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OWNERSHIP.
Sometimes the criticism of a book
makes as interesting reading as the
book itself. Sometimes indeed a
good deal more so, especially if the
book is such as to excite counter
ideas which the critic especially de
sires should obtaiu rival credence.
Thus Scott Nearing is the author
of a book entitled “Poverty and
Riches". It is a noticeable as well
as notable book, and it is replete
with an array of facts which are
made use of intentionally to con
demn a system wherein the worker
and the product of his work are so
far removed from social control and
wherein the distribution of the pro
duct of collective labor is so un
even. so unjust and so inequitable.
Naturally his views go at once
into immediate antagonism with the
conventional views of orthodox pro
prietorship. and proprietorship
which aids and abets the unequal
system of distribution, peruses-the
work of Professor Nearing with
angry brain.
This work is reviewed in the out
of the way corners of the Literary
Pigest for December Affecting
S'liipnathy for the autncr and the
question which he handles, it is
moved to an excited challenge a*
the conclusions and the purport ot
the book reviewed. and finally the
critic ttius relieves himself
"With all this the reader can not
be but sympathetic. He knows that
often labor does nor receive its dues,
tHat wealth (sic) often receives
more than its proportion But he is
not able to follow the author in the
assumption that “ownership" (e. g.
of machinery, plant, etc. i is "para
sitic". The great fallacy of this
stirring book is its apparently de
signed ignoring of the fact that
ownership and ownership alone u.
e. wealth), makes possible the vast
opportunities of labor, provides the
plant, the machinery, the material,
the means of marketting the pro
duct and often the market itself.
The one-sidedness of the presenta
tion is so pronounced that the sym
pathy awakened by the condition ot
the very poor is checked by the feel
ing that due justice is not done the
providing of the necessary condi
tions for work. One may even
question the morality, let alone the
economics of the proposition that
industry may be carried on apart
from the thought of profit".
Certainly that remarkable out
burst has the. refreshing feature of
novelty although what may be
thought of the economics of a critic
sees fit to identify ownership with |
wealth is assuredly better left un
said.
The idea that proprietorship has
provided for society the means ot
existence and not that it is labor ot
brain and hand that which creates
wealth, and is with the natural re
sources wealth itself, is quite com- j
moil even in places less reserved i
than the critical pages of the Lite- [
rary Digest. It is due to a super
ficiai know ledge of the ele- |
ments of political economy !
added to the eololquial misuse
of the term ‘"capital". That misuse
is the identification, common enough
in labor papers at that, wherein the
capitalist is understood, in the ex
pression "eapital”. because of the
fact that the present econmic sy
stem is so indissolubly interwoven
with private ownership.
The audacity of identifying any
part, or that part of wealth used to
create more wealth as ownership is
more due to ignorance of the eco
nomic facts than anything else, be
cause behind "capital” today stands
the private ownership which has by
various and devious means often
enough taken hold of the common
wealth.
Yet in this day when nations un
der the stress of war conditions
have summarily removed .from the
scheme of distribution the element
of private ownership in many j
I things, the absurdity of mentally In
! terlockiug ownership with wealth is
obvious.
To associate the sorial activities
as inviolably identified with those
idle rich whose leisure hours come
, to them through ownership and
j whose pleasing dolee far niente is
possible of attainment at Newport or
I i’alm Beach or on the Continent ot
Europe by reason of their several
proprietorships which as often as
not has more trouble spending than
receiving, is too grotesque a concep
tion of political economy to pass
muster for one second with a person
of average intelligence.
It is ridiculous reversion of ideas
that we should today indentITy the
social wealth with proprietorship,
just in the same way that the na
tional wealth was identified with the
kingdom of the monarch or the
barony of the feudal lord of other
days. Stripped of their parchment
rights and hereiditary titles to poss
ession, the land still continued pro
ductive and the serfs were able to
set themselves to produce with a
greater productivity than ever be
fore under the heavy levies of king
and feudal lord.
We are duplicating in the indus
trial world today what has been the
historic experience in the territorial
world of the feudal age, and hence
just as the king and the lords and
the other parasites identified the
prosperity of the highest and lowest
with their prosperity, the industrial
overlords of today do the same
thing in the industrial epoch.
It would be a mistake to depre
ciate the part that ownership plays
in the economic scheme. Because
of that private ownership and ability
to exercise exclusive rights of pro
pertv in human needs, we have the
entire capitalist system. It is the |
' essence of capitalist production, but J
it is not and cannot be the essence
of production per se, which will be
carried on quite regardless of the
existence of private owners a-’ not.
Surely with the object lesson; now
being given us of industries in
many of the belligerent nation* be
ing carried on for use and not for
profit, for the national and not the
individual well being, this ridicul
ous concept upon the part of the
Literary Digest critic carries its own
refutation.
At for the doubtful morality of
the Nearing proposition we may
readily allow that the critic is cor
rect. To question the right of in- j
dividual ownership to exploit the j
person of the worker to the utter- j
most limit, and to carry on produc
tion not for the social use but for
the private profit of the individual
is to attack the capitalist system
at its very base. And inasmuch as |
we engage our morals to measure !
up to the economic standard of our
conventions, it is a self evident pro'
position that Neartng's remark from
the standpoint of the capitalist sy
stem is highly immoral.
Maecenas urged Augustus Caesar
that he compel the people to respect
and adore the Gods of Imperial
Rome, for then he said that the
people would be mote likely to re
spect him. and the emperor would j
discover strength in the morality of
the people. So it is with those who
uphold the system of private owner
ship In human necessities, to ques
tion it In any way must he regard
ed as highly immoral.
It was for an immorality of this
kind that ProfessoT Scott Nearing
was discharged from the Pennsylva
nia University, and his heretic no
tions on the relation of capitalist
and laborer Of exploiter and ex
ploited. of owner of machinery and
seller of labor power, naturally
enough ate bound to be observed
with dismay and much regrets by
those who see an economic or poli
tical divinity in privaj^ ownership.
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Hr. Miner!
COPY OF A WILL LEFT BY A
DRUNKARD.
“I leave to the world a ruinous
example.
“I leave to my parents all sorrow
possible to bear.
“I leave to my brothers and sist
ers shame and dishonor.
“I leave to my wife a broken
heart and a disgraced life.
“I leave to my children poverty,
wretchedness, and the memory of a
father in a drunkard’s grave.”
“No drunkard shall inherit The
Kingdom of Heaven.- Advertisement
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John J. Meyer, your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year for the years of 1914,
1915 and 1916 on the Happy Home
Stake claim a lode claim situated on
right limit of Negsue Creek and re
corded and more fully described in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your propor
tion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MARTIN STEINER.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ.. Jan. 31, 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 2, 1917.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the I'nited States Land Office at
.Nome. Alaska. January 25. 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nome. Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
! Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
j District, Alaska. being Mineral
I Survey No. 1191; said claim being
: more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1. identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim. Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4, of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 41 S and Cor. 2. Bella Frac
tion. Sur. 47S; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
! 2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
j scribed 1-1157 K. 4-41S, 2-47S B. F.
(and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
No. 4 hears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Var. 18 deg. 35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft to Cor.
No. 5; (hence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Var
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
or beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 166 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 478, Pioneer Mining
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. AD VMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. fc 7, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OP 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. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has 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
I notes and plat of the official survey
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. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. 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. 38 min. E. V ar.
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.
3S6.80 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,
I containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
: with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
1747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
| Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
I 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. E.
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.
# 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 166 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 j
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 i
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. 1
G. A. ADAMS. '
Register. <
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916. <
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917. .
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