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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of hla liber, or an
nearly as possible. Is a worthy object of any good govern asset."—
tbritaa Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Bok 110 Nome, Alaska.
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Horae, Alassa, under the Act of March I, 1879.
Nome, Alaska. February 18, 1010.
Government Ownership as illus
trated in the construction of the
Alaska railroad is not going to keep
anyone awako nights lost in admin
tion of Its beauties. And certainly
the labor troubles which have brok
en out in Anchorage" do not serve to
lieigthen its attractions.
The idea that a bureaucracy like
this railroad commission is going
to be of a great and permanent
benefit to the territory of course is
absurd, for like all bureaucrats
they arc in power a short time when
they come to the conclusion that the
Alaska railroad has neon decided
upon by a beneficicnt government
expressly for their own particular
edification, benefit and profit.
The humbug that has boon written
about the railroad is about equal to
the humbug that is being written
about the railroad Commission.
Neither one nor the other is going
to work wonders for Alaska, and a
good deal of the criticism .coming
the way of the commission is be
cause the interested press had been
heralding to the world the manifold
perfections of the commission, just
as it had been heralding the mani
fold perfectons of the railroad, d he
engineers have appi
their minds that as
'.rently made u:>
far as Uio labor
4<: wild enter into the conructi-v
l the'Tcul\n-i concerted, it isjto 1 t
btainei'Tilu* aw 1! tiler ro.t ss ft
secured for.
They were very lucky, ;n carrying
out this idea, on account of the
fact that when the work,, started
there were hundreds of idle men in
every Alaskan town. With the help
or the boomers m sewara tney also
managed to attract hundreds of
more mon to the territory.
Moreover outside conditions were
no hotter. Good, skookum pick and
shovel men weie idle by the thou
sand, and the Alaska Railroad Com
mission made no bones about re
ducing the standard wages paid ia
that section wherein they had to
operate. With an industrial de
pression general and no work i.t
sight, an unorganized lot of worker
had no option hut to take what they
could get.
That is all verj ■gin
ning. Rut as such work advances
and. as times improve outside, there
la not much chance of the worne.s
accepting will docility the low wages
which are offered. And it is be
cause times are improving outside
to the extent that work is now more
plentiful, and bocauso the men em
ployed around Anchorage know that
they are receiving helow the stanc
ard formerly paid for work in that
section, there is now a strike.
It would be a mistake to hotittle
the struggle which the workers have
before them when they demand bet
ter wages. The engineering com
mission may buy defective boats, a
luxury other Alaskan bureaucracies
have indulged in now and then, bui
to pay labor decen'. wages is another
proposition. They will probably ar
range to bring in even cheaper labor
and thus he assured au unhampered
construction.
The Alaskan railroad is an experi
ment and a very dubious one. it is
a road from nowhere to nowhere, it
is not serving any immediate trans
portation need. Matanuska coal is
excellent, but it ’s not going to set
the world on fire, nor without ii
would Uncle Sam’s navy be unable
to steam. The only hope ror the
railroad's success as a railroad
would be a well paid construction
gang who would use their spare
money to prospect or to develop
farming lands along the route. The
men who built the White Pass open
ed up Atlin and gave that road a
by no means negligible tributary
coutatry, and that the men who
might build the Alaskan railroad
would prospect and open up evjan
more extensive and ricber countries
than Altln seems amost a certainty.
But If the engineering commls
sion is so shortsighted as to believe
that the mere construction of the
railroad through a wilderness of hill
or tundra is to work wonders for
the territory, without any effort be
ing made to develop it as it goes
along, they are simply working to
wards a monumental failure.
Ford's intention to start another
great campaign, this time against
militarism, may be more productive
of fruit than has been his pacific
trip to Europe.
It is probably correct what one
of the Fordltes on that trip said
that the neutrals want peace less
than do the belligerents, what with
the fine trade in a varioty of goods
that they are now carrying on with
the nations at war. And it is the
money makers who really dominate
the situation.
Ford faces in nis anti munltlonist
propaganda in this country tho mu
nitions industry. That is a fores
those days to be reckoned with.
Only a short time ago, during the
recent elections to be exact, a town
where was located a munition fac
tory posted notices that it would be
enlarged if tho socialists wiio iia.l i
been in control before were noi
elected. And the socialists wore not
eU'ctt i. The enlargement sugge.v
. ivus also accompanied by the
throat that if tho socialists were
elected the plant might be closed.
The employees did not want to
lose their meal ticket, and they
voted as tho munitionists wanted.
The pacificists face this condition
throughout the country. The idea
is seauiousiy cultivated mat with a
bigger navy and larger army am
I better preparedness greater Indus
trial activity, higher wages and
more business and “prosperity” will
prevail. The full dinner pail is
still the controlling factor at the bal
lot box, notwithstanding ail talk to
the contrary.
Now if Ford could show the work
ers or others that without this mu
I nitlonist activity which prepared
111 is favors' the country would be as
well or better off he might make
some headway. To reveal the fa,*,
that in the munition contracts wi
be graft and boodling and pilfering,
is to not at all affect the average
j voter. The average voter’s sense of
political ethics is not very highly do
veloped. • The man who can gain
his point and make money on a gov
ernment contract is a damn smart
man. He is admired and' is imitated
by a host of lessor lights.
The skin game man has alwavs
a number of followers, and they
lure the young idea with the same
magnetism as a light exerts upon
the fluttering insect.
What is considered Is the vital
necessity of the full belly and the
full dinner pall. If that is to come
from the munitions industry well
and good. Mr. Ford In that event
can go to Jericho for all the effect
he will have upon tho multitude.
The country generally Is about as
well off politically and economically
as It is deserves to be. Herbert
Spencer declared to that effect on
one occasion and he spoke the truth.
When men determine to reform an
evil they reform It, but if the ma
jority are willing to acquiesce in its
continuance it will bo persisted In.
If mon place tho full dinner pall
above everything else, and think
there is no reason why they
shouldn’t unless a fuller and more
easily gotten dinner pall is to be
otherwise obtained, they can be re
lied upon to support any system
however iniquitous.
Japan’s insistence upon its de
mands upon China is oxciting sevir
al congressmen who rofuse to be
lieve that thoBo demands are any
thing else than as tfoby have been
misrepresented 1 y that section of
the press interested in making out
Japan’s determination to subject
China to Its complete control..
Whilo the original misrepresenta
tion was published freely in all pa
pers subject to some dispatches,
they never have except in a few
cases published the corrections.
Thus the associated press made H
out that Japan insisted before
granting any railroad concession to
a foreign power and before nego
tiating loans from any third power,
China must consult Japan. Now'no
such proposal or demand ever was
made, what Japan insisted upon was
that-*- before .negotiating railroad or
loans or hypotheticatlng revenues iu
Eastern Mongolia and South Man
churia both adjoining Japanese
territory, China must obtain Japan’s
consent. Japan fa negotiating
agreed to defer her Eastern Mongo
lian claims, and, as it is stated, "we
are left with the simple fact that
Japan is claiming preference over
every other foreign power in the
sphere of influence everywhere re
cognized as her own, the terra n
won by her victory over Russia ten
years ago”.
What • Japan is really doing is
establishing a Monroe doctrine for
Asia and her right to do so can
hardly be questioned by Americans.
Even if Japan refused to recog
nize the United States as an Asiatic
power, it is also right to remember
that she refused to recognize Rus
sia, France and Great Britain aa
such, all of which countries own
Asiatic territory as large if not lar
ger as in some cases, than Japan
herself.
Japan does not seek to control
China. But Japan does insist that
if foreign political, military or
financial advisers are selected, Japan
must be first consultod. The safety
of Japan is obviously involved in
these demands. To permit the spo
liation of China by another powir
would be to place an enemy directly
at the gates of Japan.
But the case of Japan is deli
berately and openly attacked by
those who would foster the notion
that Japan has sinister dosigns upon
the United States. That notion Is
fostered with the -express purpose ot
boosting the munitlonist doctrines
that now find high favor and which
depend as in this instance upon
facts deliberately perverted to their
own ends. And it is upon such per
verted stuff that the patriotism oi
the country is fed so that they may
acquisece in the steal planned by the
grafters among the munitionists ana
armament makers on the s;q^' of
military and naval -necessity, for as
oue foolish writer commenitng upon
what were not facts said "If Japan
did it to Cliina what’s to prevent it
doiiig it to us?"
What Japan has started in Asia
is essentially a Pan-Asiatic move
ment similar In purpose and scope
to the Pan-American movement
with the principles in some measure
of the Monroe doctrine insisted
upon, or at least acdentuatod, in
both.
Japan goes further than promise
to give 'back Kiaochou. In her de
mands upon China, Japan Insists
that China shall not alienate or lease
to other countries any port, harbor
<jr island on the coast of China, the
the government of Japan including
Itself in the stipulation.
The Japanese war scare is about
as ridiculous as the German war
scare that has sent the country Into
an hysterical preparations move
ment. The preparations movement
however is clearly not going to get
away with all the arguments, and
doubtless in time the real objective
of the movement will be more clear
ly understood.
Japan has shown no real signs ot
hostility to the United States. On
the contrary despite endless sub
jects which might cause friction, the
government of Nippon has repeated
ly and ostentatiously gone out of its
way to assure the United States peo
ple of a desire for rrlendly and
closer relations. They have admitted
that they owe America a debt of
gratitude, and their careful policy in
the east looking to their own na
tional integrity cannot be criticized,
least of all in America with a Mon
roe doctrine to attend to.
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