Bailg Name Industrial Morket."
Published Daily except Sunday
l*f .Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 2tO, Western Federation of Miners.
Subscription Price
Cse Tear... — _. .. — — — — — — —-— ?20.09
Rlx Months..... - — — —— — — — — — *10-00
Use Month .. —.- ... — ... ...- ..... — ■ - — — I 2-00
Entered ns second class matter March 1, 1911, at the poat office at
Feme, - AlasKa, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early ns possible, is a worthy object of any good goTernment."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 124.
Nome, Alaska, January 18, 1»17.
ini i vtf.1) i r;;r:;j:s.
Am Tii in export trade is enorm
ous. But the figures are deceiving
in this respect they record war time
prices and give no t roper conception
of tin it..Tease or decrease in actual
shipments. 'Yheat is estimated this
year at two dollars a bushel and
only a few years ago it was estimat
ed at one dollar and a quarter. It is
evident that much less wheat might
lie exported in order to sliow an in
crease calculated in dollars and the
same thing is to be said about all
other' commodities with hardly an
exception.
These figures do not represent the
real “values" of the commodities
any more than they convey any pro
per idea of the quantities which are
being shipped aboard.
The values which are being ship
ped abroad are not the prices any
more than do the prices represent
any normal bulb or quantity.
What is the value of those commo
dities figured out. so easily in dollars
and cents has no relation to their
cost of production whatever, and it ,
is the production costs the amount
of social labor power necessary to ;
reproduce them which will measure
their value. You measure price In !
dollars and cents and value in the
number of hours labor power ex
hausted in reproducing the articles.
n c« rt tii ly a case of things not
being what they seem, especially in
the days of artificial prices and •
controlled sales.
It used to he held by the econo
mists that price was regulated by a
natural condition of supply and de
mand. Tbi y called that the law of
supply and demand. But since those'
simple days, artificial combinations,
trusts, coi . filiations and other con
trol nioie noli) s take suppTy in hand
.ml always . ,e that the demand is
controlled also. They withold their
commodities from the market until
the demand over-reaches all price li
mitation. and then they let go sonio
in satisfaction.
It is like one man controlling all
the spuds in a camp. He just sells
enough to keep the people wanting
more and wanting more to pay more.
The essential for such a condition is
combined private ownership or mo
nopoly of control and we have that,
right now.
Prices may slump later on. But
just now with several maniacal na
tions at war outbidding one another
for American products, the Amer
icans themselves have to join in tho ;
mad game to the enormous profit of
the private owners.
There is no phase of capitalism so
magnificent us this one of price con
trol which accounts for the enorm
ous export■ that now figure in what
are now as “favorable balances ol
trade."
I
Open some one or other of the so-!
called popular magazine: ar.d you
will se - a notin' by some shrewd
mountebanke whc guarantees to re
move tear from your mind. In do
ing ho he promises to make you a
Napoleon of Finance or a Rocke
feller of Commerce or a Kipling in
literature. lie says that your fear is
keeping you back and it is destroy
ing your ehancos for success. He
has evolved a system which removes
fear. Plucks it from the human
heart and leaves you fearless, strong
in soul and body. It. sounds very
beautiful and plausible and judging
by the fact that this fear artist has
increased of late the extent of his
advertising, it must be as successful
as Father John’s whiskey or Postum
Gripe knots.
Some person learned in the study
of emotions recently rises to remark
that fear has been the main stimulus
of our civilization for many a cen
tury. Moreover he declares that fear
is the main cause of war, of militar
ism, of preparedness. Ho says it is
unquestionable that this wave of
preparedness that swept over the na
tion is not due to valor or to cour
age, moral or physical, but is scari
ioss and fear and that its promoters
iave very cleverly and very shrewdly
■ ilcuiated on first scaring tin po
>ular mind with visions and an ima
jiitary foe, a fancy invasion with
warnings uttered in (he shadows
ind whispers percolating through
shuddering awe.
All ot which he very capably and
,'ery ably demonstrates as a fact,
•veil if many had not guessed as
nuch long ere this.
Human beings in these modern
lays have made a God of Fear.
Somehow it was the sole human
emotion that never had a divine
standing of much account among
lie classic pagans. They never
were at a loss concerning its import
nice, hut they did not worship it.
We do. We have taken the oriental
notions of its divinity and compelled
it to serve to keep the many in awe.
It is the emotion that makes us vir
tuous for fear of hell or lest we
might lose heaven. We become ri
gidly law abiders lest we suffer as
criminals. We are compelled to tole
■ate the lash oi stony authority lest we
fare worse. We endure low wages
lor fear of starvation and we place
our necks in tlie yoke lor fear ex
istence will be no longer ours. Fear
makes us mount guard over our
wealth with armed men and deadly
guns that may strike a greater fear
in the hearts of those who own no
thing. bleep is denied the wealth
accumulator lest some fearful turn
of fortune steal his treasures. We
worship our God in jails and work
houses, with fines and forfeitures
and whippings. We scare the little
child with stories of baleful ghosts
that are the very angels of Fear
and in this way reduce free and un
fettered thought to the slavish
thralls of discipline.
Conscience doth make cowards oi
us all. said the Bard, but long be
fore a consciousness was born with
in us, Fear had marked us for its
own. We organize against fearless
criticism, against free .speech and
free assembly. We poison the springs
of liberty with fears of oppression
and we silence the deathless voice
within the charnel houses of fear
some conventions.
It makes us chaste, good, holy
virtuous, noble. It is our Virtue of
Virtues under capitalism. And, not
the least remarkable of its
vicious perversion of the
mind is that after it has stirred
men to grasp to hand instru
ments of death and fly blindly at
their brothers’ throats we have the
audacious ignorance to consider that
daring and that valor and courage.
Were fear to die in men’s hearts
today, the fabric of such’ a civiliza
tion such hypocritical religion as
men al'feci to follow would not last
a day. Xo man would accept condi
tio ■ ol' injustice were it not that
terror was lying ever within his
heart read-' to strike at every noble
impul: ; . Xo man would allow him
self to be victimied in industry and
tied in tongue wer • not the "native
hue of resolution sicklicd over with
the pale cast of thought”, thoughts
of fear. It is the heritage of centu
ries of exploitation and is not going
to be removed from our natures by
the advertised schemes of some
American quack. We will have to
be born again—horn free of the
heritages of this system and then
face the world as men—fearless men
who will dare do all that may be
come men.
IT’K KIM,ED AIX RIGHT.
A socialist paper criticizing the
present membership of Congress
headed the article boosting the
socialist party men with the caption
“Fill the Present Vacuum in Con
gress”. It would appear that suffi
cient hot air in proper person has
been furnished to abolish the
vacuum complained of.
PITY THE POOR CANNERS.
The refusal of the Supreme Court
to review the case against the Can
neries in the tax collection levied
against them by the Territorial legis
lature is one that will make every
honest Alaska Pork Barreller re
joice. At one fell blow it clumps
into the territory globular thousands
that make the mouth water. And
no pity will be felt for the poor can
in r:». They will delicately pass it
along and the price of the succulent
salmon will be dutifully incended to
add to the' glory of tIce northern ter
ritory. The public at any rate will j
cheerfully pay or abstain from sock
eyes.
AUSTRALIA.
That is startling news from Aus
tralia: the land where conscription
failed. Yet withal, the credit for this
rests with those indomitable men
who fought the fight last Easter in
Ireland, and fired the shots that now
re-echo in the antipodes.^ The
cheerful idiocy that supposes that
one militarism or one despotism is
better than another is responsib’e
tor the condition of things that find
Australia now in practical revolt.
The colonies were called to force the
fighting while the “flannelled fools
at the wicket and the mudied oats
at the goal” enjoyed themselves ex
cept when the Zeppelins appeared
o’ntghts.
The fact that there are men, labor
ing men, who know that they have
nothing to lose but their chains in
this dread time of red war is some
how or another full of hope for the
future.
Hughes who is Premier, after a
visit to Grtat Britain came to the
conclusion that Australia should
sacrifice some more— some more
when in proportion to the popula
tion Australia had given as f&r as
England ’ and the English middle
classes is concerned, in the propor
tion of three to one.
Mo wonder that Australia con
cludes that if men must die to pro
tect English tradesmen and land
monopolists, there is no earthly rea
son why they shouldn’t be English.
The logic seems, when you size it
up. to be somehow without flaw.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE.
To Ed. Carlson, your heirs, execut
ors, administrators and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
.pended during the year ending 31st
December, 191G, the sum of One
hundred dollars in labor and im
provements upon placer mining
claim known and described as Xo. 1
Below on Hastings Creek, located
the 1st day of January 1909 and re
i corded in Volume 1S4 at page 225
! of tlie records of the Cape Nome Re
j cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska.
Y'ou are hereby further notified,
i that if within ninety (90) days
after the last publication of this no
! tico you fail or refuse to contribute
l your proportion of such .expenditure
I your interest in said claim wlil be
come the property of the under
signed, your co-owner, under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United
States.
Dated this 3rd day of Jan. 1917.
J. S. KIMBALL COMPANY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Jan. 4, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 29, 1917..
No. 0308.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 1G, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National- Bank, Trustees and Floyd (
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden j
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post j
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and j
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E. j
Powell, has made application before I
the United States Land Office at j
Nome, Alaska, for a United States j
Patent for Discovery Claim and No. j
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek i
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis- |
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey j
No. 1175, said claims being more I
particularly described in the field j
notes and plat of the official survey j
thereof now on file in said Land j
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows, j
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with j
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No. |
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur. j
605, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above j
ground in earth rnond scribed 1-747, I
4-095, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 1(1 min.
W. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. (o Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Yar. 19 dog. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. ?»;' thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 070.00 l‘t. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Yar.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 19 .deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Yar. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is .a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Yol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Yol.
165 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 74 7. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
You Ought To
TRY OUR' RANCH EGGS PREMIUM HAMS & BACON,
HILLS BROS. COFFE, CALIFORNIA GOLDEN STATE BUTTER.
THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY GOOD FOR BREAKFAST.
ORDER AT ONCE FROM
Mollers Grocery
211 FRONT STREET PHONE, MAIN 86.
The Rose Candy Store And
Arctic Bakery
IS THE PLACE FOR GOOD BREAD, CAKE, LUNCHES, CAN
DIES AND ICE CREAM.
THE HOME OF AUGUSTINER AND KEYER VICTORIAS &
BUTTER CRISP.
laaaaa
MMHWI
GOAL
for the
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
Jan. 20th, 1917.
ALASKA LIGHTERAGE 8 COM! Cl
KnWRMiahvsiisirsPk;
D. E. Crowley Groc. Co.
KBBBWigBBBiniaiwiiaawaiaiMaBiBK^^
Kent Transfer Oo.
General Transfer & Freighting
Qoaj & QH
Phone Main 139.
AT
PHIL MUHPHY’S
MACKINAWS, OREGON CITY MILLS. PANTS.. HEAVY WOOL
M1DLICOTT UNDERWEAR.
SWEATERS, LIGHT OR HEAVY.
FUR ROBES
PARKAS, MITTS, GLOVES & CAPS.
MURPHY HAS THE GOODS
Men's Women’s Children’s
5
Since tlie opening of Navigation we have rec /Sved 3270 pairs
of SHOES and RUBBER FOOTWEAR. Every boat brings more.
“There is a reason”. Our prices are right and our business has
been built by satisfactory service to our patrons.
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
*f* *J“ *T *4* ^4 4-J# ^4 |J<
*i*
❖
•S*
❖
•I*
•J*
*.
•t
+
*
+
*
+
SUBSCRIBE FOR
The Daily
Nome Industrial Worker
! $2.00 each month
Best Telegraphic News
Job Printing Neatly Executed
r + t + ,H,'H'4, + + + t *♦ + + + + * 4* 4* 41 4"Hnh
#***♦* ♦♦ Hfc 4* + •H* W