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Address all Communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
Nome. Alaska, December 121. 1!>I<;.
mi: i*ot>rm \vs ci.t ij.
Thi' District of Columbia prohibi-|
ti ■:] bill is opposed b\
S r Marlin because ibis
. s..vs first
tin ought to lui '' a substitute for j
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Thej
p.-ni r . 11} go ti iri'iher. First, the
in a :-i t-liils tip- worker into a
slate i f comatose bankruptcy, am!
the cop's chib does the rest. It is
certainly well named the working |
Drill’s club. it has dubbed mor ■
poor duiis than any ordinary man I
could shake a stick tit.
UK.II liNMCK.
While everyone may regard the
European war with partial eyes
favoring this side or that for reason
of one kind or another which indi
vidually he can only explain, it is
well always to remember there is
another side to this war which is it
self absolutely neutral and that is
the feature that is most carefully
evaded in all.
To explain: society is no! run
on a hugger mugger plan, with
spontaneously developing iorces or
aetvities exciting awe and admira
tion and wonder and criticism and
human emotions of one sort or an
other. Society is itself the mani
festation of a certain accumulation
of forces, always active and always
motive and always present. Their
infinite variety compels us to over
look the fact that these forces,
whose manifestations fill the news
papers as news of the day or the
magazines or the scientific press
with articles ot' near or far explan
ation. arc effects of definite causes
which could have been reasonably
foreseen had we properly kept tails
upon preceding effects and preceding
causes. And these activities or ma
nifestations or effects which are in
turn causes, are operating with a
total disregard of the national feel
ings of the personal factors involved.
They arc operating with the deadly
accuracy and logical severity of the
formula that two plus two equal
four and they are to he changed by
no incantation or by any magic
spell which human superstition can
possibly conceive*.
And so it is that reverting to me
I'l'onomic and tinaiv :■! ' 'nr-. , of
tlic war wr rail roi.s in r u: tu with
out allowiug any national or inter
national sentiment whatever to in
tervene. providing we ran get all
the facts.
And furthermore, the most posi
tive fact about this great war is abso
lutely and certainly that things
ran never go on in industry or fin
al ■ • or conuntn e it; liumpe as they
h . ■, ■ done hefori.
The nations ha-*, spent so enorn -
fi,. and morta'g-d tiieir e-.irntag'■
:-o enortnously that tli y face tiie
tut u.- with no reserve.
i; we could save up the c ■:ir
j. • duct of human lain.r for one y :.r
:.a.i >-.,ciety was thereafter to abstain
from lurther productive lalmr l»j
! ,-,r end of little over a year the
fn.d tiin! clothing suplies, if e>er\
i Ltd were fully satisfied, would b-‘
al'iic.-d exliausted.
But not quite: there would still
be some left over even if the pre
sent average waste prevailed in the
distribution of that product.
Great Britain, to eite an example
of the present financial condition
of the warring nations, before the
war accumulated annually one bil
lion dollars over and above all re
quirements of the owners of the
machinery of production and over
and above the costs of that produc
tion.
That money was re-invested all
over the world annually and these
re-investments brought in to Great
Britain similar returns on a smaller
scale which tended to Increase the
annual unspent increment.
Since the war began and were it
to end an January 1, there would
be due from Great Britain fixed
charges of over thirteen billion and
a half.
The country's so-ca'llcd working
ipllal is sliiit t<> pieces. And it is
hot to pieces so indefinitely that i
ueiuhal overhauling of the system
ah.ne can enable the country to
stand upon its eeonomie legs.
it is not to say that Great Britain
has not sufficient accumulated
v .-altIt to pay off these fixed charges,
hut it is ahsontely correct to say that
these fixed charges cannot be paid
and a working capital that the eco
nomist talk about can be main
tained.
Consequently the first considera
tion is to assure the perpetual in
creased efficiency of the workers—if
they will stand for it. A diminu
tion of the already low standard of
living in Great Britain. An abso
lute elimination of wasted capital
and the resultant consolidation of
all industries in a gigantic concern
in each whereby the operations
can he conducted with as targe a
margin to spare as possible.
It is simply and for the reason
shown quite impossible to revert td
any such a hap hazard condition or
tilings as existed before the war,
with the competition keen in In
dustries and individualism and the
sentiment for indvldual operation
running a rampant condition
throughout it all.
And no matter whether this is
done quickly as it can only i>e done
safely or done later on and with
great danger, it will he at best a
makeshift.
These great accumulated debts are
to be overrome by an intensity of
labor production that never was
known before. There will he poss
ible for the great owning and
leisured classes continued existence
of leisure and enjoyment only by
forcing the work animals from
their stalls to the harness and com
pelling them to toil as they never
toiled before.
Fundamentally all wealth comes
from the application of labor power
to land or machinery, labor power of
] brain or hand. Fundamentally too,
I the wealth which find's expression in
the medium of exchange for the
payment of debts or any sort of na
tional or international financial
movements, comes from that labor
power.
That labor power as at present
productive is insufficient to restore
! the industrial, financial or commer
cial operations to the normal move
! men! because of tlio indebtness ot
| the war, the ineffectiveness of ma
| chinery of production or the failure
j to apply labor to really productive
l fields.
| As the farmer sows or as society
’ cows so shall the farmer or Society
■ reap. It is plain as two and two are
four. And society has been sowing
j the t Ms ties and the social labor
lii-. not been productive labor these
: pm t tew yt ars.
(ti'.iii time, given human re-pro
duction, re-production of labor
power among other things, and the
waste of these years of warfare will
be overcome. That is certain, but
in the meantime the financial situa
tion always impatient of delay and
always intolerable of failure to get
satisfaction, will have to be met and
it will be met only by labor being
reduced to a condition of things
wholly intolerable so that it can give
literally of its flesh and blood to
satisfy the Shylocks whose greed
has been fattening upon the misery
of the years.
And the entire proposition then
shortens itself to this: will the
workers stand for it. Will they
who have been getting their three
squares a day and their warm
clothing and their smokes and their
pay return to the intensified drud
gery of the common worker who
hews wood and draws water for an
other? Will they who have learned
the one insistent fact upon which
their lives have depended durng me
war that might is right return
humbled to their workshops and
sedulously and humbly devote
themselves to the task of re-building
where others destroyed and re-con
struction where their masters pulled
down? Will they who have been sub
jected to two of the most deaden
ingly logical of the social processes,
he machine process and the war
•process, tamely submit while the ex
ploiting classes rivet hard the shack
les of industrial serfdom upon their
imbs which have moved over the
lead and the wounded for less great
r urge than that of working out
• heir own freedom and tiiat of their
lass?
These are important questions;
they cannot be answered off hand.
They entail too many facts which
society never considers unless so
ciety has to meet them. They In
volve knowledge not tolerated in
*he schools, hidden away from the
public eye and censored lest they
excite men and women against the
order of things that enriched a few
and impoverished the many.
Hut never fear but it will be be
fore the warring nations, no matter
which side wins. Never fear the na
tions will have to meet and an
swer these questions just as they
have to answer the facts of the
pound of flesh that the nations so
carelessly signed for in the bond
noth i: to taxpayeus.
You are hereby notified that the
Assessment Roll of the City of
Nome, Alaska for the year 1910.
has been delivered to me and the
amount due from each person
thereon named and levied upon the
personal and real property therein
described has been extended and
carried out by me. and the said Roll
has been examined, approved and
completed and that said tax levy
has been made by the Common
Council of the aforesaid city.
And you- are further notified
that all persons owning real and
personal property or both are re
quired forthwith to pay the amount
of money so assessed ana taxed
against the property described in
said Roll, to said assessor and ex
olfieio tax collector at his office in
the City Hall in said City.
Dated at Nome, Alaska this 20th
day of December, 1916.
E GRIMM.
City Clerk arid Assessor and
ex-officio Tax Collector.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF 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 I By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
VV. 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
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.
\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. io
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2 8 min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.SO ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
4 5 deg. 53 min. \V. 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 5.90S acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No. i
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.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S 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. 3 9
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. 4 5
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
I 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 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,
Surve'y No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un
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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