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Nome, Alaska, September 7, 1010.
THK l ASK OF MATT JAt’OBSOX. .
The case of Matt Jacobson de
serves a passing word. He was a
beach miner. He has mined for a
good many years on the beach and
had to work hard for every cent
he got. Most of what he did make
the saloons got. and every cent he
earned was spent in this com
munity, All the time he contributed
to the wealth of this town and
those who reside herein.
Last week he came into Nome.
He was as usual welcomed by the
saloons with their keen scent for
live ones. The man's age did not
prevent some of >hem from pouring
their poison into him. and he was
taken from one of them, sodden
with drink and dangerously ill to
die in the Hospital. On Monday he
did die. On Tuesday the city with
indecent haste interred him in the
Belmont Point Cemetery. He was
taken to his grave without a soli
tary friend being advised, or as far
as we can learn, an effort made to
discover if he had any friends.
The Industrial Worker mentioned
the fact that his partner was work
ing up the beach. In point of fact
as soon as it was known that Jacob
-son was dead, another friend walked
thirty miles to notify his partner
and other friends and acquaintances
of the fact, so that they would come
to town and make arrangements for
the funeral. They arrived in town
on Wednesday only to find that his
body had been already laid to rest
and the matter disposed of to all in
tents and purposes.
The public is certainly entitled
to know why there was this unseem
ly haste to bury Jacobson and
whether or not, the fact that the
man had been supplied with drink
for several days regardless of his
condition had anything to do with
his case. Jacobson was a member
of the Pioneers of Alaska. One
would have thought that that fact
alone would have saved his friends
the humiliating condition of his
burial. And we are glad to learn
that it is the intention of the orga
nization to investigate the matter
of his hugger mugger interment.
It is not because of the fact that
Jacobson is a Pioneer that this mat
ter should be looked after. That is
purely a matter between his friends
and the other members of the orga
nization to which he belonged. But
it is that the signicance of the man’s
destitute or apparently destitute
condition which is responsible for
this outrageously indecent haste in
putting him away. Jacobson’s pov
erty, the only legacy of his years
of toil, is the cause of this un
seemliness. And it may well occa
sion some comment when the local
saloonists can defiantly ply intoxi
cated men with liquor until they
drop over in a state of coma, with
no responsibility fastened upon the
guilty ones by a legal investigation.
The law insists that drunken men
be not supplied with liquor, and the
fact that liquor was primarily the
cause of Jacobson’s death is also
prima facie evidence that the law
has been violated by some licensed
premises.
In any event the whole matter is
such a reflection upon the humanity
of this city, such a slur upon the
decency of Nome, that in or^cr to
prevent any such an outrageous re
currence, the fullest publicity
should be given all the facts.
Usually such a condition as Is
here commented upon is rare indeed
in Alaska. Usually even in the
hardest circumstances, feelings of
kindness and a finer sentiment pre
vents any such a gross outrage upon
the feelings of the departed one’s
friends, be he poor or otherwise.
And this makes the whole matter
all the more inexcusable.
We do not see how the members
of the Pioneers of Alaska can re
lieve themselves of all responsibil
ity in this case. It Is however not
too late to make an investigation,
so that at least any sur-h a thing
may never happen again.
The Industrial Worker extends
to the departed man’s friends and
partner the fullest sympathy in this
deplorable affair.
TDK SOLID SOUTH.
Hughes experience in the Solid
South may be annoying to the can
didate, but it ought to be instructive
to everyone. The Solid South models
its political ideals on interests
which have long since departed. Po
litics is a relic in the south of an
other age when the great landed
and slave holding interests operated
their ends in government through
the democratic party. Loyalty to
those hereditary ideals remain long
after their substance has departed.
In the north Big Business finds re
presentation in the republican party
most effective, because the republi
can party commands success for it.
In the North democracy is associat
ed with the smaller fry in the in
dustrial and commercial world for
that reason.
But Big Business, finding the
Solid South solid for old time's sake
in democracy, has no hesitation in
making use of it for its own ends.
Hence while the steel, the textile,
the lumber, the coal, the sugar, the
cotton and financial interests of the
north are obedient to the dictates
of Wall St. and ally themselves
with the republican party, in the
south with much ease they unite
with the democratic party. Hence the
interesting spectacle of the south
ern democrats opposing child
labor. Hence also the peculiar
spectacle of candidate Hughes being
practically repudiated. Big Business
is as versatile as it is powerful and
will not view with dismay his
eclipse in the sunny south. There
democracy serves its ends.
GREECE.
Greece lias had a checkered his
tory. Its glorious past is the theme
of poet and orator. We have never
improved upon its philosophy and
likely enough never will. They said
the first and last word in metaphy
sics and everything that' has been
written since has been written about
what they said or taught. Not less
than seventy-five per cent of chris
ianity is Greecian in its origin, and
the fruits of the Greecian minds
have spread all over the world. But
Greece then the Greece now are
two different nations. And modern
writers opine that they are racially
and by adoption more Turkish than
the Turks themselves. All of which
may or may not be true.
The poets have shed copious tears
over Greece. They have lamented
its past glory and its unfortunate
present and they fought and strugg
led with it to assist its struggle for
freedom.
But it may be doubted if Greece
at any time needed sympathy or was
in a worse plight than at present.
It is paying for the petty efforts at
military glory that it directed for
its own ends in the Balkan war. It
is subjected to all kinds of diplo
matic pressure, only another term
for actual force, to make it surren
der its nuetrality. It has a militar>
system. It is prepared. It has its
universal military service and its
munition system. It has its gen
erals and its officers. It has guns
and trained men and the Allies
need them. It has played at being
a warrior nation and must now gel
in and really live the part. Al
though the path of glory leads but tc
the grave, it must now follow that
path, not in its own interest but ir
the interest of greater nations. It
must do the fighting for nations
whose great men will not. Just as
the hoi pollol of the world have tc
fight their commercial, industrial
and financial masters’ battles
Surely if the poets have tears tc
shed for Greece they might as well
begin to shed them now.
JOHN 1). AND MOSES.
The late President Harper of Chi
cago University opined that Rocke
feller was a greater man than
Shakespeare. Harper had his eye
upon the Rockefeller money bags j
and possibly his opinion unloosed i
them for quite a wad. But we have :
it on the personal testimony of I
Rockefeller that he and Moses pas- i
sed through a similar experience
and with like results.
The other day in Cleveland at a !
Euclid Avenue Church a Reverend
Myers
Moses.
delivered a homily upon '
Mav be he looked with fre-j
quency towards the Rockefeller pew
as he eulogized the great Hebrew. '
He may not, but if he knew his
business he surely did. At any rate
Mr. Myers pointed out the fact that
Moses' in his career had the choice
between riches, social preferment
and glory or service for the Lord.
And Moses himself deliberately cast
aside the future of wealth and
Worldlv honors for the career of
service.
Of course we do not how correct
this view of the Mosaic career may
be. Critics of Moses have today a
double advantage. Moses, living it,
faced a future’s uncertainty. After
the race is run, it is easy to pick
the winner.
But that is neither here nor there.
The interesting fact is that Mr.
Rockfeller stated after the church
meeting with a glow of honest pride
that he himself had passed through
a similar experience and had chosen
the righteous path although he was
sorely tempted to follow that which
led to fame and honor and riches.
It is regrettable that Ida Tarbell's
biography of the Standard Oil King
has never revealed this pleasing
fact concerning which John now
unbosoms himself, and his readers
may wonder at what particular field
his tempter was sueessfully defied.
For it is not in evidence ets yet. It
certainly was not manifested at Co
lorado, or in Roosevelt or at Bay
onne. It may be, in the nature fo
things, that not only is Rockefeller
a greater than Shakespeare as Har
per believed, but he is even greater
than Moses. Moses eschewed riches
and defied the tempter. Rockefeller
resisted riches and the tempter,
yet wealth was his just the same.
Sl'(MK COATING.
It is the intention of the Western
Federation of Miners to change its
preamble and to substitute for the
present radical avowal of the class
struggle one which will be less of
fensive to the employers. This is
sugar coating the unionist pill with
a vengeance. But possibly it is late
in the day. Now that the organiza
tion is safe, sane and conservative
it is not unlikely the mine owners
may await to witness proof of the !
fact and so be unimpressed by the
preamble. The yearned for check
off system may yet be long de
layed.
Not that preambles matter. Sure
ly one cannot judge an organization
by its preamble. On the contrary
it is trifling in the extreme. It is
the efficiency of the organization
for the ends sought which counts.
That is not improved by changing
preambles. That will not persuade
any employer that such an organi
zation is less radical. What does
count is power. That power de
pends upon union solidarity, not
solid loyalty or solid admiration of
any sort of an officialdom. They re
ally do not count. They are likely
to be concerned more with assess
ments and per capita than with any
thing else. And strikes are not won
nor are any of labor's battles
achieved with victory to the work
ers by assessments and donations.
There are few enough labor victor
ies of late withal that the situation
in the field is so promising.
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