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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
aearly us possible, 1b a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abranam Lincoln
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KKSi S.TS.
Abraham Lincoln once said “I do
be \er> best i ku< w bow ff he verj
test I can; and 1 mean to keep do
ing so until the end. If the end
brings me out out all right what is
said against me wont amount to any
thing. H the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing that I
was right would make no differ
ence”.
rmiuestionably the great president
understood how completely it is that
our actions find their justification in
results. Whether we will or not it
is the end that will determine
whether or not our acts were praise
worthy.
Today when hundreds and thou
sands may differ from some man oi
some policy and believe that it
strikes at the roots of the most
cherished ideals and institutions
those tilings will be forgotten who
those same criticized acts will have
attained their goal.
Moreover ibis brings us to the
main thing and that is that present
linn- critii ism should have no effect
upon our actions. The end sought >s
what is of importance and even if
failure finally;, visits our efforts, at
any rate there is nothing left for the
critii ; hut the banal, ”1 told you so”
ami that merely epitomizes the van
iiy < i all criticism as contrasted witn
tion
iji.r of the reasons why the label
movement is criticized by those who
oppose it, is because many of its ten
, m a s are regarded as openly Ito.;
i;',e to cherished ideals and instiln
t> i.i. And the more radical the
vnr'.i ; s’ views and the more uncom
j rn ,. h ■: bis acts, the mow bitu r
:>ud ibe more severe will be the
. rile -m which awaits them. And as
wdl t >a sterner will be the oppo
sition which will confront them. But
m (lie end. the result will wipe away
all these things and there will be the
justification for every act and every
struggle.
Knowing that the results will
vome by every earnest effort being
put forward, and knowing that that
result will be well worth while,
there is ever\ reason »vhy the labor
movement should u" ,—d unaffected
by either opposition or by criticism.
Only when doubt takes the place of
confidence, and uncertainty is mani
fest in the ultimate object which is
sought after, may there he hesitancy
Hesitating men, doubting men are
advocates of hesitating, doubting
auses which are lost causes.
I..VISOR'S St IfKRlT.E.
The other day a child of four or
\ ■ear' uas run down by ,1 street
c .1 r in New York and the parents re
in,,1 < v,thousand dollars com
pel, ati'e, whiel wes paid. If it hap
pened the.; : worker, full developed,
strong, in the flower of hi. physique,
and lie had been kill, I working in
,m Alaskan mint- because the com
pany bad been criminally negligent
m even the most elementary precau
tions for human safety, all those de
pendent upon him could get were
they to litigate until Doomsday
would be five thousand dollars. La
bor’s schedule is logical and fair
isn't it?
Tin: rear row Kit.
We may lay all kinds of flattering
unction to our souls and boast ot
this or that, hut without economic
power we can accomplish nothing.
Economic power comes through or
ganization and with organization
everything is possible. That is the
one, certain, positive fact of every
day life.
HOVKRNMENT OWNERSHIP.
So many appear to think that gov
ernment ownership would end all
labor troubles on railroads that a
good many socialist papers, it is de
i lightful to observe, appear to be
under the impression that this is
so.
But government ownership does
not end labor troubles at. all. It
lias in many places resulted in the
labor troubles being bound up in a
straight jacket of authority where
they couldn’t stir. And if that is
the ideal which socialists are after,
why, they ought to make it plain.
The fact is that government own
etlship is just another form of state
capitalism with the powers of state
backing the suppression of all ef
fort upon tlie part of labor to make
itself heard.
it is nothing new. It is as old as
the colonial government in .New Zea
land and Australia and South Africa
where government railroads are
quite valuable additions to the ca
pitalist economy.
The Cape Government Railways
have always been the ideal of effici
ency and when the great strike oc
curred a few years back before the
war. what happened to tlie em
ployees is well known.
It is however probably that gov
• rnmeiit ownership of the railroads
is a logical stop in capitalist indus
trial efficiency. There is no question
but that the vagaries of watered
stock, shar- speculation, rival ab
sorption and exchange jugglery have
annoyed, incommoded, handicapped
and interfered with industrial i ffici
etic\ to a great extent.
Here' it would be furthering the
i mis of industrial efficiency from a
purely capitalist point of view to
introdu's government ownership of
the railways.
They are now so consolidated and
i enrol is so interlocked that the ac
ruisition has been made easy. Bonds
would be floated to acquire this
: j»roji■ rly and to pay handsomely
those who have a somewhat dubious
investment during normal times in
watered stock. The security of a
government bond would be beyond
i any sort of peradvcnture and to
, tamper with government railroads
, whether for an increase in wages or
; any other cause would be as bad as
to tamper with the government
mails. Government would be sacred
as a railroad owner while the pri
vate employer is not.
In New York whop the chauffeurs
struck operating the contractors,
mail trucks they were sentenced to
varying times in the pen’ for inter
fering with the movement of the
mails, and it would contribute
enormously towards the industrial
efficiency if when a saucy brother
hood sought to get shorter hours or
higher pay, they were landed
promptly within prison walls.
Socialist Party members claim
that this government ownership is a
i p in advance. Whether is is or not
only those who can foresee the
trend of the social evolution can
My with any sort or security. But
would be foolish not to under-,
stand that government ownership
also rivets upon the workers bonds
which they will have to break just
as surely as the other chains which
bind thorn to an exploited job.
This should be taught as well as
the advocacy of government owner
ship, if only that-the future might
be made clear thereupon.
Furthermore, the theory is ad
vanced that if every activity is gov
ernment owned and the working
classes take political control of the
government, the peaceful revolution
will have been accomplished.
Now anyone can get happy that
wants to on this Utopian vision, al
though why it is left to lawyers like
the Londons and the Hillquits’ and
editors like the Bergers and Bensons
to lead the working class to such
political control is also suggestive
of further explanation.
It may W'ell be indeed that it is
along this primrose path that the
rose water revolution may announce
itself to the unexpected gaze of the
workers, but history has shown with
some degree of uniformity that
something stronger than economic
philosophy, forensic oratory or poli
tical controversies wire required to]
compel the exploiters to loosen their ]
lotted grip on exploitation. History
It indeed too plain upon this point
and it is quite unnecessary to show
that the best intentions of a Lincoln
were repudiated by slave owners
within recent times, who identified
their liberty with the right to own
their slaves. It is a wonder some
freak abolitionist in those extremely
plain spoken days when men said
that they would be heard, did not
invent government ownership of
chattel slaves as a way out of the
muddle. Was it because It would
not disguise slavery, “A rose with
any other name would smell as
sweet”.
THK imOTHKUHOOl).
It is quite apparent that the
brotherhoods are going to lie gener
ous and will await the decision ot
Uio United States Supreme Court on
the Adamson Bill. The company
view that this is a back down—that
the decision of the court may only
be rendered when Congress has pas
sed its drastic law making a railroad
strike illegal is an authoritative
view. Against such a combination
what then will the brotherhood men
do? They cannot get political action
in their favor, direct action is denied
them. Arbitrate? It begins to look
as if they are the victims of a first
class economic jest perpetrated by
the hosts of capital. Still he laughs
best who laughs last and surely it
ought to bring labor closer to
gether.
Safety first. You miners coming
in from the creeks look up the ad
vertisers in your paper before dis
posing of your patronage.
\OTlCK OK FORFEITURE.
To Elma McN'aught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors,
Successors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned
has expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
iais each year for t!■- years T!) 1 4,
1 915 and 1910 on Roosevelt bench,
located between Newton Gulch NoJ
2 and Fox Creek, recorded and moffll
fully described in the records of the I
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
' District in the Second.Division, Ter
j ritory of Alaska.
The above amount has ocen ex
pended in order to hold said claim?
under the provisions of the lav
J concerning annual labor upon min
ing claims.
And you and each cf you ar
[further notified that if within
'ninety days after die last publication
1 of this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
SEWARD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub!., Jan. 8, 1917.
Date of last publ., April 9, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION' FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 10, 191G.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Rimer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Rell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
tlieir Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
oil behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United Stales
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W\ Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
C95, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-095, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 10 min.
\V. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 605.00
ft to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15 rain. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
09 deg. 4 5 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Yar.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 04 deg. 4 3
min. \Y. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
3S6.S0 ft. to Cor. No. 0; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing a.yus acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
(225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
'deg. 10 min. E. G47.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground '
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 11G and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Pago
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 74 7. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first pub]., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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