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Nome. Alaska. April II, 11MIS.
It is) remarkable that Alaska lias
not coma to the fere a? a tourist
resort before- this. Tit * inland pass
age r.lo-io can afford more real
scenic beauty th.i c«n b > r.b* rved
in any other part of the world. One
would therefore imagin', that the
leisured clr.ss.jo whose privilege it is
to rest long and work l!t.tle. w.Yle
making lift- a;, pleasant and enjoy
able a thing as possible, would have
availed themselves of the opportun
ity always was theirs of beholding
nature at it? wildest ana at Its best.
But that would be to rate the
leisured classes at too high an
esthetic figure. The fact of tho mat
ter is that as a class th y arc tho
most dull, dreary and least beauty
struck in the w'>rld. Their 'deals ot
beauty are to be discovered 11 some
European gambling dc” where tho
exagerated styks of tho dmni-mon
daino give the standard of fashion
to the wo:Id, or where they are
more respectable and rIso more
hopeless, tho'r senses ere lulled to a
security by tho sordid archit eture
of a modern church or the m rblea
atrocities that garnish the tombs ot
tho departed plutocrats.
As p. general rule it the hard
working desses who first discover
beauty, .and those rare excellent
among the leisured classes who can
admire and understand natural
magnificence, are no far beyond the
ordinary run of the four hundred
brain-power, that the latter arc
willing that they should set the
others fashion between whil s.
Thus r few of them di:-covered
the genius of Ibsen and popularized
a trip to the Norwegian fjords so
that they might the better appreci
ate the local color of the Norseman’s
dramatic genius. And behold every
.society mimic followed suit an 1
trips to Norway becamo finite
fashionable.
Some two or three novelists set
the scenery of the Rivlran as the
back ground of spicy fiction that
I lie leisured classes particularly ap
preciate, and the Riviera with its
sunny sky and blue waters became
the Mecca of the easily ti ad who
,-ould sate their senses with Medi
terranean calm and stimulate them
selves bucking the Monte ( arlo tiger
at the same time.
How it coines about that Euro
pean scenery should be so beloved
of the American rich and leisured
while American beauties were ig
nored is therefore to be explained
by the fact Miat the American rich
and leisured sought neither beauty
nor scenery. American Souaws went
after coronets for their daughters,
and the fathers went after the seduc
tive delights that men sper.k about
in an'undertone as peculiarly easy to
access in tho Gay Paris. Uesidss it
was the fashion. It was the a tamp
of the elite that a trip to Europe
should be made, and when sobering
up between the social excesses a
liborr.l talk of tho beauties and
greatness of the various sights they
had seen, gave to their conversation
a polish and an intellectual finish
might otherwise be lacking.
Tlie working classes are begin
ning to appraise the culture of the
leisured ones at Its proper figure,
and the artificial nature of their
esthetic sense and tho ridiculous af
fectation they manifest regarding
art and literature, mu3lc and paint
ing, travel and natural boauty, is
already quite plain to the masses
who observe the phony much quick
er than they are given credit for.
The Pecksniffs of art, and tho Peck
sniffs of travel we have always with
us, and that Is why Alaska has been
so long neglected.
>(ow the fortunes of war react In
favor of this territory as a field for
travel Some writors havo already'
made people familiar with the
Yukon end with the glaciers and
wttli tho Eskimos. It giroo one a
cultural finish to have read these
things, but much more does it con
fer a cultural olltesfaip upon those
who have seen the country ana
“admired" its wonders.
The person who has seen Alaska
has a wonderful advantage In tiie
conversational bouts that while
away pink leas and other social
functions. They are animated
travelogs and as such to be respect
ed and admired. Also arc they to
be envied and Mrs. Mazuma makes
a vow that she too will visit the
land of tho Aurora that around her
conversation can be cast an elegance
will enhance her imported gowm
It's all shoddy stuff of course, but
It’s the fashion and as such it com
pels the creatures of fashion with a
drive overcomes all obstacles.
Signs are that Alaska now is to
be tho Mecca of these folks. Not
because there Is any particular de
sire to develop the country, or live
and appreciate it in the visiting.
“See Alaska and die”, will nevey be
the motto of American plutocratic
patricians, but see Alaska and be in
the fashion is one that appeals deep
ly to the fashion-leavened soul tha:
mimics an English accent, and in
sists upon bringing its fashions in
clothes and shoes from Vienna or
Paris—Duty-free if they can bilk
the customs agent.
Billy Sunday's fame as a revival
ist is carefully kept before the peo
ple by means of judicious publicity.
] Magazines and newspapers are en
listed into service and these 'serve
to popularize the man. But there
are some incidents that are no*
dwelt upon. One is that the real
reason why Scott Nearing was dis
charged from his job In the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania was because he
challenged Sunday to place the
crime responsibility where it be
longed. instead of his imaginary
devil-chasing that belonged of right
to another age. Scott Nearing
j pointed out the evils of under pay
I ing women, child labor and othei
social conditions responsible for sir.
and crime, and called upon Sunday
I to attack the persons who were sup
porting him and these evils at Ih-=
same time. Billy kept quiet.
Billy delivered a decoration ad
I dress at Beaver Falls and the agnos
tic weekly Tim Trutliseeker drew a
deadly parallel between Sunday’s ut
Iterances and those delivered by Ing
orsoll years before—showing that
Sunday had robbed the dead whom
ho denounced and defiled, of the
1 ideas and precise language which
ilngersoll had used.
l And yet again here’s another item.
This is from Trenton N. J. where
Billy was pounding his version of
salvation dope into the benighted.
During the course of his remarks
ho indulged in a usual tirade against
the socialists. The socialists do not
boost Billy and pay little towards
his slush fund in the name of Goa
So a knock comes natural from this
revivalist. But the socialists were
up and doing, and proceeded to hire
u hall and arrange for a opcaker to
answer Billy, and Billy’s especial
brand of salvation dope. The pro
moters of Sundayism however wore
not slow about putting tho kibosh
upon the socialists. Thoy visited
the owner of the hall hirod and told
him if he did not withdraw the
right to use the hall he would hav6
his license taken away. The social
ists thereupon were refused tho use
of the ball. They sought other halls
but everyone told them the same
thing.
It’s a great religion where they
have to suppress any response to the
argumentative cackling of their re
tainers.
The organization of a general
union at Anchorage was forced upon
the workers there as an urgent ne
cessity, and It is an example that
the unorganized workers here also
nlight follow with’profit slid Im
provement to themselves. It Is al
ways a matter of experience that the
best way to pull is to pull together,
and unorganized workers are In
variably found pulling not only
against one another, but often
enough, Inasmuch as thoy pull
against one another, pulling against
their own best Interests
The interest of all workers. It
cannot be too often repeated and It
must be persistently repeated until
thoroughly understood by all the
workers, is identical as workers
and that interest is only made
strong and effective and a power
for good by organization.
The workers here might lake a
note from the program of prepared
ness that the capitalists are spread
ing throughout the land. That policy
whether a policy preparing for war
or preparing to protect and main
tain the munitionist contracts, is in
any event in its very essence worth
consideration by the workers as ap
plicable to their own condition.
The application of that program
of preparedness is the realization ot
a strong working class organization
to foster and support all working
class aims and ends. It’s worth ef
fort, and it will well repay the labor
that is put into that effort.
There is fundamentally nothing
at all can be urged against organi
zation. Not only that, but it is
fundamentally certain that without
organization all effort is bound to be
of no avail. One of the most im
portant facts is that the workers
have to struggle to live. They have
to struggle against the inclination
of an employer desirous of making
as much money as possible, to pay
as little as possible. They have to
struggle against other workers who
i endeavor to get the job that they
I hold, and if necessary in so strugg
lng to accept lower wages. That's
! what comes from individual effort.
It is powerless. The boss who wants
to cut wages and to keep conditions
below the point of subsistence finds
his salvation in the facts that the
workers are so often unorganized
and present themselves for employ
ment to him as individuals, without
any protection such ar unions af
ford, and feeling afraid to demand
better conditions or to refuse worse
conditions lest those unorganized
like themselves take their places.
When they are well organized
and face employers as such, the em
ployer who could easily handle the
demand of an Individual, cannot re
fuse the demand of a compact well
organized laboring class, because to
refuse the demand to one, he ne
cessarily refuses it to all.
Here in this particular neck of
the woods the workers were they
united could absolutely command
the situation. If their demands arc
refused and refused to all as they
would be following the union of the
workers, the employers would be
compelled to back down or abandon
their work because of the shortness ,
of the season.
The season Instead of playing in I
favor of the employer would be a \
most powerful ally as the workers ]
in a struggle for better conditions— j
but just so long as the workers are i
unorganized just so long must they j
make haste to take what they can j
get because if they dont the other 1
unorganized workers will, and the |
season is too short to hesitate and |
jobs too scarce to be particular I
about.
Helpless, hopeless and without j
any prospects for better conditions '
—that is the state of the non-union |
worker. He is an individual with j
his own economic power, which J
doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. J
as the only salvation for himselt. ,
It he doesn't like a job he can quit j
of course, and go hungry, but he j
' cannot and very often he dare net i
ask for a better wage or better con
ditions of labor.
Organization is the key to the
; whole situation.
_
XOTICK OK FORFEITURE.
To r. D. Winters, his heirs, sue- i
cessors, assigns or personal repre
sentative*:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended during the year 19113
the sum of one hundred dollars on
each of the following association
placer mining claims, to wit: The;
Gem Association and the Teal As
sociation, situated on Gold Bottom
creek a tributary of Snake River,
and recorded and more fully de
scribed in the records of the Cape
Nome Mining and Recording District
in the Second Division of the Ter
ritory of Alaska. #
The above amount has been ex
pended as required by law to hold
said claims under the provisions of
the law concerning annual labor
upon mining claims.
And you are further notified that
if within ninety days after the last
publication of this notice, you fan
to contribute your proportion of said
expenditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324, Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JAMES B. IVORY.
Co-Owner.
| Date of first publ., April 11, 191C.
Date of last publ., July 11, 1916.
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