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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
■early as possible. Is a worthy object of aDy good government,"—
anraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
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Kntered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
(ioiue, Alaska, under the Act of March 8, 1878.
Nome, Alaska, June 8. 11)10.
SOME EGOIST.
(Tnder the clever caption of A
Fourth Dimension of Impudence the
Juneau Emipre disparages to a da
gree the ‘‘egotistical and monu
mental self-conceit of Roosevelt".
The Empire is a loyal democratic
paper whose ideals are about real
ized on everything tinder the sun
from mathematics to political eco
nomy by the Wilson administration,
and for that reason if for no other
Roosevelt can obtain as much credit
for anything as can that other ter
rible kid, Wickersham.
Roosevelt has momumental self
conceit without question, and it is
just that which ma..es him so for
midable a candidate for further po
litical honors and why he is always
and will be always a "possibility".
The man who hesitates is lost, but
as there is not a particle of he3t
tance about the egoism of Roose
velt he always knows where he is.
He may have hopped and skipped
and leaped — he has done all of that
but while in the process of hopping
and skipping and leaping he man
aged to convince himself and every
one of his supporters that he was
performing the greatest and most
necessary stunt every performed by
any person.
And the very egoism that st akes
his opponents so tragico-ludicrous
is the more dangerous just because
he believes in it himself and com
pels through that moans others t<
do the same.
It is immaterial v/hrt drmn fools
make up a world ;it is immaterial
what damn fools lead a world. It
is the damn fool, the supreme ego
ist who believed in himself and
whose inflated self conceit knew no
bounds who accomplished things by
persuading ethers of bis ability so
to do.
The commonest experience of all
human intercourse is that of under
rating the value or an opponent.
But the commonest of all reasons
wtiy that opponent was under
valued is because it was not realized
that he believed in himself and
managed thus to make the other
follow do the same thing.
Roosevelt has been rs consistent
as Wilson and that's saying a whole
lot. But with lots of noise and lots
of vigorous denunciation and lots or
self advertising Roosevelt has arisen
abovo all petty inconsistencies. He
has said one thing today and be
lieved it and uttered the opposite
tomorrow and believed it, and that's
whore he differed from Wison. Wil
son has one belief today and an
other tomorrow, but gives the im
pression that he has only half heart
ed confidence in either his former
or his newer beliefs; as a scholar
he is always open to conviction.
There i3 no comparison betweeu
the two men to bo sure. But it is
unfortunate for Wilson that Rooss
velt has been able to decry his po
licies with the charge of lofty
words and mean acts, and a great
uncertainty always.
Let a concrete case be cited from
Wilson's own words.
“Dont deceive yourselves for a
moment as to the power of the
great interests which now dominate
our development. They are so
great that it is almost an open ques
tion whether the government of the
United States can dominate them
or not ’.
Wilson admits the force of tho
• great economic power held by the
interests. But he is doubt, and a
most ignominious doubt, whether
the government can dominate them
or not. Either of two things are
involved in this problem—there is
no other way out of it—the gov
ernment of the United States domi
nates them or they dominate the
United States government. Surely a
man who knows himself politically
would never have admitted that
this was a questionable or doubt
ful matter. Certainly would Roose
ivelt never have done so. Rooseveii
I himself put the question up to the
i people in many of his speeches and
jsaid that either the people had to
■ dominate the interests or the inter
ests had to dominate them. He
| made a god of the state which he
I dominated himself ,and would have
| under his progressive rule, as Pro
| fessor Munsterberg has acutely ou
| served, made a more than Prussian
;stateism out of the government with
I his own personality dominating the
fabric of government,
j Nothing could be more unsatls
| fying than Wilson’s preparationisi
speeches. They hinted and sug
gested and intimated as to unknown
I dangers and again and again he de
clared withal he feared no inva
sion.
i
i this to it of thing is due to his
scholastic temperament no doubt:
every speetli an argument within it
self against cr with itself. Bur, ;t
is entirely loreign to what the peo
ple want and what the people find
in Roosevelt.
Roosevelt tears a passion to tat
! ters and casts fine phrases to the
I winds. But he does insist with a
, positivencss and dogmatism that
what he is saying is so self evident
] and so obvious and so manifest that
| lie is merely emphasizing truth
without room for argument. Ho
takes his theme be it preparation I
or federal control of the industries,
ibe it imperialism or Mexico or the
recall of judicial decisions, be it
■ out and out stand patism or demo
' gogic progressivlsm, and he argues
every anthitheUcal idea that he has
espoused and argues it as the gos
pel am.1 unvarying truth as it were
so help him God.
The man may be 99 per cent
fraud and fakir, but the other om
. per cent is adamantine self con
I fidenee and egoism which knows
no defeat and suppression. it can
be rubbed until Doomsday but it
j will wear, and when one comes to
I think of it, of that material have
! the great men been made,
j They began by believing in them
selves and without falter and witli
|out hesitancy unmasked a most mo
numental egoism and monster self
conceit. But that did not matter.
A vacillating, uncertain, wobbline,
wondering, hesitating, doubting
public as all publics are, wants the
man that says he is on bed rock
and knows it. It matter nothing at
all if he is standing in quicksands,
just so that he can persuade tile
public having persuaded himselt
that he and his arguments are built
upon a rock, that man wins out.
Roosevelt is not so formidable in
politics to his opponent because he
has been the up-holder of elevating
doctrines or the enunciator of noble
theories of human life and society
He is not formidable because he
bucked the trusts, nor because he
took up the cause of progressivistn
and all the rant it stood for. Not
at all. It is his wonderful personal
ity and his wonderful personality's
chiefest asset is this extraordinary
self confidence and lack of scholas
tic hesitancy; the assurance and the
egoism and the self conceit of the
man of action as contrasted with
the multitude of men who can
juggle phrases and clip sentences
and trim platitudes to the literary
and intellectual fashions of an
hour. A man, In fine, who may
peddle bull con, but who acts it as
well, and makes believe it’s the real
goods.
THOMOTION: A FINE ART.
A copy of a leading St. Louis pa
per under the heading “Bursting
Dam Brings Him Gold” and the sub
captions under the leader of “And
now W. L. Cochrane Lets Friends
Babies Cut Teeth on Nuggets”
“Wears $800 coat, Too.”, has a
most Interesting story of “Alaska
Gold Miner” with a full length pic
ture of W. L. Cochrane "and his
$800 coat.”
That story is worth repeating ana
as there may be some Nomeites with
moose pastures who may want to
learn how the thing is done, it l-i
here published in full:
‘'The dam burst.
Until that time W. L. Cochrane
hadn’t been using $800 seal coats
for “everyday” wear.
He had placered out the sands
and rock of Boulder creek, four
teen miles up from Nome, Alaska,
some $30,000, or $40,000, hat
bought with it all the water rights
and claims for three miles along
the creek, and was still digging
away trying to find a way to get
more than $111 a ton, gold, out of
the dirt.
Then the dam burst.
It was the dam built to store up
water for pressure in the big
mains in placer mining. When the
water swept 175 feet down the
valley, it knocked hi3 equipment
and carefully dug pits to the four
winds and changed local geography.
He was rather blue about it as
he stood on the ledge of rotten
quartz that had been uncovered.
He kicked at the quartz reflect
ively with his toe, and kicked off
a big chunk of gold. He grabbed a
pan. One big shovelful of the rot
ten stone gave him back from the
muddy water in the pan $6.18 in
gold.
He jelled to lm associates ana
they came running, the ledge was
followed for a mile and the aver
age assay taken from figures run
ning from ten cents to $9,486 a
ton, average something like $375.
Now he is back in the states
looking up old friends and letting
their children cut teeth on gold
nuggets. He is going back in the
spring with a lot of machinery and
“whooper up” as he describde it.
When he came out ho bought a
dozen uncolored sealskins worth
about $800 and had all of them
put into an overcoat which is n
strutting attraction adorning his si\
feet four inches and corresponding
buliv in Peacock Alley at the Con
gress Hotel where fca is staying”.
That is tho story. It is a char n
ing one. It crcouragos tho other
and rids no doubt in tho advance
ment of the mining plans of many
Alaskans.
The public has to he humbugged
and there is just a little more foun
dation to the Cochrane story than
moot of those which have gone oui
from hero nr which were dreamed
of in the city editor’s office in the
outside papers. The touch about
the sealskin coat no doubt is an in
spiration upon the part of the rs
porter who otherwise did his level
beat to point a promotion moral and
adorn a mining tale.
A good deal of the stuff peddled
about Alaska is bunk pure and
simple. It is called publicity stuff,
but as it enables the many varieties
of the genus promoter occasionally
to unload, it is regarded as value
able “publicity stuff”.
It is all right in a way. Alaskans
should not kick even if every moose
pasture man in the entire country
unloaded his acreage by reason of
a handsome story, the only trouble
is that it draws to this country
many victims of these fairy tales
which have no more substantial
basis than has the old idea of the j
wishing cap.
There have been many lives sacri
ficed to Alaskan rigors which weie
first drawn hero by stories of Ala
din riches that never are and never
can be realized. Most people stub
more than their toes when trying
to locate quartz 1 dges.
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SOCIALISTS CHALLENGED.
I challenge every Socialist, Radi
cal, Single Taxer, or Reformer, to
send ten cents, silver, (Money re
funded if dissatisfied- for my book,
“Why Things Happen to Happen.'1
Are you sure you’re right?—W.
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THE WORKER.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 0283
U. S. Land Office, Nome, 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 business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
Jas. M. Streeten, its authorized
agent, whose post office address Is
j Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
i Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing 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,
I 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. 5G deg. 27 min.
j E. 1376.6 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
i Cor. No. 4; thence 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 Melsing
Creek about four miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. lo
cation monur.ent No. 1172 Is
a schist stone 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 at
Melsing Creek, on the south . side
thereof, in latitude 6 4 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 ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
O. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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