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Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 8, 1871.
FREEDOM OF THE I'RESS.
Judge Baldwin in Chicago recent
ly issued an injunction against a
newspaper that had been supporting
the tannery workers in their strike.
The paper was strictly command
ed (the exact word used) to absolu
tely desist from doing anything or
saying anything in the paper which
might be construed to subject any
of the complainants employees to
hatred, criticism, consurc, scorn, dls- j
grace or annoyance or in any way
discussing or watching or describ
ing the strike in the complainant’s
business.
This most drastic injunction of
course practically suspends the con
stitutional guarantee of the freedom
of the press. But what’s the con
stitution to an injunction judge any
way? It is certainly sma.l potatoes
to Judge Baldwin.
SENATOR PHEEAX: PATRIOT.
A Californian once said that
when a patriotic speech was to be
made, there was no man in the
state could talk like Senator
Phelan.
Senator Phelan rises to greatness
these days and aviates on nothing
to loftier heights than on his
amendment to House Bill No. 406
wherein he endeavors to turn over
to private interests thirty thousand
acres of oil fields in California
which were withdrawn Trom t entry
in order to provide fuel for the
United States navy during the Taft
regime.
One of the most rabid prepara
tionists is Phelan. But Phelan does
not think it should go ahead of this
rich opportunity to loot the na
tional resources and give the oil
monopoly a still stronger strangle
hold upon the industry.
The Phelan amendment proposes
to give title to a number of grab
bers of the rich oil lands which they
tried to get by trespassing.
Nor has the protest of the naval
secretary Daniels against the meas
lier affected Phelan a bit. It doesn't
matter that Daniels says the gov
eminent needs the lands for its on
burners. The preparedness plans
n]1)st not be allowed to Interfere
with monopoly.
Phelan is right and Daniels is
wrong. Phelan knows that prepar
edness is particularly for the mono
polistic interests, and if the oil mo
nopolists think that they are more
interested in having the lands
turned over to them than in being
kept by the government, Daniels
ought to realize the facts.
THE restricted district.
Why the restricted district should
;,rico before the present council in
the form of a pviblem is not quits
clear. That it is occasioning con
siderable of a problem and gives
rise to discordant opinions as tc
handling the problem not alone be
tween the federal and municipal
officials, but among the municipal
officials themselves as well, is quite
evident.
Yet there is no reason why it
should not occasion some discussion,
even if such discussion is not con
sidered respectably done in public.
it is a fact that this venerable in
stitution that is carried on within
the district,, is one of the most ef
fective demonstrations of the hypo
rriey and artificiality of our lives
and as of our lives, also of our
morals.
It is against the law, but those
who are supposed to carry out the
law, lamely halt before the fact al
leged that it is “necessary to so
ciety”. In consequence society bar
ricades its precincts, considers it
non-existent and permits the sacri
fice to Venus only behind closed
doors and restricted locations.
The movement in Nome to restrict
tbe denizens of this district to a
limited number may be inspired by
the highest and most virtuous sy
stem of morality but it is not quite
clear that it is as logical as it is
moral. If it is against the law for
one, it is surely against the law for
all and vice versa. It would just be
as ridiculous to endeavor to restrict
theft to one thousand dollars and
make one thousand and one ana
over illegal. It might be carried on
under police regulations, but it has
not the sanction of reason or com
mon sense.
Society through its police power
insists that prostitution is a neces
sary evil. As a matter of fact there
is no such thing as an evil that Is
necessary, but it can readily be ad
mitted that as long as the capital
ist system denies men and women a
family life, so long will the evil
flourish.
it is a fact that the system which
now prevails insists upon an segre
gation of single men in camps ana
single women in factories. The fa
mily system is broken up and to de
velop the country great hordes ot
single and unencumbered floating po
pulates following the various ac
tivities are compelled to live with
out wives. In the absence of such,
the police declare that the restrict
ed district is a social necessity.
What, as a general rule, the po
lice power is interested in is its pro
longing theib little bit of graft. E.v
cessives fines, rents, taxes, regula
tions and rules that cost the resi
dents of redlight districts money
are quite beloved of the police power
and naturaly in the obtaining ol
their monthly rake off, they find no
trouble in asserting that the evil It
necessary. Whatever will be don'
in Nome about the women, certain
ly there can be no hesitation in say
ii.g what should be done with those
miserable specimens of humanlt}
that batten off them and these mens
macques- and pimps should be ship
ped outside on a blue ticket anc
make themselves as sfcarce as poss
ible hereabouts.
| it is the macque that is the in
sp!.rer of actual crime in these dis
tricts. He boost tho Illegal sale ot
liquor; he inspires the thefts and
the robberies and the sluggings and
the lightings that proceed therein.
! Dressed in good clothes he appears
on the streets with his jewelery
flashing and conveys the idea that
to make a living as he does is smart
and clever. His very existence is
a menace to any community. His
| is the rotten example that corrupts
j the entire youth and his alliances
are wholy evil from start to finish.
This is not any moral tirade. But
because at the end of the lane is
this miserable existence of disease
and viciousness there Is no reason
why it should be anything else but
plain common sense that the
inacque must go. The women can
take care of themselves. Uusually
they are more sinned against than
sinning. Usually, unless the pimp
is present, there is no disorder and
littlo encouragement to extraneous
viclousness. The police are seldom
called to restore order. The ten
dency to blow the workers in is no>,
so manifested, but with a drunken
bully for a “lover”, the tendency to
rob and wile away the earnings ot
those who frequent the district Is
manifest. It has certainly been ma
nifest enough in this town. And It
would appear that the real need for
regulations Is not so much further
to devise ways and means of re
pressing a number of women alrea
dy repressed quite enough, but to
clear the real criminals and the
really vicious ones out of the coun
try bag and baggage.
GENERAL DENUNCIATION.
That strikes and demands for in
creases in wages and shorter hours
are growing more and more com
mon is very evident indeed. And tho
great papers, eapeclsly those whicn
cater to and are patronized by Big
Business do not let us forget it.'
These denounce the workers for j
making demands, as one of them
says, they would never get were it i
not that Industrial conditions often
compel employers to concede them, j
This text forms the basis of bit- |
ter attacks upon the never-satisfied
demands of labor. Just when the
employer is up to his eyes in indu3- ,
trial activities and when orders are ,
rushing in, in never ending numbers,
the employee demands more and |
more.
This sort or thing is considered
outrageous anu there is no end tj
the denunciation of labor. I
Now as a matter of fact labor is
just reacting against the economic
pressure to which it is always com
pelled to feel. There is not a labor
ing man today who would hire out
his labor power if he could malts
a decent living for himself. But he
cannot. He has no land, no money,
no tools. All he has got is his labor
power and his capacity to work. He
must sell that labor power or
starve.
During dull times there are so
many men after the job that he is
whipped to higher speed and lower
wages by an economic impulse In
herent in the system. When times ;
grow brisk and the capitalist expe
riences what he is so fond of: pros-1
perity, the demand for labor de
creases the labor market and the
boss finds himself driven by econo
mic forces to surrender a larger
portion of labor’s product than he
has agreed to. It i3 not often that
labor has a chance to better its con
dition. In some industries in somo
places it has now. Now is its only
chance, and the workers would be
fools and suckers if they didn’t
try and grab a chunk of this pros
perity which is supposed to be float
ing around.
It's true that prosperity does no:
do the man any good who doesn’t
get a share of it. But they do de
nounce the workers who want it
passed around.
Let us estimate on yocr Job Worr
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Gretchen P. Meyer, D. B. Keith,
John T. Campion, your heirs, ex
ecutors, asseigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
. one hundred dollars each year for
the years of 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905.
. 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
- 1912 and 1915 on the following
• claims located on Solomon river
t in the Nome Mining and Recording
> District, Bel claim, Mamie claim
s and Gretchen claim, all four situat
, ed on Solomon river, re
- corded and more fully described
- in Volume 91, pages 353, 354.
; and 355 of the location records of
,• the Nome Recording precinct in the
; Second Division, District of Alaska.
The abovo amount has been ex
; pended in order to hold said claims
- pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law con
cernin* uumil labor upon mining
claim*, being the amount required
to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fail to contn
bute your proportion of said expen
diture, your interest in paid claims
will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
| the United States.
! (Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., March 18, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 17, 1916...
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
L\ S. Land Office, Nomo, Alaska,
April 18th, 1916.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of buciness and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Meloing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alaska, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 14
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whei ce U. S.
L. M. No. 1172 bears S 59 deg.
34 min. W. 380.3 ft. Thonce N. 35
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thonce S. 55 deg. 37
min. W. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsiug
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monuir.eiit No. 1172 is
a schist sione 37x20x5 ins.
18 ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed •->!
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude G4 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice Is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek:
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creek; claimants
unknown; on the northwest and
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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