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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government”'—
Abranam Lincoln
Address all Communication* to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black lit.
Nome, Alnsha, July 11. I!>17.
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V., ! arh ia early «Hildhood to
... ii with ; • r: i ■ ■ ot “Our Country .
j;,-ma.:>■■. tic phr;e-s is iiut.-ur
-ii... i uo average American liv
ing in a:, industrial center owns no
ini.ri- ot tiie 1 ailed States than does
the average Chinese coolie in the
Yungtse Valley. So completely is the
expatriated, economically, that in
most cases he docs not even own
the home in which he lives.
The point is well illustrated by
the situation in New Kngland, the
oldest and most highly urbanized
pat t of the Cnited States.
The New Kngland of revolution
ary days was a country of farms,
villages and small towns, with a
few cities of prominence. Rural
life predominated. The farm owner
was the backbone of this early Am
erican democracy.
When the last census was taken
less than one-fifth of the population
of New Kngland lived in the coun
try— s:5.S pei cent of the people
were reported in cities and towns.
This is almost double the ratio ol
eity dwellers for the whole I'm ted
States.
The three New England states
which arc most largely industrial
.ire Massachusetts. Rhode Island
and Connecticut. The proportion
of people living in the country in
these three states is: Connecticut.
10 1? per cent: Massachusetts.. l.Z
per cent, and Rhode Island. per
cent— in other words, in all ot
these states mote than nine-tenths
of the population is a town popu
lation. and in Rhode Island almost
n7 in every 100 people are city and
town dwellers.
The village life of old New bng
land lias been replaced by a mod
ern town and city life. The New
England farmer has practically dis
appeared from the three leading in
dustrial states of New England, and
is of relatively little consequence in
the other three New England states.
In place of the independent farm
owner is the town dweller, working
in a factory and living in a rented
house or apartment. Home owner
ship was one of t'.e dories of (tin
New England. The New England
farmer owned his farm and worked
it himself—an economic condition
out ot which democracy has always
sprung. In 1910 there were only
188.S92 farms in the whole of New
England (18.4:;0 less farms than
weie in 1880). The tradition of
ownership still remains. Of all these
farms only 15.015 are run liv ten
ants. In Maine less than one
twentieth of the farmers are ten
iinis; In Vermont one-eight are
tenants; in Rhode Island nearly one
fifth are tenants Still the import
ant tiling is not the proportion of
tenants, but the small ar.d decreas
ing proportion of farms and farm
ers in the total population.
The New England farmer was a
home owner; the New England
town dweller is a home renter.
The last census reports 179.700
farm houses, and 1,385,242 “other
homes" in New England. Of these
“‘other homes” 852,0 11 were rent
ed. 4 1 2.249 were owned, and 22»>,
:i32 were owned free of mortgage.
That is. of every 100 New England
homes in town and cities, Kfi were
rented. 14 were owned mortgaged,
and 20 were owned free of mort
gage.
The proportion of home owner
ship is much less in Massachusetta
Rhode Island and Connecticut than
?o the other three New England
states. In Massachusetts 17 city
and town homes in each 100 were
owned free of mortgage, in Con
necticut 15, in Rhode Island 14.
The highest proportion of such
homes owned free of mortgage is
in Maine, with 39 in each 100. No
one of tlie three industrial states
of New England can report as
Many as one-fifth of its city and
t(jv. ii dwellers o\v nine i heir horn
un.noit jii::! In cacli of tie si j
st;iti ■ i,. re tit,in two-thirds of ti.
site •. V. 1( (lw eli'TS relit t...
honn • which they live.
Xew England lor g; iterations lias '
lived cti.ler ;t high protective ta'riu'. i
She has enjoyed the thing which »t |
descrit e as “prosperity." She lias !
a splendid school system. Libraries
are found everywhere. Yet in this
original section of the United
Stales, wliii h lias had a longer time
than any other part ot the country
to test out tlie economic system
that lias grown up here during the
past 200 years, less than one-fifth
of the industrial population own
their homes.
It is enough for the present to
note that in the part of the United
States where there lias been the
greatest opportunity to test out our
economic system the great majority
of the people are so completely
banished from economic participa
tion in the country life that less
than one family in five owns the
home in which it lives.—Ex.
rOMMl'MCATKD.
Editor Industrial Worker:
Dear Sir:— Pleaee give room
for 'lie following:
“The Outcast's I’rayer”
Almighty God!
All-Powerful God!
We come to Thee today and seek
your assistance. We ask Thee to
rectify some of the great evils that
exist in this old world thou hast
created, and to remove the causes
of misery, starvation, privation, de
gredation and poverty In the land
of the free and home of the brave.
For the life of a working-man is
burdened with many troubles and
large rolls of blankets.
l)h. Lord! Have mercy on the mil
lions of workingmen that are being
butchered every day in “Christian
Europe,” for every war is a rich
man's war and a poor man's fight.
In times of peace our stomachs
yearn for a beefsteak. In times of
war they are filled with bullets.
Let those champagne-guzzling,
bleary-eyed, bald-headed, pork bar
rels fight their own wars. If the
masters want blood, let them shed
their own blood.
Oh, Lord, we do not understand
why You allow tin Germans to shoot
the mulligan out of the English,
French, Belgians and Russians and
the Allies to shoot the sauerkraut
out of the Germans, while you allow
the Kings ai d the Kaiser to stay
at home and fight hooze.
Oh, Lord, deliver us from the
greed and graft that exists in this
nation, and from parasites who
neither toil nor spin, but bedeck
their persons with finery until they
glitter in the gloaming like a rotten
dog salmon at'oat in the moonlight.
Verily our institutions are badly
mixed, for we have Bible houses,
bandy houses, barrel houses and
breweries.
We have thieves, theologians,
Christians and confidence men; also
priests, prisons, politicians and pov
erty; convents, convicts, scabs and
scallywags; traces of virtue and
tons of vice.
We have trusts and tramps, money
and misery. Homes and hunger,
salvation and soup, and psalms
sung by hypocrites in an organized
bummery, who expect to pave their
way into heaven by begging old
pants, coats and hats, and in Thy
name sell them to the poor.
Oh, Lord, we do not understand
why we have bread lines and soup
houses, while a lot of fat snobs eat
sirioin, T-bones, porterhouse steaks
and drink champagne until their
noses shine like the headlight of a
locomotive.
Protect us. Oh, Lord, and deliver
us, for the Groceries Association
hold us up, while poverty holds us
down.* Some of our butchers put
embalming fluid on putrified beef,
for they know then it would not
stink, and the unsuspecting public
would eat it without belching.
Deliver us from those who make
canned beef out of sick cows, mules
and horses, and corpses of those
who eat it; and may the price or
hamburger, beef stews, waffles and
“holy” doughnuts come down and
our wages come up to meet them.
And, oh, Lord! we do not under
stand why poodle dogs have private
baths and are attended by maids
and valets; are champoned, mani
cured and kissed, fed on choice
steaks and drink cream, while thou
sands of little children—made after
Your own image—live out of garb
age cans! Christ never said: “Suffer
little poodle dogs to come unto Me."
And, oh Lori! We ask Thee to have
mercy on the blanket stiffs, such
as railroaders, loggers, muckers and
skinners; a'ld may they be permit
ted to maVe at l£ast seven dollars
and six bits before they get fired;
and may their mulligan be of a
better class and contain no more
old shoes, gum boots and scrap iron
and may their blankets rest lightly
on their blistered backs and con
tain no insects that might discom
mode them.
May the farmer plant his spuds
more clos,ely to the railroad track,
and his chickens roam close to the
jungles, and we will ever be grate
ful to the all-powerful God. Amen.
A MUCKER.
M. PA8COFF.
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Best^
c offee
at any
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Most
It goes further
You can make more
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Ground just right to make the
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Blended from the finest flavored
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Thoroughly aged before rt is
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for M. J. B. Coffee, if it
does not please your
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