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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, December
good mi:\.
John Ruskin used to hold that |
lli re was more credit due the pa- j
gai s who did good l'or the sake of
goodness than those Christians who |
do it for the sake of enjoying eter- j
nai happiness or avoiding eternal j
suffering. Which may be true
enough.
But it is dollars to the doughnuts j
that even the most advanced of the
Greeks never did good solely for the
sake of goodness, but because it
made them happier which after all it
what most of us are looking for.
All of which reminds one of the
urgings which social workers make
upon employers v. hen they want “re
forms" effected. They know much
better than to urge those “reforms"
because they are reforms, and by en
acting them good is done, but they
ask for these reforms and advise
and recommend them because they
will return a bigger income when
they are instituted.
It has been very hard for labor re
forms to get a hearing from em
p'overs at all if they are not finally
persuaded that it will profit them to
do so, and there is something almost
naif in the arguments of the Amer
ican Federation of Gabor organizers
that it is more profitable to work
men eight than it is to work them ,
ten hours a day!
We have changed but little from
those ancient days when men did
good because it made them happier.
It is true here and there the ideas
of happiness have changed and just
at present it is associated in the
world with that interesting coin so
plentiful with the business interests
and so scarce with the exploited at j
about this season of the year, and I
known asthe Almighty Dollar. Just as
tiie Greek Epicurus formulated the |
philosophy that there was no happi
ness without pleasure and no pleas
use except in the dong of good, j
the followers omitted the rider and
found their ways of life in Mte pur
suit of pleasure. So the dollar has
become identified with doing good
itself.
Such jangling as the ancient pa
gans enjoyed upon tl • • ->bie
thing of doing good for the sake of
good was i ossible to them because
of the high margin of leisure
which they enjoyed, and they j
enjoyed that leisure because
the slaves did the work for the citi
zens and freemen. Uusually it hap
pens that there is a very elaborate
cultivation of philosophic “culture"
by those whose cares for the morrow j
are relieved by the labor of others, j
and hence it is Hint fortunate class
which has found no necessity to toil t
ami labor is always there with both
feet when it. comes to telling the ■
other fellow how to live that he may
wear a crown of glory in the world
to come.
Always and at all times there has
been a vein of utilitarianism run
ning through the most elevated
ethical teachings, and because of the
fact, it was sometimes hard to per
suade the slaves and the serfs and
the toilers that they were better oft
as they were than were they the
class usually considred superior to
them. But you've got to hand it to
that same “superior” class that they
have got away with that argument
for quite a long time, and in places
yet they have the hewers of wood
and drawers of water praying “for
those in high praces that they may
lead quiet and holy lives’*.
So far no one halt come forward
to explain why a person should do
good for the sake of
goodness. Nor has it been
entirely explained why what was
good for the one man has bean bad
for another, and what was good for
one class has been very bad indeed
for another. They have measured a
standard and called it good, and told
the helots that if they measured
their lives therewith they would i
reaili a great halo of happiness and
glory in the world to come.
Hence it is that so many persons
deprecate any analysis of this doing
good. In point of fact, if tim good
ness of some persons is investigated
it will be found to have a very ma
terial basis indeed. But that is to
be avoided exposure at all costs, and
in consequence cant and hypocrisy
are stamped for currency and meet
mutual approval.
Nowadays a much more practical
idea has found approval, and that is
that by promoting individual happi
ness, the collective happiness is pro
moted, and accordingly the happi
ness of society is to be estmiated in
the happiness of its individual
members.
The unfortunate fact about this
and which renders it so unpopular
with the liigher-ups is that it shows
no favorable balance in the ledgers,
and cannot he written up and ex
pressed in dollars and cents.
Moreover it is one that calls upon
those higher-ups who have a sur
feit of those things which contribute
to the gratitiation of human needs,
desires, necessities, to explain if In
truth their surfeit has not been ac
quired at the expense of their fel
lows. .
In consequence we see those
'higher ups closing their eyes com
pletely to actual facts of their lives
and endeavoring to persuade society
that they emit an order of sancity
and goddness when socially it is an
odor of the animal zoologists class
ify as the mepliis mepliitica. They
found churches, charitable institu
tions, buy stained glass windows, do
nate high altars, pension schools,
establish hospitals, and have some
of those wonderful things pass by
the name of charity, after labor has
been gouged out. of every cent of
it. And society, so many of us are
parasitic, closes its eyes to the
source of all this “charitable” dona
tion, and praise the donator as one
who does good.
There is hardly any question that
the only reason why good is better
than evil is that it redounds more
to human happiness, and it is also
true that things are good for us or
bad for us as we find them conduce
to our happiness. Hut our happiness
is a collective thing. It is no longer
individual and personal. Our lives
are collective lives, lives in associa
tion. labor in the collective, organiza
tons in industry, social activities all
are mutually bound together. Hence
it is that the individual happiness
■ an only be properly realized in the
collective happiness, and the individ
ual that seeks its happiness in the
collective misery or at the expense
of the social collectivity is per se,
unmoral, anti-social and, whether
we are compelled to honor him be
cause of his great wealth, his life is
wholly evil even if he makes effort
to conceal the fact by "charities”.
If human welfare and happiness
were the inspiration and the incen
tive of industry and not private pro
fit, there would be no need for any
charities. If labor was not looted
at the point of production “relief”
funds and charitable oares would
not be required. .
Society finding its fulfilment in
the collective happiness would look
after itself. But it does not. It al
lows the individuals to loot it, to
make it miserable, to rape its wel
fare, to poison it with slums and
slumeries, to sicken it with vile dis
ease, to smash the health and maim
the physique of its individual mem
bers for the benefit of the few, and
then when the few turn round and
establish foundations and establish
a chapel and a chaplain on their
private estate, society Is expected to
fall over itself In rapturous admira
tion of these men who do good.
It may well be doubted whether
the wholly vicious man who makes
no bones about his viciousness is not
really one hundred per cent fine
compared to the man who affects
sanctity, piety, goodness, virtue and
charity but who has battened upor.
the prolonged degradation of the
workers in hell holes and sweat shops
and vile tenements.
It may well be doubted if the vi
cious man who has squandered on a
riot of pleasure all the great wealth
which his slaves created for his en
joyment, socially was not bettei
than the man who hoarded it while
at the end of his chapter he bunt up
great charitable institutions and ex
pected the world to bless his name.
At least there is never any mistake
about the man who affects no virtue.
There are and always will be 'many
persons who will be greatly imposed
upon by the smug hypocrisy that re
vels in its self claimed stewardship
of the looted moneys earned by the
social labors.
There never was any question as
to which was the more preferred at
one time:: the Pharisee or the Pub
lican. And both were loathsome.
Safety first. You miners coming
in from the creeks look up the ad
vertisers in your paper before dis
posing of jour patronage.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS,
« You are hereby notified that the
Assessment. Holl of the City of
Nome, Alaska for the year 1916,
has been delivered to me and the
amount due from each person
thereon named and levied upon the
personal and real property therein
described has been extended and
carried out by me, and the said Roll
has been examined, approved and
completed and that said tax levy
has been made by the Common
Council of the aforesaid city.
And you' are further notified
that all persons owning real and
personal property or both are re
quired forthwith to pay the amount
of money so assessed and taxed
against the property described In
said Roll, to said assessor and ex
officio tax collector at his office in
the City Hall in said City.
Dated at Nome, Alaska this 20th
day of December, 1916.
E GRIMM.
City Clerk and Assessor and
ex-officio Tax Collector.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good ) By W. P. Bell 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. 1176, 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.
G95, 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. Yar. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 605.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. A’ar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Yar. 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. 43
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Yar. 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. i
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
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
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 Yar. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Yar. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
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. 434; on the East un
surveyed; 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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