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Nome, Alasxa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, January It, Hi HI.
The Industrial Worker observes
with some interest that in certain
exchanges there is now being di
rected against any possible radical
press in Alaska something of an
agitation.
Quite recently there was estab
lished in Anchorage another paper.
The Seward Cateway relieved itself
of some atrabilious humor regard
ing radical papers in general, and
the proposed new paper in particu
lar, and opined there should be "a
law to license newspapers like dogs;
it would save the decent ones".
The interesting admission of the
connection between the Gateway’s
existence and man’s faithful friend,
probably is a personal confession
upo the part of Red Top from Ti[
which may concern us not at all
Rut the fact that some southeastern
Alaskan papers jolt radical publi
cations now and then is not any
thing surprising.
When the work of cleaning uc
the mess of the hog pen is under
taken, the swine having access tc
the swill troughs generally can be
relied upon to emit their grunts and
squeals; beyond any sort of doubt
it is lest anything can be done tc
interfere with the unbridled exploi
taton of men and resources, the
subservient press controlled by scr
vile minds protests in indignation al
the existence of radical paper'
which subject conditions to anal/
sis, anti comment upon actual facts
Moreover, there is a general
tendency towards reaction to be
marked in the coastal publications
of southeastern Alaska.
They have the smug Idea that
anything that tends o criticize capi
tal is wrong and anything th'.i
tends to boost capital is alwayr
right and the master can do nc
wrong in the eyes of loyal servants
Their motto is to boost along ca
pital no matter what may be the
course which capital takes, because
it is upon the pap from the table ol
wealth that these subservient jour
nals find their source of inspiration
Red Top from Tip as an exploiter
of exploitation has done very well.
He has by devoting himself as the
loyal hanger on of the larger inter
ests quite capably established him
self as the booster of capital, and
possibly when lv ror.s a diatribe
against radicalism, he turns with
childlike confidence to Big Biz siti
ittg in the royal box for approval ol
his actions. That any of us should
laugh at this Pantalobus whose am
bition in life is to get on the righi
side of capitalism, to be the humble
picker up of unconsidered trifles
that are scattered in the way ol
Dives, Is natural. But it should alsc
bus from Tip should grow angry
once in a while. Besides it show,
that ho is earning his wages and
for for that he deserves commenda
tiou. , •
The cry in other quarters thai
subjecting capitalism to criticism
also tends to keep out capitalism
while even if it was, which it is
not, such a serious matter, is noi
true.
When exploiters come here to in
vest, they come if bona tide and
well supplied with tho shekels tc
enlarge the invested undertakings
only after they have been showm
that the chance to obtain fat profit:
is there. To think that by boosting
in the papers a gold mine where
there is nothing but barren rod,
unlimited possibilities where there
is nothing but a snow pile, is tc
think exceedingly wrong. You donl
deceive Big Biz worth a cent. Big
Bis if It does anything. It waikf
circumspectly, and it has a staff oi
very efficient experts to see that il
is not led astray.
But when all this extravaganl
boosting is done, it's not to attraci
the monied man who knows whal
he is doing every minute of the day
but the little business man, the
scanty saver, the workingman witt
the little accumulation of several
years hard and fast thrift In a lit
tle poke, are the little game that
these journalistic nimrods are after.
! That’s why they peddle, and that’'
why they hate to have a radical
publication come along and spoil
their game and call a spade a spade
One never hears of a radical publi
cation denouncing the establishment
of capitalist papers. They dont care
a hang how many of the breed there
are. Why should they? They can
not expose the radical papers for
buncombe or bull-peddling; nor can
they spoil any little game that the
radical publications have hatched.
But the galled jades wince whose
withers are wrung. That's why Red
Top from Tip in the Gateway exudes
his evil humor and glues it over his
sheet at the prospect of another ra
dical paper making its appearance.
It spoils the plans of an All Alaska
Review and the journalistic shoe
shining of the Gateway. We should
worry. ,
The eonvioiion of Schmidt is cer
tain to ic-new the discussion wl:i-’h
radical pai era tarried on as to trial
by jury upon the conviction of John
K. Lawson.
The New Review at that time de
clared that the working class never
really gets a trial by jury: “What it
gets is a sham and fraud, palmen
j off under the forms of trial by one's
peers, and the working class in la
bor trials were never tried by work
ers but by employcre. The writer
quoted from the Magna Cbarta
wherein trial by jury was asserted
as a right and pointed out that “no
freeman shall be arrested or detained
I in prison .... unless by the law
| ful judgment cf his peers. One’3
peers” said the Review, "is just as
I necessary for the protection of li
berty in the struggle between one
class and another as it is in a con
test between subject and king.”
The relation between subjects and
over-lords under feudalism and
workers and employers under capi
talism is close and positive. And
the arguments of the New Review
are sound. The subjects were not
in any more helpless position before
the monarch or the qver-lord than
are the workers before the industri
al chiefs of today. It is true that
the workers have political freedom
but so in a great measure had the
freemen in the days of the barons
and kings. But without economic
independence their political free
dom was more or less a fantastic
delusion. ,
Repeatedly has the political inde
pendence of the workers been des
troyed by the industrial pressure of
employers. Democratic papers, re
presenting little business, like
Bryan’s Commoner for example,
some elections ago published innum
erable notices which had been post
ed outside factories and mills warn
ng the voters that if the republican
candidate were elected, the mills
would open, and close if the mills
crat was ejected. As a general ruie
the prospect of a steady job over
ruled any senso of poltical righte
ousness that may have prevailed,
and the political independence wa3
emasculated by economic slavery
which control of tho job enabled
the industral over-lords to enforce.
The result of lean years over
comes the repugnance of otherwise
honest voters to support such a man
as Penrose caught with the goods
as the subservient tool of the larger
interests, and he carries Pennsylva
nia by a large majority. Material
considerations overcome all other
factors, and the reactionary move
ments are able to sustain them
selves just as long as they control
the Industries, and thus maintain
the workers as their industrial sub
jects.
Trial by jury therefore when It
does not give the workers a chance
to be tried by a jury cit workers is
in somewhat the same conditions as
a~ Jury of barons try
to be tried by a jury of barons try
ing a commoner for aomo offense
under feudal law. They get aboui
the same deal.
When Lawson was tried for mur
der, it was admitted that he wasn I
der, it was admitted he didn't
commit the murder of Niismo. ft
was admitted that he wasn;
near the place, but he was the union
official in charge of the strike, he
was found guilty on general prin
ciples. Similarly with Schmidt.
Schmidt is accused of the purchase
of the dynamite for M’Manigal and
the M’Namaras. He is tried by men
who are lined up against labor from
the start, and although the court in
structs the jury that the evidence
against Schmidt as purchaser of tho
dynamite is insufficient, he is found
guilty. In other words: Lawson is
found to have acted against the in
terests represented by the Jurors
and so has Schmidt. But manifestly
they were unfit to try either one or
the other.
There is every probability that the
revolt against Yuan will acquire
such strength that he will be over
whelmed.
Whatever strength the Manchu
dynasty had in China as the Imper
ial Power, it was acquired because
of the hereditary acquiescence of
the Chinese In that power. Ances
tor worship counts for a whole lot
in China, but Yuan cannot point to
a long ancestral line which ruled
by right divine.
His influence from a sentimenui
point of view therefore is negllbible,
and he can only hope to control
the situation by the sheet strength
of his armies. Armies however ere
devoted only to great military lead
ers, and while in past years Yuan
has distinguished himself on the
field it battle, the prmy that now
has possession of the military
strength of China knows nothing at
all about hip prowess..
On the other hand, the revolu
tionary leaven in China has been
fermenting powerfully these ten
years. That Yuan succeeded lately
in suppressing it to a certain extent
is due only to the naturally pacific
disposition of the mandarin class
and their anxiety to acquire wealth.
Avarice is the besetting sin of the
Chinaman, and he is vicious in the
protection with which he covers his
predatory instincts. The masses in
China except in the coast cities are
profoundly unsusceptible to revolu
tonary doctrines. They are religi
ously superstitious beyond words,
and as is usually the case exception
ally ignorant and hard wwrking and
docile. **
Their submissive disposition how
ever yields energy as little tp Yuan
as to the rebels, and the main fact
ors In China are the coast popula
tion where western ideas and west
ern examples and western associa
j tlons have stirred the Imagination
| and hence the ambitions and hence
' the energy of the-Chinese people*
1 They have within them knowledge
! of the more progressive ways of
J the . West, and they have dreamed
dreams of future greatness and fu
ture happiness in which no great ex
ploiting leader like Yuan and no
foreign influence like Europe, Japan
or America, enter in.
They are strong in their hopes
for an independent Chinese repub
lic; great in Asia as the United
States is great In America; their
views upon social questions do not
reek of the sordid individualism
which has made American indus
try and American commerce so vic'
ously rapacious and corrupting. It
would be hard to excel Dr. Sun Yat
sen’s rescript declining the presi
dency on the occasion of the Man
chu overthrow as a work expound
ing clear cut revolutionary doc
trine; looking towards the collec
tive weal in the individual prosperi
ty of any nation, unclouded by visi
ons of a voracious capitalism, a vor
acious officialdom, or an equally vor
acious militarism.
All this revolutionary element
will seize the political .disintegra
tion which is following the Yuan ac
ceptance of the crown. In opposi
tion to Yuan is the entire nations-.
Manchu sympathy, all the rebel
idealism and all the natural timidity
which a pacific people suffer in the
presence of a usurper. ,
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