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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, a« the post office at
Nome, - Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, January 14, 11)10.
Nothing plays so important, a part
In the tragic activities of the human
race as the public nerves. Constant
ly played upon, constantly awakened
and constantly agitated, it is doubt
ful whether indeed more harm has
not been done by them than has
been 'good.
This during the time when Hill
stroin’s fate hung in the balance,
the newspapers interested in sup
porting the execution for one reason
or another, spread the most extra
ordinary stories which under any
other circumstances would have
been received with amused incredul
ity. Dynamite plots, raids and at
tacks were said to be projected by
the industrial Workers of the World
of which Hillstrom was a member,
and the sorry fact is that so excited
had become the popular feeling, that
the stories absurd as they were,
were generally belieyed.
Moreover, the frequency of al
leged Germanist conspiracies, labor
plots and labor disorders appearing
in the papers have from time to
time so set the public on edge that
they were ready to jump when the
first small boy, having filled a paper
bag full of wind and closing tight
the opening exploded it surreptiti
ously.
The conviction of many a man has
been due almost entirely to the
careful manner in which the news
papers worked up a sentiment
against an alleged criminal; the
space and time engaged in tolling
stories of his villainy. Interviews
with officers of the law, with jailers
—all these-things have conspired to
surround the prisoner with an at
mosphere of nerves that precludes
the possibility of his receiving a fair
trial.
This is one of the greatest wea
pons against labor. Inasmuch as
the press is controlled for the great
er part by employers, that press is,
oftoner than not when a laborite is
in danger, instrumental in securing
a conviction by working up an ex
citation of public feoling against the
man to such a degree that, withal
outward conformity to the rules of
jury selection, such a thing as a
fair and impartial trial i3 imposs
ible.
This development of a frequent
popular hysteria is by no means a
modern condition heretofore unre
garded. In fact it is cas’ly proved
that it exists less today than it did
in former years, not bocause the
means of exciting It arc .css, but
because of the fact that education
which establishes a rule of reason
is spreading faster among those
who have been the most easily
swayed by reason of their economic
ignorance.
Now nearly all those who easily
fall a prey to such artificial stimula
tion of their excitement are those
who are persuaded that their inter
ests are jeopardized by the party or
parties against whom they are ex
cited. Thus a paper attacking labor
men finds that its attacks are de
voured with more avidity among a
class antagonistic to labor than
amidst the workers themselves, un
loss the latter, as so many of them
have, have a wholly perverted con
ception of what their interests are.
And it has been, always, for this
reason, the effort of a class in con
trol to persuade the workers that
their interests wore identical with
thoso of the employing class and
that the closer the identify became,
the closer would be the Improvement
in tho condition of both.
With the growth of class conscious
action and class conscious senti
ment, the wild storloe of the aban
doned liars of a subservient press
are taken with considerable reserva
tion and there is an inclination to
weigh wisely the storloe and extend
„ only that degree of credibility
which an impartial reason will al
low.
We have heard of casuists among
the theologians, and casuists among
the legal minds but is not casuistry
1 inseparable from the bourgeois mind
that endeavors to uphold some
thing that is a violation of its own
erratic code of ethics?
Thus, with unmistakable uninten
tional humor, the Fatherland de
fends the action of those sailors who
jumped their parole and skipped
out. It’s artistically humorous, and
not the least portion of the humor
is its unconscious nature as the
writer, apparently up to his eyes in
a bourgeois system of ethics, tries
hard for nationalist reasons to de
fend an action really needed none
in the light of the present facts ot
this great war.—
The Men of the Eitel Friedrich.
No one can tell whether the miss
ing German sailors from the Eitel
Friedrich perished In a storm or
whether they deliberately escaped
from internment. It should be
clearly undestood >that they did not
break their parole, for they
did not give their parole
individually. The captain gave
his parole for the crew.
It is the captain who has been far
more wronged than the United
States Government. Perhaps their
desire to serve their country war.
stronger than their sense of obliga
tion to their commander. They
may not have felt a profound obli
gation towards the United States. If
they had not acted in good faith
with the United States Government,
perhaps the thought suggested itself
to them that the United States
Government has not dealt in good
faith with their country. Their ac
tion. no doubt, is technically wrong.
If caught, they will face the penalty
without flinching. But if they
should have escaped, if they should b
raiding the seas again, no lover ot
romance can fail to admire their
pluck, no matter how much he may
disapprove of their ethics.
Charles Hughes a retired capital
ist being examined as a juror in the
Schmidt trial said that his mind
was made up that the Times was
blown up by dynamite and not by
gas, and blown up with intent to
take human life. And he swore that
if the defendant alleged that it was
a gas explosion ho would have to
introduce strong evidence to remove
this settled conviction; that ha
would not want any proof from the
district attorney to prove what was
an established conviction in hit
mind. Not only that hut as re
gard3 the guilt of the defendant he
was equally positive. The only is
sue in which he would admit a
doubt would be the denfendant’s
contention that the building was
blown up by a gas explosion.
Said Counsel for the Defense.
Then you go into this trial with
your mind made up upon every
question ex'copt that?
Yes Sir.
' Well you say that you would give
him a fair and impartial trial. That
statement is also coupled with the
mental reservation that you have
this opinion which would affect your
judgment?
To a certain extent, Yes Sir.
The man was challenged by the
defense for having a fixed opinion.
The Court denied the challenge.
On the same day, mind you, John
A. Horton, a day laborer was exa
mined and testified that from what
he knew about it and what he had
heard about it, he thought at the
time that it was a gas explosion
that destroyed tho Times building
“That is the way your mind is
now?”
That is the way I had it.
You think that the source of
your information on that hg*d con
vinces you it was gas?
I thought so all the time, and
still contend It was.
You still beiiove It?
I still beiiove It, to a certain ex
tent. Wasn't anything else proven
to me.
That opinion is so firmly fixed In
your mind that you would be un
able to set It aside.
It would certainly havo to be
proved otherwise by testimony.
So you feel now that the Defend
ant is innocent?
Yes Sir.
And could not possibly be proved
guilty until evidence dislodged from '
your mind that it was blown up by
gas, and another fact established?
Yes Sir.
They would have to prove his
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yes Sir.
By establishing the fact that that
building was blown up by dyna
mite and that he had something to
do with it before you found him
guilty?
Yes Sir.
The prosecution thereupon chall
enged for having a fixed opinion.
Over the objection of the Defense
the Court sustained the challenge.
Schmidt, as we all know get life
imprisonment. What else could bo
expected ?
And will not such a ruling raise
a great hurst of confidence in the
courts of the land?
The Daily Empire founded by
Governor Strong, of whom it is
still so stout a defender that many
believe it is his organ quite errone
ously, in carrying on a war with the
Dispatch of Juneau emits the fol
lowing drivel:
“Purposely or otherwise it (The
Dispatch) forgets, If it ever knew,
that In a republican form of gov
ernment office holders are not gov
ernors. The people govern and the
office holders are their servants".
As applied to Alaska that is non
sense. Men have held federal posi
tions and domineered over the peo
ple to such a degree that they no
more represented the will of
the people than were they
the choice of the people.
They carried into effect certain rules
and regulations which were not
agreed upon by Alaskans, were
often repulsive to the wishes ana
desires of Alaskans and In no sense
were responsive to the popular de
mands.
Indeed the great struggle for self
government was caused by the fact
that so many officials came to Alas
ka and ruled, yes, ruled the dis
tricts over which they were placed
in control, in a manner so entirely
“foreign” to the needs, requirements
and will of the people of Alaska,
that they were sick and disgusted
with a long distance government
It’s all very well to peddle this
theory about officials being the
servants of the people, and'laud it
as a beautiful condition or republi
can things but there is one thing
certain, and that is the people of
Alaska, by sad experience, know a
darned sight better. ,
Indeed as the Empire further on
admits the referendum and recall
is being favored in some states to
bring the government close to the
people. »
But the Territory of Alaska is not
yet a state. All the real ruling Is
done by officials who are not elec
tive but appointive, who in no way,
shape or form owe their positions
to the will of the people of the Ter
ritoy expressed at the polls, as their
iiioice of servants to direct the ma
chinery of any particular govern
mental activity.
That now and then this or that
department of government in Al
aska is presided over by such an
appointee in a fashion that delies
excellence at the hands of any poss
ible elective selection, is wholly im
material even though it is unques
tionably true. Unfortunately in po
litics the person elected is very
often the person worst equipped to
perform the functions for which he
is chosen, and contrasts unfavor
ably with the men who are appoint
ed. But as regard Alaskans offici
aldom, we may as well understand
that hitherto neither has an official
been appointed for his great effici
ency nor for his being the choice of
the people of Alaska for that posi
tion.. God only )cnows, for the peo
ple of Alaska certainly do not, why
some men are pitchforked into some
appointments by a benignant admi
nistration unless it be to get them
out of the road they aro obstruct
ing, in the village pump politics ha*
made them famous in their own
homes outside.—Of course under
the Democratic administration no
such thing has been in evidence—-.
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