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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
■early ub possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
• nraham Lincoln
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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a< the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, January 111, 11)10.
The administration bill throwing
open for leasing so many thousand
acres of mineral land is certain to
t>e a policy which will occasion con
siderable discussion. It is conserva
tion with a joker. It opens the land
to private exploitation within 11
1 fnits, quite reasonable limits Of
course, ouch as four sections to one
lessee, but none the less it is quite
^important, it plays the game quite
safely ; it is the medium in things
.?■«, which-1 goes to the extreme of
shutting up all land from entry on
one side or in throwing all land
open, to entry on the other.
And by its terms it prevents
■ those who have money to invest be
,ing held up by original stakers as
the government very nicely reserves
. • it for those who have the dough.
It is an ample precedent that is pro
vided in that to those that have
more shall be leased and those who
have not can labor for those who
have in developing the lease. Words
to that effect are to he found in
Hole Writ. There is nothing like
taking a good, moral precedent for
example. Let us pray.
That a dredge should be still
working in the Klondike will till
Nome magnates with hope. Ima
gine in the future when the pro
blems of winter dredging will have
been solved this camp still digging
up the yellow metal from tfie fro
sen streams, and workers with
blankets perambulating through
the blizzards in search of a job!
What glorious sales will rot the mer
chants have at Xmas time! How
money will so freely circulate an l
likewise booze and Tom and Jerry
—-Prosperity will scintilate like a
diamond under an arc of 25 cents
per kilowatt hour juice and every
thing will bloom like the (lowers in
May—outside. And there is nothing
impossible in this halicyon picture
The time will doubtlecc c'.me when
the coal fields of Cape Llsburne
producing sufficiently cheap fuel
will enable the earth during winter
as well as summer to surrender
from its bosom its golden treasure
and the millenium will be reached
for merchant, real estate owner and
vendors of goods generally. Then
will everyone be happy in the solu
tion of the industrial problem that
perplexes when Nome is as at pre
sent only a summer camp. O Bles
sed Pipe Dream!
Suppose for the sake of argument
some of these religious revivalists
or reformers were to go to the rDit
of the’ evil and attack what is
known as the System and the power
of Mammon how long would '.hey
•last? Suppose that some one instead
of constructing a straw devil were
to get after a real Demon called
Production for l'rotits, what sort of
popularity would their propaganda
have? Ilhere’s a reason.
One almost loses faith in all poli
ticians when one discovers a man
like Senator Cummins, who ought
to know better, questioning the abil
ities of the Federal Judges aud
wanting the qualifleatlons of some
of them probed. That is a move
in the wrqng direction wholly. YVhai'
is wanted is that all judges should
' be declared infailib’.o. What every
one shoqld be taught is that any
declaration of law made by the
Courts should be considered by the
Faithful as unquestionable, unau
>nw$rably settled beyond yea or nay,
and that anyone who did question it
should be considered as an infidel,
beyond hope of redemption in this
world or the next.
Cummins is not a republican
though he thinks he is; he is an
anarchist! He strikes at the foun
dation of all stability of society.
Cummins should know that there la
no moro possibility of questioning the
ability of the judges than there 1b
the possibility of questioning their
rectitude, their integrity, their free
dom from bias. Cummins should*
Know that when he does intimate
that the Courts are not pure ar.d
] tmdeflled fountains of justice and
| wisdom, he is injecting the poison of
j doubt in the entire system, and is
I sowing the wind that grows to a
whirlwind.
Has Cummins never thought ot
: the immortal words of an immortal
man called William Howard Taft at
Pocatello, Idaho which he graced
with his glorious presence, a light
and guide and lantern to the feet of
the Pocatellans on a notable day:
October 6, 1911: “I love judges ana
I love courts. They are my ideals
on earth of what wo shall meet
afterward in Heaven under a just
Cod”. In the language of the vul
gar there are no flies on Ta't. Ho
is working along right lines. He
is not going to impeach in any way
the perfection of the judges or the
courts. To him they are divine. This
question of the ability of the judges
would be to him rank blashpemy—
utterly and outrageously blasphem
ous. They are his first love and his
last, and when his eyes close in the
last long sleep ‘'the sleep eternal in
the eternal night” ho will dream
dreams of men in ermine, puissant
men, adjudicating upon tho higher
state of celestial society despite tho
Satanic objections of intruders,
which will be declared incompetent:,
irrelevant and immaterial and over
ruled accordingly.
But. on the other hand, if we
fairly consider the results of estab
lishing the infallibility of the courts
as an accepted doctrint, we perceive
immediately that the courts
can do no wrong. They demand
reverence, respect and worship.
They are quasi-divine. And the
1 people will accept thoir adjudicatons
as infallible and as therefore always
right. It is impossible when one
considers it to over-rate the im
portance of this condition. The
Judge would the incarnation of jus
tice. As such he would be reveren
ced by a nation. The Courts would
be the temples of infallible right.
And even the lawyers themselves
would glow in the reflected halo of
the justices! Then would all ad
verse criticism be stilled and every
one—litigants, lawyers and judgeo,
represent a syfetom of jurisprudence
which would realize the ideal which
the Honorable William Howard
Taft foresaw only “in Heaven under
a just God”. It is deplorable that
such a resolution as that of Cum
mins brings into the Paradise, the
tempting!? of a Lucifer.
Tho socialists of Schenectady elect
ed one Steinmetz as president of the
Common Council at the last elec
tion. How this was done, it Is im
possible to say, but it wr.s done,
and Steinmetz said that as r. social
ist of 38 years standing he wculd
endeavor to give the city the best
government in the United States.
Who is this man Steinmetz? He is
the chief electrical engineer of the
General Electric Co.. Ho has prob
ably dene more for the electrical
pro£ Vts of the country th'.n any
one man, hardly even excluding
Thomas A. Edi#n. Steinmetz was
born in Germany which country he
had to leave many years ago on ac
count of his socialist beliefs. But in
them he has not wavered. It is an
extraordinary thing that a man like
Steinmetz should have dared to
hold on to an economic belief whicn
we have it upon the undeflled word
of Samuel Gompers, is morally im
possible, and economically unsound.
And everyone knows what a great
man is Gompers.
Raiding the Rainer club is the
limit. Sheriff Hodge ought to get
his. And no doubt in the fullness
of time he will. Thojdea! It makeA
the blood boll to think that Seattle’s
best citizens should be subjected to
a raid Just as it were they carried
on a gambling den, or a booze par
lor or a dive of* some sort. Imagine
any one daring in Nome to raid the
Log Cabin. It would be awful, fel
lows—-that’s Just what it would be:
The lamentably small road appro
priation asked for by Garrison of
one hundred and fift; ihonsatj-d dol
lars for Alaska "will not dS v^rv
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much good. But why indeed clidald
the government build any roads at
all? Isn't it interfering with indi
vidual enterprise to a great extent.
At least it is that sort of argument
that we have to hear everytime that
the government does anything for
any one except Big Business. Why
should the government build rail
roads? Are they not preventing the
capitalists from exploiting the trans
pci tation industry in the country?
It is held that the reason wnv
nothing is done in the matter of
road i ppropriation is because of the
tact that Delegate Wickersham and
Colonel Richardson of the Roan
! Commission are at cross purposes
and that between the-troubles of
| the two, Alaska is ill served.
That may be expected. But there
is no apparent reason why the colo
nel and the delegate should not
have personal differences of a more
or less, acute nature. What is the
use of being, a colonel or a deie
I gate if you cannot give vent to
I your feelings, even if the people do
go to hell in the meanwhile.
Moreover his fenemies assert that
anything that Wickersham does not
originate, he does not work t() se
cure, no matter how beneficial. Well,
he ought to know. He is elected by
Alaskahs and if they do not know
l what is good for them it Is consol
ing to think that lie does.
The other evening at one of the
local movies was shown a picture,
“Sheriff's party firing upon the
strikers”. The incident is said to
have occurred at Roosevelt, N. J.
The picture was passed by the
Board of Censors. As a matter ot
ract what did occur was nothing ot
the kind. A number of hi.cd gun-:
men with “rocords” brought from j
New York shot and killed a numbor j
of strikers. The strikers committed
no violence. The constable refused
point blank to intorfore with them. ]
The violence was wholly on the part :
of the gunmen. They were con- j
demned at the coroner’s inquest;
they were indicted by the Grand
Jury. They were tried in court
and found guilty and sentenced. But
there’s none of them serving their
time. Not on your tintype! They
are at largo, some soldiers of for
tune somewhere r.n this turbulent
earth and as free as air. How was
it done? How is it%done at any
time that tho laborites got theirs
good and plenty, and the other fel
lowk never are disturbed? Only the
other day the New Haven cases
were disposed of. Guilty? Certainly
not. Imagine finding a Rockefeller
guilty or even a lesser light in the
industrial and financial world than
he? The reports stated that they
regarded their Indictments as a joke
and their trial as a farce. You
couldn't fool them a hit. Imagine
finding a Rockefeller or even a
lesser financial or industrial light
than he guilty by a jury which di
rectly or indirectly h»d their posi
tions in society controlled by the
men they were trying. (Jet off your
foot, please.
.NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE.
Public notice is horeby given,
that under and by virtue of a Writ
of Execution issued out of the Dis
trict Court for the District
of Alaska, Second Division,
upon a certain Judgment therein
rendered on the 13th day of Decem
ber, 1915, and entered in favor of
John Oslund, Alfred Fryxcll, L.
Stenmark and Peter O. Larson,
plaintiffs, and against the Nome
Montana-New Mexico Mining Com
pany, Con., a corporation, defend
ants, for the sum of Three Thou
sand two hundred ninety and 97j 100
($3,290.97) dollars, together with
costs taxed at Twenty-three and
75| 100 ($23.75) dollars. I will on
the 21st day of January, 1916, at
12 o’clock noon of said day at the
front door of the United States
Court House at Nome, Alaska, as
commanded in said Writ of Execu
tion, offer for sale and aell to the
highest and best bidder for ca3h all
of the right, title, and interest
which the defendants had on the
13th day of December, 1915, or at
any time since, in and to certain
placer mining claims known as.
Discovery Claim, No. 1 Above
Discovery, No. A-l Fraction, No. 2
Above Discovery, Mining Claim ad
joining No. 2 Above Discovery,
Fraction Mining Claim between
Nos. 2 and 3 Above Discovery; all
of the above situate on Goose
Creek, and Discovery or Mouth
Claim on Quartz Creek, all in the
Council City Recording Precinct,
District of Alaska, Second Division.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 2 2nd
day of December, 1915.
E. R. JORDAN,
United States Marshal, Second Divi
sion, District of Alaska.
Dec. 22, 29, Jan. 5, 12, 19.
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