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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
tearly ns possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
AbraQam Lincoln
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box <110 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134.
Nome, Alaska, December C7,
19 Hi.
ECONOMIC DETEB HNATION.
It is about mid-winter when the
average Alaskan begins to ask him
self why he is located in this north
ern section of mother eartli at all.
He would not be human if he (fid
not to some extent envy those on
the outside the many things thai
are. in the nature of things, denied
him it11 here. And there is no doubt
about it that many would be far bet
ter off outside, they Imagine, titan
they are up here.
It may be taken for granted that
no one is going to seek his life’s re
alization whatever that may be or
whatever his fancy may conceive it
to be, in an Arctic golitude or an
Arctic settlement is an approxima
tion of an Arctic solitude and with
out some good and sufficient reason.
Accordingly it ought not to be far
to seek for an explanation why so
many hide themselves or bury them
selves in Alaska, instead of seeking
their fortunes on the outside.
In tin first place while the Out
iside offers many things that arc
denied Alaskans, it does not offer
them to the many but to the few,
and the keen struggle which has
been the experience of most Alas
kans on the outside, is more or less
of a nightmare.
What has driven the majority
here is the economic pressure that
the system exerts upon a good
many if not upon all. The same eco
nomic pressure kept driving the ex
cess population of the east to the
west, and to the free land and un
touched and uncontrolled resources
of the west especially, is precisely
what drives people to Alaska. Alas
ka, in fact and truth, is the last of
the great bare spots of the -\mer
ican continent where those seeking
to escape the drive of our economic
civilization may find relief.
Every man going to the west in
other days went to the west with
heart filled with hopes, most of
which never found any materializa
tion outside their hearts. Yet it
buoyed them and sustained them to
endure the greatest hardships and
to suffer the greatest privations
without a word. At the end of the
rainbow was tic gol len trea sure
which they hoped to find.
It is no less the same pressure
which is driving hundreds to try
their luck in Alaska, and it is really
the lure which is the vitalizing germ
in the call of the wild. Because
men cheer themselves with the hope
of sooner or later gaining an inde
pendence here, they stay here, and
although their reason often enough
warns them that old age is creeping
upon them with stealthy but i rtaiu
steps, and that with it is to come a
realization that till their hopes have
been in vain, they hate to relinquish
tin' enchanting dreams which have
so long been theirs, the companion
of their night dreams and the compa
nion also of their daylight fancies.
It is not at all clear, too, that the
struggle to live, taking Alaska as a
whole, is much easier in this part of
the world than the outside, but at
any rate theirs is the relative success
which atends so many’s effort to live
without a hbss.
It is true that such an existence
is hardly obtained and with much
labor, and the sacrifice of quite a
number of things which tend to
make life endurable. But it is ac
companied by such hard bread and
such scanty fare is sweetened by the
feeling that it is obtained without
the favor or the condescension ot
any man, and as such is sweeter
than many of the luxuries are ob
tained by the . thrift that follows
fawning.
It would be hard to imagine any
really harder work than that falls
to the lot of the average prospector.
His poor accomodations, his scanty
tare, his drudgery in the frozen muck
or the windlass labors with the
“weather almost defying the blood to
circulate. But because such labors
are conducted by men who are work
ing for themselves, however small
the reward, it comes more welcome
Iv and is more appreciated than the
existence of the highly paid man
who has to constantly be on the
alert to make good with an em
ployer who has the say-so over his
very existence.
Economic pressure and the memo
ry of economic pressure drives men
here and keeps them in Alaska.
They know that they are not reap
ing any golden harvest in this sec
tion, but they none the less have
not the stony reaping that is the
portion of all so many of their Tel
low workers on the Outside.
AFTER THE WAR.
After the war—What? That sure
ly is the most serious question for
all the belligerents. It-is by all odds
the most serious question for the
workers in the various eountres. It
is clearly far more important than
the international adjustment that
may be devised by a peace confer
ence, how the workers in the various
countries will adjust themselves to
their environmen in countries at
peace.
What makes the question so diffi
cult for most of them is that the
government has taken pains to feed
and clothe millions who during
peace will represent no concern
whatever of the government. The
men who are getting three
"squares”, warm clothing, shoes,
and ordinary requirements of every
kind, will be turned loose to shift
for themselves under the economic
system that is quite shiftless.
And the question is will the soldier
go back to his slum or his sweat
shop or his rathole of a factory to
die by inches of unsanitary labor
j only half requited as far as a living
wage is concerned?
Can millions of men have been
subjected to the war process whose
incessant discipline is essentially
that violence properly applied over
comes all obstacles, and that might
is the essential basis of all right,
return to a social system where
scraps of paper and legal flictions
keep them alone from the gratifica
tion of their needs?
It is quite a question. And clear
ly enough those who started this
war started something whose results
i especially after it is over, no one
! can foresee.
Into the melting pot of violence
have been thrown ancient traditions,
I old superstitions, metaphysical
rights, privileges and powers. Into
this melting pot the civilization ol
the ag s has been cast as it were
■dd junk for the re-melting and who
shall : y what shall come forth
The privileges which have en
abled their possessors to overlord it
j over their fellows, the trust in legal
'methods of settlement; the inviol
j ability of kings and princes—these
things and much more have been as
j sailed upon the field of battle. The
whole fabric of institutions which
were carefully built up in the var
ious lands td ensure possession, has
1 been crushed down over night by
I the iron heel of the war god. tramp
| ling remorselessly ovei* the ancient
I ideals of men.
I It is hard to conceive how millions
of men who for the first time since
they have become adults have had
their bellyful with any sort of regu
larity, are going to return to the
toil and drudgery of the mine, the
mill or the factory for an insuffici
ency to secure those things which
they had without working on the
battle lines of Europe. The men
whose lungs have Inhaled the fresh
air will not lightly return to the
lung destroying sweat shops or the
tenements of the slums. For days
and weeks and months the discipline
of their lives has been teaching
them the imnipotence of force—their
force—as wielded by them to gain
their point. They know that their
efforts have brought ruin to those
who were proud and their daring
humbled the mighty men. They
know that their bayonet has clear
ed a patch much more strongly en
tangled than by legal metaphysics
and lawyer’s parchments; they
have seen greater resistance to hu
man fury than the courts or the
legislatures melt before the persua
sion of steel and explosives. That is
what they have been learning all
these years. It is a desperate les
son whose discipline will not be
without effect.
It is hard to understand that it
would be, although it is best to real
ize that it can be. It may be turned
into the same old channels of pau
perism or destitution by skilful
flattery, by religous hypnotism, by
the chicanery of the dram shop.
Bernard Shaw has uttered many
cynicisms since this war started, but
it is doubtful if all his utterances
have had the combined corrosive
ness of a relatively recent reply to
the question if the workers in Eng
land would demand anything after
the war and he answered ‘‘Yes. more
beer!”
It is -upon the saloon that the
powers that be will depend mainly
after the war for their .still being
the powers that be! They will repeat
what the Greek dramatist ^ias told
in his deathless tongue how the
traveller Ulysses first made the giant
Cyclops drunk and then burned out
his only eye, in a modern tragedy
more awful than the classic story of
the Cyclops.
HINTS ON COMFORT.
To look well you must feel well.
Clothes help you to look well, it
they are made to order and fit well,
repaired well, cleaned well and well
pressed.. Therefore you will feel
well.
M. PASCOFF.
Ladies and Gent’s Tailor does it all
well.
All work guaranteed
Cor. Lane’s W^y and Front Stre*et.
CITY BATH HOlTSfi
has the largest
and only 6 feet
Bath Tubs in Nome.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916*
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. It. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, lias made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
icuciEiEiEirtcicisicicicicicicicicuuicicic icicicu
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. TJ. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 It. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. *E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
7 47 No. I1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. B.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg.'10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 'acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
| fir post 6 ins. sq. '5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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