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Nome, Alaska, January 1.1, 1918.
GARDNER OX FREE SPEECH.
Gilson Gardner, famous Washing
ton correspondent, sent the follow
ing telegram from Washington to
C. W. Ervin, managing editor ot
the New York Daily Call:
“Permit me, as a newspaper man
who is not a Socialist, to add my
protest against the. threatened sup
pression of the Call. The action of
the administration in attempting
to meet criticism by forcible sup
pression of critics is one of the
most incredible things I have seen
in my 20 years’ experience in writ
ing about public affairs.
"Nothing so un-American, so un
constitutional and so threatening to
the liberties of the people has hap
pened in my lifetime. In permitt
ing this action President Wilson is
doing a thing which gives t
every expression of democracy he
has ever uttered, and is a complete
. . ___ of the promises which
won him his election.
“It is stupid in many ways, not
ably in the fact that it tends to im
pair the confidence of the public in
the professed loyalty and patriot
ism of those who have in hand the
conduct of the war. 1 trust you
will continue your magnificent fight
for free speech.”—Coast Seaman’s
Journal.
SOCIALISM AND MATERIALISM.
Socialists are often accused of
being materialists, the implication
being that materialists lack the es
sential quality that distinguishes
the higher from the lower, the best
from the worst in humanity. It is
this implication that they arc low
or undeveloped that socialists re
sent, and not the charge that they
are materialists.
Mothinks the explanation of this
attempt to bring us into disrepute
is that a vague fear is felt that if
the working class should ever come
to understand the great truths of
astronomy, geology, biology, and
evolution, that they (the working
class- would no longer be plastic
clay and docile servants in the
hands of a parasitic class.
A very large proportion of social
ists are materialist:.; tn.it is, they
understand something of the me- i
thod, order, and harmony of na
ture; and they think a knowledge
cf natural phenomena the first re
quisite in any plan of social better
ment. They have learned that every
one of the higher qualities of hu
man beings is rooted in and nurtur
ed by material force and matter.
The ideal to them is the highest
form, the blossom and th,e fruit of
the real.
It is this scientific, evolutionary,
materialistic basis and philosophy
that distinguishes Marxian from
Utopian socialism. It io this that
causes Marxian socialism to be
hated and feared by all those indi
viduals who live and thrive upon
ilio ignorance, credulity, and ser
vility of the working class.
Thcrsteiu Veblon, author, and
professor in the University of Chi
cago, says:
The socia'ism that inspires hopes
and fears today is of the school of
Marx. No one is seriously appre
hensive of any other so-called so
cialistic movement, and no ouo is
seriously concerned to criticise or
refute the doctrines set fort h by
any other school of socialists.
PHENOMENA OF THE DANCE.
Net since the fourteenth century
has there been such a remarkable !
revival of dancing all over the
world .as there is today. In some
respects it amounts to a fever.
Sometimes it is, without doubt, car
ried to excess, and, amid all the
•dancing there is, it is inevitable
that there should he insane steps
and immoral tendencies in certain
lines. But the objectionable feat
ures appeal chiefly in high society
and in the slum, both of which are
j abnormal.
j We ale not at the point where
1 can explain the phenomenal re
vival of dancing with absolute
certainty. There are indications,
however, that it i3 closely related
to the world-awakening and the
vision of better things. The fact
that there was a similar manifesta
iont in the fifteenth century, the
period of the renaissance, would
bear out the idea. It would seem
that the world-hope is getting into
the feet. It must have physical as
well as mental expression. It has
not fully learned the step in the
march of the ages. It is moving
to syncopated or rag time; that is
to say, it fumbles and stumbles.
But it is moving. After awhile it
will catch a surer and more beauti
ful step, and then it will move for
ward with greater regularity and
knowledge ot what it means into
the joy of social life on a higher
/ plane.
! There is a cheerfulness in this
view. It is not out of place for the
Socialists to sec in every advanced
I thought and every tendency of
j social consciousness an evidence of
I the awakening of which Socialism
| and Socialists alone; but Socialists
1 alone understand what it means'
j and arc competent to direct it all
i to good.
SECURITY IS NEEDED.
There i3 no security in present
' day society. You dont’ know what
will become of your job tomorrow.
You millionaires don't know what
will become of your investments at
the first turn of the market. You
—all of you—from the ruler to the
ruled—know no security. You who
are poor do not secure. You who
are rich fear that you will be poor
tomorrow. Everywhere is deadly
uncertainty, insecurity. Bentham I
has described security as "the dis-1
tinctive index of civilization.” Not
having security, we have, no civili
zation, but a hollow mockery that
pretends to civilization. Socialists
are apostles of security. They will
bring you the positive assurance
that the morrow will know no want
no exploitation, no homelessness,
no economic worries.
DISPENSE WITH THEM.
Has your neighbor across the way
lost any of his individuality by rea
son of the fact that he walks the
streets and highways of your city
without paying toll to a gate keep
er? The only man who seems to
have dropped out of sight is the
man who collected the toll. Sccietj
is going to place by his side, the
landlord and the -private capitalist,
and we can get r.iong without them *
| just r.s woll ns we got along with
out the toll-gr.te keeper.
THE RESURRECTION OF
AN APPLE SEED
Lines of a Nome Artist-Poet.
0 pretty little apple seed
I’ll open wide your door,
You are a prisoner I know
Shut in this apple-core.
I'll take you out and you may se<
The trees on which you grew
The birds, the sunshine and th<
flowers,
The 3ky so soft and blue.
And then I'll plant you in tli<
earth
Where you can grow and be
A lovely apple tree yourself;
As any such, you se#.
The little boy became a man
The little seed a tree,
He sat beneath its shade and held,
His baby on his knee.
He picked an apple from the bough,
And told her all he knew.
About the little apple seed.
And how it grew and grew.
And how it blossomed in the Spring
and in the Autumn bore,
Such lovely fruit and how it
came
From seed to seed, once more.
NEW SCIENCE NOTES.
A new electrically lighted egg
candler prints names, dates or
other inscriptions on eggs with a
rubber stamp as they are inserted
into it.
After several years of experi
menting rubber trees have been
successfully transplanted from the
banks of the Amazon to the interi
or of Brazil.
Time is saved in the erection of
concrete roofs by the use of new
metal forms which serve as rein
forcing material and help to sup
port the leads.
A turbine of 1000 horsepower,
driven by the explosion of a mixture
cf producer gas and air, is running
a high voltage dynamo in a German
city.
Three separate elements, any one
of which may be replaced when
needed, feature a new dry battery
for pockot electric lamps invented
in Switzerland.
For night fishing there has been
invented a float carrying an incan
descent lamp and a storage battery
the. former being lighted by a fish
pulling a hook.
French radio experts are plan
ning the erection of wireless an
tsn.nac 15 miles long ar.d contain
ing 150 miles of wire to test the
use of long wave lengths.
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