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Home, Alaska, February 12, I»10.
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These are great days for the p 'o
fossional liar. On the war he can
enlarge to his heart's content and
exercise the imagination to the full.
Here’s poor old Belgium, the little
nation distraught beyond recall,
made the butt of the heavy fancies
of the mendacity peddler. The
story of tho peace parley with Ger
many is declared to be false; that
the Vatican did not endeavor tp et
fcct peace and that the proposals
were never considered.
And what is one to believe? May
hap with the significance of the
later contradiction in mind, one may
even suspect it and know not where
to turn. The man is foolish who
swallows this war dope as anything
else but just an adumbration of the
truth, and a bum adumbration at
that.
•A woman named Marguerite Stone
aged 33 was under indictment for
maintaining an immoral resort in
Washington D. C. She tried to kill
herself and shot herself in the
breast for that purpose. At the
hospital she offered to make ex
posures in a statement to the As
sistant Prosecutor which would re
veal actual conditions and how she
had been bled by detectives an l
congressmen to the amount tu
thousands of dollars in return fo
the protection extended such
fashionable resorts ;n the national
capital. The prosecutor like a wise
man preferred not to interets him
self in the proferred confession
The woman aimed at too big game.
That would never do.
There's a big tight against capital
punishment in Arizona and governor
Hunt is one of the leaders against
the state taking a man's life. An
interesting case cropped out the
other day at Phoenix when a con
victed murderer awaited hanging
This man was declared insane by
two doctors who took oaths to that
effect and thereupon tho Warden
Sims cf the State Prison refused to
do his duty. For that lie was com
mitted for contempt for acting upon
the advice of his "ttnr.-oy not ti
hang the man, and ’ ' legal
advisor was also a party to tile con
tempt proceedings. For good com
mon sense what in the world equals
a legal technicality and the judici
ous exercise of the contempt prero
gatives?
The second Edition of the New
Freedom is now ready. It is en
titled Preparedness, and contains
valuable amendments, curtailments
and abridgments not noted in the
original. it contains the official
imprimatur of J. P. Morgan.
The Industrial Worker is in re
ceipt of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Co. Industrial Bulletin for October
1915. The magnificent mail service
Alaska enjoys prevented an earlier
receipt of this quarterly. It was
a postponed pleasure. Elogantiv
printed from the typographical point
of view, it lacks notihng while the
full page portrait of John D. II ft
contains, is suitable for framing. An
autograph letter takes up full pages
in English, Italian, Finish ana
Spanish; a hyphenated appeal no
doubt that ought to produce results.
Then succeeds an address delivered
by John D. Rockefeller junior which
is decorated with photos of “Boys
Scouts at Sunrise Mmo"; showing
John II with “coming Americans at
liorwind School" whero the PrincJ
<>{ Oil is seen standing alongside s
handsome yoang school Ma’am;
“Sopris Boys Training In First Aid '
and first aid is needed in Colorado;
“School House at Berwlnd and Ta
basco”; “Ready for the Mlno' is a
dandy picture showing the Oil
Prince in overalls with a horny
handed son of toll looking conscious
- of his presence and endeavoring to
appear equal to tho occasion; ‘'Field
Day, Trinidad and Walcenburg Dis
tricts, August 14, 1915” showing an
array of ex-gunmen and officials
dressed in their best!
Then follows what will deserve
later notice, “Plan of Representation
of Employees” drawn up by Rocke
feller for their espeial benefit. It's
excellent publicity of course, with**
careful veiling of the unpleasant
facts as can be noted in the sum
mary of the voting for the accept
ance or rejection of the “Plans”:
that those who voted for were given'
white and those who voted against
were given red tickets.
But it’s all right of course. John
D. is king of that region and what
he says goes. Let the thinking peo
ple rule!
When the alien labor law was de
clared unconstitutional the Unitea
States Supreme Court decided that
it interfered with the common
right to work for a living.
The law unquestionably did that,
and unquestionably therefore was i
bad one. But there are lots of other
things that interfere with that com
mon right and they are not declared
unconstitutional. In fact about the
flimsiest of rights the average work
er has got is the right to work for
a living. He may work if another
gives him a job and there are not
enough jobs to go round. Evidently
some have no such right at all.
There are some wise and logical
men among the German socialists.
Thus Edward David in the Reichs
tag said that his comrades in France
were obsessed with the foolish
idea that they would wage the war
until German militarism had been
d stroyed because it was militarism.
That was a great mistake, and the
only way to correct it was to remove
this “psychological error” by show
ing the French that this waB not
possible, and that had to be done in
one way, by carrying the war to a
conclusion. Therefore he supported
the war. Clear, convincing and lo
gical indeed.
There is nothing so excites the
anger ot the professional charity
worker as when some other person
butts in on their graft. "Hespec'
able Charity” can put over almost
any line of talk and grab the coin,
but direct action upon the part of
the suffering is beggary. Thus
Mayor Thompson of Chicago was
appealed to by the Charity Organiza
tlons to prohibit a scheme destitute
widows had conceived of helping
themseves. They proposed to hold
a widow's tag day and sell tags
throughout the Windy City. The
Charity organizers said it was beg
gary. When one considers that in
Chicago out of every dollar which
passos through Charity organizations
about eight cents is devoted to
Charity, and the rest pays the sala
rics and expenses of the organiza
tions, one can highly esteem the
brand of immaculate gall that in
spires these people.
Those who are interested in finan
cial dreams, as is every man who
hasn't got a cent in the bank, will
find much to regret that the Rus
sian government floated a loan in
Japan to pay for munitions ordered
In that place. To think that the
money trust of the good ola U. S.
A. had one put over them by the
Nipponese will not make for more
cordial relations. Of course a big
ger navy is needed on the Pacific
—and brand new forts at Sewara,
Alaska.
This is election year and locally
the fence builders might recollect
the lines by Bobby Burns:
The bost laid scemes of mice ana
, men
Gang' aft agley.
War orders hare made a strong
stream of gold flow through Uncle
Sam’s sluice boxes. But the same
old bosses will make the cle§n-up.
Ford is about to re-organize an
other pacificist expedition tp Eu
rope. The Industrial Workor opi
peacc might n'ot be unduly out' of
order. Even while th4' munition
orders are rolling in,' it thi^ht show
that many still are faithffcl. ;
The policy of every manafcjr him
self should be recognized for the
folly it la in the labor world as
everywhere else. Only by 'mutual
aid and co-operation has any
achievement been made. Without
the organized opportunity to direct
the results of the energy power and
labor of all, have great nations been
built up, great works been under
taken and accomplished, and have
the people been at all successful in
their endeavors. Especially in the
labor market, every man for him
self means low wages, bitter com
petition and poor living conditions
The man who thinks of himself
alone usually lives lonely and gets
nowhere. Organized effort is the
only fruitful effort and without or
ganization there is no progress.
The workers know this by sal
experience. Organization is the
only hope. Without it they can do
nothing, gain nothing, advance
nothing. With a strong t compact,
comprehensive organization the
workers are all powerful and can
gain whatever they go after." Orga
nize.
Poverty is the only crime of which
the accessories thereto are well and
quickly rewarded.
It is very unfair that their oppo
nents insist upon talking of the prc
paratlonlsts as munitionlsts. But
what’s in a name?
It’s all very well to say who
steals your purse steals thrash, but
the :ncn who do, discover that s
much more drastic effort is made to
piev> nt the theft of purses than the
theft of one’s good name. There’s
a reascn.
The absence of any very volnnin
ous pay roll in Nome this winter
proves conclusively that prosperity
depends upon the merchants. Hear
them talk about the s^gNfcperous
times these days!
Surely it is a wholly wrong notion i
that the Alaska mail service is do
minated by the damn-the-public
idea.
nea that another
What’s become of that dinky lid
anyhow?
While holding a dinner in Mil
waukee recently churchwomen found
that someone had gono through
their cloaks and abstracted every
thing valuable. As the doors were
locked it was one of the diners whc
must have fallen from grace. Bui
it is wonderful that even the just
fall seven times a day.
It is stated that me munitions
embargo is -likely to receive consid
erable attention before the present
session of Congress is through.
But it is not likely that any thing
will bo done that will prevent the
rich harvest munltionicts are en
joying from being still reaped.
The probability that such an em
bargo would stop the war may be
granted, but the moral reason that
it is contributing to the continuance
of the war is not so sound. If so
the United States should stop all
trafTic of any kind whatsoever, di
rect or indirect with the bellige
rents. Food, clothing, automobiles,
and a hundred other supplies are
just as much needed in this war as
munitions. They dont directly deal
out death but they do directly en
able those who handle munitnoas
to do so. And what’s the differ
ence? It may be cnsldered a very
evil trade to -furnish a man with a
gun for the purpose of killing his
fellow man, but it’s no worse than
feeding him, driving him, housing
him, clothing him when one knows
the business upon which ho is bent
It’s an interesting condition of
mind that considers the exportation
of high exposives a national rascal
ity, and thinks the exportation ot
cotton for the manufacture of high
explosives an eminently respectable
form of business.
There’s more casuistry fn the
business world than people realize-,
and if the truth were known ana
the relation of all tho facts under
stood, it would be discovered that a
good many of those who affect lr>
be disgusted at the munitionis*.
trade , are up to their eyes in an
other industry quite as much con
tributory to the evil which is war.
and which they pretend to abhor.
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on Valentines day, Heart boxes ill
led with choice Chocolates.
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