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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
eearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial ork*»r,
Bo.t S10 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 124.
Koine, Alaska, .Inly
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There arc three hundred and fifty |
millic -i acrr> of idle, uih ultivuted
land in flit United States at the,
present time. Of that almost two.
hundred and fifty million are capable
of c ultivation with government as-1
sistanre. Increased food production j
rallter than enforced food control
would ai>pear to lie the nearer solu
tion of tlie problem. But there are
objections. The surplus labor of
the nation, that is the standing un
employed figures which before the
war were somewhere in the
neighborhood of from five to
sevn milions according to
the season, is showing a
rapidly decreasing rate and to turn
this surplus labor into agricultural
channels would play havoc with the
profit making for the vi'i’e of the
commodity labor would rise
in proportion to its scarcity and
while food shortage might be con
sider d unpleasant a labor shortage
inlerf -rii g with profits is an abso
lute im-iir.a to the “national wel
fare".
i: i i. \,i::: chakp.
Ann.i ;.M Newspaper men, never a
v*:iy lcarm-d or broad luiluied bunch
at host, arc just beginning to ob
serve the fact that the "ignorant
Russian revolutionists" are men
who take a view of tilings makes
tlie average American merely a pro
vincial.
When the American commission
reached Petrograd, they were intro
duced before the Council of Mi
nisters by Mr. Francis the American
Ambassador. Ar.d they were re
plied to not in Russian nor in
French, but in perfect English by
the Russian official who was dele
gated to reply. Interpreters were
ready hut there was need of none.
Moreover, the whole situation was
gone over in that reply revealing
a depth of vision, and a clearness of
insight which was in marked con
trast with the “diplomatic obscur
ity" of Elihn Root.
In conclusion the Russian said:
“The Russian poop lav no wish
for conquest or d i 'cion and are
opposed to those ideas in others, and
first of all they will not allow any
ol' those imperialistic desires which
our enemy has formed, manifest or
hidden tc come to good in whatever
sphere he may have planned them:
political, financial or economic.”
it must have been somewhat
sensational to some of the members
of the Commission to be told of im
perialistic designs which were
financial or economic as well as po
litical.
And here have the Wall street
gentlemen been making the road
clear for economic and financial
conquests of dimenisons and mak
ing the road (dear too with legisla
tion of such a positive type as hills
allowing trusts for the up-building
of the export trade.
I'llK LATEST CENSORSHIP.
It looks as though the cry ot
"sedition” is to lie made a pretext
to hamper any movement causing i
discomfort to plutocracy. There is
no other way to explain the efforts
in North Dakota to construe as se
ditious the campaign carried on by
the Nonpartisan Farmers’ league to
meet war expenses through con
scription of wealth So far no offi
cial has taken it upon himself to
make this charge a pretext for ar
rest of any speaker, but reactionary
papers are urging that course, and
it need occasion no surprise should
it be done.
In Texas, where the Farmers and
■Laborers’ Protective association
has become formidable, an effort
has been made to invoke a federal
act in its forcible suppression by
bringing the false charge that it is
an erg; ; ..tiui’ fort! ed to oppos
the drat':. And, what is worse, tin
postotih ’opart -.nent has assunv i j
the fa; an of passing upon each ,
edition ol its organ, the Halletis
ville Hi•> i-l, before admitting it to
the mail. I’his is made evident in
the following order published in tin
Halletsville New Era of June 12' -
“Washington, D. (’., June 7, 3*:;<•
p. m.
"Postmaster.
“Hallettsville, Tex.
“Submit to this office future co
pies of the Rebel, published at your !
place, for instructions, before ac
cepting for mailing
LAMAR, Solicitor."
This is even worse than the late!
Russian censorship. The Russian
censor would hut black out the
passage in the paper to which lie
took exception and let the rest go.
But the postal censorship would
hold up a whole issue. The pub
lishers ol the Rebel truly comment
on the department’s action:
“This is the most remarkable form
of censorship the world knows,
where the postmaster general be
come tmanaging editor of the
Rebel with authority to waste
basket an entire edition of 25,000
copi< s each time any large or small
article therein does not conform to
bis idea as to how a Socialist news
paper should lie conducted, involv
ing a delay lor each issue of from
two or three weeks, even if it is ap
proved.”
The Rebel and the organization
it represents have been fighting
landlordism in the state, especially
in the rural districts. That the land
ed interests wish to suppress the agi
tation is natural. But can the post
office department afford to let itself
be used as their instrument?—The
Public.
WHOSE VICTORY IS IT?
Nothing that we have read in a
long time gives us such a com
plncint feeling of unalloyed satis
1 faction as the editorial eulogies in
our capitalist press on the great
; Russian offensive now developing
on the eastern front. We read with
thc> most, serene composure the com
parisons therein with the wonderful
\ French revolutionary armies of
1793, those iron limbed, iron-souled
j men who scattered before them the
reactionary legions of old Europe;
the men who, undrilled, poverty
stricken, suffering for lack of all
things an arm\ should have, still be
lieved that “with bread and iron we
can get to China,” and who saved
France and preserved the revolu
tion in the teeth of the overwhelm
ingly superior militarism of old
Europe. Russia is now enacting a
somewhat similar role, or, as our
journalistic contemporaries are fond
of saying, "history is repeating it
self.” It, fills us with a quiet joy to
hear these fellow; borrowing the
tremendous apostrophes Trom Car
lyle's wonderful flame pictures of
the greatest event, until now. that
the world had ever seen, and using
them to ilustrate what they think
is now taking place.
And our joy is not a particle less
ened hv the ironical contemplation
of the fact that these singers a •:
chanting their own funeral song
when the eulogize Russian victory
that every victory for Russia is a
victory for world Socialism, and
that the victory for Socialism spells
the doom of the capitalist system
of which they are the supporters.
Nor does it disturb our serene com
placency in the least to note their
Insistence on th<» "high moral prin
ciple” that animates the Russian
soldiery and their confident predic
tions that it will he triumphant We
lie hack and enjoy it all. and rerall
what they said of the Com milliard.;
of 1871, of the Russion revolution
of 1905, and the “anarchists” of
Petrograd in April and May of 1917 1
before it was sure that revolution
ary Russia would come back in &
whirlwind of steel and flame on her
reactionary foes, haring finally de
cided that the war was of necessity
' to be continued-,. if the revolution
was to be preserved.
We Socialists knew that a separate
peace was impossible; we thought it
might be possible that a general
peace would be arranged while Rus
sia, having overturned the old
order, was temporarily out of the
struggle. But the Russian people
decided otherwise, and we, perforce,
have to agree with the decision. It
is a pity that the slaughter must
go on, but if it is unavoidable—
if a revolutionary people have so
decided—then be it so. Then every
Russian victory is a Socialist vic
tory—is, in fact, our victory; ever
bringing social revolution nearer
lor the entire world.
L,et those who imagine that this
revival of revolutionary force and
power aids the ruling classes of
Britain, France, Italy and the
l.'tmecl States to ride more firmh
fixed on the hades of mankind hug
the sweet delusion as long as the;
in. II pleases them for the mo
ment, and does us no harm. They
vil1 have their awakening in time
and not a very long time, at that.
Some time in the- not distant future
they will learn that Russia was fori
ing social revolution on them as cer
tainly as she was upon Germany,
and then the blessings will turn to
curses—impotent curses. For it
then will be too late.
We Socialists have during all
these three fearful years neither al
lowed ourselves to sink Into gloomy
hells of depression, or bo carried
upward to ecstatic heavens of ex
altation. We have watched, and stu
died, and tried to understand the
trend, and what the universal con
vulsion meant, and we have no rea
son to remain unsatisfied wi(\t the
progress and the prospective result
that becomes more plain every day.
Never since the Masters of Society
let loose these uncontrollable forces
of destruction have they proceeded
for a single moment in any but one
direction—the direction of social re
volution. And now mighty Russia
comes in to force all the contestants
to their utmost speed in what is ,
probably the last lap of the race to
the unavoidable goal.
And when we hear the capitalist I
journalistic barkers urging the i
race onward, and thinking—or pro- j
tending to think—that the end lies
elsewhere, it is rot at ail annoying; I
in fart, it is rather pleasant sound, j
for the great social revolution goes|j
on its way regardless either of tln irjj
plaudits or their curses. If they I j
think it is ThEIR victory, well and j ]
good. We Socialists KNOW it is I j
OI RS.— New York Call.
ARGENTINES THINK
AMERICA WANTED WAR
BUENOS AIRES, July 19.—The
Argentine view is that the United
States is going to war rather be
cause she has a good excuse than be
cause she lias a good reason. The
Argentines who do think the United
States had an adequate reason are
also of the opinion that this reason
was not the consideration which led
her into war.
It is generally their judgment
j that the United States wanted to
light. They believe tlie United States
| 10 be a victim ot the same sort or
j psychological influence which, after
i the commission of a sensational
crime or a suicide, often causes the
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