Inilu Name Industrial Morker.1
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R, Nome Mine Workers’ Union. No. *40. Western Federation of Miners
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anranam Lincoln
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Last January the contract for
taking care of the Alaskan insane
was renewed by tko United States
government with the Morningsidc
asylum. The contract signed with
Dr. Coe is for anotUer four years.
For four more years, therefore,
Alaskan insane will be compolled to
endure confinement in an asylum
which has provided scandal of na
t’onal dimensions that hn3 the most
infornal penitentiary holes backed
off tho map.
It has been condemned by those
who lived therein; it has been de
nounced by thoso who visited to in
terview patlonts, and by legislators
wlio went themselves to discover at
first hand how were conditions
Kvon the Governor of Alaska has
presented facts to the Federal Gov
ernment which should have been
sufficient to warrant at least an in
vestigation, and at least some hesi
tation in renewing this disgraceful
contract.
For it is a disgraceful contract
It is a contract which is alleged
to bo carried out by reanon of the
political influence of those in charge
with Oregon politicians, who, in
turn, have hilluonce direct at Wash
ington.
Hero is a plain case where it is
not a (jiiostion of serving tho people
of Alaska, of taking iuto considera
tion any humane sontiment, but
cold blooded political favoritism
against all the facts which have
been garnered and published in the
way of exposures of this foul sani
tarium.
Any one that believes in this ele
vated bunk about the democrats rls
ing to better heights than any other
party, and being unaffected in the
administration of governmental
things by purely political reasons
howover base, certainly can con
sidcr this disgraceful Morningslde
contract with chastened feelings.
The fact of the matter Is that it la
stated that Coe and those with him
have big influence with Oregon po
l'ticians, and these in turn havo too
much influence at Washington to be
ignored.
In what other way can this con
traet bo explained ' v .have
gone to the asylum without due no
tice of their advent bring heralded,
those also who were therein con
fined, all admit that it is -. d•('grace
to humanity to confine any persons
there. If to political reasons are
at tlie back of this contract why,;
other reasons, except even a baser
one, can be adduced to its support.’
The entire Territory has been op
posed to this contract system. The
entire Territory has repeatedly de
manded that the people of Alaska
ho taken care of in Alaska If men
tally infirm. The officials of the le
gislators, the Governor and many
others have voiced that appeal.
The inmates who escaped or re
covered, all unanimously give the
institution a name that is synonim
ous with Holl. The Industrial
Worker has repeatedly published
accourts that wore well calculated
to rouso public Indignation. Bui
nil these things pro ignored, and the
men who have been making money
housing the Alaskan insane are
confirmed for another four years in
their ghoulish huslnoss.
Wo boast about civilization, about
independence, about roprecentatlve
government. In what way in thlB
contract is civilization represented?
In what way aro the peoplo of Al
aska allowed an independent say in
the care of their own stricken on s?
in what way has the feeling o'
loathing, dlcgust and horror for this
damnable institution beon consider
ed and the wishes of Alaskans re
spected by this uplifting administra
tion that confirms the incarceration
of Alaskan insane in a profit mak
ing institution which coins its dW
ty dollars from the infirmities, the
miseries ‘ and the wretchedness of
tboso unfortunates whose livos have
boon wrecked in opening up the
country.
The entire proposition is infinite
ly disgusting. And not the least
disgusting feature of tho position :s
that Alaskans, the so-called brave,
fearless, daring, openhearted, ven
turesome, independent, freedom
loving Alaskans who so peddle to
themselves at their ro-unions, ac
cept this condition with only a surly
protest, while they turn to their
ledgers and wonder how the hell
they are going to get a boom on will
enable them to unload their wild
cats on a lot of outside suckers—
or busy themselves with their cfTorts
to extract a big chunk of hog fat
from the pork barrel and slime over
officials at Washington as the con
stant and unswerving friends ot Al
aska.
It's a mighty serious thing when
a people will accept a situation like
this insane contract calmly and with
indifference. It's a mighty serious
reflection on the people wno will see
those whom they knew and loved
and worked with treated like felon
slavos because they became mentally
infirm and a bunch of fat-gutted
Oregon politicians are allowed to
swell their treasuries at the expense
of the misery, sickness and wretch
edness of the unfortunate Alas
kans.
It makes one sick to hear the
people of Alaska, when they are giv
ing re-unions to recall former days
of daring and doing, throw bouquets
at one anoher with the abandon of
a millionaire on a chorus girl. The
halls ring with apostrophes to the
great ones who lugged a sled over
the divide, and sought with infinite
perseverance for the home stake
in tho depths of mother earth, who
suffered torures in an unendurable
existence, and wrestled with fortune
until their backs ached to develop
the country.
Yet here they are subjected to an
insulting condition that doiies de
scription, and accepting it without
a murrner. Even tho buzzards, tho
birdmen toll us, protect their strick
en and the wounded jackal is guarci
• d by such ns are well. But it is man
alone that allows his fellow men
when wounded and stricken ana
coffering to be made the inoana
whereby come more dollars will be
ground out for the proprietors of a
‘sanitarium” (God bless the mark)
in Oregon.
There are sure seme up-llfterc 1.
that high browed administration in
Washington, and there are sure
some daring and fearless ginks In
Alaska will stand for this sort of
thing.
The Milwaukee Li ader, the organ
of the Wisconsin Social-Democrats,
In an editorial comments upon the
fact that with an Increase in em
ployment ermes have decreased.
It is an old obvious fact, and tho
Leader believos that It would go fai
towards reformation of society It
jobs were secured for overyonc who
worked. It would, but it will not.
That's the paradox.
The capitalist system dopeuds upon
the jobless, the landless and the
proportlless who have nothing to
sell but their labor power. If there
wero jobs for overyono, whoro would
strike breakers come from and
when a man quits for more wages
would the capitalists do to get an
what would the capitalists do to get
another profit making human ma
chlnef i !
Capitalism demands Its jobless.
Its moneyless and its landless folk
who will be handy profit making
fodder for the employing cattle.
The economic system premises this
clans, and without that, class in ex
istence it couldnt last a day.
TO suggest It .could, as might be
inferred from the Leader’s editorial,
is to suggest What probably the
editor of that paper knows is quit:
impossible, quite as well as does the
Industrial Worker, but because such
an inference is possible the article
is misleading and wholly useless.
Capitalism ao Marx pointed out,
depends for its existence on a land
less moneyless class who must work
for others to live. The more num
erous that class Is, the better the
bargain that employers can drive
with the unfortunate peoplo are to
be hired.
Labor organizations depend for
their existence upon this fact that
they try to overcome the economic
supremacy an abundance of proper
tlless and landless workers gives
employers. They function chiefly
and primarily and by precedent as a
means of preventing individual
bargaining so that collective bar
gaining will enable ihe workers en
masse to make a better bargain.
The difficulty of the case which con
fronts labor organizations is intensi
fied by the fact that there are more
men than jobs, and the scramble
cannot be orga.nized by the unions
on account of the wild effort upon
the part of individuals to take what
they can get for their labor, so thai
first of all they may live. It is tor
that reason the more radical unions
have put at the head of their pro
gram the abolition of the r. ages
system altogether, so tnat there will
be work, but no wage working, for
all who want to live.
Poverty and crime have a very
distinct association. For every man
is first of all an animal with an ani
mal’s instinct to live. If the condi
tions in industry preclude) the poss
ibility of his obtaining the means of
existence by hiring out his labor
power, then he has either to beg or
steal. Both are crimes because both
compel those who have to support
those who have not, unwillingly. Men
instinctively hate the beggar be
cause men reflect always the view
point of the man of property who
bates to give, alhough he has taken,
without adequate returns. The Mtn
who steals is an open enemy against
whom the organized forces of so
ciety are always directed, and the
courts very seldom take into con
sideration the economic compulsion
which has driven many and many a
man to a life of crime.
Capitalism however is indirectly
as well as directly responsible for
crimo. It takes no cognizance what
ever of the impulse exists in every
human being to prolong his life,
and whilo it is legal and right ana
necessary to shut up the avenues
of legitimate means of subsistence to
the workers, the unemployed are
expected to live somehow within the
law. When they are driven to go
outside the law they are blamed as
individuals by the very profiters of
the system that has left no other
course open to them. All along it is
the system. Human life is very
little in comparison to the value ot
property. Everything that will up
hold the latter is agitated and pres
sed to a final issue; the right to
live is wholly ignored.
For one statute and one judicial
precedent upholding human life as
the most vital of all things in hu
man society, there are a thousand
upholding human property as the
premier consideration.
These are conditions that in a so
ciety wherein everything from labor
to junk is a system of commodities,
with commodity relations between
one and the other, are wholly logi
cal and inevitable.
The jobless are not worth mu h
as money makers; but it is upon
them that capitalism rests, aud
while such a system exists there
will always be plenty of workers
and an excess over the number pi
jobs available.
l'i t-paredness has invadei the
movies. An eleven part motion pic
ture entitled the Battle Cry of Beaee
is now taking the movie houses rty i
.-torm outside, it is said to be mo
delled after Hiram Maxim’s book j
Defenseless America with a vein ot
romance added to heighten the in
terest in the story. It attempts to
show in a great series of spectacu
lar pictures how New York city and
the entire United States within a
few weeks could be conquered by
an Invading enemy. It shows the
Wall street district in flames, a con
quering army marching through the
streets dynamiting public buildings
and destructon of homes and fire
sides. It shows the valiant efforts
of the military of Amorica to cope
with this invading force and their
futile efforts to save the nation.
This is In about the line of rea
soning that is employed to further
national preparedness. It first ima
gines an enemy and then has the
enemy conquer America.
It does not explain just why for
eign nations should wish to con
quer America, why they should de
! sire to destroy the homes of Amer
ican workingmen and to destro
! their jobs. It ofTcrs no explanation
j why the United States should get
\ in conflict wth Germany or Britain
or France. But it creates an ima
ginary- foe P.nd there you arc.
So far none of these preparation
ists have sought to justify their doc
trines by any open admission that
Germany is to be the next foe, or
that Great Britain is. Nono of them
have sought to prove to the Amer
ican people that they are in imme
diate danger from any specific na
tion. But they have conjured an un
namoable Terror and sought to in
ject it in the voins of the people so
that in Terror they might do what
their cool reason would oppose.
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