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Nome, Alaska, February 1, 1910.
Every paper has a Steady Reader,
or Subscriber who from time to
time communicates on various sub
jects of no earthly interest in a
style of no particular attraction.
There are exceptions and such an
exception is a letter to the Fair
banks News-Miner, which not being
copyrighted, is hereunder repro
<1 uced:
Dear Sir:—As if present mail ser
vico isn't bad enough, wo must have
rank discrimination added to the
much mooted matter! Now this
plaint is not because our parcel
post is beirtg piled up at the coast,
le be sent here next July, via Daw
s%a—we're become accustomed to
that.
In every mail that comes over
Ul,e trail—and this is a true tala
{apologies to Walt—always with
out fail, comes the Christ'an.
Science Monitor, beslio’3 Weekly,
la fact, every one of the “let-wetl
oaough-alone” and “i&t-tho-think
icg-poople-rule” publications arriv;
on schedule. But when the sub
scriber to The Masses, Socialist Re
view, Melting Pot a.nd other pro
gressive literature goes to our vill
age pcotoflice and gets a rare copy
of his periodica', it is an event
among our advanced thinkers. As
•for the subscriber to the Rip Saw,
be is agin’ the government any
way; he doesn't worry; he knows
White Pass boat wil! bring
' Uiu^tahe majority of the yearisjfc
iJi" Hi hfti'bcloverf fnagaxino^ff
The writer is glad to see the
first named literature come among
i:s—lie reads both sides. Besides
he is aware of the benefits to the
Fairbanks proletariat in the
“flints to Money Makers", column
in Leslie's, but believes there should
he absolutely no discrimination; be
sides it's un-Christian.—From a
Steady Reader.
'die News Miner’s Steady Reader
should not feel offended. Probably
it is part of the general scheme of
a patriarchal post office department
that those served by the llmiteo
amount of literature allowed into
the co tip try shall he saved the
trouble of thinking.
tt is a fact that the safe sane
and conservative papers which ire.
suggested are just the o: c , v iiich
will prevent anyone i.oubting the
gSneral perfection of the powers
that be. and they will be able to
take their radicalism in harmless
liomooopathis doses.
There is no end to the unselfish
activities of postal department em
ployees. Not alone is the amount
of matter which shall be digested by
Alaskans settled with a view of pre
venting hypertrophy of the intellect
i iiiuuf)!' CATOamn; 111111111115, uui uiu
danger of radicalism is eliminated
altogether. There is no possible dan
ger to any man's conventional idea?
in. reading nothing but Leslie's
The due and mature caution to let
Mg Business alone is one that
uliould be impressed upon everyone.
While there's not very niuch danger
trom the radical declaiming against
the woes of society to an audience
of niggerheads or spruce trees,
there is the peril of such a radical
acquiring a homestake and betaking
himself and his radical Ideas out
side where they are more contagi
OUB.
It's really a blessing In disguise
that there should be, even If there
is not, an Index oxpurgatorlus of
such limited dimensions as sug
gested by the writer of the lotter
ivuoted. Economic damnation, poli
tical infidelity is an evil not to be
despised. And whoso con
temneth small things shall
fall by little and little.
The careful watch kept upon the
mental fodder furnished the people
of Alaska is a noble function upon
tha part of government; it proven is
any undue discontent and lets the
thinking people, • in the ornate
language of Leslie's, rule.
The worst of such papers as are
mentioned by Steady Reader is that
,-'i »!U‘-n .a'lT.rt, slii'i y ■'-*
»
it makes the dear people think In
stead of allowing those whom Pro
vidence in his wisdom placed in
such station to think for them, they
would usurp that right. Yet they
would do well to recall the fate ot
the historic lady and gentleman
clad in fig leaves, who partook or
the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Precisely the function of the Postal
Department to guard against any
such temptation as to think is the
divine problem which it faces. Sure
ly it pursues the safer part In keep
ing from the mass of the people e
literature which has for its only re
commendation not only that it Is
thoughtful in itself, but that it Is
thought-provoking.
The Highor-Ups, like the High
Gods themselves, rightly consider
that it is theirs to reason why, ana
for the common stiffs to do cr die
or read Leslie’s unt .,intcd by
thoughts, by ide..s or by any such
thing as might occasion ary sert ot
a rational concept of men or things.
There never is hold a congress of
teachers or educators when seme
higb-browed wisdom pounder does
not rise to read a dissertation on
Education, what it i3, and what it
should be. I
Thus the other day at Milwaukee
where the men who tsach fore
gathered to learn wisdom from one
another's lips, one man discussing
«tliis subject r'se to remark that
Technical education should be given
a more important place in tho pub
lic school curriculum.
He said that before he bocame a
|'V/UMnunilV, UUU VUUI gu
employment bureau. When an cm
ploment shark, he said that every
day the room would be full of un
employable men, and /the roster
would contain many unfilled jobs
because the men reeking work lack
ed the technical ability to perform
them.
Apparently his ideal of conditions
should be that every man you meet
ought to be a tradesman with the
skill of his craft at his lingers’ endr,
and when an i mploycr wanted such
a craftsman, the worker seeking o
job would be able to come forward
and fill the bill.
Doubtless that would solve a
whole lot of trouble with the men
out of work as It would still more
effectively end the troubles of a
number of employers who just d- r.t
want to fire a man because they can
not get another equally skilled to
take his place.
It Is the fact that still In some
1) laces the scarcity of such enables a
number to get higher wages that
worries the employers, and also wor
rioa m o n V a n H manv a luuloomnin
whose life work la serving employ
ers.
But suppose every men had a
trade, seeing that the number who
could be employed would be not at
all affected, increased or diminish
ed, the situation would bo bottter
ed no way at all. There are just a
certain number of jobs to be filled,
and the rest take their chance wait
ing till the other fellow quits for
the rest cure, or gets canned bv
his boss.
A certain well known critic ot
tramp conditions avers that there
are many men on tramp who are
simply Intellectual misfit; that some
can quote Homer’s Iliad apprecia
tively In the vernacular, and he
himself listened to a jungle dis
cussion by a gang cf tramps on 'the
Higher Criticism which displayed a
learning a Harvard theologian
might envy.
Of course that’s an exaggerated
condition ’which very seldom is
noticeable, not because few univer
sity men go on the bum, but because
relatively few enjoy a univcrcity edu
cation, and when they do, their re,
latives usually are able to take care
of them until their ways lead the**
to the end via the Dutch route. »«•<
The plain feet is'that what one
would like to hear discussed among
those pedagogues is ttbt the Show
tin I 1 ■ '» i
comings of present day education
as to quality, but its extension as to
quantity. Only ton per cont, to
quote government figures, pass from
the grades to the High School. The
rest simply do not have any other
education. Economic circumstances
compel them to rush to mine, min,
factory or farm to eke out an ex
istence will not como any othor way.
Society to all intents and, purposes
denies them any opportunity ot
knowing anything except the ele
ments of arithmetic and the rudi
ments ot orthography. That' so
m%ny add t° those elementary
features pf. their education by pri
vate reading if to fee set down to
their credit as woil as to.-the here
ditary iqstinpt of ipfh to Know the
reason vfhy.
Education, even a literary edu
cation despised as it is In thee;
days of material culture, ought to
he tree to all. There’s a mental sti
mulant In the ability to be -able to
read and appreciate the work of the
great men in ancient or modern
times. Thought is certainly dynamic
and it is dynamic whether discover
ed in the music of poetry or the more
varied measure of prose, just ai
well as in mathematics, the sciences
or technical training. There is no
good reason why when our lives can
more readily acquire knowledge, we
should have to go out in the world
to rustle out a living simply be
cause one Jim Hill did it and made
millions in the doing it. There is
every reason why the state would
be infinitely better oflf if the youth
of the land was properly conserved
for educational purposes, in art and
scioncc, in technical matters, so
.that a knowledge of the facta of hu
man life might be imparted to all.
The need just now is not for any
general change in the educational
features of the schools, but in a
more general extension to the youth
of the land of those features.
The convention of the American
Federation of Labor resoluted
against and denounced tho gunmei
used in brow beating and bulldozinj
labor on strike.
There are almost a hundred
firms in the United StatA todaj
who furnish men for this purpose
Ten of these are located in Nev
York alone. They are very power
ful and they make money.
They maintain capitalism’s re
tainers. The industrial ovor-lords
like the barons of old, have thei:
private men at arms; but they farn
them out economically saving, them
solves the expense of daily main
taining them.
There is no more important in
■ 1 -;
stance of this historic rcversioj
than the establishment of theee In
stitutions to provide private pro
perty holders with armed soldiers
to protect them against the demands
of the workers.
They denote two things however
that are not on the bill, They de
note the evolution of capitalism to
the stage of industrial feudalism,
and they denote also the fear of the
masses which is dormant in the
heart of the system.
Why should there be any such a
fear if there was not a sense of an
tnlu«t£c^,*lqp„ d<u$.?
Manifestly that fact is plain also to
many employers, and **e wly wgy
they nan offer resistance to masses
embittered by injustice to, by these
armed ihUgs.
The other day Scott Nearing in a
lecture had occaston to point out
that from 1850 to 1912 the wealth
of the country had increased si-t
fold while the population Itself had
only increased fourfold.
Labor’s productivity had in
creased therefore greatly since t'no
time mentioned, but labor had not
been adequately rewarded In pro
uoruuu IU luai HiV/i^novu p>vuu\ jg
tivlty. 1
The effort of labor to get a great
er and greater portion of Its pro
ducts Is otherwise known
as the effort to effect a
more equitable distribution of
the country's wealth. They are as
far off, if n&t further from achiev
ing any such ideal today as they
were in 1850, while we see on every
side huger and huger fortunes au
tomatically accumulating for a fa
vored few. Thai fa,vored few
is not mentally or Phy
sically blind, nor are their officials
who are paid to think for them.
They know1 that the conditions s
which prevail cause now and then
sporadic revolts which, have to be
handled. These sporadic revolts
are called strikes, and ft is the func
tion of the private armies of capi
talism to crush such strikes,
v They do so effectively just as
long as the revolts are sporadic, but
if conditions continue, it is only a
matter of time when these strikes
will not be local or sporadic but
general, and then something more
effective than the gunman will be
needed—a larger order on capital
ist preparedness forsooth.
Anything in the line of job work
at the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
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