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Nome, Alaska, October 2:1, 1910.
UTII.E DII-'FERENCE.
vs anyone can observe, just now
the main press reports are devoted
to tii ■ y.'i'iblt issues ot the presi
dential e -i lion. Whether it is to be
Wilson or whether it is to be
Hughes is just now troubling a
aroat number, most of whom are
either actual or prospective office
holders.
And among those Wilson boosters
who are making the welkin ring
-with enthusiastic phrase mongering
is our old friend Sam Gompers.
But so far none have clearly shown
wherein one will advantage the
workers, one man over an other. It
is true quite a good deal of credit
5s extended Wilson both for what he
ha.; done and what he nas said. But
what man among the labor leaders
<an say with honesty that the work
ers are one iota the better because
Wilson and not Taft or Roosevelt
succeeded in 1912 and wherein will
the workers be one iota better off
if Wilson and not Hughes is elected
in 3916?
There lias been an increase in
wag ;. Bui ther - has been a great
er increase in the price of commo
dities which not only nullified, but
1 r.1 ti; a.lly overcame the benefits
might have otherwise accrued from
an increase in wages. Moreover
there was prosperity for the busl
nessmun. due entirely to the unna
tural conditions forced upon ihe
country by the w.r: but that very
activity lias reacted upon the Amer
ican workers compelling them to
pay more lor what they eat. drink
and win r--with they clothe them
selves. due to the increased price
caused by increased exportation.
I'm; - t' • Wii 10.1 adininistrat'nn
labor got more work; emphatically
labor did not get more actual wages
considering the higher costs of liv
ing.
W on s ttled the railroad strike?
Wiiso i r. .y have averted a strike
before election, but assuredly he
oid not by the Adamson bill dispose
of the employer and employee ques
tions arose between the brother
hoods and the railroad companies
That Wilson could not do. Neithei
can Hughes nor can any of these po
We believe that the Mexican po
licy of Wilson has been especially
fine. But that has so little to d<
with labor that the foreigi
policy need not be considered a
all. The very best argument tha
laobr could intelligently put ii
favor of Wilson is that Hughe!
could have done no better: whicl
is quite true.
The charge that the Hughes admi
oistration would be directly hostih
to labor is not proved. And if i
was what could it matter? It woult
serve to bring the labor question!
that are now being covered ovei
with anodynes and palliatives to tin
surface where they would by tlieli
insistent spread demand solution.
Under Wilson what effort has beer
made to give labor a fairer shake:
To prevent labor persecutions ant
prosecutions? On the Mesaba rang*
for example or in the Colorad<
fcelds? Finally, and as a fact, la
bor has hardly been affected at all
The most inconsistent and illogt
cal position of all is that of Gomp
ors as a booster for Wilson. Gomp
ers has perpetually denounced la
bor political activities. Even eigh
hour legislation has been frownec
up and frothed against in and ou
oi convention. Anything that !a
nor would originate tor Itself i!
v.rong politically, anyth*ng that Wil
:-on or his democratic friends starter
up was all right. He took severa
hours to denounce the eight nn.ii
agitation on the political fold at th<
S>:«n Francisco convention, and h<
took several pages to rub the salvt
on Wilson for the Adamson hill.
What Gompers is, denouncing
•p .'ities, is an arch-poiit! ;• •..» him
sell, and because he sustains joy
r>us thrills of gratified prid? in os
satiating with President Wilson
consistency is a small matter in con
Jrast therewith.
The fact is that what labor needs
to learn and what Gompers is doinj
Jus best to conceal, is that the onlj
hope for labor is working class ac
tion. All the epigrammed sops ol
President Wilson and all the reform
ist measures of the up-lifting capi
talist politicians are quite negligible
compared to what has to be done bv
labor. The main proof of the pudd
ing is the eating. *The main proof
of labor progress under Wilson Is
improved conditions. What improve
ment has taken place under Wilson,
not Wilson but entirely economic
circumstances have had to do.
Thus there has been an industrial
activity beyond ordinary dimen
sions; that reduced the number of
unemployed, and reducing the num
ber of unemployed reduced labor’s
competition from itself. The price
of labor went up because the sup
ply decreased and the demand in
creased. But that was not due to
Wilson. That was due to the war in
1 Europe and as far as we can see.
it is mighty little Wilson has had to
do with that. The munition and
supply orders received from belliger
ent nations caused an intense activ
ity wholly abnormal and Hughes or
Taft or Roosevelt have had just as
much and just as little to do with
that as Wilson.
The significant fact concerning ac
tual conditions during the Wilson
millenium is that notwithstanding
its advent labor has had to fight for
every concession. The machinists
have had to strike in almost all
shops. Two hundred and thirtj
strikes occurred in Bridgeport. Con
necticut! alone, before the workers
1 were allowed to obtain even a frac
tional share of the mitnitionist pro
fits. The Steel trust fattening upon
! war contract- had to face a bloody
strike at Youngstown, before even
ia tithe ot the hellish conditions
that ther- .existed would be amelior
i ated. In the Mesaba range the in
dustrialists had to force a strike be
, fore even tolerable living conditions
i would be offered by the iron range
j overlords who dominate it. The
I Adamson bill settled nothing rave to
prevent any impairment of this Wil
son prosperity which resulted- in the
highest costs of living porportional
j to wages paid, has ever been known
in American history,
i It is when one gets down to bed
rock, through the overlying strata
of political falsehood and political
misrepresentation and actually in
| quire wherein came the bettermeni
of labor due to Wilson, we discovei
absolutely and clearly nothing
' Moreover, we can impartially sa>
| that Hughes is not likely to do anj
i better. He is not likely to make
good where Wilson failed, any mor<
i than he is likely to fail where Wil
son made good.
Economic laws and economic for
ces are not to be altered by anj
presidential intention or any presi
denital ipse dixit. There they are
for better or for worse until laboi
itself shall determine upon making
the change.
To represent otherwise is to mis
represent and to very viciouslj
mislead the workers. Granted thai
Wilson is an extremely high mindec
man. So is Hughes. Granted thai
Wilson has endeavored to do th<
best according to his lights, but re
i member that those lights are fee
from the same economic powei
house as will supply the lights foi
Hughes. They are identical. Thej
' have the same ultimate ideals at
1 though one may fancifully call his
: the New Freedom and the othei
| with an equal touch of imaginatior
j term his Americanism. Both art
tricky words to fool the workers
i ar.d likely enough with the aid o:
| Gompers and the rest the workers
i will be fooled. That has been theii
1 portion, and their portion whict
; they enjoyed during many elections
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Political Cards.
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FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Chas E. Sulzer
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
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Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1016.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Gann
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR SENATOR:
CAPTAIN
John Sundback
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Victor A. Julien
Election, November 7, 1916.
1 OR REPRESENTATIVE:
Charles D. Jones
Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
! FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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T. M. Reed
Election, November 7, 1910,
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Andy Anderson
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Phil. Corrigan
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Mike Young:
Election, November 7, 1910.!
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. A. Allan
(SCOTTY)
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Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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James P. Daly
For Territorial Roads. No Poll Tax
Enforcement of Territorial Laws.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
Nate C. Coombs
For Re-Eliction.
Election, November 7, 1916.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER
John A. Wilson
Election, November 7. 1916.:
, FOR TERRITORIAL
ROADCOMMISSIONER '
W. J. Rowe
Republican Candidate
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR TERRITORIAL
ROA DCOM MISSION ER
Barney Gibney
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
«
Jas. Wickersham
Election, November 7, 1916.
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