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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
Nome, Alaska, July ;>, 1!»17.
T!ii: poor kkciuttinc..
The small number who enlisted
hist week is somewhat of a com
mentary unon those who have been
ver' ■ nergetii ally shouting for mi
litarism. They were afforded an op
portunity of serving their countrj
by enlisting, but it is evident that
they are merely anxious to see the
other fellow go.
Apparently the business interests
do not intend to fight in the ranks.
It is all very well if they are made
officers as the government lias
taken rare almost all reserve offi
cers will come from the business
classes, as a special type of demo
cracy, but the rest do not seam to 1
be willing tc serve as privates
Consider the enormous number
of the sons of the employing classes
in universities in Business, or sport
ing around just enjoying them
selves. These evince no disposition
to enlist yet thev tire almost osten
tatious in their patriotism.
There is no "xcuse for any one
who takes an active part ir. war
preparation and in militaristic pro
paganda in refusing to enlist. Deeds
speak louder than words and the
most patriotic work of which they
can be capable is Jo do so. It Is
•well to understand that this is the
most patriotic example that these
can give, and that they are not
jpiving it is proven in the poor re
cruiting that took place last week.
it is certain that of the eight
thousand men who enlisted, more
iban sixty or seventy per cent arc
of the working classes. This Is a
low per centage, for ninety nine
usually come from that class in or
dinary enlistments. Therefore not
four thousand of the rest have en
listed from the employing classes.
There is a nice commentary upon
lheir patriotic democracy!!
We figure It out that out of all
the Security and other Leaguers,
patriotic organizations, war propa
gandists, and enthusiastic support
ers of military service there have
been at least a million male adult3
of military age and as such accept
able to the service of the nation.
Where are these people hiding
themselves? Are they holding down
salaried positions from which they
could easily be spared? Are they
iuaKing uiuuc.v
nation needs them? Is it that they
have suddenly realized that it is
much easier to agit/te for enlist
ment than to enlist themselves?
They have been done very well by.
It is from that class that the admi
nistration with democratic generos
ity has exclusively selected the men
■who will be officers. Out of the
vast number approved one hardly
sees the name of a single one of the
■working classes. It Is not to be ex
pected that the rest should hesitate
to enlist as privates or that it is
proposed that one class shall be all
officers and another class all pri
vates. This is a war for democracy
and it is reasonable to expect that
the army organization should be
conspicuously democratic.
For these reasons it is hard to
know where the enthusiasts have
taken themselves. Is it that they
are too proud to fight as privates
and are awaiting a commission be
fore they shall offer their services
to the country and in the meantime
they wait to let George do it?
THK FOI.On.\IK) IMjAX.
When John I). Junior, the richest
heir to the richest of Americans,
visited the Colorado Fuel and Iron
C'o's property of which his father
holds tlie controlling interest, kiss
ed in feudal fashion the babies of
his workers, danced with the wives
and even slept in the borrowed pa
jamas of a proletarian foreman
next his plutocratic skin, then de
veloping and installing his famous
plan, the entire press of the nation
hailed him as the author of a mille
«inl plan which would enable the
lion and the lamb to lie down to
gether without any danger that the;
one would be assimilated l>y the
other.
Tilt la' r press did not join in
the acclamation. faost of them
looked on with interest as a biolo
gist admires ihe birth of a freak
and with little confidence that the
freak had come to stay.
Much and sweet scented literary
incense was swung before the
Rockefeller idea by the editorial
censers, and Ivy Lee and 26 Broad
way. with the aid of expert printers
spread the glad news broadcast
through the country.
The Industrial Worker in a
humble way, has had to acknowl
edge reciept of numerous of these
publications which it was delicious
to observe were sent us with the
compliments of John I). Rocke
feller Junior. One almost felt as it
we are allowed access to the social
circle quite intimately of the rich
est man in America!
And the Colorado Fuel ai d Iron
Bulletin wRh elegant phototypes
displayed (he realization of the
Rockefeller plan with a total dis
regard of printing costs and indeed
the charities were numerous and
abundant. Right close by where
was ;■ night one of the hardest bat
tles. John TVs Co. erected a Catho
lic Church—and if any man can
build a church and he not a perfect
man history does not say anything
about it. Furthermore he brought
in the Y. M. C. A. in another royal
effort to promote godliness and to
bring about the brotherhood ot
man in the Fatherhood of God
which is everything a Baptist could
desire.
But these are topsy turvy times.
When we had believed that the
New Era was being born in Colo
rado and happiness, holiness and
contentment were shining upon the
workers, here comes a news dis
patch telling us that the miners are
beginning to prepare to strike and
a recurrence of the labor troubles
may be expected. So the Colorado
plan is a failure. The miners say
that the company has not fulfilled
its contracts. Too busy lifting up
the souls without a doubt to at
tend to the agreement to lift up
also the bodies of the workers.
AMl'SINti HUT SIGNIFICANT.
Quite a number of American
papers have devoted themselves to
the especial task of belittling the
Russian revolution to the extent to
which it was carried by the Work
ers and Soldiers Council. And they
have the effrontery to assert that
this body was likely to upset the
line work of liberation which the
Duma had performed.
The fact has been carefully kept
from the American people by the
press that the Russian revolution
was first, last and all the time a
proletarian revolt. Its flag was the
Red Flag, that glorious banner
symbolizing the brotherhood of all
men. The revolution began when
the workers in different industries
went on strike and when the police
tr4ed to suppress it and failed, and
soldiers were called upon to aid in
the suppression and refused to
shoot and took sides with the peo
ple.
Why, one of the Duma Ministers,
who is hailed in quite a number of
the American papers as one of the
leaders of this democratization of
Russia, when the police began to
shoot down the workers, announced
the fact in the Duma and reassured
his fellow's by the remark that “It
would be all over in half an hour’’.
Hut that was a long half hour,
much longer than the much be
lauded Milukoff had reckoned.
Not only that but the Duma tried
hard to have a Tzar. They wanted
this one or that, and it was the
Workers and Soldiers who stood
pat and said that they would have
nothing but n republic.
Now when the Workers and Sol
diers Council proceed to insist upon
very radical plans for the adminis
tration of affairs in Russia, Amer
ican plutocrats are alarmed at such
1 innovations and cast their reflec
tions upon the men who fought for
human as well as Russian liberty.
By the way, in this connection
I it is worth noting the proposal
that they have made for the new
government It will consist of prac
tically three houses. The first and
second will consist of fifty members
from the workers, and fifty from
the soldiers, fifty from the commer
cial classes and capitalists. And in
between the two will be an inter
mediate body of fifty elected by the
agricultural classes. It proposes to
enforce proportional representation
and to work out reforms by such a
body. While the system is open to
criticism, it prevents certainly one
class, as in the majority of coun
tries where representative govern
ments exists practically monopoliz
ing the control of affairs. It is a
cheerful admission of the natural
conflict of interests of these differ
ent classes, an admission for some
reason capitalist politicians in tile
United States rigidly refuse to ad
mit, much to the benefit of the em
ploying classes who in this manner
are enabled to practically send
their representatives to the legisla
j tures to the exclusion of ail others.
I Russia is an enormous country and
will take some time to find itself. The
land is in a ferment and naturally
many things will take place before
the country will again assume the
somewhat slow but peaceful evolu
tion which has been so marked in
other countries.
Yet it is better to be free amid
turmoil and amid contending opini
ons than to be a slave amid law
and order. None know this better
than do the Russians and that they
will build their affairs accordingly
is hardly to be doubted.
Whether they will join perma
nently and energetically again in
the Great War it is hard to tell.
They have no love for Germany
for the Prussian bureaucrats have
been the stoutest supporters of
Tzarism in Russia as Tzarism in
Russia was the stoutest upholder of
Kaiserism in Prussia. It will de
pend greatly upon the turn of af
fairs and the issue of the fir.-:1, of
fensive which more than like'.x they
will make.
VICTORIA SAILS NORTH
WITH MAIL MONDAY
SEATTLE, July 2.—-The steamer
Victoria sailed this morning at ten
o’clock for Nome and St. Michaels
with a quantity ot freight. United
States mail and the following
among the passengers: Mrs. P. Coe.
James Partridge. Mrs. I. Pierce, N.
Pram and wife, Mrs. J. Mondt, Mrs.
M. Flowers, Harry Pigeon, L.
L. Kecham,, Fred Martin, George
D. Schofield, Miss D. Stinberg, Olive
Van Valin, Mrs. W. Van Valin, W.
Hadley and wife, Harold Hadley. S.
Chace, wife and baby, Alle Kelly
and wife. Jack Greenwell, B. A.
Abercrombie, J. McGuil, Miss F.
Conelik, Miss N. Cramer. Mrs. J.
Cramer, Phillip de Fontville, O. D.
jC'ochran.
There five steerage passengers
whose names were not listed.
Returning the Victoria will sail
LOCAL ITEMS.
Mr. Lafee, the purchaser of the
Solomon river railroad has as yet
made no arrangements to pull up
the tracks as yet and it may he
next Spring before he attempts the
work. Moreover it is possible,
and indeed probable that he will
repair the line as far as East Fork
and operate it so that the road may
carry all the freight the miners
need. Moreover he had learned
that the Big Hurrah would be
opened up at once and as this is a
report which has likely some foun
dation in fact, there would be con
siderable hauling work for the road
in connection with the quartz mine.
S. S. Standard .
Sails every SIX DAYS to
DIME AND WAY POINTS
weather permitting
SAILS TODAY at 10 A. M.
From Snake Kiver.
CHAS WECKMAN.
C. L. Ross
Lumber
Milling
Contractor
I*HONl3 BLACK 102.
3rd and B St.
Why worry
About wash day
THAT'S OUR BUSINESS.
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STEAM LAUNDRY
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| as on the last trip via the soutli
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