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Nome, Alaska, September S, I !)*(>.
WARMING lP.
The repuhlican rally may not
have b en an over enthusiastic meet
ing, hut it was interesting; and it
was especially interesting in the de
liberate and entertaining attack
which Geo. D. Schofield, republi
can candidate for territorial Attor
ney-General, made upon Geo. B.
Grigsby democratic aspirant for that
honor.
Probably it takes a lawyer to ex
pose a lawyer; there is an analogous
proverb to similar effect familiar to
all; and the public can now await
-with rising anticipation Mr. Grigs
by’s opinion of Mr. Schofield. It is
certain to prove as interesting and
as entertaining.
The political rivalry which is en
gendered in these campaigns have
at least the merit of developing
frankness upon the part of oppo
nents. They discover for themselves
the pleasing duty of disillusioning
the admirers who burn incense at
the altars of their rivals.
One <an readily understand Judge
Schofield's political position. He
finds his opponent Grigsby with a
number of followers laboring under
the obsession of unthinking adcra
tion. And he perceives that it !s a
pleasant and. patriotic duty of his to
speak with perfect frankness upon
some apparently forgotten incidents
Hi his rival’s official career. Exhu
mation cf past careers is always in
order at election time and the cam
paign is a sufficient permit for this
cadaverous work. And it is i re
markable tiling that ghoulish as
rnay be though* by soray this cus
tomary procedure, none enjoy it
more than the audience except per
haps the political dissecco- who with
oratorical scalpel subjects the liap
career before him to ruthless
«ii- section while he dem nstr.itos its
ill-favored * organic structure to a
tleiigntea puonc.
When Grigshy, flush with the hope
of victory and proud in optimistic
egoism hears about his friend
Schofield's able presentation oi
some facts supposedly long buried
tind supposedly long forgotten, in
all probability his heart will warm
towards his rival but with unthank
ful indignation, and he in his turn
will feel it his duty, as a patriot and
embryonic statesman above the cur
rent of human friendships, to sub
ject Mr. Schofield’s professional
-career to lite same sort of ruthless
analysis, and place before another
charmed public an aspect of that
record which has quite escaped the
observation of Mr. Schofield himself.
And he will aid the public inspec
tion of certain novel features which
might not contribute to any such
(extended plane of praise as Mr.
Schofield, placing his own public
career before his audience Wednes
day night, carefully indulged in.
This interchange of political
amenities is known outside the le
gal and political profession as wash
ing dirty linen, and for so unplea
sant a procedure it is wonderful
how the public enjoys it.
Judge Schofield may not have
ltnown it, but his address when he
sailed into Grigsby’s official career
in this community was vastly enter
taining. While his audience listen
ed unappreciatively to his perora
tion upon Alaska’s future greatness,
they devoured everything he said
about Grigsby with insatiable
greed. They hung upon every word.
It is a peculiar trait of our very
elevated plane of civilization that
while we would scorn to be witness
t« a bloody gladiatorial combat such
as disgraced Rome, we can listen
with joy unconflned to one political
opponent pierce his adversary with
no less deadly and far more
venomed weapons than those used
toy the men about to die and who
saluted Caesar.
It is therefore that one can feel
■safe In saying that the public is now
settling itself to look forward to the
return here of Geo B. Grigsby so
i that ho can in the same dispassion
j ate manner subject the career ot
Judge Schofield to the same ruth
| lean and pitiless dissection.
We all heard the republican can
didate place himself upon so high
| a moral, professional and political
] plane as to defy criticsm. Alas,
Caesar’s wife, who should have
been above it, was subjected to sus
picion. Why even Grigsby felt so
sure that his own career here would
pass scatheless through the cam
paign ordeal that at the Sulzer
meeting he found no more inspiring
subject and no more bounteous tar
get for his wit and eloquence than
that poor overdone subject of the
carpet bagger.
The republican rally will have
shown him that political campaigns
have at least the merit of frankness.
And between lawyers, frankness, we
fear, is a somewhat dangerous
weapon which like as not is capable
of surprising results.
Xo doubt there are some in the
community that feel Air. Schofield
has done a patriotic duty in resur
recting the entombed facts or Grigs
by’s career as assistant district at
torney. And in all probability he has
done some service. Xot that it will
disillusion Grigsby’s followers, ex
! cept that it may enhance their re
sentment towards the truth telling
opponent of their idol. But it is
' not at all improbable that he wil'
! discover that Mr. Grigsby will come
back righteously indignant, and
[ prepared to show that even in his
rivals career “all that glisters is not
gold”.
The Industrial Worker is in this
case we hope quite impartial and
I judiciously unbiassed. Speaking
j with a neutral frankness, we may
' state that we believe that none of
; the candidates for the office of At
| tornev General will meet any in
superable obs'acles in demonstrat
ing their opponent’s unfitness for
office.
Happy, to misquote the essayist,
is the lawyer without a history, but
then he would not be a lawyer, and
therefore could not be a candidate
for the office of Attorney General.
CONDESCENDING
There’s a fine condescension about
one of the news dispatches in to
day’s issue. The Great Northern
railway has notified the workers
that it will accept the Adamson
bill.
And what is the Adamson bill?
The Adamson bill is the law of the
land. It passed the House of Re
presentatives and the Senate in Con
gress. It has been signed by the
President. It has all the constitu
tional warrant of legality to make
its acceptance obligatory upon the
people. The Adamson bill is now
part of the United States statutory
law.
That is why we say that there is
a fine condescension upon the part
' of an American corporation when tl
graciously makes the announcement
that it will accept the Dill and obey
the law.
For corporations and private in
dividuals are not, these days, one
and the same thing in the eyep of
the law or in their attitude to the
laws. Imagine if you please an or
ganization of working men, making
known the fact that is would accept
the laws as passed. At once the en
tire kept press would be on its hind
legs declaring that “Rockefeller
they heard of, Morgan they knew,
but who the hell are you?"
Imagine a sovereign voter of these
United States after the law had been
passed admitting that the law would
be abided by. At once the general
public would regard that citizen
with amazment. The idea: As if any
individual could face a legal enact
ment any other way.
But a railway corporation is
something different. They may make
but they can also, break the laws.
They can accept or refuse to accept
the enactments of Congress. It is as
they will. No one regards the an
nouncement by the Great Northern
railway as anything hut a very na
tural and welcome admission. It is
entirely nice of the railroad author- i
ities to accept the situation, and ;
graciously vouchsafe to condescend
to obey the law passed by the Con- !
gresr, of the United States of Am- j
erica. But do you want any more j
striking demonstration of the real
power in the land than is this very
notification?
WOULD LABOR CONGRESS.
The American Federation of La
bor initiated the call for a world !
labor congress when peace is re- j
stored to earth after the Great
War. The proposition was voted
impracticable by English and other !
unionists, although supported by |
the French.
That such a congress would draw
the workers closer together is not
very likely. There have been inter
national congresses of labor union
ists and socialists long before the i
war. but they made no inroads a! |
all in the nationalist inclinations of
the national organizations. They
do not bring the workers closer to
gether nor tend in any but a far
fetched way to make possible the
achievement of international broth
erhood.
Labor is quite powerless today.
It is quite powerless all over the
world. Congresses will not change
that condition. That change must
be wrought at home. Domestic per
fection must come before any such
a plane as international brother
hood can be reached. There must
be national solidarity among the na
tion's workers before international
solidarity will be brought home. Na
tional solidarity is not the anti
thesis of, but the foundation for in
ternational solidarity. And the A.
F. of L. might begin formulating
plans which would bring national
solidarity about.
It certainly will not be brought
about through jurisdictional squab
bles and organized scabbery with
one union aiding a gang of strike
breackers to crush the other.
Anything in the line or Job work
LAUGUISHING.
i
Our old friend the preparedness
is ue is not dead but sleeiicth. The
naval and army apropriations have
been passed and the urge of prepar
edness agitation is less strenuous.
Up to the time a greater army and
a greater navy were questions be
fore Congress (with munitionists
and constructionists clamorous for
contracts) parades, editorials,
speeches, essays, pamplets were the
rage.
Just at present all this energy
laughishes. Preparedness is taking
a rest. It finds a place even in only '
an occasional campaign speech. Its
political necessity is no longer
obvious.
' So for a while it rests. But only
for a while. Another year is com
ing with another chance for still
greater appropriations and for an
other opportunity to up-build a
huge military machine which will
protect the plutocrat and the privi
leged.
Till then, it is safe to bid the pre
parationists goodbye. They are
taking their siesta. And they have
done well, for Congress has done
well by them.
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