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Oaths Nmur 3uiutatrtal Worker.
l»y Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 210. International Union of Mine,
Eetered as second class matter March 1, 1111, aS tke poat office at
*tome, AiasKa, under the Act of March $, 187*
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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any «ood government.”— {
abraham Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska.
Phone. Black 114
Nome, Alaska. November 21. lf>17.
HKKO WORSHII*.
I am very much opposed to that
form of idolatry known as hero
worship. Not that I don’t think
men and women ol worth should
In- highly thought of and their
work widely advertised. But there
is a very common tendency in the
nverace per ion that makes use ot
such opportunities to indulge .tseif.
f ref r to that enemy of the people
mental laziness.
dive the average person, some
juthlii man, whose id-as strike hint
right and lie will thereupon cease
• vc r again attempting o use. !ns
own little think bottk except a. ti
respectable for his hero’s ideas. The
average person will swallow without
mastication eveny idea his luro pro
pounds, and as a re ult of this pro
tons ol thought we have a race of
mental dispeptics.
Carlyle and Emerson were strong
believers in the big mar., the hero.
Erne:: on aid the list ry of the
world was the histon ol its great
niiui, whie h ot emur. e is true, ii
lak'-ti either of two ways, or boh.
Kir: t. only the record eii what the
big men did is written in our his
lor. . .mil. tin- great mail are
pi , i T Ol !\ lie e all ■' Ot tile t' 11 ie'!lc>
lOte-el above, that the average 11. i..
,-Jil t O till' r.l'tlVe 111 1 lit 1 11 till
make . it gre at by his* worship and
iii. mental stagnation.
And this t •ndency is not alone
irtie eef flic ave rage e him native
e itizet’ it i also true ot the aver
a a ■■ radical. Carl Marx has as de
vout and foolish worshipers as
House ve lt or J. e’lirist.
lne'eed, i have- seen an even
ere.iter fawning to the limelighteis
in the- radical movement than in
the conservative rank
This is tendency that must ho
checked by a proper realization of
the fact that the hero is a danger
ous person who is liable to play
von false at any time as the price
of his own agralidizement. It must
he checked became of the stagnant
influence it has on the mind of the
vvership- r.
Honor the men and womae who
have contributed. and are today
t-Oi tril.utic". to the welfare of th- ii
kind. Inn go them tnu* let' i I. you
• nr That's ihe at ittih
Don’t favn at the feet of your
favorite, you vvlli n ake a faker out
ol him.
ItKVOl.l TIONARY SOI IAI.ISJI.
James Conolly. who gave his life
in tin e.uiso of freedom during the
l-eei'iit revolt in Ireland set forth
| the following ideas regarding]
1 "practical politics" in a pamphlet
i entitled "Socialism Made Easy.”
Let us be practical. We want
ometliing pr-r-ractical.
Always the cry of ham-drum
mi diocrily, a-raid to face the stern
necessity for uncompromising ac
tion. That saying has done more
veemcn service in .lie cause of op
j pression than all its avowed up
! porters.
j The average man dislikes to he
; thought unpractical, and so, while
j frc-cjtn utly ',oil ing she principles or
■ distrusting the leaders of the parti
! cular political party he is a sociat- j
ed with decliniT, to leave them. ill ;
the hope that their very lack of
! earnest!''ss may be more fruitful of
practical results than the honest
’ outspokeness of the party in whose
principle;, he does believe.
In the phraseology of politics, a
patty tec incliffi tent to the sorrow
! and suflerings ot humanity to raise
it: voice in protest, is a moderate,
i practical party; whilst a party to
• tally indifferent to the personality
of lender or questions of leader
ship, but hot to enthusiasm oil
: every question affecting the well
being of the toiling masses is an
• Mnnic r dangerous partj.
Yes. although it may seem a
paradox to av so, there is no party
.-o incapable of achieving practical
insults as an orthodox polfical
party; and there is no party so eer
1 tai of placing moderate reforms
to its credit as an extreme—a re
volutionan porf.
I
rite possessing classes will and
do laugh to scorn every s ltene
lien tie. amelioration of the workers
iso long as these responsible for tin
initiation of the cheme admit as
justifiabVe nature of those "rights"
I in the mselves then the ntastcY class
| alartiii d far the safety of their
! booty yields ivfcrii-. after reform —
i in order tr prevent revolution.
Moral—Don’t be- "practical” in
] polities. To be practical in that
sense means that you have s-hool
I ed yourself to think along the li.n •«
land in the grooves those who role
you wi It you to to think.
The chains of mental enslavement
are quickly dissolved when subject
'd to fie all-devouring acid of
truly seienlitie education.
The best and most efficacious in
surers of lit" * known to us arc:
I'oticl clothing and shelter.
itevolutirn is the vehicle c1’ pro
gress. Phi one is essential to Hit
other.
The workers are every ela> suh
mitted to the mo t despotic impo
sitions by their unfeeling masters,
because they stand ii. awesome
dread of laws formulated by men
who had been dead iiundteds and !
even theu-ands of years before tnis
generation was born.
“Life, liberty and the persuit of
happiness" are nice words and
furnish the constituent elements of
a very pretty phrase which read
well on paper. But, unfortunately
fot the working-class, they are very
likely to remain mere abstractions
so long as the workers refuse to do
velop the pure- and -imple material
power with which to take and ic-1
tain them. Only might, us.-d in the
right direction and without stint,
can make them a vital and dynamic
factor it. the lives of the workers.
To he natural, one must be un
conventional; to he unconventional
is to he stvgmatized as a social
pariah. Men preferring the lines
of least resistance ere therefore
conventional. Thus do the major
ity lead artificial lives with never
a thought of anything better.
Regardless of the fact that the
decadent'laws ct this country oil
not represent justice, or are not
useful to society as a whole, the
majority yet do not attack or
break them because of fear—or
respect?
It those who would be hard hit
by a large surtax on incomes de- i
sire to escape the agony of having
to pay them, perhaps they might
he able to effect an exchange ot '
some sort with those who are not
threatened witli any visit front tho|
income lax collector.
Hawaii is the latest land to offer
the ballot to women. Which re
minds us that if anybody has bet
that the greatest democracy in the
world, the United States of Amer
ica, would be the last country to
enfianehise women, his chances of
winning mo wager are getting
in i tei all tile time.
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THE NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER j
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
JOB PRINTING
. Let us figure on your
work. Call up Black
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BODY WHAT DON’T DO NFTTIN’
FOR YOU".
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OWN I*\PKR IN THE FIELD.
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