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THAW.
Unsavory as may be persona)
aspects of the Thaw career, now that
the life of this man is drawing in
such dramatic fashion to a close, we
cannot deny that it was his terrific
fate to exemplify for us the ob
solete methods of modern criminol
ogy, and especially the methods of
criminal law in treating its victims
Thaw’s was a mind diseased. It was
a mind diseased long before he
startled society, which had before
laughed at his pranks, by shooting
White. The evidences of that ab
normality which was insanity were
clear enough, even without his pie
dinners graced by the presence ol
leading men of society and of state
who felt none the worse for an as
sociation in those orgies. But when
from the wayward gratification of
the sensualist he passed into the
realm of homicidal degenerates, all
the world demanded that he be suit
ably punished.
It was all right just as long as he
had sailed down the stream of social
delights “youth at the prow and
pleasure at the helm", ruining and
debasing all those with whom he
came in contact. But when a rival
debauehe is slain in a fit of jealousy
reasonable enough among such, so- j
ciety demanded that the law step in j
with its criminal procedure and ‘
satisfy justice. !
At all times Thaw was a subject j
not for the prosecuting attorneys j
but for the physician who could mi-j
ulster to a mind diseased, but be- j
c ause society is still groping with j
the facts of existence, it measures
all eases that come before it with
the same legal yardstick as far as
the criminal procedure is concerned.
The fate of Thaw to reveal to a
shocked public the inanity, the hy-,
sterical obsoleteness and the meta- >
physical impossibility of such legal
methods only has added to the tra
gedy and it is not the least startling ,
phase of this grim case that while -
the public press dished up the facts
as to his career on demand to a [
sensation loving public, none took
the trouble to point out the most
obvious significance "of this particu
lar human tragedy.
At no time, not as a pleasure
seeking youth with too much money, j
as a sexual degenerate, a seducer, or
as a homicidal crank was it the cri
minal lawyer who should consider
treating Thaw. From the beginlng j
his detention was desirable and ne- j
eessary, but such detention under '
eientifie ’men who might have re
mov'd the mental affection that got
ih ■ better of -his normality.
in fine Thaw was demented.- lie
was. i> merited when he entertained
lssistuiits of ihe Washington depart
mints at pV dinners win-re naked
girls flew out of baked confections
on tbe dinn'. r table, or doped with!
diampagne the victims of his lust,
n. n he should have been taken i
under treatment and incarcerated in
such a way that lie would not have
been permitted to disturb society
which may not have felt lx is disgrace
so keenly for these things.
Tbe fact is that before he killed
White, Thaw was regarded as a
young man who had more money
than was good for him; who was,
mowing his wild oats as young men
with lots of money are entitled so to j
do. His criminal propensities there- j
in occasioned no dismay. Every one
felt that youth should have its ftng J
and Harry Thaw was a hell of a
good fellow! He was the friend ot,
churchman and churehwomen and ;
one pastor testified as to his char
acter on one appealing occasion. His
debaucheries and his orgies were |
delicately termed “escapades”, and j
he was reckoned none the worse
therefor. Every young fellow did!
it—that is every young fellow that
had money enough to do it.
So his vagaries were non-criminal ,
until that fell day when he fired the j
shots killed his former friend, the j
architect White. White was as had
as he. White was more refined in
his degeneracy. He was an architect
ural genius and he was beloved by
some of very higli estate, Bacon,
partner of Morgan was one' of the
White crowd, and then a whole
chorus who had seen nothing wrong
in Thaw when victim after victim
of his pleasure crawled to a living
death in the foulest places of the
city, demanded justice for this slay
ing of a rival degenerate!
From that time on, the case of
Thaw has been the case of the
friends of Stanford White versus the
power and influence of the friends
of Thaw, and it is too evident that
justice and unadulterated common
sense equity had nothing whatever
to do with the prosecution or perse
cution of this lunatic who rightly,
since lie arrived at man’s estate,
should never have been allowed out
side the insane asylum.
Society made mistakes about Thaw
and Thaw made society feel the res
ponsibility for its errors. But wholly
without effect.
The career of Thaw is no different
from a hundred careers in New
York or any big city except in the
degree of publicity extended to it.
It was in fact to cater unwittingly
to some of these careers that Mayor
Mitchell of New York recently gen
erously extended the wining and din
ing hours in the down towns cafes.
It is impossible to expect things
otherwise in any event.
At one end of the scale are dozens
with more than millions, at the
other end of the scale millions in
poverty. Such cannot pretend to a
goodly economic balance, and so
makes impossible an equitable moral
intellectual, social balance. The
wonder is that the Thaws are not
more frequently in the limelight,
even if the Thaws are at some diffi
culties and pains to avoid it where
possible.
POLITICAL ACTION'.
The socialist papers are poking
fun at Gompers where rightly, for his
efforts to deliver the labor vote to
Wilson. Gompers resolutely places
himself in opposition to politics
in the union, but takes It upon him
self very nicely to donate the labor
vote wherever he pleases. This at
titude is historical and if by some
remarkable chance an election was
pulled off and Gompers failed to
make a point of delivering the vote
lo some politician or another, his
followers might die of surprise. It
has been done so often that it is the
natural thing to do.
The socialists did not poll a very
large v te at the last election and
it ie not evident that they tire gain
ii.in strength at all. This does not
me ii that socialism as such is fall
ing into disfavor, hut it, may very
well mean that socialist politics as
•x mplified by the socialist party is
There lias been, it is quite clear,
entered upon control of the socialist
party of America, a number of men
who are professional parliamentar
ians. This is more dignified that
tailing them professional politicians,
but it is the same thing. Now these
men are mostly professional men
iiid they dominate the party in al
most all its executive work.
The natural result of this is that
[he political activities of the social
ists passes from the realm of the
working classes and the men who
ire mentioned as the “candidates of
:he working class party”, that is the
socialist party, are not workers at
ill, hut professional men: lawyers,
doctors, journalists, writers and pro
fessional propagandists who have
not one thing in common with the
workers except sympathy for them
In their exploited state, and in this
they have no very great monopoly.
It is not without some degree of
the ridiculous to tell the workers
that they must work out their own
emancipation and then pick out for
them some reformist lawyer or jour
nalist or preacher to do It for them.
One of the most highly favored
candidates for the nomination for
president which Benson won at tne
last referendum, was a banker, and
the humor of that situation does
seem to have struck Milwaukee
all.
Moreover while ballyragging Sauj
Gompers with his famous inconsist*
enc-y in politics, the socialists are for
ever and a day catering to Samuel
and not a few now and then publish
with delightful approval an articel
to two when no election is in sight
And they go even further than thft
by claiming that this party whi|h
is presided over by preachers afl
lawyers and editors and iutellectua™
of one phase or another of possibly
unquestionably sincere and worthy
people, but people who by their own
environment are removed from the
masses. is the political arm ot
Labor!
The socialist professional parlia
mentarians have not themselves
grasped the fact that political power
to be realized must have its basis
upon economic power. The first es
sential to the up-building of political
power would be and must be the
work of organization and job con
trol. The simple reason for this u
that political power now as ever be
fore and now as ever more is the
reflex of the economic power ana
without that is so much wasted
energy.
That fact is dawning upon a good
many of the workers who cannot see
that they are a step nearer industri
al emancipation merely by placing
a few socialist lawyers or editors in
Congress, and hence they are direct
ing their attention to job control
which will he the means of real poli
tical control later on.
We may as well admit that the
railroad brotherhoods have manifest
ed a political power no socialist or
ganization has ever reached, and
these organizations have compelled
Congress to act when socialists
could compel no such action. Un
questionably with economic power
will come political might that will
be able to defy opposition.
It may be contended that in the
meantime the workers may have po
litical measure directed against them
which will be effective in destroying
their organizations but although this
is true, manifest it is that, if it is
to be brought about it will be
[ brought about whether socialists are
j or are not in Congress.
CHURC H NOTICE.
Associated Bible Students at the
home of Captain Peter M'K Bayne,
Railroad Ave. and Spokane Ave.
Sunday 3 p. m. Fellowship & ques
tion Meeting.
7 p. ni. Berean Bible Study: Sub
ject: “Why, when and by whom was
the Great Pyramid Built?”
Week Meetings Wednesday 7:30
p. m. Prayer, Praise and Testimony
Friday 7:30 p. m. Berean Bible
Study: Subject: »
“Several judgement Days, Referred
to in the Scriptures. The first
Judgement Day and its Results.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all meetings.
* Prepare for the winter by patron
izing the advertisers of your paper,
Mr. Miner!
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 10, 191(1.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora anil
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 Laud 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. 11T5, said claims 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 follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. \V. 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.
\V. 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. 2S 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.
3S6.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
4 5 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.
747 No. 1 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.
Yar. 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.
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
kg^trveyed 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 1
Survey No. 434; on the East un-j
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. 74 7. 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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