we can get them before the close of
navigation. Please bring your clean
ing, pressing and repairing. We
appreciate your patronage.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Between Segerstrom & Hagen and
Zehners Jewelry Stores.
OVERSTOCKED
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
■ overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
I side, especially in Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
For Correctly
Fitting
EYE
GLASSEH
Go to
Segerstrom & Hagen
Jewelerr and Opticians.
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