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Nome, Alaska, \iiKU.-t III, 1917.
INDIVIIH'AI.ISM.
At a meeting of the National
teduoation Association I)r. William
T. Foster of Reed College drew at
tention to the manner in which the
colleges had failed to meet the
needs of the government for trained
athletes and minds and bodies dis
ciplined by experienced trainers
when they weie needed for officers,
ami thousands were unable to pass
the examination.
He went on to say “A majority ot
these men had been without incen
tives and equipment for athletic
training. Statistics furnished the
National Collegiate Association b>
134 universities and colleges en
gaged in intercollegiate athletics,
show that only 17 per cent of the
total male students participated in
the games, and not half the students
in these institutions engage in any
lor n of systematic or organized ex
cruise. Of these institutions all ot
which promote intercollegiate ath
letics, .17 per cent are reported as
doing nothing to fostet and en
courage the types of physical exer
cise and healthful recreation that a
student is likely to use in after col
lege life. Duse colleges spend
about sixty times as much money
Sor each member of an intercollegi
ute team as they spend for the
c,j.\nes of each of the other stud
e 's'V
It js not to discourse upon college
athletics that tlie matter is here te
ferred to. With that really we have
nothing whatever to do. but for the
sake of pointing out that what takes
■plate in the universities, in the mat
ter of athletics is pracitcally identi
cal to what occurs in every other
sphere in America.
In other words in America where
individualism has reached the very
highest point of its development, it
means merely that the many are
sacrificed to the few.
A young man entering college dis
plays a proficiency in a certain line
of athletic activity. That is carefully
and at considerable expense culti
vated for the further reputation of
Ute college, and in consequence
mose wno Know . •«
tt> ItiTome adepts in any form ot
.lUiWetics, are allowed to go without
ilh.letir training altogether.
Similarly in the economic world,
l'lu- many are ruthlessly sacrificed
to the privileged few. The man
with money is given wonderful op
portunities which are denied those
who have none of it, and notwith
standing the carefully cultivated
poppy cock that every man has as
good a chance as another, we all
know that he has no such thing.
Jaiws as passed by Congress and
l/« state legislatures have been di
ve -i, towards the maintenance of
ff.is favoritism which lias been cal
led special privileges, and under a
various system of franchises or
leases of concessions the public re
sources have been allowed to lapse
into tlie hands of these favored few,
whose enormous possessions have al
ready “staggered the imagination".
Practically everything is done,
through press and through system
atically organized publicity, to bring
th * public to approve this condition,
so that a majority may believe that
hu' h system is ideal.
\ud just as we have in the day of
ne<'d the discovery made that a ver>
small percentage are athletically
trained in the colleges, so through
out the nation we can easily see
tii-at a very slender proportion in
rtv-.'d are enormously wealthy while
the rest are utterly without a com
THtfence, depending for their daily
iiread upon their daily labor and
■allowed to take no thought of the
atorrow for they have no security
against unemployment, as over their
employment which provides them
with the daily bread, they have no
control.
i'liis is individualism run riot.
This is complete, exhaustive ami
thorough application of the prin
ciple of individualism which is anar
chism, everyman for himself and
the devil take the hindmost.
Practically speaking the good
things that are produced in coun
tries where such a system prevails
1 are produced exclusively for the
few who possess. The pleasures in
cidental to ablity to spend monej
are confined to a narrow class In
deed. and this condition is observed
without apparent disapproval even
by a good many who are rightly
termed the disinherited.
Few people considering the situa
tion fairly seem to think of the
enormous waste of mental ability
that year after year is permitted
under our ..stem. Not ten per cent
of the children who attend school
pass through so moderate a course
of mental training as the high
school, and these are turned out
to shift for themselves and are ex
pected to make good against highly
trained competitors
The cards are stacked against
such from the very start. They
never had a chance, and it is to the
values ot the original stock in here
dity that so many do manage to eke
out an existence at all and keep
clear of the handiest ways to wealth
| that usually terminate in tlie
| courts.
I What is most astonishing to tlie
average careful observer is that
while American public men, public
writers and lecturers have no diffi
culty at ail in perceiving the unde—
mocracy of titles, and kings in the
old world, persuade themselves oi
the genial humbug that there is in
their own country possible a demo
cracy in the unequal division of
wealth, and that there is nothing
incompatible with true democracy in
I billionaires and practical pauper
j ism in the same society. It is very
I well to laugh at such foolish rever
I ern es as are extended dukes and
counts and earls and viscounts, nut
it should not lie forgotten that the
obeisance that is paid such is not
because of their tiles, hut because
of their wealth, their landed hold
ing.-) and tiieir economic influence
I arising from such which gi.es them
power over the masses who work to
enrich them. Nowadays those' of
economic power, of great wealth, and
much land, are ennobled in any
cw-nt. In England a shipbuilder
get.-- a dukedom. A brewer a baron
age. In Germany a steel king be
comes von Krupp and a ship owner
is still a plain Herr Direktor only
because of the fact that he has pre
ferred himself to remain un
enobled.
The Kaiser freely recognizes the
supremacy of llerr Ballin, and he
could be a Baron or Graf just as
freely as .Rothschild beconjes a lord
in England.
The essence of democracy is equal
ity. Equality of opportunity, equal
ity in industry, equality in politics,
equality to such an extent that no
man controls for his private benefit
another man’s labor.
Obviously when such a condition
of industrial democracy does not
exist, all other democracy is a sham.
This is an industrial civilization hut
what an astonishing contrast it pre
sents. Immense wealth oil the one
sde, defiant prosperity and constant
struggle against penury, unemploy
ment, strife to obtain a little larger
slice of the product of their own
labor upon the part of the workers.
As Carlyle said of cotton spinning
so we can say of all industrial ac
tivities: "soot and despair are not
the essence of it; they are divisible
from it—at tills hour arp they not
crying fiercely to be divided”.
Assuredly they are. -They are
in evidence in every direction. The t
agitation against the wholesale vic
timization of the workers by those
lusting for gain. They are In evid
ence In tiie industrial struggles
around us. They are in evidence in
the I. W. W. activities everywhere,
and only the snarling hirelings of a
kept press is blind to the facts be
fore us.
And these are facts full of sig
nificance. Merely saying that they
are not so is of r.o avail. The silly
talk about German money exciting
workers to revolt against unjust
economic conditions is just as use
less. The exciting conditions of
such strife are there. The very
papers which denounce the results
of these things are aiders and abet
ters in fostering and in spreading
the disease of which they are a
symptom. Their responsibility is
not light. Their part is vicious in
the extreme. Under the cloak of
patriotism they would emasculate
the effort of the masses for healthy
and wholesome betterment, and they
advocate violent means to repress
them.
I,( >GIC.\I„
We have seen many things blamed
on the Germans but. by the Hokey,
. this re-printed from the Seward
Gateway editorial, under the cap
I tion of TIME FOR ACTION, takes
the cake:
“News that the salmon run to the
J westward has practically failed, to
gether with the information from
other sources that scores of German
machinists are at work in western
canneries, gives room for thought,
this being one of the major resour
ces of the country.
Queer things are happening
around this country these days and
this may be one evidence ot the
hold which the Teutonic spy system
has upon the country.
Strikes in Colorado mines are re
ported today and the treathened
general strike in Seattle where there
are scores of ships under construe
tion is another instance. ■
Continue this situation long enough
and there is only one answer—mili
tary law.
This is a free republic and un
heard of freedom has been extended
to alien enemies within our midst
If they lack sense to appreciate this
freedom it is not to late for the
stockades”.
Now the Industrial Worker will
go as far as any man in the patri
otic duty of believing at once the
Germans capable of anything these
days, but there are limits—limits
where we must draw the line. And
when our friend the Gateway, with
its great Alaska spirit boiling over
declares that the Germans caused
the failure of the salmon run -to the
westward, we quit. We dont belieye
the salmon are so base as to be
bribed by German money, and if
that’s treason make the most of it! _
RIGHT KNOl'GH.
The American Society for Labor
Legislation comes out straight and
says that labor laws should be en
forced. Opines further that labor
laws enforcement is even more im
portant than their enactment.
We dont see in fact where the im
portance of any labor legislation
comes in if it is not enforced. But
we have yet to see wherein any of
those officials whose sworn duties
it is to enforce the law manifest any
great concern when labor laws or
the constitutional rights of the
workers are violated. While the
workers are brought up with a
sharp round turn, they find that it is
no uncommon thing for labor laws
to be honored in the breach by the
very same officials. The reason:
because the workers are not power
fully enough organized to impress
their power upon such officials and
the moral is: all workers organize!
HIGH MOGUL GOMES
VISIT OLD ALASKA
SEATTLE, Aug. 12.—Judge Elbert
H. Gary, rhe well known president
of the I'nlted States Steel Corpora
tion, the so called steel trust, today
left for Skagway :jnd may make the
inside trip throughout Alaska if he
finds time.
If not he will likely follow the,
ordinary c oastal route to the west.
and return from Seward.
it was announced as his boat left
the dock that he would make the
round trip via the Yukon and then
front Nome by an ocean voyage.
Friends with whom Gary stayed here
say that he has not time to make
the trip and the season is too far
advanced for the Yukon journey in
any event, regular sailing closing
long before he would reach Dawson.
STREET GARS STOP
IN SAN FRANCISCO
.
SAX FKANCISCO, Aug. 12.—This
city is now also a city of jitneys
notwithstanding the prohibition
against their use.
The street carmen went on strike
and walked out on three lines today,
practically stopping all traffic except
upon the municipal lines.
The men want an increased wages
and tiie right to organize.
In a good many quarters, it is now
believed that if this strike is very
prolonged that the city may be the
scene of a general labor war.
The people are exasperated by the
police of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce which is promoting a
bitter anti-union policy all round
and a general ripeness is observable
for the extension of the strike to
many other industries.
[ The company promises to operate
its cars with strike breakers and
if so. serious conditions may be ex
pectcd to follow.
REMABLB TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. 8 doors west of Alaska
Bank.
We do tke best
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CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only (1 feet
Bath Tubs In Nome.
TO THE PUBLIC
Commencing Today,
AUGUST 11,
The Price of Bread will
be 10c. a loaf straight.
Other Goods raise in
price in proportion.
Signed:
North Pole Bakery
Anvil Bakery
Nome Bakery
Arctic Bakery
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. VICTORIA
LEAVE SEATTLE: LEAVE NOME:
Via Seward, Valdez and Cordova
Without Additional Charge.
AUG. 1. AUG. 13.
SEPTEMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 14.
SAILING SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
R. A. Carroll, Agent, Nome
From Nome
August31th.
From Seattle
August 18th.
SEPTEMBER 28.
OCTOBER 25.
SEPTEMBER 15.
OCTOBER 13.
RIGHT RESERVED TO CHANGE THIS SCHEDULE.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ALASKA L. & C. CO. F. J. O’CONNOR,
AGENTS Commercial Agent.
At Dock. Front St. and Steadman Ave.
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Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF W. STEIGELMAIER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
S. S. Standard
Sails every SIX DAYS to
J»IME AND WAY POINTS
weather permitting
From Snake River.
INDEPENDENT
MEAT MARKET
W. H. Webb prop. Phone M.1B
CHAS WECKMAN.
I
CHANGE IN COAL PRICES.
On Aug. 10th, Wellington Coal will he $2:1.00 per ton in yard.
On and after September 25th, Wellington Coal will he $25.00 pr
ton in yard. Briquets will continue at $18.00 per ton in yard.
He are experiencing great difficulty in securing anthracite
coal for winter use and cannot guarantee having any quantity
on hand.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
THE HOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER
is prepared to handle
all kinds of
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