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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early us possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
anranam Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March I, 1871.
ANV WAY A BIRD.
T. R. is reputed to have discover
ed a new species of bird in the West
Indies. In view of his well known
attitude on race suicide it might not
be wrong to suggest that it is a
now variety of the stork.
EFFICIENCY.
Nome officials apparently have:
been won over to the path of vice ]
regulation. Well, these are days ot
efficiency systems.
INSTRUCTIVE.
The Most remarkable ami most
important fact concerning 1; ost
labor !rws is their non-enforcement.
?t is not that this official oi that
is derelict in his duty in seeing to
such enforcement, but the slmi le
fact of their non-enforcement is the
one that is most instructive to.- it i.
No person can have followed the
labor movement in any country
with any sort of care without ob
serving that the labor laws are
more honored in the breach than In
the observance and there is very
little hope that the general public
to whom labor laws are non-essen
tial and to a degree unimportant
will reach a plane of social morality
where the inate viciousness of such
violation will be observed.
Laws ure made in regard to la
bor apparently to be broken or
where not broken to be evaded on
some sort of a pretext.
We can turn to any section of
the country where labor struggles
of any magnitude, attracted public
attention and we can note that the
failure to enforce labor legislation
was the glaring fact about such
communities. Thus In Colorado
practically every single measure en
acted ostensibly for the benefit ot
the working classes were in the
Colorado Mines honored in the
breach. And we can observe too
that only when the organized acts
of labor demonstrated a tremendous
economic power capable of assert
ing the same conditions that labor
laws were supposed to bring about
were they enforced.
That is also the way of it in
West Virginia and in dozens ot
other places where labor laws only
materialized in those conditions
they were supposed to establish
when and where the workers them
selves compelled the establishment
of su,ch conditions.
Now we get off the track when
we think that Nome is any differ
ent. It serves its purpose to criti
cize those easy going officials who
pretend to do their duty and do no
thing of the kind; but we do not
want to mislead ourselves or our
fellow workers by pretending that
this is the important fact about
labor legislation’s non-enforcement.
There’s an educational fact in
this uop-enforqtment that we dont
want to overlook. We would be
foolish if we did, and we would
overlook the most valuable fact for
us to be discerned in that evil con
dition when such legislation lies
lifeless and inert on the statute
b'wyka
It is a fact that the remedy lies
with the workers themselves. The
remedy is to be found in workim?
class action, unified and solid',lied
aud making such evasion and subt
erfuge as now bursts through live
laws and tears them to tatters, ut
terly and once for all Impossible.
Now there is no use peddling to
purselves, either, that that condi
tion can be immediately brought
about. That requires time, pati
ence and tireless faith. It is hard
to observe a number of stupid
workers deliberately making them
selves the goat for the sake of a
mess of mulligan.
But for all that we cannot lose
sight of the fact that the environ
ment of the workers is itself edu
eating them and driving them un
der economic compulsion to see tin
error of their ways.
And in the meantime we must
make the most of these facts when
the opportunity offers to show the
class nature of the administration
of the laws.
The workers themselves become
disillusioned. They lose faith in
purely political savior; they come
to realize the buncombe within the
bombast, and they know that be
hind the patriotic exterior of so
called up-lifters and reformers,
there lurks the class instinct which
stops short of enforcing legislation
which is for the benefit of labor.
Then must they depend upon them
selves alone, upon their own orga
nizations for from such organiza
tion springs directly an economic
power greater than that of the em
ploying classes and which when
once organized and properly
adjusted to the social needs, will
make all officials deadheads mere
ly a memory.
SUGGESTIVE.
It is not to be denied that the
majority of the great scientific;
thinkers are pronounced pacificists
who regard war and anything savor
ing of war with loathing and con
tempt. And even when some or
them extend a reluctant approval j
to preparationist plans they do so j
because they regard war under pre-1
sent conditions as inevitable,
i In the February number of the
Scientific Monthly is an exceedingly
able article by Professor Howerth J
of the University of California j
wherein under the title of The
Causes of War he enters into a full
consideration of the wherefore na
tions go to war.
Ha concludes in an eminently lo
gical and forceful and unanswer
able way that the origin of all wars
is essentially economic, and that
even though the national feelings
that appear to drive nations to hos
tilities may apparently give the
notion that this or that war lias a
psychological reason, the psychologi
cal impulses themselves are found
1 ed upon the economic basis.
That is the view of every person
who believes in the materialist
basis of historic movements and it
is eminently the self evident ex
planation of all such phenomena as
war by the socialist theories.
Says Howerth: “The chief condi
tions that incite war, then, are in
herent in our present system of in
dustry. Indeed, the business of the
world as it is carried on today is
war, only it is veiled by certain con
ventions, too often by pretense ana
hypocrisy, and is transacted in gen
eral under the sanction of the law.
When the pressure becomes too
strong upon the feelings, that is
when the conventional and peace
ful means are insufficient to obtain
the ends sought, there is resort to
arms. Armed warfare is only a
phase of tht industrial warfare that
prevails the world over". y
j Now that is true. There is not
a single statement there, subject It
, to an examination however careful
; and however close but common sense
and ordinary intelligence will li
terally uphold.
The germs of all war aro lnate
in any system which means the ex
| ploltation of one set of men, one
class of men, one race of men, one
: nation of men by the other. The
j very idea of such exploitation is
: that force will be needed to carry
it out. It may be not particularly,
I as force, in evidence; it may be car
| rled on by the sanction of the law
. of the nation or the laws between
I nations, but back of those concepts
[apparently peaceful there is the po
tential use of force which may ma
terialize at any time that the ex
ploited or Injured or controlled
ones oppose such a condition.
Obviously, ns Howerth concludes,
there can be no hope that wars will
end until the economic system and
(lie inter-rela:lon of nations such an
economy.
As long as t.nc man, one nation
or an alliance of nations expects
to get the letter of the other fel
low, to profit where he has pro
filted. or to ;?l<e the product where
he has labored, peace is only a fairy
dream. There will be no peace but
wars latent or active.
» That society which makes one set
A men. be it a class or a nation,
work for profit of another set ot
men he. they a class or another race
of people, is in a state of unstable
equilibrium, requiring force to
maintain the status quo. Progress
of any kind means that accompany
ing the forward movement will be
endless friction when the equilibri
um is disturbed n such movement,
and force is utilized to maintain it.
Preparation for peace then is an
unthinkable proposition which doe3
not involve also the abolition of the
present economic system, and „he
destruction of the unstable equih
brium that it establishes with the
substitution of a stable social equi
librium upon the only possible ba
sis: industrial democracy, equality
and international brotherhooa
Howerth blames the kind of edu
cation now practiced for the fact
that it has not promoted peace.
“The failure ought not to be
charged to education itself”, he says
“but to the kind of education that
has prevailed and to the dissemina
tion of erroneous ideas, concerning
the nature and the results of war—
false conceptions of national honor
and patriotism, and the pernicious
idea that the best way to prevent
war is to constantly think about it
and prepare for it, an idea contra
dicted by all we know of human
psychology with respect to the rela
tion of thought to action.:
The true nature of war unlike its j
causes is not obscure. It is plainly
revealed by our knowledge of biolo
gical and social evolution. Such
knowledge ought to lead to recogni
tion of the distinction between the
blind social evolution of nature, ef
fected partly by war, and a possible
ordered social evolution achieved
by human foresight. But the study
of evolution, the one study capable
of rendering this great service, has
been discouraged, sometimes for
bidden in our schools and colleges
on the grounds of its being atheis
tic; hence the superstition of nature
worship that prevails today. As
. Ppencer says: “It is true that much
! social evolution is achieved without
any intention on the part of citizens
i to achieve it, and even without the
consciousness that they are achiev
ing it.”
But such evolution is uncertain,
slow, wasteful and to no end save
the adjustment of the social organ
j ism to its environment. It does
not result in the survival of the
best, but the fittest, and sometimes
the fittest is ethically the worst.
Its chief method being competition
or war, both being essentially the
same".
Nevertheless, no matter what
these wise thinkers say about war
the popular imagination is always
at the disposal of the men and the
politicians who advance pleas for
preparation for any purpose what
soever. Not at any tin^e will the
truth by such be advanced, be
cause it is the truth, that the basis
of all war is economic. That the
cause of war is in the economic
system; that war literally exists in
the present system of industry even
when peace as we call it obtains;
there is the same social antagonism
the same desperate struggle, the |
same ruthless suppression of Indi
vidual liberty, the same dominant
spirit of the class in control, the
same anarchistic spirit on the part
of the industrial absolutists who
deny the right of the collective so
cial action to work out its own
salvation under a saner system and
one that will be steeled and armor
proofed against a possibility active
or potential, of war or anything like
it.
Instead there will be the usual
flag waving and oratorical outburst
| by the politicans to excito popular
feeling and exciting it to sway it
! where it would be swayed.
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MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nomo, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice Is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of buclness and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
j signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monument No. 1172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed of
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Pls
covery on Melsing Creok; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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