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Nome, Alaska, Fo!:riuiry 9, 1910.
One very prominent politician re
cently said in an address delivered
in New York that among Americans
there was a lack of vitalized patri
otism. And ho further averred that
while- he could not condone, counte
nance or do anything olso but de
nounce the rascality of bombist
plots, he thought that he would
like to see American patriotism
capable of the same enthusiastic
love of country that inspired these
actions however base.
But in the ordinary sense, Amer
icans are just as patriotic as any
one. And no politician can adopt
* more successful policy than a
.sturdy waving of the flag, and
there is no more effective political
eloquence than oratorical outbursts
in honor of Old Glory and departed
patriots.
But there are mighty few politi
cians will come before the people
and say that the country's strength
remains in tho welfare of the peo
ple and not in the welfare of privi
lege: that tho greatest of all pre
paredness is a contented people in a
contented land; that contentment,
must be based upon economic well
being ir the present just as real
freedom must basically rest upon
tho degree of industrial freedom
There are not e of them come foi
Wjjtrd and dedupe that tho land i;
made for the people; that the laws
and the institutions and the conven
tions of the nations must be com
pletely adapted towards s
< uring the happiness and freedom
and prosperity of all; that human
laws and human institutions and
human conventions are useless or
worse if they do not do this, and
the law that demotes instead of
promotes the happiness of the peo
ple is not only not to lie respected
but should be abolished.
Real patriotism consiots in love of
the people not in love of the coun
try's institutions except as they
servo well the people; in respect for
tho person not jn respect for pro
perty unless as it serves the persons
who compose the nation. (t does
not consist in tho pride -of achieve
ment when billions are exported to
oth r nations and ib > i.< dj if the
people lack the necessaries m life.
It does not consist in glorifying tin
fact that a state has authorized the
sale of horse meat for the poor at
home while millions of wholesome
beef, mutton and pork are exported
to feed other nations.
01 Patriotism begins at home and it
'begins in the person and passes to
the family and thence to the com
munity and thence to the nation
But it remains in the family as an
aggregation of persona, in the com
munity as a society of persons and
in . the nation as a union of com
munities and families. It is only
rightly personal; it cannot be ap
plied to anything inanimate. When
it does it becomes idolatry and it
possesses all the rotteness of a falsi
idol. It does not live in the past
except as the past is a guide to tho
future. It lives for the present
and the welfare of those who exist
today. Many a physically and mor
ally defective prided in his ancestors
and gloried ip their fine deeds: but
their noble and bold and valiant
deeds did not and could not change
the degeneracy of their descendant.
Patriotism which sets itself to wor
shipping the past and forgets the
present is only a sham. Today is the
living time: the living time for
thoughts and deeds and men. The
phst takes care if Itself; nothing
we may do or say can add or detract
from the dead. They can be sulliel
by no aspersion, defamed by no
slander, tainted by no Impure reflec
tion, rusted by no acid criticism
That they have done Is itself Judge-]
by its historic consequences that nc
man or set of men can obliterate
and time is the Unfailing judge
that is to be influenced by no pride
*•*<'••• of lame, no pOmp of power, nc
might of pelf to wrongly award the
palm or to unjustly conncnm men
as well as things.
Hero worship has Its uses; hyt
there is no greater vanity than the
hero worship which colls itself up In
the temples of a past day, ana
Ignores the living temple of the
present.
History is continuous and a na
tion may well be great with great
men of past days to fall to pieces by
the littleness of its Iftter day petty
ones, and then its great ones of thy
past will not save It.
Every generation has its new cir
cumstances and we are the creatures
of circumstances. What has been
fine and noble and great yesterday
is loday often worthless and danger
o is No man can write fin^ to the
history of a nation; and those na
tions which live in the glorious
early chapters of their greatness
are like the foolish man who feeds
on romance instead of toiling for
real bread for his family. The ear
lier fathers of the country may in
deed have faced and overcome
great problems; stepped to greatness
in the doing of their groat deeds.
Hut the ancestor worship which
contents ilself with the contempla
tion of those splendid figures lit
story, and ignores thov constant
need for tfie struggle in the prese n
take their country directly down the
path of retrogression. Pride ot
condition, pride of rgee must found
itself upon present time conditions
within the country and presen■
time achievements of the race. An
institution that docs not fulfil tins
useful functions of promoting the
popular happiness is not to bo res
pected. Like tho Sabbath they are
made for man and not man made
for them.
A writer in The Toiler says that u
great many active unionists present
"cro*t Unionism” as the cause of all
labor defeats. “Craft organiz-tion
is proclaimed to be the root ef all
evil in the labor movement. They
are liko the doctor who had one re
medy; did you liavo rheumatism, he
gave you paregoric, was it con
sumption again it was paregoric;
for a broken leg paregoric was the
remedy, so these impartlcal critics
proclaim the one cause “craft union
ism” and the one cure industral
unionism”.
To a certain extent that criticism
is justified. There are numbers
who do just that very thing, blame
the evils of the labor movement
upon craft unionism and believe that
an efficient industrial unionism is
the only cure.
And nothing that the writer in
The Toiler says as-quoted apparently
approvingly in the Coast Seamen’s
Journal, tends to change that opi
nion.
Candidly and quite frankly craft
unionism is only unionism with an
“if”. It takes the workers and In
stead of solidifying them as workers
with one interest in common, sub
divides them up into groups united
by a very flimsy metaphysical thing
called affiliation. It tends to com
plete disorganization into groups
with different aims and different
ideas and different tactics. Above
all it provides each group with a
different tactic.
If there are any arguments in
favor of the working class getting
together, then these arguments do
not apply merely to small groups of
different kinds of workers, but to
all workers as workers. And more
over as long as those groups keep
the workers from acquiring an actu
al solidarity in fact as they do un
questionably, they are a tremendous
detriment to the labor movement.
Yet again from the point of effici
ency, and talk as we may about ca
pitalist efficiency, the real test ol
any organization is the efficiency
which it . possesses for the purpose
formed, the craft union is an ex
pensive form of organization which
nothing can justify. It wastes the
hard earned dollars of the- workers
to pay dues to officials whose pre
sence as such can bo very well eli
minated for they do not function
usefully. »
Here in a city say are. tjrlrde hund
red craft unions. Eadh union has
its salaried officials, its salaried
bu&iness agents and ito union ex
penses altogether a wifete of cam
paign funds could bo bettor saved.
The tendency of progreosive ele
ments in society is from a number
of separate units to a consolidated
unit, strength prbceeding as conso
lidation is perfected.
The weakness of the craft union
is manifest. We need not consider
jurisdictional squabbles, we can just
consider the constant hostility ana
lack of unity of action manifested
between unionc in tho same industry
when the time for action arrives.
No person but will admit that the
only effective action is concerted
action. The craft union directly
and inevitably produces lack of con
certed action. It has already di
vided the workers into groups,
taught each group a different pur
pose, a different policy and a differ
ent aim. Imbued each union witn
the notion of absolute individuality
of action as opposed to the idea of
an industrial organization, wherein
all abide by that decsion and act
accordinly. If it is good to divide
a possibly complete -organization
into separate groups bf organiza
tions, the same argument win ine
vitably hold good that it is good
and advisable to divide those groups
into Independent units each to be a
law unto itself. There is no gett
ing away from this. Either every
worker should be organized as a
worker, or every worker should be
taught complete and individual ac
tion as his only salvation.
We look in vain for any argu
ment against industrialism. None
as yet have been brought forward.
Ridicule the idea of one big union
as we may, compare it to the doc
tor who gave all his patients pare
goric if we must, but after that try
and avoid ridiculing the impotency
and inefficiency and absurdity ot
craft unionism in this age when
machine production has obliterated
almost all crafts and it is simply
not possible.
The entire strength of craft union
ism in the American Federation ot
j Labor depends upon the fact that
lit builds up a machine within the
t organization. That machine con
j sists of the salaried officials, and
| their name is legion, within each
I separate group. They stand to lose
j their-jobs when the day comes that
i industrialism is adopted. They know
jit. and they knew that when with
-
craft unionism goes reaction, thoy
can depend upon every reactionist
to fight with them.
Industrialism did not spring ready
made from the ^ brain of any doctrin
aire. It 1? not essentially artificial
any more than it is the lingering re
lic of a by-gone age of production
It grew in America betauso America
has reached a degroe of capitalist
consolidation equalled in no other
country. It reflects the environ- ;
ment that Industrial workers en
counter and it is the logical deve
lopment of a present day economic
condition.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Tom Kelleher, your heirs, ;
executors, assigns or personal r*~ !
presents Uves:
Tou are hereby notified, that l have
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars for
labor and improvements each year
for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914
and 1915 on the Jefferson Associa
tion, an association placer mining
claim situated on Cripple river ana
recorded and more fully described
in volume 196 at page 63 in the re
cords of the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District in the Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment wort
upon Mining claims, being the
amount required to bold said claim.
And you are further notified, that
*.f within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice, you fall
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure your Interest in said
claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your Co-Ownei un
der section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
WILLIAM SHEEHAN.
Co-Ownei.
Date of first .publ., Feb. 9, 1916.
Date of last publ. May 10, 1916.
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