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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
ar/ranam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1*11, a* the post office at
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Nome, Alaska, July 3, 1916.
WICKEUSHAM’S CHARGES.
It will not do to dismiss tho (1
charge which Wickersham makes (
to the effect that the Guggenhcims i
control the Alaska transportation (1
Industry by just declaring :
that tne matter Is a po- I
litical move upon teh part of the
Delegate. That does not affect the
case in- any way.
The important matter is that
transportation is the key to the si- 1
tuation in Alaskan development
and its control by any interest is a i
serious matter. Moreover, the <
shipping transportation is what more ]
intimately affects the development
of this section, as well as all that
the development involves, than any
other question, and it is important,
as well as interesting to know it
this section of the country is in the
control of any one interest.
The Industrial Worker years ago
took the stand that the real key to
the Alaskan situation is the water
transportation. You can have rail
roads built and re-built over the
faec of the territory, but until the
people or the government control
the transportation to and from the
outside, railroads will not help ai
all.
It is obvious that the transpor
tation along the Yukon by careful
management can be made cheaper it
not more expeditious that by a rail
road, and if the government took
charge it could give interior sections
of the territory better and more
extensive and more satisfactory
service than it can expect to do
with a railroad.
The railroad of course means that.
i> certain amount of money is spent
in Alaska and that this pay roll
will he annexted by*business inter
ests in the natural order of things,
but even at that by far the larger
portion will finally reach the coffers
of the transportation agencies espe
cially the steamship companies.
One of the boasted facts which
are striking in regard to Alaska i3
that most striking of all and so
emphasized by the various booming
agencies which expect to benefit by
advertisement. That is the fact that
year after year there is a handsome
balance of trade in Alaska's favor;
that the exports in gold, copper,
mineral, fish and so forth are great
er than the imports. What becomes
of that balance of trade? It doesn't
; cst in Alaska. That's a certainty.
Alaska is short of money for roads,
for schools, for this, that and tin
other thing. When an atttempt is
made to tax, the outcry is immense.
Yet someone, some interests, is pro
fitting millions by this condition.
Of all those interests probably
the fishing interest comes first, but
it is a certainty that the transpor
tation interests do not come last by
any means. It would be interesting
and valuable to know out of the to
tal gold production of the Tanana
how much the Northern Commer
cial or connected companies col
lected. We believe the amount
would be considered astonishing.
Yet, c’early enough, the Sewara
Peninsula is very little better oft
while it should be much better off
The Tanana has to share overland
or Yukon rates with rates to the
outside, and there is no such rela
tive increase in price in Fairbanks
or relative decrease in Nome.
it may be true that the steamsh'1)
companies are acting with great
moderation and that their conten
tion that they would, by the rates
which prevail along other routes,
be justified in raising those to Sew
ard Peninsula considerable. That
may be all true enough; but in thax
event isn’t it just posisble the real
control which the steamship compa
nies possess over the situation would
then be so strikingly revealed that
governmental attention would be
unavoidably directed to it; that the
peope and the press could not help
but direct attention to a situation
rapidly was becoming impossible?
The situation as it is is certainly
t>ad enough: a backward year, little
or no production so far and rates
and prices bound to increase give3
little solace to any one looking for
a further development in this coun
try.
GARXEOIE HEROES.
The report of the Carnegie Hero
fund for the year 1915 is to bund.
It is eery interesting and re-ealfc
the fact that there are any number
of men and women heroes and
heroines in this country.
The most striking feature of the
report is that there are no industri
al heroes mentioned. The men who
save the lives of fellow workers in
mine and mi|J and steel plant are
few and negligible.
That is peculiar. There are any
number out for a holiday having
a good time, leisured folk who when
their companions in pleasure were
stricken with cramps in the water,
rescued them.
Now the Industrial Worker is bold
to say that daring rescues are part
of the day’s routine in American in
dustries; especially in the mining,
and the steel and the metalliferous
industry. Yet these unrecorded
heroes do not fiugre in the report
before us. Their heroism finds
neither leaded typo in the press
nor medals from Hero Funds.
Thelr’s, in fact, is the regular order
of things; coming naturally to them
and as if part of the day’s routine,
as if no other could be expected and
they could do no other. This pro
vides an object lesson, or one would
surmise it should, to the Carnegies
and their proud hero medals Yet
there is no fact, s.? ignored In the
plays, in the novels, in the stories,
the man with kid gloves and
tailored suit is usually the hero. But
the worker, the clod, is the man
who draws back when danger
beckons to save a fellow.
Now that simply is not so. It is
the follow worker who takes the
chances with no thought of self;
who dares the running ground In
the cave-in; the bad after damp in
the coal mine; the flames in the
burning building; broken machinery
in the mill.
No person familiar with industri
al life but knows this. Or if he
does not know it, it is because ii
has been so common and so much
an every day occurence he has pis
sed it over as to be expected.
It is a mistake to consider such
a one as an exception. He Is the
rule. The worker who when his
fellow is in danger will not risk his
life to save him is rare indeed.
This was the way before Carnegie
medals, and likely as not will con
tinue long after the founder whose
name is blazoned upon the medal
lion, is forgotten.
WASTE?
Some expert statist has discovered
that the European war has wasted
created wealth in round figures ap
proximately sixty or seventy billion
dollars. We dont know how he got
those figures or whether they are
correct or not. But anyway there
is some waste. That’s a certainty,
and it is to prove a boon and a
blessing to mankind.
That is remarkable, but it is so.
It is responsible for the Amer'can
boom that is going on now, that
Wilson and his party claim as de
mocratic prosperity.
That is a great system indeed.
Here are billions—figures incon
ceiveable to the ordinary mind—
destroyed and on that account a
general industrial activity results.
Men who before were either unem
ployed or unemployable have found
jobs eas'ly enough; wages have
been increased, profits multiplied.
Nor is this condition confined to the
United States. Among the belliger
:nt nations there never was le3s en- c
orced idleness. There never yet was (
iuch an even distribution of food, jt
dore people in Great Britain are i
ating three squares a day than ; <
here have ever been before. More j
people are wearing better clothing, <
mfficient clothing either in the army 1
>r in industry than ever before. ! ]
\nA it lias taken a war with the , i
ioss of millions of lives and the de
struction of sixty or seventy billion i
lollars of property to bring about
this condition.
Is it any wonder humanity lingers
over that phrase “What fools these j
mortals be” and thinks that there
is a good deal more truth than
poetry in the fairy's expression?
War is fittingly described as hell.
But when it takes a war to result In
an inudstrial heaven what is capi
talism whch produces such a con
dition to be regarded?
That’s a leading qufestion for you
Millions wasted and the industrial
activity that results, provides mil
lions who otherwise famished with
a sufficiency. Millions slam and
those who remain get higher wages
because of the increased demand in
the market.
13 there anything could more
strikingly show the fallacy of the
capitalist system than that?
PILLORY FOR WIFE BEATER.
The Kansas City police judge who
thinks a pillory is going to cure the
wife beaters of their habit is an ex
ample of a common enough type of
mind. A whole lot of people ima
gine that punititve treatment over
jomes a natural inclination. B it it ■
Joes not. The real cure is educa- j
tion. Education that is to say that j
is training and comes from improv- j
ed experiences.
Why long ago. the list of capital
crimes was as big as a modern law y
book, but because they hung a man jj
for counterfeiting, it did not stop S
it at all. Sheep stealing decreased |
when the wants of the stealers were j
otherwise satisfied, not because it
was a hanging matter.
The man who beats up a woman
has something wrong in his make
up that pillories will not cure. Nor
will the example of another man in
the stocks prevent a man so minded
from repeating the offense.
The cure is to be sought in socie
ty itself. Better environment, better
experiences, better training, an'l
the thing will become impossible.
U. S. MAIL BOAT SILVER WAVE.
The Silver Wave will sail on July
4 or 5 at latest for Kotzebue Sound
and all way points including Teller
York, Cape Prince Wales, Peering,
Keewalik and Kotzebue. For freight
or. passage apply Alaska Lighter
age and Commercial Co..
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OCT. 23TH.
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Commercial Agent,
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SAILING FROM
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JULY 20TH.
AUG. 13TH.
SEPT. 11TH.
OCT. 7TH.
WITHOUT NOTICE.
ALASKA L. & C. CO.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP GO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE:
JUNE 28.
JULY 23.
AUG. 23.
SEPT. 18.
OCT. 13.
LEAVE NOME.
JULY 11.
AUG. 7.
SEPT. 5.
OCT. 1. i
OCT. 29.
VICTORIA LEAVING NOME JULY 11 AND AUG. 7 will
call at Seward, Valdez, Cordova; Steamer will also visit Col am- jjj
bia Glacier. At Cordova steamer will remain long enongh to al- j j
low excursionists time to make special trip out over the railroad j I
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to Miles Glacier, from Cordova the Steamer will return direct &
by the outside route to Seattle.
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R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome I
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MR. MINER
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and Canvas, See
PHIL MURPHY
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