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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1111, at the poet office at
fiome, • Alassa, under the Act of March t, 1871.
"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly us possible. Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Lincoln
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at slz
•'clock each evening to Insure insertion in the following issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Address all Communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 1*4.
Nome, Alaska, May Iti, 1017.
THK IMSKSS.
There's an unanswered charge
that the greatest of financial firms
subsidized iwelve of the great na
tional dailies to forward definite in
ternational policies which were fav
ored by that firm and its interna
tional tliente'.e. That charge was
made upon t In floor of Congress
and those making it were evidently
scandalized.
However nothing was more com
pletely reasonable. The Press is not
independent. It may affect no poll
tical affiliations, lmt if there is a
business or public service more ri
gidly dominated by the get-the
dollar policy we have to lie shown.
in this it it following tjie line
of every activity, hut being an espe
cially public activity, it is the main
reason why its dollar scenting pro
clivities should be easily ascertain
able.
Moreover, as everyone very welt
knows, the press is an important
means of molding public opinion.
Not necessarily through the editori
als which few people care to read
but through the news columns. And
when we consider the tremendous
power possessed by the great mon
ied interests in industry, commerce
or finance, we may only reasonably
expect that these should be great
enough to dictate the policies that
obtain in the papers which can be
put to such useful purposes—to
the interests.
Tlie immense advertising favors
which newspapers receive from the
department stores and from
other sources have been
sufficient to protect such
institutions from unfavorable men
tion in any of the columns of those
papers which were patronized by
such stores.
A man who worked on almost all
the leading newspapers of the east
says that he has yet to see one
which will not have one or more
firm and one or more subject which
must never lie unfavorably criti
cized.
That tremendous interests have
been able by a simple say-so to di
rect the policies of certain organs
can without doubt be easily proven,
but there are papers which them
selves are powerful enough, one
would imagine, to maintain policies
in editorial pages and in news co
lumns which would be above sus
picion.
And it is here where our old
friend economic determinism comes
in. These proprietors of all such
papers are very rich men. They
have themselves financial operations
on quite an extensive scale. Their
interests are all lined up with those
who are similarly engaged and the
pages of their papers will reflect
such interests in every line.
There is for that reason no diffi
culty in observing that there are no
great papers which have an uu.iarn
pored policy of reflecting the will of
the people. There is an absolute
lack of democracy in the great pa
pers of the United States when such
questions as matters of industry,
finance and eommerce are being
dealt with, and particularly when
lhe labor question arises, that is
simply astonishing. No person when
great strike is on expects to
read a line about it, except very
briefly and in very small print and
in a very small way in the hack
pages. There may be an editorial
of excellently phrased hypocrisy tell
ing the workers how injudicious is
their policy and the need for a
greater consideration of the dear
public.
When the Industrial Relations
Commission was engaged in ex
amining the leading men in finance
and industry and eliciting facts
that revealed the innermost condi
tions of industrial life, the great
papers studiously ignored its exist
ence and even yawned in a wearied
editorial way at the uselessness of
such investigations and were pleased
lo be irritated that tne captains of
industry should he subjected to
such an annoying probe.
The tendency to slobber around
the leaders in industry has the
great paper of American life the
most dett rrnined snob in the world
of journalism. The doings of
.Madame Mamma whose husband is
the president of Starbord Oil are
the pictured social guides in the
social columns. The statements ot
Mr. Mazuma of the Starbord Oil Co.
are cherished by the journals of the
land as pearls of wisdom which the
public swine must digest anyhow.
Are we to take it that a paper
is just as good as its subscribers
and its readers demand—or are we
to believe that because it requires
money to operate a great paper suc
cessfully, the subscribers aid read
ers have to take what they can get?
it might be the more charitable
view to take the latter opinion, but
we very much doubt it. The paper
that turns out Happy Hooligans and
the Kutzenjamemr Kids as the last
word in cartooned humor knows
every well that it Is just rising to
the heights of its clientele and no
, higher. We see that when a peri
odical. say like the Masses, has to
struggle to live—a periodical that
is alert in thought and vigorous in
its art, that treats real questions in
a realistic way, that does not shirk
the truth and dallies with its un
pleasant side as well as its attrac
tiveness—-there is no little or no de
mand for news execept that it be
sensational, for literary matter ex
cept it have a cheap sentimentality
for art unless it is so brazenly
crude and imposible and for humor
save its main characteristic is a
guffawing clownishness.
It is herein that the great inter
ests achieve their great ends. They
can take the white paper and pour
over its columns great headlines,
cxnung me simplest imagination,
dealing with horror, with fear, with
terror stimulating the most ignor
ant feelings—unthinking national
ism, brainless conventionality and
the ever popular love of mystery.
Through these means can he
builded up a wave of popularity for
almost any insane policy, for any
mad purpose, for any criminal in
tent. The suggestion of falsehood
that is the suppression of the truth
stares the reader in the face and be
takes away utterly false notions of
men and things and doings and say
ings. The most atrocious falsehoods
find instant circulation-—-to be cor
rected in remote corners of the
great paper that published the lit
on its front page with glaring head
lines that it might better accomp
lish its purpose.
In after years when the agonies
that follow misleading statements
and the cultivation of false and ar
tificial notions, history pays little
attention to the guilty ones. What
is written is written. And the harm
is accomplished in the perversion ol
truth—which indeed is the end de
sired.
This condition will not be better
ed unv until tin- workers who art
tin- victims of this campaign of edit
rated falsehood support their owt
own papers and possess great pa
pers which will disseminate th<
truth—which will acquaint th(
public with their side of the grea
questions of the day and be a need
ed support in the day of trial aiu
tribulation.
The main thing today is orga
nizaticn and still more organiza
tion and it is the labor organizatioi
that must control its own press
Were it not that the great paperi
which almost universally misrepre
sent labor, have a clever custom o
lauding the leaders and congratu
lating the workers on the posses
sion of such Messiahs and Moses as
are in the chief offices, this fac
would he Insisted upon much mort
emphatically by the labor organiza
tions than it now is. But whet
this man or that who is the leaders
of some organization or its affiila
tion .can get his picture on the front
page, a column of news interview
ing the wise old man, and an editor
ial pat on the back for the blessings
of his presence on earth, that great
leader is hardly likely to view the
press that panders to the interests
which oppresses labor and the
qlunderbund which robs labor as
quite an evil. •
unmixed evil. Didn’t they treat
him ever so nicely and havent they
said ever such kind things about
him and have they not given his
inspired remarks suitable promi
nence on the front page?
But the workers will ultimately j
and by sad experience realize that !
only in a press controlled and
owned by their own organization,
devoted entirely to their interests,
will they find support and protec
tion and an alna't present help in
the day of trial.
As wo see it, all ever the coun
try today in th\se United States,
what is more urgently the need
these strenuous times for labor,
than a powerful, generaly circulatel
labor paper publishing daily unvar
nished and untarnished facts, bring
ing to the light the invisible activ
ities of those powers that are doing
not only at one time but always,
what was charged upon the floor of
Congress?
What in the world is more urg
ently needed than a great labor pa
per with the solid support ot orga
nized millions at its back and sup
porting those organized millions
through thick and thin, criticizing,
commenting, exposing, denouncing,
where each of these things were
needed ?
As it is today the labor papers
are voices crying in the wilderness
and to a great extent unheard. It
is to constant struggle to get support
from Labor for them. Their appeals
for help from those in whose inter
est they are published have become
pitifully monotonous.
Yet quite obviously their chief I
duty is the work of educating the
public to the need of such a labor
press, and to make their existence
to be a necessity to the workers, a
necessity which should have first
claim upon them at all times.
Never at any time was felt the
need for powerful organization
and a-powerl'ul press controlled bj
that organization—now when it is
almost too late.
GREAT PROFITS ELIMINATED
SECRETARY’S NEW PLAN
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WASHINGTON, I), C., May 15.—
Because secretary Baker in March
last took time by the forelock and
appointed through President Ithett
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce an advisory buying
board great profits will be elimi
nated. These men are now advising
with the quartermaster's depart
ment and have proved equal to the
emergencies.
It is advice given Y>y experts who
have devised a system of standard
ization will reduce even costly tech
nical articles to within the pale of
reason and will prevent any collosal
profits.
This statement is given out with
authority.
PROTEST HUGE TRACTION
GRAB IN WINDY CITY
CHICAGO. May 15.—Public-spir
ited citizens here are handing ior
defense against the traction inter
ests, which have been trying to put
across a big grab, calculated to give
them the use of the streets for 50
years, and enable a few men to
clean up $50,000,000 or more at the
CENSORSHIP HEAVY.
NEW YORK, May 14.—The cen
sorship on the movement of steam
ers is now so complete that prac
tically nothing is published, the
newspapers aud press agencies hav
ing voluntarily agreed to abstain
from making public this matter.
SPRING TIME IS HERE
For the best work in tailoring see
| us. We make alterations,
i We do cleaning, pressing and re
j paring for ladies and gentlemen.
We make suits to order.
First class workmanship, modern
j method and prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Yours to pleaes
NOME TAILORING CO.
| Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen,
.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
| Two 4 H. P. Boilers.
One 12 H. P. Boiler.
One 10 H. P. Boiler.
Two 6 H. P. Boiler.
DARLING & DEAN CO.
Let oi estimate on your Job Work
public’s expense.
Strong opposition to the grab has
been ottered by the Public Policy
club, headed by Henry M. Ashton,
chairman. Under a scheme outlined
by the Chicago traction and subway
commission, the elevated and sur
face lines would be consolidated at
a valuation of $218,000,000.
NOTICE or FORFEITURE.
To John Ellis your heirs, executors,
assigns or personal representa
tives.
You are hereby notified that we have
expended in labor and improvements
the Gum of one hundred dollars
for the year of 1910, on placer
mining claim Queen Bench situated
on left limit of Center Creek which
is a tributary of Snake Itiver and re
corded and more fully described in
Yol. 194 at Page 04 in the
Records of the Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, in the Second Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning Annual Labor upor
Mining Claims, being the amount
required to hold said claim.
And you and each of you
are further notified that if
within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute your proportion
of said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
MAMIE BALL. R. W. BOWEN.
Co-Owners.
Date of first publ., April 25, 1917.
Date of last publ., July 25, 1917.
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