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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his libor, or as
nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
All changes In standing advertisements must reach this office at six
• clock each evening to Insure insertion In the following Issue.
Advertising rates made known on application.
Entered as second class matter March 1, 1811, at the post office at
fiorue, Alastta, under the Act of March 8, 1S78
Nome, Alaska, September :5<>, I!)!(>.
THi: KKiHT HOI K DAY.
Lest we forget: the general eight
hour day will he on the ballot next
November for an expression of an
opinion. All workers should vote
■•Yes”, and all workers should vote.
The question may not be settled by
the ballot, but there is no harm in
letting these Solons know where
you are at. It is quite true that
even when passed it may not be en
forced. All the penal laws of the
territory are by Congress required
to be enforced by the Judges and
District Attorneys of the several
districts, the penal clauses of the
revenue law being by special legis
lation the only exception to this.
If they do not do their duty in this
respect, it only enforces the vital
need of having a strong economic
organization t/6 enforce the workers
demands. Vote for the eight hour
day—but organize.
AX AWIT'K condition.
Dont you know that the Woman's
Home Companion is a very eonsol
,ing magazine for men? Take this
quotation which we grabbed from
the san Francisco Star, the latter
it “Beware Govern
papeif heading
mentj Job!”
"'fiber.' are some young men so
constituted that they would rather
have the certainty of comfortable
mediocrity than the chance of great
attractions. But I feel in duty bound
! to say to them that some of the
J most pitiful letters that have come
/ to my desk have been from Wash
( ington clerks who have begun to
/ grow gray around the temples.
/ "How cm I make the break to get
/ away from this business?” And
there is no answer”.
One’s heart bleeds for the men
grown gray around the temples and
doubtless when they flew to the
Woman’s. Home Companion they fled
to congenial souls.
And how about the muck stick
men grown white around the temp
les that cannot even get a job with
out troubling to break away from
one whose chief requirement seems
to be well manicured hands?
GASOMNH.
The price of gasoline has nothing
whatever to do directly with its cost
of production by the smaller “inde
pendents”, whose independence is
reflected in the fact that that well
known dissolved firm the Standard
Oil, fixes the price that may be
charged. Such testimony was given
under oath before the committee
probing the increase in price. So
it has nothing to do with the law
of supply and demand, it has no
tiling to do with the cost of produc
lion except in OOUl case numauj.
Surely with industrial monopolis fas
controlling production and output
in many industries, some will have
to repair their leaking economics. 1
And now comes another item or
interest. Gasoline is threatened with
a rival. That rival is coal. Not
coal gas, nor gas obtainc :1 through
some method of destructive distilla
tion, but real, simon-pure solid coal.
The plan devised by the chemists
is to pulverize into an absolutely
fine and amorphous powder lumps
of coal and explode this in a spe
cially prepared internal combustion
chamber in the engine. Its success
has ben demonstrated beyond per
adventure. This therefore will put
Standard Gil where it belongs, say
you? Guess again. Thanks to inter
locking investments the coal mono
poly is just as effective and well or
ganized as Sandtard Oil.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
On October 21, 1910, we pub
lished the following editorial on the
present republican candidate for
president of the United States, and
in the light of present time events
what word of it could be truthfully
changed?
“GOVERNOR HUGHES.
In what is described as his last
public spech before he becomes a
member of the Supreme Court, Gov
ernor Hughes of New York said,
among other things: “I think it
would be a decided improvement it
the Governor were elected for four
years and were ineligible for re
election, and if the other state offi
cers now elective were made ap
pointive heads of departments. It
would also be to the advantage of
the administration, if the various
heads of departments who are ap
pointed by ,the governor were re
movable by him instead of the Sen
ate”.
The governor spoke, as he gener
; ally speaks, in the interest of the
class to which be belongs. He ap
! parently fears, and objects to, the
| people wielding too great an influ
I ence upon elected officers, and would
accordingly make it appear that
they do not owe their position in
any way to the popular will. Nor
from his point of view can it be
questioned but that he is correct,
i During his gubernatorial career, he
| has left no doubt whatever as to
j where he stood upon all questions.
! and he clearlv sees that in order to
j carry out the business designs of a I
' business administration for business- I
men, t lie heads of all departments
must lit: free in every way from |
popular control.
Moreover it has been borne in
upon Governor Hughes that a two j
year term for the governor of such ;
a state as New York, necessitates j
I too much conformity to the popular |
demands in order that the popular
vote may be forthcoming to one
who desires to succeed himself, and
two years is hardly sufficient to car
ry out the designs of the capitalist
class which it is taken for granted,
for some time to come, will control
the political power of the state.
It has often been urged that out- 1
side influence never acted upon Gov
ernor Hughes. But repeatedly his
actions have shown that inasmuch
as his sentiments were in complete
accord with the employing classes,
there was no need whatever to in
fluence him. Indeed, it is very prob
able that any attempt to do so
would have been resented by him.
and, what was to have been avoided
at all costs, called for a reconsider
ation of a position altogether favor
able to the capitalists. Such a man
as Hughes seems to have been spe
cially adapted for the Supreme
Bench. In that position he will
have to render an account of his
stewardship to no man or set of
men, and the breath of popular au
thority can affect him not. He will
have for his fellow justices men of
same class as himself, and privileged
with the privileges few modern mo
narchs retain. A consideration for
the ambitious hopes of the workers
need never more be his, now that
he will become associate justice of a
body which heretofore when ques
tions of labor legislation came be
fore it, seems to have been chiefly
concerned with trying to find their
unconstitutionality.
So many so-called high minded
men, and so many undoutedly lilgn
principled men, look upon the inufl
ence of the people upon govern
mental positions as inimical to the
best interests of the nation, nowa
days, that Governor Hughes is by no
means a political anomaly. He
voices a sentiment which has al
ready found many sympathizers, and
many actual realizations in the com
mission form of government of
those cities such as Galveston where
the initiative, referendum and re
call are not in force.
Instinctively, it does seem, the
capitalist class is seeking to guard
itself against the future, and day
by day tends to restrict the rights
of the masses. It is undoubtedly
one of the paradoxes call for ex
planation that while the initiative,
referendum and recall are In some
laces making so much headway,
he most far-seeing of the capitali
st statesmen are displaying such a
eactionary tendency under, the
ilausible disguise of “good govern
nent”, It will be by “good govern
aent” that the rights the masters
ear will be filched from the work
irs even one at a time.
Hughes is a strong man, and as
nen go, a good man. He is honest
vith a business man’s probity. His
;ense of honor is a highly educated
tense, and his ideals of patriotism
ire in harmony with convention
ind highly respecteable. IT IS
SOME WONDER THAT HE HAS
BEEN ELEVATED TO THE SU
PREME BENCH WHEN HE AP
PEARS TO HAVE ALL THE DE
SIRABILITIES -FOR A PRESi
DENT. Now that the trusts have ob
tained possession of all the industrial
resources, what they need above all
is such a one as Hughes to main
tain the present social order and
to conserve “the rights” which they
have stolen from the people to the
property holders. Perhaps politics
being politics, President Taft de
siring to succeed himself in the
White House, judgematically urged
the shelving of Hughes, and made
him an associate justice of the
Supreme Court. From a capitalist
point of view he is the right man
in the right place”.
So ran the editorial in the Indus
trial Worker of October 21, lftlO.
There is little can be added to that
appraisement except to say this: the
very same reason from a capitalist
point of view which accounts for his
appointment to the Supreme Bench,
is precisely that which induced the
nominators of Presidents in the re
publican councils to turn to the
Supreme Bench and take him from
the niche where he had been placed,
and start him in the running for the
White House. "Since thou hast been
faithful over few things, I shall
place thee over many—well done
thou good and faithful servant".
FEDERATED CHURCH.
At the Congregational Church
Sunday the following services will
be held. Rev. John Parsons, pastor
11 A. M. Bible School and
children-s service. It. B. Julian,
superintendent.
Adult Bible class will study,
“A Plot that Failed.”
7 P. M. Christian Endeavor.
8 P. M. Worship and Sermon by
Dr. John Parsons. Subject;
“Towers of Babel.”
Special music will be given by the
choir.
The Ladies’ Aid Society meets
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The publie is more than welcome
to all the services of the church.
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lllutf and Cliinlk, August 24.
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U. S. Mercantile Co.
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Going Outside
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OF FURNISHINGS AND WINTER SUPPLIES TO BE HAD, AND
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