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NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 15, 1919.
FORCES MAKING FOR
a»new democracy
By Dr. J. W. Curry.
The Only Hope For a New Era I/ie*
With The Workers
The master class is always horri
fied at he thought of any analysis
of human society. Only ignorance
holds back Social Democracy. By
reason of financial and economic
power one class is in control. In
every historical epoch the class that
owned the machinery of production
directed human society. The people
who attempt to enlighten their fellows
are naturally classed as dangerous,
but these people are not responsible
for the disease any more than is the
physician whose task it is to diagnose
human physical ailments that they
may know how to attempt a remedy.
If those who so strenuously oppose
this “diagnosis” only really under
stood they will learn that the Vorkers
in emancipating themselves, will
emancinpate the whole of society,
and every member of the new Social
Democracy will be glad of the change.
There Will, however, be no change
Without a struggle, and the hope lays
in education. In order to better suit
their purposes, the master class has
been compelled to teach the people to
read, and education is the greatest of
all forces making for Social Democ
racy. Realizing this, the opponents
are out to pervert facts when they
can not entirely suppress them. T
remember as a boy camping on the
banks of a stream from which we got
our water, and how one morning we
were horrified to discover that the
stream was so muddy as to make it
useless. On examination further up
the stream we discovered that the
neighbor’s hogs had been wallowing
in it. Tills is figuratively what is hap
pening today as hogs of various
kinds are wallowing in the streams
from which we get our news and
knowledge , and the great mass of it
is polluted near its source. It has
been pleaded that the working class
is not fit to rule—did not have the
necessary knowledge—but cricum
stances are rapidly developing the
fitness required.
In Social Democracy there will be
no drones St Paul has laid down a
diotinYi that if there is any among
them who wiill not work, neither
should he eat. Service is the qualifi
cation to enable a man to have the
where wit hall to eat. In Social De
mocracy service and not hereditary
ownership of things will count.
Count Okuma. a Japanese states
man has declared that the past con
flict was nothing less than the death
■of European civilization. Just as in
the past the civilization of Babylon,
ftgypt, Greece, Carthage and the great
Roman Empire have been destroyed,
so in the judgment of this detached
observer, the civilization of all Europe
is receiving its deathblow. (Quoting
from the manifesto of the British
Labor Party, the speaker said:) “We
of the Labor Party can so far agree in
this estimate as to recognize In the
present world catastrophe, if not the
death, at any rate the culmination
and collapse of a distinctive indus
trial civilization, which the workers
will not seek to reconstruct.”
Whatever the period of transition
holds for us all must be largely deter
mined by the attitude of those who
are even now opposing the alms of an
opinion that the most strenous fight
would be on the American continent,
as wherever the profiteers are the
most strongly entrenched, and the
workers are furthest away from the
reins of power, there exists a state of
affairs destined to be eventually over
thrown, but which will entail much
suffering in the process.
Those who are looking for the end
of the world war, need not look in the
direction of those whose profits are
being built up as a consequence of it,
but to those who are suffering most
from it, and these are the workers
of each nation. These are denied ex
pression on the flimsiest of pretenses
and I believe there is more of Demo
racy in Britain herself than could
be found in Canada. Papers are de
nied the mails that are published in
the motherland. Ordinary news of
doings in Britain do not appear in
Canadian papers. Much* that the
British people were determined upon
•is not known in Canada. Only per
versions of facts are allowed to ap
pear.
Labor will do much of the rear
|ranging of ‘‘territories" after the
war, and will be a party to whatever
treaties were made or they would not
be made. Nations of the future will
not be into alignments which
they do not themselves approve of.
To here and there seek to suppress
the voice of a few men is the expedi
ents of all the countries but is a
hopeless effort as you cannot forever
repress humanity. History abounds
with warnlings as to the futility and
blindness of such moves and exped
ients. The basis of all true Democ
racy is that of equality and oppor
tunity for all. Today it is property
first and humantiy afterwards, where
as in a properly constituted state,
property will only be used as it con
serves and ministers to the needs of
the community—human well-being.
It is satisfactory to note that the
returning soldiers are combining with
the forces of Labor, in spite of at
tempts to split on the part of those
who have something to gain by such
a split. Such a combination is all
that is needed to ensure the future
of Democracy, and the end of control
by the profiteers and their friends.
Then there are spiritual forces in
society to be reckoned with. The
forces that led men to sacrifice setf
in the effort to achieve ideals which
are not always appreciated. The
Nazarene is an outstanding figure in
history, because of his death for an
ideal, and the forces directly actuated
by him were persecuted by the ruling
classes for many generations, and
shows that there are deep antagonisms
between them and the people in power
—that the people in power are afraid
of those forces, and desired to crush
them. This is the parallel today
as any observer can well see. Yet
under whose regime did Rome perish?
Were the followers of Nezarene any
where in power when these empires
went to destruction? Certainly not
but on the other hand, it was just
those forces which had been unre
lentingly crushed, which will eventu
ally rule the world. Common to all
lands is the religion of human hap
piness and progress, and the brother
hood of man. For this Liebknecht
was in prison in Germany, and Debs ,
in America. {
A willingness to sacrifice, is found ,
everywhere with those who align ,
themselves truly with the forces mak
ing for Social Democracy. They ,
seek a kingdom not remote from
mundane things—a kingdom of
heaven If you will, but upon earth— *
the universal reign of human justice. '
—British Columbia Federationist. it
RUSSIAN WORKERS
AS MANAGERS
(Translated by Peter Siminoff)
It will be interesting to know how
Russian workingmen are becoming
industrial and economic managers;
how they are making the bosses use
ful, and also how modest they are
about it.
In a Russian workingman’s paper
dated March 26th, is published a very
modest report—but this report says
much.
“The control of industry by the
working class is developing a spirit
of self-reliance and confidence ih the
workers themselves. Although wi h
out experience and partly withodt
erperts because of the aloofness of
the ‘intelligensia’ from the working
class, the workers were obliged to
elect members for the controlling
commissions, i. e., business manage
ment, from among themselves and
under the workers’ control business is
now being developed.
“Being a member of such a com
mission for three tetile factories
from January 25 of this year, I should
like to explain how and what we
have accomplished.
“One representative was elected
from every 250 workmen, making
23 members all told from the 6,000
wtorkers in the three factories.
“After electing a presiding officer,
the commiission was divided into four
sections, viz.: Finance, production,
cereals and fuel, and began its work
sometimes together and sometimes
separately deciding to trtScertdin first
the cash inhand, the haiff accounts,
stock of finished fabrics, and fabric
in process of production; also cereals
and fuel. «
“I could not say that tms director
ate of the factories. Mr Sanders and
others (who had departed to Eng
land) were given their | assistance
and sympathy. Most assuredly no!
But who could expect anything else.
And so we met with a strong rebuke
and our future incompetency was
loudy predicted. Because or that
they referred to us as mere stock
takers and compilers oM statistics,
when the decree was shifwn pointing
out that in case of sabotage the prop
erty may be soeis^lizec^ Mr Sanders
gracefufly si^rrendlered" his strong
holds. and our stipulation that we
would not allow the spending of one
Kopec without sanction Ijrought mat
ters to a definite conclusion.
“Now no account or documents are
coming in or going out without our
official endorsement.
"The sale of our textiles is conduct
ed entirely through the State Distrib
uting Department, from whom we are
paid 25 per cent on delivery, but on
account of financial shortage it
should be increased to 40 or 50 per
cent. The Directory refused at first
to deliver our fabrics to the State
Distributing Department at 25 per
cent (payment on delivery) .making
a demand for 100 per cent cash. But
the commissioners, on finding that
the delivery of our fabrics would
bring us bread from the country, and
also that by direct exchange of the
goods will limit more and more the
amount of circulating money, decided
to support the government in its ef
forts, and not to consider the direc
torsdamand for 100 per cent payment.
“We have already delivered tex
tiles to the value of three million
roubles.
Thus Comrades, the workingmen
have laid the foundations for the
control and development of industry,
now and in the future. All that is now
necessary for the workers is to forge
ahead developing still more self-re
liance and thereby avoiding the
snares and capitalist intrigue. No
longer are we mere pawns and pup
pets of capitalism.
"And we see from this report .the
‘intelligensia’ were not elected, and
the capitalist directors cleared out
for England, leaving the poor unfor
tunate producer severely alone, with
out industrial captains or bosses to
lord it over them: Yet the Working
man Commissioner does not complain
at any workmen’s disorders, disagree
ments or strikes: he des not consider
himself either director or manager;
he is just a comrade worker—that
is all. How other could he describe
himself?
"After a period of from three to
six months someone else may be elect
ed in his place. Certainly! Then
he will go back to his previous occu
pation, be it spinner or engineer. He
is not a director; he is only a member
of the controlling commission, eected
by his fellow workers.
“And the DIRECTING (?) ABIL
ITY went to England. Poor 6,000
workmen! How will they ever get
along without them?"—International
Socialist.
WILL IT CURE
LABOR UNREST
U. S. Senator King is reported tc
have said that the contemplated de
Donation of hundreds of anarchist
and Bolshevik agitators will put a
stop to the labor unrest in the U. S
for which these men are held solely
responsible.
But will it have the desired effect?
Has any popular movement ever been
crushed by the removal of ts leaders?
Did Bismarck succeed in stamping out
Socialism in Germany when he im
prisoned its leaders and suppressed
the publication of all socialist litera
ture? Have the I W W been elimi
nated from the American labor move
ment because Haywood and dozens of
others of their leaders have been im
prisoned?
Is not the eastern textile strike and
the strike in Montana and Arizona
blamed on the I. W. W? Why not go
a little deeper and try as some of them
are advocating to remove the cause
of all this labor unrest. Why blame
it all on the Bolshevik agitators in
ths country when most of the Euro
pean countries are confronted with
the same difficulties.
What would one think of a doctor
who, when called upon to cure a body
thru whose arteries poisoned blood
s coursing, would concentrate all his
Bfforts to eliminate by the local ap
plication of some medicine, the
pustules produced by the diseased
ftlood. Th!s ceems to be about, all
pur lawmakers are trylhg to do, if
they think that once the leading agi
tators are removed everything will
pe lovely and the lion will lay down
py the lamb.
How long did the I W W movement
ast in the logging camps of Washing
on and Oregon when the government,
ook over the spruce producing indus
ries and immediately granted the
sight hour day gave the workers de
:ent quarters and decent board and
vages, for which the T W W had been
itruggling in vain. Every Washing
on and Oregonian business man and
oramercial organization fought them
ailing them every approhrious ep
het they could think of. But when
Uncle Sam stepped in and considered
their claims warranted, they did not
have a word to say. Why not adopt
the same policy in other industries?
We are sure that this is the proper
and only way to stop this constant
agitation and unrest. Surely no one
but a blind man can see that there
must be something fundamentally
wrong with the whole system, when
this unrest is daily spreading in the
country and involving more and more
workers. Even a few hundred radi
cals no matter how great their persua
sive powers can not be held responsi
ble for the universal discontent. And
their deportation will hardly have
the desired effect of removing the
cause of which they are only the ef
fect.
MATERIALISM
RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE WAR
Mr. Edward Carpentor has said
truthfully that the war arose not
merely from the enmity between one
group and another but from the en
mity which each nation bore in its
own bosom. The war was ordered by
rich and old men, and in the main
has been fought by young and poor
ones. It is the love of power which
has brought the world to this pass,
the power of one class over the life of
another class, being crystallized by
the ambition of the most materialistic
of the European powers to surpass
in this power all its rivals. Thinkers
have often stated that it was slavery
which brot the first great European
imperialism, the Roman, to the
ground. Has its successors banished :
slavery? Not so one could notice. 1
When the war broke out every great 1
commercial city of the world was the 1
center of economic power. What lib- >
arty Is there likely to be left the <
•Workers under a system which puts|
virtually their destinies into the hands
of a few hundred men sitting at their
ease in directors meetings in London
or Johannesburg, Berlin or New
York. Internationalism in supply and
manufacture no one will find fault
with, but beneath that, international
capital has introduced something like
international slavery, meaning over
work, insufficient pay, miserable
housing conditions and industrial dis
ease. The masters of the workers
were always suspicious of each other
and all their periods of exploitation
of the workers have either been the
ending or the beginning of the war.
North and South Africa and the Far
East for example. The masters could
not make a division of the world mar
kets to suit each and all. Thus indus
try instead of uniting divided the
great nations.
There is however some hope that
our preent system will suffer consid
erable change before many moons
have waned. The class, which with
some exceptions has spoken of the
war With the most moderation, and
has suffered the most is the working
class although they had really noth
ing to do with causing the conflict.
Even the Bolsheviks mistaken tho
they may be, represent forces which
must be reckoned with.
It seems that nations have become
aware that they must do something to
quiet the universal labor unrest.
Hence this talk of international labor
legislaion. It will bo hard pill to
swallow, but signs are not wanting
that something will have to be done
and it can not be done soon enough.
Thos Killeen special government
agent, who has been assisting in car
ng for the natives at Cape Prince of
Wales for several weeks returned to
town recently. Mr Killeen who brot
a sick native woman for medical
treatment to Nome reports that there
is little or no sickness among the
nativs at present.
Mr Griffith has received a telegram
from Judge Wickershain which says
that despite all efforts of Senator
Jones of Washington, little hope is
entertained that the Alaska Influen
za Relief Bill carrying an appropria
tion of $200,000 will pass Congress.
Judge Wickersham says that should
Senator Jones fail, the Territorial
legislature will have to provide the
funds to carry on th Alaska relief
work.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Felix Brown, your heirs, legal
representatives, or assigns:
You are hereby notified that I have
expended in labor and improvements
during each of the years of 1906 1907,
1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913,
1914, 1915 and 1916 the sum of one
hundred dollars ($100) on Placer
Claim No. 1 below on Newton Gulch
No. 1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 105 page
379 of the records of said Recording
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim
for the purpose ot holding same under
the provisions of Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States.
You are hereby required to con
tribute your proportion of said ex
penditure, as co-owner to the under
signed within ninety(days from the
final publication of this notice or your
interest in said mining claim will be
forfeited ^ind become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, as
provided by said section of the Re
vised Statutes.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, February
15, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
Published—Feb. 15, 22. Mar. 1, 8, 15,
22. 29. Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26. May, 3, 10,
17, 1919.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE.
To Joseph Kramer, Herman Piper,
John Brennan Max Anger, C. N.
Brown and D. M. Brogan, your heirs,
legal representatives, or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended in labor
and mprovements during each of the
years of 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910,
1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, and
1916 the sum of one hundred dollars
($1001 on the St Anthony Associa
tion Placer Mining Claim, situated ,
on the left limit of Newton Gulch No.
1 a tributary to Dry Creek in the
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska; notice of location of
which is recorded in volume 111 page <
408 of the records of said Recording \
Precinct. Said labor and improve
ments having been done on said claim ■
!or the purpose of holding same under ]
he provisions of Section 2324 Revir-,ed i
Statutes of the United States. i
You and each of you are hereby t
•eq'uired to contribute your proper- t
ion of said expenditure as co-owner <
o the undersigned within ninety 1
lays from the final publication of
his notice or your interest n said
tuning claim will be forfeited end be- 1
ome the property of the unders’gued, 1
your co-owner, as provided by said
section of the Revised Statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, February
15, 1919.
AUGUST HOMBURGER
Co-owner.
Published—Feb. 15, 22. Mar. 1, 8,15,
22, 29. Apr. 5, 12, 19, 26. May, 8, 10,
17, 1919.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOB
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of tha
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and whose post office address
is Nome, Alaska, has made applica
tion before the United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for the PLUTUS AS
SOCIATION PLACER mining claim
situate on the left limit of Dry Camk,
between the heads of Peluk Creek and
Franklin Gulch, about 2 V6 miles N. H.
of the Town of Nome, in the Cb*M
Nome Mining and Recording District,
Alaska, Second Division, being lite
ral Survey No. 1215; said claim bate*
more particularly described in tea
field notes and plat of the official aar
vey thereof now on file in said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 3, Sur. No. 1209, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir post 4 tea.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in eacte
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1216
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Tar.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 2. a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sg.
in earth mound scribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. 05 min. W. (Tar.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft tm
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. Nb. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thaneo
N. 17 deg. 51 min. E. (Var. It dng.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. Ko.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 de«.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. ft.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and placo of
beginning; containing an area of 3».
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 1249.
Meadow Association Placer to the «
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of nr
vey thereof, but that said areas so la
conflict with the Plutua Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Guleb,
about 2% miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to white
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 6 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L.‘ M. No. 19. in cArth
mound, situated on the right limit of
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from |ho
railroad and 2 Vi miles North of Bor
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 note.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of locakinn
of said claim is recorded in Volnmo
190, page 5 of the records of t^he
Cape Nome Recording Diatrfet
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On ten
North. Survey No. 1209. Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the East 40 Acre Trafrt
Association, unsurveyed; on teo
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West, Sur. Nn
1209, Osiris Placer, Eskimo Cold
Dredging Co., claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTICK OF FOKFKITCKK
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jaaofe
Zetnan, your heirs, executors, adtnia
istrators and '.assigns:
You and each of you, are hergh?
notified that the undersigned hae ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars dar
ing each of the years or 1914, 191S,
1916, and 1917, npon the following
lescribed placer mining claim, situate,
ying and being in the Kougarok Re
:ording District, Territory of Alaska,
;o-wit: The upper one half ( %) *f
2reek Claim Number Three on Dak!
’reek in the Kougarok Mining DIs
,rict.
You are further notified that If
vithin ninety (90) days after the
>ublication of this notice you fail or
leglect to contribute your proportion
if such expenditure, your interest in
aid mining claim if any, will become
he property of the undersigned, your
o-owner, under section 2324 of the
tevised Statutes of the United States.
AD CARHY
Co-owner.
•■HHshed—Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
1, 21. Jan. 4,11, 1», 26. Feb.l, *,