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•earl; -is possible. Is a worthy object of any rood government.”—
abranam Lincoln
address all Communications «> Jally Nome Industrial Worker.
Box 210 Nome, Alaska Phone, Black 134
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Nome. Alaska. March 27, 1016.
Who owns America? The Amer
ican people?
Well, what's all this pothor about
the British government gathering
American securities owned in
Oreat Br'taln?
And if those securities give their
owners the rght of owning Amer
ican property; land, factories, rail
roads can it be held that the Amer
ican people do roc-ily own the coun
try?
Quite a numbor of foreign sub
jects own millions of American pro
perty . Millions of Amarlcrn citi
zens dont own five cents worth of
American property. A numbor of
foreign subjects enjoy dividoada
from tLo labor of toiling American
mosses and forolgn govern meats
compel those of Its subjects to dis
gorge of ttelr dividends an Income
tan to pay the expenses of that for
eign govornmont. And It's an Inter
esting thing to considor that many
end many an Amor!c..n eitlaou takes
•his life in hio hands for the bene
fit of those who hare n&ver seen
or hoard of the country but who
oirn a considerable section of It
juet th? same.
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•Nothing coutd bo moro striking
than the reporta that have come out
«f Mexico since the Porshlng Inva
sion of that country bogrm. Most
of them have been exposed as a
pack of lies, and now comes Presi
dent Wilson with a statement to
the effect that those lying reports
nre fabricated by lying interests in
order to drive the country into a
war with Mexico! Enough said.
The Oakland World quotes from
two editorials In the Hoarst papers.
One denounces me prasunco vi
ioans on armed or belligerent boats.
Afflothor wonts war with Mexico be
cause ot "outrages" at tho Hoarst
ranch in Mexico. And tUe World
ssfks with some degree of propriety
if It wouldn't be just ar wall for
Americans to avoid courting a war
with Mexico by keeping out of
that country while the iutornoclno
trouble Is on, an to keep off bolllge
rwt liners while the Kuropoan war
Is also proceeding. What's sauce
for tho gooae should be sauce for
rho grander.
Nome is now apprar.ciilng Us an
nual municipal oloctiou. So far the
aldormanic timber that la announced
is not very numerous. There seems
te be a tendency to Colay and poss
ibly not unnaturally. Men foar that
ia p.nnounc'ng thoir candidacy they
there and then invite a general cri
ticism of themcolvos and thoir can
diacy, and they foel from past ex
perience that this is almost invari
ably the caso.
One thing wo may bo all cortalu
about la that Nome will worry along
somehow. It Is immatorlal that.
»ooie very definite and Important
matters can bo solved by tho coun
cilman, we can bo assured that they
win be more honored In the In
attention which they will roceire
than otherwise.
Municipal matters gonorrlly get
into a rut and from this rut there
is no removal. No one llkos to
court disfavor by making radical
changes and for that reason alone
ns radical changoe will be made.
It la safe to say that especially
now, no one feels like going to any
extreme when they dont know how
l<9*g tho camp will last winter and
summer. Yet It may bo pointed ou«
that there are matters of very great
import once Indeed boforo the In
coming council for solution. There
is the mattor of tho city lighting
plant, the city taxation and the city
coal yard all of which hare been re
tired by either councilman or by
the people.
livery tax payor wants to oscape
with as light taxation as he can, and
they will oppose anything however
beneficial which might tighten th?
demand upon thoir finoncos.
This yoc.r in all probability the
wet and dry proposition will again
come bofore the electors. The In
dustrial Worker has boon Informed
by several that a petition is ores
now being proparod for signature
similar to that of last year, ana
there is no telling what the result
may be. If Nome goes dry the city
will hare the problem of maintain
ing the schools and the fire pro
tection of the city, so that aay
change In tho taxation schedule is
out of the question. Hence it will
be quite a serious matter tf any
effort Is mode to change that
schedule.
Economies of oporatlon have sug
gested a city pumping ana lighting
plant and if so, a city fuol yard will
also follow as a logical necessity.
This will be strongly opposed by
definite interests and with very gooo
reason. We thus percoire that
this coming olectlou has material
enough to elicit considerable Inter
est, not to say excitomont one way
or another.
In any event as suggested Nome
will worry along somehow. The
man who thinks lie is paying too
much taxes will pay just as much
, horoafter, and there will bo the
same kick registered a year from
now ns there aro today—may be
more, may bo a little less.
It's a pleasure to road in c.n Am
erican roview a eulogy of the work
that tho women are doing in Eu
ropean industries while tho men are
doing the fighting, and It is a height
ened pleasuro to observe the same
American writer exprosa tho belief
that similar conditions sooner or
later will have to be brought about
in America.
i lie wriior uwuu i ue aianutu ai
all. That condition Is being brought
about rapidly enough. Every census
report shows that the list of women
wage earners is Increasing, and not
only that but they are Invading all
kinds of lndustrios. One recalls
the satisfaction with which former
ly tho American tourist abroad
observing how generally women
worked theie, recalled tho fact that
such was not the custom In hla own
country.
Rut times have changed since then
and now laws are being prosed to
shorten the hours ofg tho women In
foundries and machlno shops and
quarries.
The capitalist system Is stoadily
progressive.
Here is a hot one. It is from
the Los Angeles Times.
“The Los Angeles police have a
document taken from one of the
Angel City women. It is a formal
price list as coldly commercial as a
stock exchange report, giving the
values of young white women of
specifications making them desirable
for the restricted districts of cities
In Mexico. The prices range from
$250 to $1,500.”
We always said that those social
ists were home breakers and famtiv
haters. This, Is under capitalism,
did you say?
The following Is a strictly politi
cal editorial from tho Mlswaukee
Leader and represonts the view
point of Victor Berger the editor
of that paper:
“THE MAIN ISSUE.”
The greatest Issue of the present
day, from the worker's standpoint, is
not preparedness, nor peace, nor the
tariff. These are Issues which are
so firmly In the hands of the ruling
class that the class-intelligent work
ers’ minority can do nothing about
thorn, except express tholr protest
against them as natural products ol
class rule.
These 1 sauce do not In any way
carry any Immediate threat for the
ruling class. No mattor how tho mi
litary question, tho poace question,
the tariff quostlon may be Bottled by
the old party statesmen, tho condi
tion of the workers will not he ap
preciably altered.
The one question that has stood
in the foreground of all issues for
the last 30 years, end whith has
trouble than any other, Is th^ trust
question.
This Is the very hub of the wheel
of social development. It threatens
more and more to force government
ownership of trust industries? upon
the private copltalista who own
them. The vast majority of the citi
zens infield, factory, shop and mine,
regardless of party affiliation, are
united in their hatred of their
trust and in their demand foj; effec
tive laws against them.
For this very reason the states
men of both old partios are* deter
mined to work the war and tariff
issue to the utmost, in order to
make the country forget all about
the main issue.
The two most likely candidates
of the two old parties, Roosevelt
and Wilson, were both electod on a
straight anti-trust platform. Both
were pledged to free the country
from trust rule. Botli have been
found hand in glove with truct lords
Both have been exposed ns frauds.
To run them again, after their utter
failure, as anti-trust candidates,
would arouse the whole country and
bring the main icaue prominently
to the front. It would make the
beat kind of propaganda for the
Socialists and would Increase the
Socialist voto Immensely.
This Is our cue. ^Let the yld p* r
ties make the most of their na
tional preparedness and other issues
that mean profits and prolonged
class rule for them. The main thing
for the Socialists, as over,.Is the
trust issue. Let the nation bVn the
trusts. That Is the best answer,
also to the preparedness trust.”
Let the nation own the trusts
may be a fine slogan and e. fine
election Issue, but It Is a strange
one for a socialist party. If for no
other reason than because It Is not
lnferentlally socialism.
How Is the nation to own the
trust? By confiscation? Or by
purchase? Victor Berger himself
has suggested the latter method
when In Congress, but the purchase
would of necessltf moan the flota.
tlon of bands and the Interest on
these would be paid by the govern
ment owned trust* and the govern
ment would in that event be merely
the responsible manager of the
trusts for the bondholders.
In any event any such thing as
an extension of government owner
ship would mean merely the exten
sion of a bureaucracy and between
a bureaucracy and a plutocracy
there Is no improvement vlsiblo for
the workers. They would still lare
as they fare today, and every bureau
would be hard at It to make their
trusts pay.
given the ruling
The socialist program outlined in
this editorial offers very little if any
improvement in working condi
tions. But it does illustrate the
utter futility of political action un
less based upon the economic orga
nization of the workers. There is
just one form of socialism worth
considering and that is an industrial
democracy. Trust government owner
ship is not anything like that.
It is merely pretense to think that
the majority of he workers are pre
pared to take their part in an indus
trial democracy and in the adminis
tration of the industries of the na
tion. Why, most of them do not
think it even worth while to orga
nize to protect their interests as
wage workers, and under a govern
ment ownership of the trusts they
would be simply the unconditioned
slaves of clever politicians wnose
dictates they would have to perform
under the elaborate machinery
such a political executive could
build up.
The idea of establishing state ca
pitalism and calling it socialism is
only a poor way of advocatng social
ism. It may be urged that tffis is '
a step at a time, that it is the next
Btep fulfilling the requirements ol
industrial evolution before the work
ers organized and educated to ad
minister the machinery of produc
tion and distribution can do so them
selves. Well and good; but let it
be known as a step at a time, just
as every little bourgeois reform is
a step at a time, but why couldn’t
these steps at a time be taken by
such parties as the democrats, the
progressives or any of the ether
graduated up-llfters that have done
and are doing a good many of these
"steps”. It doesn’t need a socialist
party to come forward and boost
government ownership. That is be
ing done by democrats and progress
ives without offending the suscept
lblllles of any of their colleagues
to any serious extent. There Is
nothing in government ownership
to antagonize capltali*m; it’s the
solidification of capitalism on the
social scheme of things, and it Is
even now hinted by mon who come
very near being top capitalists. The
slogan let he nation own the trusts
doesn't mean that the workors own
them by a jugful of Milwaukee’s
best beer. It does mean that a
number of r-stuto politicians will be
come the dispensers of a state capi
talism for their own honor and
glory. And tho spectacle of a
number of social-democratic Burle
son’s discharging men for criticizing
presidents or for suggesting how
their party should bo run is not in
spiring.
GKT THE flUWS RIGHT. READ
THE WORKER.
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