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\onif Mine Workers’ Union. No. 240. Western federation of Miners
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Entered hb second class matter March 1, 1911, as the post office at
feoiue, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1878
Nome, Alaska, April H, 1916.
They are anxious to investigate
the Parkers, anil the Parkers, noble
minded altruists, allege that al
though prices are high their profits'
are small. .
The country lias never appreciated
monopolies at their real value ana
never certainly realized what phi
lanthropic institutions they are.
Their ideal is public service and
first of all conies the satisfaction ot
human needs. They are content
even with small profits—nay at a
pinch these too they will forego and
real progress consists in giving these
commercial institutions free hands
so that their commercial lives may
ho long in the land.
The public forgets that the idea
at the hack of consolidations, amal
gamations and syndicates Is to im
prove the service which they can
give—to better satisfy the public’s
needs, and to supply the consump
tive demand more effectively. That's
why they sit on the carcase of the
little fellow, why th6y black list tips
servitors of rivals, why they drive
the railroads to secret rebates, why
they bulldoze public officials and cor
rupt judges, why they lobby in Con
gress and buy senators and legis
lators, why they banquet the solons
and exeursionize the jurists, why
they maintain lawyers to fight law
enforcement and to acquire by trick
ery, cajolery, chicanery or cheating
privileges franchises and positions
of power. That’s why they have ri
vals boycotted and trade antagonists
ruined. That's why they have
gentlemen's agreement and pooling
of profits. That's why they oppose
the nomination of a Brandois to the
Supreme Court and have a conven
tion steam rolled that their nominee
may be forced upon the parties.
That’s why they have interlocking
directorates and why they pay
starvation wages. That’s why the.,
forbid employees to organize and
light pure food bills and inspection
laws and compensation acts and em
ployers' liability and industrial com
missions and drive employees to
strikes and violence and force the
courts to obey them.
John H. Stevenson w:ts municipal
in cl fte In Portland, Oregon, Note
the least tense. lie- no longer is
judge. He quit. And he quit no*
because Ilia pay stopped, hut because
he didn't want to get pay for the
useless work which lie did. He him
self told i’ll about It. He never let
any one have any doubt why he re
signed. Ho explained it shortly but
clearly to the press, and although
most of the newspapers laughe 1
up their sleeve none dared to tackle
the questions that his reason sug
g os ted.
His opinion of the courts is noi
very favorable. It’s not very satis
fying. and if he weren't a judge one
might think him some outrageous
radical who damned the whole judi
cial institutions.
“It merely adds to the misery ov
Hie people who need help”, he said.
“It does not cure evil. I am 3ick.
and tired of the whole farcical pro
cedure. My whole purpose is to get
away from the burden of sending
pccj^ie to jail and imposing penalties
I have been doing this for several
years. Now I'm through. Let some
one else do It.
Whott 1 sand a man to jell for
drunkoness, what have 1 accomp
lished? While he's in Jail, his wife
nnd children are doprived of any
l>art of his earnings and he gets
drunk again as soon as he gets out.
When I send a thief to jail I do not
lielp the thief or society. When he
gets cut he is still a thief and a
jailbird besidos. When I send a
-woman to jail for immorality do i
halt or hinder the manufacture ot
fallen women becausa of social
conditions with which the courts do
not concern thomselves? The work
—the farce of administering so
called justice—has become so dis
tasteful to me that I can continue 1
rio longer, although to la frank 1
need the $3,300 which the oilier
pays. ! am going back to my pri
vate practice”.
One can imagine Judge Steven
son sitting on his municipal bench
doling out “justice” to the flotsam
and jetsam that swept up before him
from the waves of the police that
cast them upon the shores of the
courts.
Day after day he beheld these
victims of a social system, just as
much sinned against as sinning,
creatures of a social environment
victims of an heredity over wliien
they had no control, the resultants
of economic forces beyond them in
dividually, waiting to hoar His
Honor make the punishment fit the
crime.
it is a peculiar thing that it took
Stevenson several years to realize
, his position, but without doubt he
realized it fully at last, and he real
ized that although his court daily
and hourly adjudicated, society did
not improve on that account at all,
and would not improve were he to
throw the hook at every prisoner
came before him.
It's a legacy of another day that
guilt is regarded especially am >■>
the poor as strictly individual and
personal. Thera is no divided res
ponsibility and certainly no social
responsibility. No ono takes stock
of tlie economic environment that
(leads directly to crime and would
Change that environment—least ct
all does legal procedure provide foi
a consideration of any such- a fact.
No stock is taken of the prisoners
being victims of an heredity—of eco
nomic necessity. They have oinrn d
and must pay the penalty. It is i
wholly immaterial that the criminal
procedure is out of date and archaic
and unscientific. The law lives by
precedent and takes no stock of
science. It is infallable and insists
upon all regarding it as such,
i It ignores the existence of such a
science an criminology. And foi
thi! same crime regardless of every
thing ek>e, it has the same punish
ments. It measures with its ancient
yardstick guilt whatever may have
been the compelling cause, and it
has a right to swerve in no way
from the prescribed penalties that
must be enforced, it operates by
formula.
It is the same today as yesterday,
priding itself upon its indexible
justice when it should be fully
shamed often enough of its inflex
(ible blindness.
j Men are beginning to cast doubts
upon the effect of punitive treat
| ment. Men are instituting prison
reform which means that they are
J no longer penal residences but
! where each prisoner is a subject for
! treatment individually. There are
i honor systems where men are trust
ed as human beings, and ea-opera
tive iflans which help to build up a
prisoner's confidence in himself and
his capacity.
It was not the removal of capital
punishment that diminished sheep
stealing or the mitigation in his
skutence that ieduced the number
of horse thieves.
It is not an accident thut crimes
increase when winter arr’ves and
the opportunities to labor are fewer.
It is not chance at all that in coun
tries where life is maintained with
difficulty and the fortunes are un
certain, conditions are often highly
criminal and degrading.
There is more crime in the slums
of New York than in Fifth Avenue
—that is crime that is subjected to
the prosecution and punishment by
the officials. The well fed man whose
living is not in doubt is soldom a
burglar and less frequently a hold
up man. The man who has access
to orderly means of livelihood oh
the farm or in the store eeldom
ventures to flag a ti'aln and rob the
express ear. Theft Is not degrading
to the man who ia driven hy eco
nomic stress to the atlll more de
grading depth of begging for a llv- i
ing. The man who knows not I
where he will eat tomorrow isn't j
likely to have a very lofty moral |
code and will not very highly |
esteem the law. The reason for all |
this is obvious and for most crime
the remedy is not the court and the
jail but improved environment.
It is absurd to think that we can
recognize spontaneously right and
wrong, and that what appears all
light to the rich man and the well
•d will present itself likewise to
the starving outcast.
A Rockefeller would think twice
before entering a bakery and grabb
ing on the run a loaf of bread. But
the man who has stood for hours
in vain in the bread line will not
hesitate to grab and run off with
two or three loaves if he gets a
chance. • ,
It is not reasonable to suppose1
that society can adopt a system
where everyman’s hand is against
the other man, where “do jour
neighbor or lie'll do you” is con
1 sidered sound philosophy and the
!smart man is the man who gets the
' dollar,from the other fellow in bus
iness or at p’ny, and still expect that
by punishing the criminal they can
ijetter social conditions.
It’s social improvement not the
law that lessens crime. When all
are we1! fed and work is easy and
plentiful there is little crime enpugh
But when tie r: is scramble for jobs
and men are plentiful and work is
as scarce as food, crime will ne re
I latively abundant.
Stevenson’s real difficulty was
with the fact that lie could not lay
the blayne for crime where it more
often belonged than not—on the
! social system. He admits as much.
! Day after day the same old round
of charges and convictions and pe
nalties and no decrease in the mise
ry and wretchedness and criminality
that surrounded him.
Stevenson knew that. He sen
tenced dozens of fallen women anti
dozens of them kept coming before
him for sentence. He knew that
what sentence he passed did not af
fect the social conditions that daily
ground out its prostitutes and slui
ced its miseries in his court. He
couldn't touch the system. He dare
not sentence its promoters. They
were in broadcloth, respectable,
decent up-lifting members of so
ciety. He couldn’t venture to change
the system. It was greater than lie,
for he himself was part of It.
Instead he so despise^ its vanity
and It so sickened him by reason of
its farcical inutility,, that lie quit.
Those Designers of Xonsenee.
Hilda l.etclienherger and l.ady Dont
Cheer-Xo. Kagle Hall. Saturday
Kvening.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To Gretchen P. Meyer, D. B. Keith, I
John T. Campion, your heirs, ex
ecutors, asseigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that I have expended in la
bor and improvements the sum of
one hundred dollars each year for
the years of 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905.
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
1912 and 1915 on the following
claims located on Solomon river
in the Nome Mining and Recording
District, Bel claim, Mamie claim
and Gretchen claim, all four situat
ed on Solomon river, re
corded and more fully described
in Volume 91, pages 353, 354.
and 355 of the location records of
the Nome Recording precinct in the
Second Division, District of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claims
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claims.
And you and each of you are j
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fail to contri
btlte your proportion of said expen
diture, your interest in said claims
will become the property of the
| undersigned, your co-owner under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
I the United States.
(Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co^Owner.
Date of first publi., March 18, 1918.
Date of last publ., June 17, 1916.. .
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Spring fever.
LOMEXS DRUG STORE.
The Grand Jury will indict any
one not found at the Kennel Club
Cabaret on Saturday evening.
The Curtain will rise at 8:4S,
Saturday Evening, on the finest
Vaudeville |>erformance ever offered
to the Nome Public.
NOW IS THE TIME.
As the bright sunny days are com
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pressed and repaired.
We make them look like new.
”;e clean hats.
We make alterations.
We make suits to order.
We guarantee first class workman
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We guarantee prompt service.
We appreciate your patronage.
Come in and see us. #
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