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By Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sin elter Workers.
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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Llncola
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone. Black 184
Nome, Alaska, N'ovemlier 1”, 1017.
THK BONDAGE OK I,IKK.
We received our first ideas or im
pro sion of the world in which we(
live while we were young, and we
go' very little from experience then;
we got most of our information
second hand; we were told a lot of
things by the older people around
tin.
Our brains were almost blank to
begin with. They were not filled
with ideas and beliefs and mentor-1
ies as they are now. Hut "natureJ
hates a vacuum" and we were in
a hurry to fill our brains with al
most anything. And we had plenty
of assii lance. Parents, preachers, J
teachers and all other good people
who knew us brought us every old j
idea they had whether or not they
believed them themselves. And we
swallowed everything that was
handed to us—as children will—
the most impoi sihle stories of gods
and ghosts and goblins were as
readily accepted as the simplism
every day facts.
We lmd no discrimination. That
i aine when we had accumulated
puite a lot of what we supposed to
lie fact, and when we discovered
some contradiction in the informa
tion we had received. For example:
Mother told ns about Santa Claus,
and big brother said there was no
Santa Claus. Of course, one of
them must be wrong. We decided
ta favor ct Santa Claus, for the
time being, because our love and
respect for mother was trouger.
We felt sure she woudln't lie to us.
Big brother was more likely to do
that.
The power to reason developed
slowly by repeated efforts to decide
which lt>ne of two conflicting state
ments was true. The fir t efforts
were feeble and inefficient. We
bad such poor and unreliable ma
terial to work with. Every idea or
belief that had been implanted in
our mrnds had to us all the ap
pearance of proven fact, and retain
ed tha‘ appearance until it was
proven otherwise. Someone had
frightened us with the bogeyman,
and that bogeyman entered as a
factor in our reasoning proeesse
until it was proven to our satisfac
tion that bogeymen nr ■ made of hot
and poisonous—air.
Our parents—for their own con
venience and comfort implanted in
us every fear they felt themselvo .
If they had teligious fears it was
their religious duty to make us feel
those fears also. They sought to
win the favor of whatever god.)
they believed in, by arousing our
nei.se of fear, and by tilling our
minds with their beliefs.
Parents are legally responsible:
for the actions of their children.
Our parents therefore taught us to
fear and ro-pect the law.
Whatever power, good or bad, na
tural or supernatural, real or ima
ginary, that parents fear, they must
instill that same fear into their
children.
That is how our minds came to i
be overcrowded with ideas and be
liefs that are of no earthly use to
us. And they are hard to get rid
of. Children can accept a tew idea
without much trouble but we grown
people can’t find room for a new
idea without tin t getting rid of an
old one. That is why we are so
slow to learn. Those old beliefs
are dovetailed and cemented to
gether in a solid mass. Each one
of these belief., is supporetd by all
the rest.
Take the belief in the “Divine
rights of kings,” as an example.
The king is part and parcel of the
aristocracy. You can’t guestion the
rights of the king without que turn
ing all the sai red rights of the ari
stocracy. And whatever superna
tural power you believe in has per
mitted kings and aristocrats to ex
i t Therefore, to repudiate the
king is lo deny your god.
Of course, all that is changed—
in countries where liter are no
kings or aristocrats
But don't the same tiling hold
true in regard lo the great over
iords of indu-try?
j Ana then—we believe property
rights to be sacred. If I, by a life
time of hard labor, have accumu
lated enough money to buy a
second-hand stink-wagon, and an
other man, presumably by the same
process of hard labor, lta- earned
enough to buy a thousand miles of
railroad, is not his legal title of the
same kind as mine, and are not
they both sacied? And are not the
legal title* to property of the same
! werp a id woof as all the rest of
our institutions? How then can we
—even in the mest set ret corner of
our minds—repudiate the rights
of our Industrial monarch■> without
disturbing all the intellectual junk
we have gatli 'red and stored away?
it is easy to put ii roll of blank
ets into an empty trunk; hut did
>ou ever try tc put a roll of blank
ets it; a trunk that already is full?
The modern working das,* some
day must take and hold the indus
tries. Even now we are laying the
foundation of a new society
amongst the crumbling debris of
the old society. But we have an
other—ami in my opinion a greater
—task before us. Wo must throw'
off and destroy that burden of lies
and traditions and superstitions
which has been piling up on us
since the dawr ot history. We must
free our minds from a bondage of
Till: “GOOD MAN" DELl'NIO.V
The workers have no such ene
mies to be shunned and dreaded,
no such delusion.-, and lies to be
combated, as those of the reform
ists leaders and parties. It re
quires no very keen powers of ana
lysis to discern the essential snob
bery, the infidelity toward man, in j
the mere reformer’, mind and me
thod. Always, whether he be Roose
velt or another, he proceeds upon
an assumption of the need of a
stronger and more respectable rul
ing class; upon an assumption of
the need of vaster and more bene
volent coercions. He is always the
“i-uperior" persons. He does not
for a moment believe in freedom;
nor in the self-organizing capacity
of the workers or their self-govern
ing right. Nor will he and his like
ever achieve the things they pro
mise. As infidel as they ar»| in
their mental attitudes, as cowardly
a,-, they are in procedure, so f&lse
will they be in their fruits. Divest
ed of all deceit, they propose a
subtler political exploitation of the
proletary. They come, not with
economic emancipation, but bring
ing refined and stronger riveted ca
pitalist chains. They but use the
miseeris of a distracted world for
the exalting of themselves. They
trifle with the symptom, of uni
versal disease and evade the disease
itself—its deep cause and its deep
er cure. Not through these, there
fore. ccmeth social help and heal
ing, but solely through the suffici
ent faith of the ocialist, and the
fire he lias kindled in the c-orth.
WE CAN DO IT.
For first cl»<is nor* and pron pi
delivery pli me Main Ht and thi
People’s Steam Laundry a'.ll e< I,
and get your laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON Pros
Let 03 estimate on /our .lob Wort '
Let as estimate ou your Jon \Vor»
BOWLING ALLEY REOPENS.
The Rowling Alley nevt <loor to
(he Eagle saloon is now open for
I business. Everybody cordially in- !
cited to come and enjoy themselves.
Fur garments made and repaired
at tlie Nome Tailoring Company.
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FORTY-SEVEN FACTORIES
V LARGEST RUBBER COMPANY IN THE WORLD!
ALL
“CLOVER LEAF BRAND”
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PATENT
PRESSURE
PROCESS
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PRESSURE
PROCESS
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TWOI IQANnq OF WEARERS AFTER EXPERIMENTING WITH a
mUUDMINUO OTHER BRANDS HAVE COME BACK TO EUREKA S
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GIVE THEM A TRIAL NEXT TIME AND YOU'LL SOON LEARN
WHY THE OTHER FELLOW SWITCHED BACK—
At ALL FIRST-CIlASS DEALERS
OVER FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES!
RUBBER BOOTS &PAC5
' ARE NOW MADE BY THE NEW VACUUMt
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On and after Monday, Nov=
ember 19th, and continuing
until further notice. The offices
and yards of this Company
Will open at 8 A. M.
AM)
Will close at 5.30 P. M.
Alaska Lighterage Comercial Co.
Phone Main 14
Charles L. Ross
Milling, Lumber, Contractor
HAVING TAKEN OVER THE FREIGHTING & TRANSFER
BUSINESS OF \V. STEIGEL MAKER AND OF LEO KENT,
FREIGHT ORDERS AND TRANSFER CONTRACTS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 162.
... .i- i wi... 1
! Miners and Merchants Bank
Nome, Alaska
Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
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Army Shoes
EARLY LAST SPRING WE PLACED AN ORDER WITH %
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS FOR ARMY
SHOES MADE AS PER GOVERNMENT SPECIFICATIONS ON
THE “MUNSON" LAST. COME IN AND LOOK THEM OVER.
YOU MAY SOON HE FURNISHED WITH A PAIR BY "UNCLE
SAM" BUT WHY WAIT? ■*r
P. A. PETERSON SHOE CO.
| North
| Pole
I* Bakery
& Coffee
House
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BREAD
10c. pet it 3/
3 Loa\es 30c.
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all kinds of
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OUGHT TO DO, IS TO PATRO
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