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Mr Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. *40. Western Federation of Miners.
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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good government."—
tbraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
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Entered as second class matter March X, 1811, at the post office at
Home, - Alaska, under the Act of March 8, 1878.
Nome, Alaska, September 4, 1010.
PKKSONA!. KUKKDOM.
We always knew that the liquor
men were the most patriotic in the
country. On Independence Day they
will go to more trouble to decorate
their saloons than any other busi
ness men. Inside and outside they
will have an array of hunting that
is a joy to the eye. And for that
reason, it is only what might be ex
pected when we find them appealing
to patriotism to uphold their traffic.
Accordingly, the liquor dealers are
filling the papers with paiil adverti
sements which are intended to re
call the great struggle of seventy
six, when the revolutionary Fathers
fought the tyranny of King George,
so that their successors might enjoy
unalloyed the delights of personal
freedom.
It is a noble view point. Highly
patriotic in its legend, we can appre
ciate what a fine lot of people they
are who are engaged in the booze
business. Liberty or death is their
high sounding motto: just as it was
the slogan of Patric Henry.
We dotu know how it is that
these honest people have been so
misunderstood all these years. They,
who provide the money for sehools
anil tor every governmental aunn..,
have bei ii de< rieil by frivolous per- ,
sons as the incarnation of every- |
tiling immoral. It is a sin anil a j
shame that men coulil be so misun
derstood, and that their actions'
should be so misinterpreted.
Personal freedom is a noble idea, j
Hut in the nature of things, unless- j
we liave to revert to absolute
anarchism, is must be accepted, as
well as enjoyed, in a purely relative
sense..
Unfortunately, the burglar, tue
pick pocket, the homicide, the crimi
nal of any kind, finds himself mak
ing use of the very same complaint
that is now made use of by the
liquar dealers in their paid adver
tisements. The pick pocket, the
hurglar, the homicide all can say
that the laws which are passed and
on the statute books against them
are a gross interference with their
personal freedom. Under an ideal
condition of society a person should
be free to pursue any occupation
whatever, whether pur .''-snatching
or house-breaking. This would re
sult in personal freedom of the
highest type, and one no doubt
which, if the liquor dealers are to
be believed, was the ideal which was
fought for in ’76.
It is to be hoped, to be more
serious, that no person will be mis
led by these shallow arguments.
Society is an organization which
for its own protection must make
certain regulations. And every per
son's freedom therein must be con
ditioned upon the freedom of every
one else. Where the freedom of a
person or set of persons interferes
with the social well being, society
has the right to curtail or limit that
freedom. Only in this way can such
a social organization continue. And
the evolution of society has been
and still is towards the elimination
of anti-social conditions which pre
vail.
Anti social conditions are those
which react upon the welfare of the
society, and whether the personal
freedom involved appears desirable
or not to the individuals, guilty ol
anti-social acts, they will in the end
have to agree to its curtailment.
There are two schools of thought
each with powerful advocates. One
is the collectivist school and the
other the individualist or anarchist
school. Today for the most part in
America and in Great Britain the
latter prevails. The idea has been
to allow the individual capitalist to
run riot and to allow exploitation
to be unrestricted in any field. The
right to interfere with that exploita
tion is challenged as an infringe
ment of the constitutional ideas as
to personal freedom. Hence at
tempts to limit the hours of labor,
the concentration of wealth, child
labor, hours for women workers,
employees' compensation and a
number of other retorms have been
bitterly resisted in legislatures and
in courts as unrighteous efforts to
interfere with the freedom of the
individual. Indeed, it is a some
what suspicious sign that both the
saloonists and the exploiters make
use of identical arguments.
But the fact is that when we get
down to brass tacks, the real ques
tion at issue is whether or not the
liquor traffic is or is not an anti
social traffic; whether its re
sults in society are beneficial on the
whole or not; whether or not it
fine, it is not sj over bnrdenc 1 will
dangerous results and disastrous
I consequences, the p;;r->onal V. < rt;
involved has to be sacrificed to the
I general welfare.
i Without intemperately assert'd,,,
j that all liquor is baneful, we do no
' have to travel very far to discovei
that it has .as a whole baneful ef
j feets. There are temperate users
but tlier 1 are so many intemperatt
abusers of intoxicating liquor, tha
i society's right to control, abolisl
; or otherwise interfere in the trafib
is unquestioned.
j No reliable physician will dar
, uphold alcohol as anything else but
a poison. And why it should not j
| have its traffic subjected to the
j same degree of inhibition as any
habit forming drug is not very ex
plainable.
i It is a question whether the liquor
j man in justified in scattering his
; poison throughout a community, de
stroying and ruining many lives, de
moralizing and degrading so many
. things that come in contact directly
j with it.
Now we would like to see as a re
lief from these arguments in favor
of personal liberty some of those
writers uphold the saloon as a so
cial institution.
We have read dozens of these
paid articles in the papers of Al-'
aska, north, south, east and w’cst,
and not a single one of them up
holds the saloon. Not one of thenT1
tell you that if you vote down the
saloon you are abolishing the best
friend you have got; that you are
destroying a place where your wife
and your mother can feel right at
home; that you are abolishing
something that cannot be replaced;
that you are destroying what even
person knows and feels is a benefit
to and an improvement in any com
munity. No Sir. They are not maWng
arguments of that kind. They
dont tell you that the saloon is the
friend of the labor movement with
its absolutely scab made whiskey.
They dont tell you that the union j
man that blows his money in will
1 a ti rr/it? t •
that the man with his brains fuddled
and muddled with the poison of al
cohol is the man that will aid best
in the emancipation of his fellows;
that the man who has spent the
last cent in some booze dump will
be the guy that will hold out long- 1
est when the scab herder gives him
a pint of rot-gut.
And why not? If there were pro
posed laws against labor organiza
tion and against labor unions do
you imagine that the unionists would
confine their arguments to theoreti
cal talks upon patriotism and
George Washington and Patrick.
Henry and personal liberty? Do > >u
think that the unionists would not
be there with bells to show you that
labor unions were a necessity, that
because they were, they were going
to remain in spite of laws or any
thing else; that the real reason they
: were being destroyed was because
they fought special interests and in
1 tended to keep on fighting them?
But because the saloon has no ar
gument, because it ruins the houe,
destroys labor’s effort to better its
condition, spills its filth aP over
i the surface of society, It knows bet
ter than to come out deflantiy In
the open and defend Itself as an In
'stitution. It defends Itself by sjulrt
ing a lot of “mephitic mendacity” |
through the hired pager, of the
press, and revels in its obscene per
version of the facts of hisrory ana
the truth of freedom.
But despite all this, we ha>'e to
carefully emphasize the fact that
j the liquor business itself is merely
a form of the profit evil. Four
fifths of the saloon evil lies in its
effort to make profits.
It is. as much as anything else,
an effect of capitalism. We believe
that the broader and better way
would be to abolish capitalism. But
we have no hesitation in saying that
drink, muddling the minds of so
many men, helping to soothe discon
tent, has been, is and will continue
to be one of the pillars of capital
ism.
We say that the worker who is
not a drunk will be the man more
likely to work out the economic
problems that confront him; that
without the saloon to distract him,
to decoy him, to degrade him, the
union man will be a firmer and
more determined unionist on that
account. The capitalist is opposed
to the saloon because it makes the
! worker an inefficient producer ot
; profits. The workers must oppose
j the saloon because it makes the la
j borer a man careless of the work
j of unionism, forgetful of the ends
i of agitation, anxious to get the first
I job he comes across, compelled to
! act as a strike breaker, and alto
gether an inefficient worker in
boosting along the ends of the labor
movement.
No soak ever got anything for any
one. No person sodden with booze
ever was a good worker in the class
struggle and never will be. The
booze fighter is always defeated, in
the saloon, the union, on the job,
everywhere. He simply courts de
struction and he unfortunately com
! mits economic as well as social
j suicide.
| Hut reverting to this personal
freedom gag which the li(|uor deal
ers association are trotting out for
our benefit, it is in order to ask
what amount of personal freedom
| is the victim of a habit-forming
■ 1 drug like intoxicating liquor likely
; to enjoy. And that is a feature that
: i is never mentioned. Liquor is as
i everyone knows a drug that estab
| lishes a craving for itself, that
. , . .—
breaks clown the will power of the
individual and leaves him the slave
of habit. It removes the last
vestige of personal freedom from
him, and drives him sooner or later
to the grave or the fearful experi
ence of a living death.
Why should the freedom to sell
intoxicating liquor be allowed to
establish thereby its right to victim
ize and enslave so many, to inter
fere with the social comfort, the
social well being and the social hap
piness of all so many?
And that is the milk in the, cocoa
nut. The people, liberty-loving
people at that, seek to destroy the
personal right of running amok
through society, and to restrain the
social madness of the liquor trade.
Society's right to do so is unques
tion, just as much as the individu
al’s right to do so is unquestioned.
The greatest good of the greatest
number must be the limit within
which personal freedom in any
shape or form is to be exercised.
OVERSTOCK tfif#
r _
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
1 ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially In Hardware and
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved it oo
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
For Correctly
Fitting
EYE
GLASSES
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Milo's
Cafe
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Next dour to Pacific Cold
Storage.
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Prescription Drugists
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and
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Occident Flour
Buy a Sark of Occident Flour and make as many bakings
as you wish. If you are not satisfied that it is better than any
other Flour you ever used return the unused Flour and get
Your Money Back
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