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•early as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.’ —
Abraham Lincoln
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entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, al the post offise at
Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 2. 1879.
Nome. Alaska, December 10, 1015.
When the hankers returned from
their convention in Seattte they
brought with them word that the
country was to face an era of un
precedented prosperity never before
equalled.
They said that the country stood
right upon the threshold of pros- -
perity and was about to enter.
We all heard that before; every
politician has been saying it ever
since industrial depression set in,
and upon the last occasion of his
visit west, in spite of ominou3
■crowds of unemployed surrounding
him, Secretary Daniels declared that
prosperity was not only coming, but
was actually here, and that was
some time ago. May be the shy old
lady backed out the door between
whiles and is only now getting back
to the threshold. But these bank
ers are conservative men not given
to seeing a sun burst of prosperity
where there is the clouded night of
depression and there is considrable
and instructive force in the reasons
given for their belief. Those briefly
were four: the enormous and con
stantly increasing war demands
upon American resources; the re
cord wheat crop with handsome
yield in other grain crops; a third
was the sound financial condition o.
the country w!th total absence of
inflation and extraordinary ease of
money, and lately there was “the
unmistakable trend of federal and
jMStat^glaw making ayvay
^rection of business harassment and
towards constructive channels”. It
is clearly only a matter of time un
til the activities in the munition in
dustries caused a sympathetic activ
ity in other industries due to the
fact that there was an increase,;
number of wage workers. The wag::
worker is a social unit which pre
sents two sides in the capitalist eco
nomy. He is the labor producing
machine which in the expenditure
of that labor power produces so
much surplus value over and above
the wages paid. He is also a ma
chine which requires certain costs
of up-keep which are automatically
adjusted by the machine Itself from
a fund called wages. Naturally the
more of these labor producing ma
chines are bought, the more will he
the wages which swell the consump
tive power of the «•••::: to main
tain those labor machines.
The munition plant workers have
necessities and some pseudo-lux
uries which will have to be satisfied,
and other industries in no way con
nected with the war will be busier
meeting the demands made by mu
nition workers. In turn these in
dustries active in supplying the mu
‘nition workers have also human ma
chines supplying labor power which
will earn a maintenance fund called
wages and they too in their employ
ment incroase the consumption ca
pacity or rather the consumptive
power of the nation.
me great weaun ol me cuuun.t
expressed in wheat is seif evident
That wealth does not go to the
farm hand nor to the wheat grower
but distributes itself very well be
tween the brokers, the railroads ant!
the speculators or storehouse men.
Prom the vast pile of wealth thus
produced by the application of labor
to the soil, many parasitic social
organizations get their whack, and
these will spend liberally to grati
fy an ever increasing appetite for
pleasure or for more productive
manufacture and profits.
The fact that the government
views with some disapproval legis
lation which hampers the corpora
tion increased the confidence of in
dustrial organizations such as the
trusts. and they rc-invest capital
either to intensify the solidity of
their organization or to promote
control in the various industries.
They have won their battle that has
been fought by politians and up
Itfters in unholy alliance against the
trusts for the past decade or more.
They have driven the Sherman
Act to the limbo of useless things,
and they have shown those who
want to be shown that you cannot
attempt to curb the great industrial
organizations which in themselves
control the country. This is the
most significant of all tho reasons
given for the optimism of the bank
ers, and it is one that has the surest
Df all foundations. The nation quits
the uneven fight and leaves Capital
master of the field.
Yet it was a heroic fight while it
lasted. It helped a score of muck
rakers to fame and not a few poli
ticians to position. The theory
that the person was more sacred
than property, and that civilization
was based upon ideals, principles,
morals other than the dollar, found
many ready supporters under p o
gressive banners of one typo cr an
other.
But before the blast of the horn
of capital these towers of strength
crumbled over night; executives
submitted; courts subsided ami
little reformers hid th“ir heads in
the sand lest they be overtaken by
the hounding dogs of tho corpora
tions that chased them for a quarry.
Sane, conservative and reliable
politicians knew well that this civil
ization is based solely upon mate
rial things, and that the financial
and industrial ascendancy of the big
corporations stood supreme over
everything. They saw the trusts de
liberately close their mills, their
mines, their factories. They saw
the railroads lay eff their mainte
uan c gangs, coaoe their orders foi
steel, stop building connecting lines,
diminish the number of trains.
They saw that it was monkeying
with a buzz saw to monkey with big
business and anything that tended
to curb the exploitative existence
of the corporations, anything that
tended to probe the power of the
money trust, the industrirl might
of the Industrial consolidations that
ruled the manufacturing world,
tended also to intensify that depres
sion and to increase the panicky
condition of things.
Accordingly when such of the
kept press denounced the actions ot
these progressive as the acts cf de
mogogues and promised that if the
corporations wore let alone, they
were right enough In promising
prosperity would return to the
country.
For this policy cf proving th. ir
i power was as harsh upon the con
tinuance o£ profit making for the
S profit mongers as it was for subor
dinate classes. And there will be
joy in Israel and is joy’Tn Israel as
we s-e in the acclamation of the
bankers, when it is known that the
government has surrendered stocn,
lock and barrel to the corporations;
admits defeat, and will now, to use
! the highly euphemistic language ot
ti e financial writers, direct atten
tion to constructive legislation.
The dollar has proved its might
and constructive legislation in the
interest of that dollar is now to be
the order of tte day. This ought
to be intensely gratifying. The air
is so much clearer. It is known now
who are the economic masters and
who as economic m .sters pan force
political mastership also. It Is
goed to know that no longer will
an effort be made to enforce the
rights of the person over the rights
of the dollar, and to understand
that nothing greater, nothing more
ncble can inspire a government’s po
licy than constructive legislation in
the interest of the corporations as
the bankers so naively consider.
And although it is easy to say
“We told you so”, it has to be ad
mitted that socialists have been con
tending that exactly this condition
would prevai*. They held that poli
; tics merely reflected the power of
: the economically supreme. They
held that the trusts and gigantic in
i dustrial and financial bodies were
strictly “it”. That only because a
! lot of political phraseology of pure
buncombe pulled the wool over the
i people's eyes did they believe othcr
, wise. And that finally they would
> bo led to see that the prosperity oi
the people who were underlings
would have to depend upon the
favor of the prosperity of corpora
tions, who controlli-ii, 'to means
whereby the masses live, controlled
also their lives from the homing to
the grave. And now when this pro
mised prosperity comes, the chloro
formed workers who got their share
of it, will eat their crust of bread
under the weeping willow tree, and
then join with the rest in standing
up to sing that old and popular
favorite "The Full Dinner Pail", a
most intelligent song for peoplo,
whose brains are in their bellies.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Gretchen P. Meyer, D. B. Keith,
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
and 1912 on the following claims
located on Solomon river in the
Nome Mining and Recording district
Eva claim, Bel claim, Mamie ctaim
and Gretchen claim, all four situat
ed on Solomon river, recorded and
more fully described, Eva claim in
Vol. 5, page 15, and the other three
in Volume 91, pages 353, 354,
and 355 of the location records of
the Nome Recording procinct In the
Second Division, District or Alaska.
The above amonnt 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
further notified that If within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice you fall to contri
bute your proportion of said expen
diture, your interest in paid claims
will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
(Signed) WM. NIELSON.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publi., Dec. 10, 1915.
Date of last publ., March 10, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of NomeAlaska,
as successor in interestL.
West, who on the 30th day of
July, 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, has
filed in this office his application to
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28 th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
and designated as U. S. Survey No.
453, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence ea3t, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, in earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thence South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thence West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surface for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of tame; thence North, Var
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with stone mound 30
inch base, 18 inches high along
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and
place of beginning; containing an
area of 160 acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely the land described, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office c. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1916. .
Date of last publ., Feb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOB
PATENT NO. 0204.
In the United States Land Office a1
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United
. States, over the age of 21 years
whose post office address Is Nome
’ Alaska, haB made application be
1 fore the United States Land Offlci
; at Nome, Alaska, for a United
i States Patent for the Kathleei
Placer CJatm in the Cape Nomi
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
1 eral Survey No., 1157; said claln
t being more particularly describe*
in the field notes and plat of the ,
official survey thereof now on file j
in said Land Office at Nome, Alas- j
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identl- j
cal with N. E. Cor. of location, ]
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella |
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No. j
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter |
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4 j
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in |
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B i
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No. ]
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc. |
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min j
30 sec. E. 5467.60 ft. U. S. Geolog- |
leal Sur. Mon. on King Mt„ bears |
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.6 |
miles; thence S. 36 deg. 41 min. j
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
663.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chioeled 3 ]
1157 K, with crocs (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound .
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N. ,
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg. i
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No. ]
4, a schist rtone 24x12x0 i
ins. set 12 Ins. in the |
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K, j
with crors (x) cut - n tep for true i
point with mound of earth 24 ins. !
base 16 ins. high, north side of ;
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min. !
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E) !
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of i
beginning, containing an area of j
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur- i
veyed ground on the divide between
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.76 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 46
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Long. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the Eas*, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cliims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nomo, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date of last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
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if Labor, meets every Monday at
7}30 p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
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"HAS.'MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
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LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
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