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Borne, Alaska, under the Act of March I, 1873.
Nome, Alaska, March 28, 1016.
The power of the newspaper is
not in itself nor in its editorial
columns, but in its news. This fact
is being gcntrally noted by the peo
ple, although it was long ago ob
served by those who controlled the
great papers in the United States.
Readers form their opinion on cur
rent events as they absorb the news
published concerning them, and in
tho light of their Knowledge or
othrwise of those events, they criti
cize policies and acts relating to
them. It is not possible for a purely
propaganda paper to effect such a
control of tho minds of the people,
as the average nowspapor, for the
very simple reason that iho news
paper directs its educational force
through its news columns, almost
without observation, while tho pro
paganda paper arouses criticism as
if by intention.
Almost in the name way. one re
gards the editor.al policy of any
paper; sometimes with approval and
sometimes with considerable and ar
gumentative opposition on t'ae mat
ter discussed therein.
About President Wilson’s Mexican
policy those who have powerful pro
perty interests in Mexico while they
control the papers do not move to
effect their ends through editorials
condemning Wilson. They may do
that; but they find that it only acts
slowly and not with very certaie re
sults in any event.
But when they publish news af
fecting to be correct, and in line
with their arguments they are much
more powerfully and much more
quickly as well as much more subt
ly, effecting their ends.
There is no doubt for example
that many influential properuea in
terests in Mexico long tor interven
tion. They feel that by taking away
tho government from Mexico they
would be safer in their mines and
haciendas than under the uncertain
regime of a Mexicr.n president, it is
immaterial how they acquired these
properties; now that they have them
they want to exploit them and for
this purpose above all things a
stable government, following an
American conquest of Mexico, is the
ideal they have set themselves to
achieve.
They have without n do ibt aided
in promoting the disorders in Mer
ino and they supplied this leader and
that with support for that purpose.
But they have done more than this. [
they have actually so effectively per-1
verted all Mexican news that nowa
days the people have been led ' >
believe that the wrongs which have ■
occurred are solely wrongs perpe- j
trated upon the American interests
and not upon the Mexicans. And
since Wilson has taken a hand in
chasing down Villa, they have
struggled through moans of the
news service to develop a demand
for a Mexican war which would
drive the United States into a war
of conquest and then the pacifica
tion of Mexico. All this shows that
Ihe real medium of a newspaper’s
power Is through the nows columns
and not through the editorial
columns.
Bearing this fact in mind,' wa
discover what odds the labor press
is up against in endeavoring to do
,iuslice to labor. Capitalists control
practically every avenue of tho cir
culation as well as the collection of
news. We seldom or never hoar the
wonkera’ side of tho question be
cause the great news gathering agen
cies take care that the people shall
do no such thing. When the hear
ings of the Industrial Relations Com
mission were on, the great papers
ignored any of the vital facts of the
case that were uncovered. But when.
Jobu D. Rockefeller or any his
heachmen made what was consider
ed a point before Chairman Walsh
and his commission, every paper
made that a front page story.
When Rockefcllor wont on his
now famous trip through the coal
fields of southern Colorado, the.
smallest detail which might magnify
the generosity and insist upon the
good intentions of the monied man,
found easy space in all the papers
and news agencies tumnicd over
one another in sending careful re
porters who would dramatize and
falsify safely for the news columns
of the country’s press every little
incident connected with the trip
Practically every evil feature of
working class conditions are hidden
and kept secret, and when strikes
occur and violence follows that 13
chronicled, but the dastardly labor
conditions that drove to violence
are ignored.
This shows the vital necessity of
the labor press, and the fact of the
matter is that the workers could
well dispense with their editorial
pages altogether and devote that
space to the disseminaton of cor
recter news thrdughout the land.
In this country there are hund
reds of socialist and labor week
les devoted for the most part to pro
paganda. Some of them are exceed
ingly able, but it would redound to
labor’s cause immensely if that abil
ity was gathered under one head
and in the form of several dailies
throughout the great populous cen
ters devoted to the dissemination of
news as it actually happened and
from labor's standpoint where
hitherto only the capitalist side has
been heard.
What the labor movement is
chiefly up against is the fact that
the most ordinary news Is published
from the capitalist standpoint, oi
where the news favors labor so com
pletely as to be impossible to shade
it to suit the wishes of employers,
it is wholly suppressed.
j lie om metapnysicians Knew
very well that the suppression of
the truth was the suggestion of
falsehood, and it with this phase ot
suggested lying that the workers
have had most difficulty in contend
ing. Just so long as the daily news
is controlled by great capitalist agen
cies, just so long will they be able
to pcrvcnt the people's minds to
their way of thinking and thinking
as they want them to think, have
them act as they would have them
act.
Shackletou's return from the Ant
arctic finds the world little dis
posed to pay any heed to the scien
tific results of his expedition. Its
value will be practicaly nil outside
some few scientific circles, for out
side those circles relatively few have
had time for anything else but the
war and the possibilities of war.
Many popular scientific journals,
papers, magazines and reviews are
published in the United States. If
any one wants to realize how deeply
the war has affected even tho roalins
of scientific research, he can easily
obtain a very good idea of it from
glancing over the articles and illus
trations therein.
Thus one will have the full page
story of the latest gun, the plans of
a novel military airplane, the chemi
cal method of substituting wood
fibre for cotton in the manufacture
of cellulose high explosives; the
various asphyxiating forms of gases
from bromide, and chloride salt3
and their method of general produc
tion.
It is true that always science has
been made use of in military war
fare, and the leaders of the military
profession were always the quickest
to take advantage of new discoveries
to advance their art’s efficiency. But
these are purely lay papers and ma
gazines whose circulation in mili
tary and naval circle* is very li
mited.
Now what is happening in even
"purely scentiflc circles is to be noted
in almost every other phase of hu
man activity.. Even the churches,
the press and the politicians are as
well as the people talking, discuss
ing and considering the war in all
its phases.
A. pictorial news devoted to the
progress of the movies has can
vassed the business pretty thorough
ly, and states that war pictures arc
always these days attractive. They
say that military stories have been
able to draw bigger crowds since the
war started than ever before,
Labor organizations are discuss
ing the relation of preparation^:
doctrines to the workers and there
Is not a single' feature of human
existence which the war has not
penetrated and left a marked effect.
The question of very great im
portance Is will that effect be last
ing and will it in any way result in
human nature being bettered or ad
vanced. Both yes and no have been
answered by pretty competent au
thorities and for pretty competent
reasons, but it is almost self evident i
that no such gigantic force as this;
war is, can occur without leaving j
some definite and very lasting re
suits upon human society.
That it will be for the better it
may as well be doubted as accepts,
and is a matter of conjecture merely.
Time will tell.
Two prominent men in the social
ist party, Charles Edward Russell
and Mayor Lunn of Schenectady
have gone on record as favoring pre
paredness and what is more they
have come out with arguments to
sustain their stand. Russell spoke
in the face of a very hostile crowd
in New York, and stated why he be
lieved in preparedness and was un
dismayed by the attitude which the
crowd took up against him.
Now some socialist party locals
are denouncing him by resolution
and some demand hts expulsion from
the party.
There's an undeniable tendency in
the ranks of socialists to have a cut
and dried policy which the com
rades must live up to at rll costs
and instead of ondcavoring to meet
the arguments of some with other
and better and more cogent argu
mentative material, to expel them
from the ranks as no longer loyal
members.
Whether we agree with Russell or
Lunn on his preparedness question,
at any rate it is obvious they are en
titled to their opinions however he
terodox, until we can bring better
argumnts to bear upon them ana
persuade them different.
Socialists have always protesteo
against the attitude of soms
opponents to who sought to shut
them up and to suppress their opi
nions because they were unpleasant.
Any time a man possesses ideas that
fear to hear contrary ones we can
be quite certain that he has a very
insecure grip upon them, and has
no argument to sustain his position
that will not fear all comers.
it might be well if socialists who
would have every man follow a j
cut and dried path and think the
same as they do at the risk of being
declared unfit to associate with
them, to recollect that Liebknecht
and others have been expelled by
socialists in Germany because ol
their anti-militarism while the soc
ialists here would expel others whc
support militarism.
The one merits condemnation su
much as the other. Men must ad
vance their cause by intelligent ac
tion and it's not intelligent to in
sist that one is right and refuse ic
permit any man to hold opinions
other than those of ourselves and
above all to deny those contrary
opinions expression.
It may all be that Russell is still
bourgeois-minded. That would bs
certainly nothing unusual in a party
of many bourgeois minds such as
the socialist party. But it would
be hard to consider any act more
unproletarian than this act of ex
pelling and silencing men because
they differ with one in opinions
That has been the attitude of the
ruling class In all ages and all timer,
and never did make for democracy
and for freedom. On the contrary
it has been at the back of all perse
cution, penal codes and inquisitions.
That the socialists should now adopt
it is very suggestive.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To Otto Halla, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned has caused to be ex
pended in labor and improvement!
the sum of one hundred dollar!
each year for the years 1912, 1913
1914 and 1915 on the Constance
Bench, a placer mining claim situ
ated on the 2nd tier opposite Dis
covery and No 1 above on Mystery
creek and recorded and mor<
fully described at page 464 in Voi
144 of the records of the Cap*
Nome Mining and Recording Dis
trict, in the Second Division of thi
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of th<
law concerning Annual Labor upor
Mining Claims, being the amoun
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notiflec
that if within ninety days after th(
last publication of this notice yot
fail to contribute your proportior
of said expenditure, your interest ir
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-ownei
under section 2324 Revised Statute*
of the United States.
VT. L. BETTELEY.
w Co-Owner.
By Chas. D. Jones
Attorney m fact,
late of first publ., Feb. 15, 1916.
Date of last publ., May 16. 1916.
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