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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, ail the post office at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, .laniuiry 21, 1»J6.
One Tear
•lx Months
Oae Month
The labor leaders of Germany
ndvise their members to prepare
•for a struggle after the war. How
•is this? Will not tho war which
received from those labor leaders
in Germany such whole-souled sup
port have bettered their condition
any? Have they been shedding
liie blood in the trenches and on
the open fields for someone else?
Will this war. which Is only made
successful for Germany by the whole
moiled sacrifice of the German work
ers, leave them in such a condition
that they will be worse off than
before,' and that from the master
classes whose fortunes they are
•fighting so. nobly to sustain? Will
not the war bettor them in any way?
Will it leave them no principle ot
freedom gained? No Industrial li
• Ijorty—nothing but the dust and
ashes of capitalism with exploita
tion intensified and the masse3
submerged more profoundly? Welt,
wiiatlnel are they fighting for any
w?y?
The United Press says that the
Kaiser is sound as a dollar. The
Associated press says that, his con
dition was critical, that he had to
undergo operations several times,
and that hlB relatives were sum
moned to his bedside in Berlin.
There you are. There’s enterprise
for you. Two of the leading news
collecting agencies of the country
make sure of catering to both sides
of the question, and at least every
demand for every particular brand
of intelligence is satisfied. You pay
.your money and choose your
chlee!
The world of capital anticipates
the biggest strike in the history of
the United Slates in April.
The tearon is because for the
first time in six years, the agree
ments between the anthracite and
•bituminous coal operators and the
•'.iinprs in the hard and son coni
•fields expire simultaneously on
Arril 1/
The miners want 20 per cent in
crease, declare the operators, and
•instead of a three or four years
agreement, a two year agreement.
They also will insist upon a rigid
enforcement of the eight hour day
and a more speedy, satisfactory ana
simplified method of settling the
disputes.
These things according* to the
operators the coal miners will de
mand. So far the coal min
ers have made known no de
mands. They have not even
considered the situation except
among their local unions. When
the time comes they will be good
pnd ready. But the employers as
•usual have taken care to acquaint
themselves as to what the miners
will want, That’s what the detec
tive agencies with their hordes of
"operatives” are for.
The employers dout intend to give
■in any how. And they have al
ready begun to acquaint the public
through the papers as to the con
ditions so that they can get public
sympathy and public warrant for
what they propose to do.
Thus Jermnne In the Post-Intelli
yencer foresees trouble. He says
with shaking head “If the octivities
of the labor people in Colorado dur
ing the recent striko in the coal
fields of that, state Indicate the pro
jient temper of the coal miners, at
•least five states of the union may
be brought to the verge of petty
revolution, if the strike should pro
ceed to its natural limits."
The operators thus early in the
game are paving the way for viol
ence. They have their hired scribes
telling about what happened In Co
lorado but they never have a word
to say about tho gunmen or the ml
titia recruited from tho gunmen, the
massacres at Ludlow and elsewhere
So they say the coal minors are
revolutionists end their strike is tc
be revolutionary. They are to be
quelled. Therefore will gunmen
and militia and cossacks be oh hanf
for that purpose.
These are the days of prepared
ness all right.
Here's an editorial from the
Seattle Star. It's as full of food for
thought as an egg is full of mea'
Eorce in America—Your Answer!
Practical German philosophy
teaches that the value of right may
depend on the force that upholds
It; that If this force be wanting,
the weak will be sacrificed. Like
all other philosophy, you can argue
It out to the end any way you please,
but just the same there's a good deal
of this philosophy.
In the United States the majority
is right. But what’ll this bigger
army we are going to have do when
right—the majority—looks for sun
port some day in the future? We
will have force, all right. Will that
force* uphold the value of right?
Will that force stand with the
weak, plodding, producing 00 per
cent in America or with the strong
non-producing, grasping 10 per cent
of us?
YOUR ANSWER!
The papers in other sections of
Alaska are quite evidently getting
into the political swim. It may be
a little premature, but none the
less there appears no unwillingness
upon the part of the papers to get In
while the getting is good. .
The issues as usual are of a
personal natuto and seem to be
wrapped up in one word: Wicker
sham.
It seems that about all the old
parties can rustle up for a scrap
over Is whether to Wickersham or
not to Wickersham.
The versatile delegate who flirted
with about every particular brand
of politics, except the socialists, al
though one paper said that ho told
some of the Tanana miners when
out on the creks that he was "Part
socialist," is now back again with
his true love and his first love and
avows his allegiance to the republi
can party.
Now the republicans do not know
what to do. One paper intimates
that Shakleford has come over to
Wickersham, or Wickersham has
come over to Shakleford and peace
reigns. But not so; the indefatig
able Herron Is out with a knock
like a trip hammer against nomi
nating Wickersham, and there the
matter rests.
Meantime the democrats in no
place seemed to have achieved that
true harmony which Is the hall
mark of a divinely inspired party.
In every district there are bickerings
and the ‘ins” are against the ‘.outs :
in a degree of varying intensity.
Charges have been filed against
a variety of officials from Governor
down and some papers are sweating
blood defending the men in office
and taking a side swipe at the
Wlrkerahamltes In the meanwhile.
Thus the Empire, doughty cham
pion of the Interests and the Gover
nor. Is I eside Itself with indignatior
at the charges of a jobblte named
Wade who objects to republicant
getting appointed by the Governor
while at the same time It swats the
Wickershamlte pretensions foi
statehood which the Dispatch wltf
fool persistency Insists upon laudat
Ing.
They have even resurrected poss
ible nominees from the Second Divl
sion for the delegatcshlp beforo the
Second Division heard a word abou’
it, and down in southeastern Alaskt
they are so hard pressed for live
Issues that Ketchikan thinks tha
southeastern Alaska should secede
The Sewardites in soason and ou
are troubled over their railroad ap
proprlatlons and sigh that so muci
of what is spent 1b spent in Anchor
age. There’s a note of gloating ii
the remarks appearing in thi
Seward papers as to Anchorage be
ing frozen in, and yet they depre
cate attacks upon the railroad com
mission which holds the future o
the city in its hands.
In Fairbanks the daily papers got
:o ocrepping over the railroad ter
ninals. One said that Marshal
Erwin was in Washiagio:: kuock
ng the railrcad, while Erwin ai
:ords the information that he uid
30 such thing. As usual there too,
he astute Wickersham is in the
limelight.
Thus in Fairbanks it is Wicker
sham versus Erwin with tho papers
taking sides for, rind against; in
Valdez it is Wickersh .m versus
Richardson; in Juneau it is Wicker
sham versus the whole bunch oi
officials and John Troy their pro
fit, with the little quarrel of the
Dispatch and the Empire on the
statehood question 3taged to give
the leading dramatis ’ personae a
chance to cavort before the movie
man. Finally there is tho case at
large of Herron, Gilmore ot ai.
versus Wickersham Shackleford et
al which will be disposed of by a
court of Alaskans after the primary
court at the convention disposes of
the first hearing.
In the whole caboodle just enum
erated one looks in vain for any
tangible intelligent policy of real
benefit to Alaska or the people ot
Alaska. Just village pump politics
and village pump personalities ot
Tweedledum vs. Tweedledee—sor
did pork barrel scrambles and m
possible legislation to enable the
few to batten off the many.
It's not a cheering prospect, but it
is not without its interest and ii
has elements of humor. Nothing
is impossible in Alaskan politics. 11
there was Wickersham would havr
long ago have retired to the limbe
of obscurity and most of his rival:
as well. It is not just to blame
Wickersham unless we blame the
whole bunch. It is the men wht
claim Wickersham to be Impossible
have rendered him impossible anc
rendor everyman with thoy unite
or whom they oppose impossible ai
well.
Wickersham is without doubt :
political froe booter. He is the sami
ex-judge who longed for the flesl
pots of the outside. But ho is m
worse than the men he fights be
cause they fight him fearing his in
tractability even while enjoying th
flesh pots. Thoy want to boas am
ho wont be bossed. That he 1
without use to Alaska is not ver
important. It is doubtful if any o
the clattering crowd that oppose
him would have been any bettei
Not that tho dolegato rules Alask
or the people of Afhska throug
the dclogato. That is done by th
higher-ups who to gratify their pc
litical debts dispatch impossibles t
execute the laws and cdmlnlste
affairs. Really Wickcrsham bar
been elected 'not bocauce be ever did
a darn thing; not because ho wa3
one of the noisiest of politicians;
but because, the people of Alaska
resented the long distance govern- i
! ment by people who did not know §
what they wanted; did not care |
and did not care to care.
Lots of things in Alaska want ad
justment. But they will if adjusted
at all not be adjusted the way Al
askans want them, nor by any Al
askans.
—
Falcon Joslin is a great man. He
cast his eagle eye over the radio
situation in Alaska and came to the
conclusion that Uhcle Sam was not
as efficient as he might be. ’there
fore, he with a company, butted in
Now he wants to buy Uncle Sam
out because if he does not, his own
system is not adjusted to the qpeda
of a corporation in that line of bust- ;
ness. Else he would sell out to
Uncle Sam.
Just why Uncle Saift should sell
out his lines or radio system- or
cabl6 is not explained. Joslin with
his dinky outfit in other places has
not shown either superior excellence
or superior efficiency. Just now
when the people of Alaska want
matters not quite satisfactory in
the telegraph or radio . service
changed, they appeal to Congress
and sometimes Congress will nfake
the desired change. Under a Jos
lin company ownership the people
would have to take what they
could get or go without.
Just why the government should
reimburse Joslin, failing to sell out
to that gentleman the government’s
own outfit, is not clear. Uncle Sam
did not invite Falcon to butt In
and why they should pay him for
i butting out is not. apparent at all.
If Falcon speculatively burned his
. or other financial flngors that should
i be Ms look out. It is altogether
too socialistic, too much paternal
i ism for Uncle Sam to be lining the
> pockets of the Joslins.
t “Individual enterprise” ought to
) have more get-up about it.
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