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“To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or at
aearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abraham Llncola
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Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 1S4.
Nome, Alaska, .lanuaiw 12, 1»17.
.M l»i< Mil S I'Ol.K Y.
Ladies in Peoria .started an in
vestigation about ltigii prices on
thier account. They may not have
And they discovered that iar from
been soc ially very prominent, he- j
cause their main concern was about j
the plebian spud for which two j
bucks per was paid.
there being an actual shortage,
there was an excess in their virility,
and dealers had been dumping in Ill
inois River carload after carload of
the delectable tuber. Ton after ton
of murphies were thus re
moved from the market amt
the artificial shortage thus produced
enabled the dealers to keep up
prices and net fine profits.
That was exceedingly good busi- j
ness. In this wa£ the dealers most
ingeniously were enabled to make
the spud function profitably to them,
and alter all as far as they are cou
cerned, that is the reason of a
spud’s existence. It is true that the
potatoe is also supposed to satisfy
hunger and to form a staple article
of the social diet. But the main
thing about it is that profit is made.
The farmer grows it for the profit of
growing and the dealer speculates in
the product of the farm for the
money he gets out of it. lie does
not care three thraneens whether
the hungry are fed or not. The
main thing is money.
And we can peddle all we want
among ourselves about the soci.A
functions, there is, gentlemen ot ,h.j
jury, just one function in any com
modity and that is that it make pro
lit for the producing company, indi
vidual or dealer.
That in thus making profit, the so
so-ial activities also somewhat act
in til*- direction of satisfying human
want is merely an incident which
ad Is to the very efficiency of profit
getting. Thus if one manufactures
an article of which the country has
urgent need, that manufacturer will
he able to make much money. It
one controls the means whereby the
rest live, such ownership will enable
one to make considerable profit out
of the situation. '
So with the spuds in the stat • Of
Illinois. They were plentiful. They
were too plentiful, and more than
needed hv the spud-eaters. Hut
spuds were a fine price which had to
be maintained, and if the supply was
placed against the demand the form
< r being greatt r the price would fall,
(loud husini.--'. ordinary commercial
agio 'ty which profits by the occa
sions of human need, directed the
dumping of this excess supply and
- in men inl sagacity had its way.
The.’ it men’.’ that main would have
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on • -1 >. fit tin potato' il< ;If! ;;. 'I lie
iwo dollars p, r w;.;. And that is
what tiny as dealers wen interested
tj maintaining. That i the system,
it s the sj «i o. that finds laudation
in Ki?'"r and pulpit and only those
hlaste) red fiaf; wavers would think
of changing it. Surely to change it
and bring the spud 10 the spud eater
quickly reasonably arid without ex
cess of charges, would be to break
up the home and destroy the family.
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" V' J’OKK.
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’ We heard more about pork for the
the past year than any year before.
*rtto munitionists watched with en
vious eves war contracts being used
ul, ,o build post offices, coart houses,
harbors, levees and what not in the
.sustny south, l’ork is pork when the
other fellow gets it; when you get
it is patriotism.
It does not matter what may he
nature of the appropriation made if
is spent in your home town and you
have a chance to get a mitt upon
the pile, there is no fear ot your
calling that there and then pork. It
is patriotism and is adequately at
deiuling to the community require
ments and a whole lot of other lofty
noble and high principled things.
You cannot very well denounci
appropriations made for your owi
locality although it may be pork o
the porkiest; but it is when tin
dough goes to the other town tnat
Virtue insists upon calling attention
to the damnable condition under
which tite public money is squander
ed in useless enterprises.
It is all right to appropriate for
certain interests and certain cities
and towns. But in the last analysis
it will he all right or all wrong ac
cording as you are geting your
whack out of it. And as the workers
get mighty little out of any of the
appropriations but hard work, they
are under no delusions as to pork
being pork.
But pork was never meant for
them any way.
THK I IKI.lt OK IIONOIC.
There is one page in Knglish Illu
strated papers which is especially
interesting. It is devoted to the
photographs of oflh ers killed in ae
tion; “dead on the field of honor .
The most appealing thing about
that page is the fact that intruding
among them are no privates, corpo
rals or other non-commissioned ot
| ficers who died for “king and coun
!try". Instead those who were oiti
(ers and gentlemen are thus reci
I pients of the tribute.
Now it may very well be explained
that to devote pages to photos ot
unofficered ranks who tell would
fill a whole illustrated paper, and
hence just a few of the best of them
are given and naturally tlie officers
are the best. That is certainly the
case. But consider, first of all that
all those officres are fighting lor
something. They have homes, wealth
business, prosperity, rents, profits
and position to defend. Not honor
i but self interest should dictate that
they fight. The real honor victim is
the worker. He hasn't a rod of soil
I to call his own. All he can look for*
i ward to is a bad job at best. More
; often than not the workhouse is his
| portion. All he has got is his life
1 au'i he risks that,
i There js more truth however than
poetry In the significance of that
| page. War is for the officers the
j field of honor and for the workers
the field of service for those who
have exploited them in peace as well
as war.
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i hose who- fondly believed that
•In odd standard had for ever aiul
1 dominati I tin monetary sy
: :i n o; th world are likely to ex
j perience a she k by the way that
i, -r is going nn a Mi its use is in
i r< , sing in the belligerent nations,
j The British, French and (ierraans ;
j are now using sifter in larger and j
i larger quantities. To be sure it is
j in the nature of fiat money, and so
I tar the value of silver is only, withal
jits increase about 72. But its use is
"meeting a long felt want” and men
who study these things declare that
it will be much in use after the war
i and some system of bi-metalism
i will he introduced,
j Now is the time for the* free silver
1 advocates to overhaul their Coin’s
; Financial School and discover that
, monometafism is responsible for
j all our woes. Anything is prefer
| able to the facts, and if the people
, get side tracked with sixteen to one
i doctrines, it is likely tliat they will
j leave the real vital questions nn
I touch and unconsidered.
TRIAL BY JURY.
| The situation arising from the
j Mooney trial when Attorney Bourke
Cochran pulled the mask from the
1 system of professional juries that
had been in vogue in one that will
! give rise to serious thought through
j out the world.
1 Trial by jury
lias been the sole
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protection that stood between the
libertarians and tyranny in every
age and assured some sort of equit
able treatment even from courts
hostile to defendants.
It is one of the best known facts
that when justice is to be denied
and the will of tyrannical powers is
to be enforced, the first thing to go
by the board is the jury trial. And
above ail else an impartial jury is
shelved so completely that in the
hands of tyrannical men packing
juries has become a fine art.
The Magna Charta calls for a
jury of one's peers. However the
law may interpret that word, it cer
tainly meant then, whatever it may
mean now, the social and ecenomic
peer of the person tried. The feudal
lord was tried by feudal lords, the
freeman by freemen and knights by
knights.
Today there is in the United States
no such social disparity due to the
absence of feudal conditoins. But
there is just as real a disparity and
that is due to our present day econo
mic system a disparity of wealth and
proprietorship. Briefly there ar •
two classes, those who own and ope
■ rate industries and those who do not
own but labor in the industries.
Uunquestionably should the con
i ception of a trial by one’s peers be
I nu t r* worlriiitr mpn WOllld hf*
i tried by workers and business mm
by business men. Now nothing ot
the kind takes place. It is very sel
dom indeed when t.ne workers ate
being tried that there are any work
ers called to try them. On the con
trarv, retired or active business men.
pensioners, an<] others who have not
worked for some time are called to
1 hear and try the cases of the work
ers.
Because under such conditions ver
dicts are arrived at which are a
scorning and a loathing, the whole
system of trial by jury falls into
disrepute. But the system is not
properly tried. It is the system de
based to the ends ot
modern commercialism that lias
made the great jury system of
the country a hissing and by a word
1 as Cochran intimated when begin
i ning tlie Mooney trial.
The most important fact to re
j collect in modern criminal trials is
that the prosecuting attorney is, nine
times out of ten. not so much inter
ested in securing justice as in secur
ing a conviction. Hence it is that
every effort is made to secure that
conviction whether the party being
tried is innocent or not. Even the
tioast is made by such officials tnak- •
ing effort to secure re-election and
that to the effect that they secured j
more convictions than their prede- j
cessors in the same office. To con
vict has become a monomania with
some, when the fact that convictions
are not obtained is often enough the
finest testimony to the prosecuting
attorney's justice, honesty and fair
ACTHOKIZES HON'D.
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PET HOG RAD. Jar. 10.—An im
i perial ukase promulgated auth . izes
i the Russian Minister of Finance to
I make issues abroad of treasury
! bonds to the amount of ,200,000,000
roubles (about $1,000,000,000 ), as
occasion may require.
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(ike THE NEWS RIGHT. REA?
THE WORKER.
No. 0308.
i NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United Stated Land Office at
j Nome, Alaska, December 10, 1 f* 16.
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Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) Fly \\\ p. Rell and Seattle!
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
•ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
j 69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
| min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5: thence S. 64 deg. 4 3
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
i ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4:
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
I 5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30'min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. G; thence S. G9 deg. 4 3
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. \V. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.65G acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.3 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record'
: ing District, Alaska,
j U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
Or post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground |
in stone mound '3 ft. high 0 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat- j
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly j
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of tlie Bessie road.
Is in Latitude G4 deg. 32 min. North j
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West. I
Original locations recorded in Yol. j
p9 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Yol.
165 Page 225 and Yol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the!
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,'
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un
surveved; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS. ^
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917. .
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