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NOME, ALASKA
SATUKIJAV, JUNE, 7. 1019.
There are two Parises. One la on
the Boulevards tonight, deliriously'
celebrating peace. The other I saw
yesterday; it was celebrating, too—
celebrating the German Republic,
chanting the Internationale, crying
“Vive la revolution," until the police
cuffed ths crowd back into the dark
littla by-streets of the workingmen’s
quarter. Tonight Paris is madly hap
py. She is celebrating peace—not
victory as the,newspaper men would
tell you. but peace the Great Release.
Sons and brothers may still be mob
ilized. but they are not being killed
The newspaper editorials and other
more or less irresponsible forces are
it lead y pl.Tnning crusades against the
Bolsheviks, but these festive crowds
have other and more pressing things
to think about.
I was in Paris when the war broke
out. four years ago. It was the same
innd crowd. And they were celebrat
ing the same thing then—release
from peace. Peace had meant misery
wnd monotony and stupid and cramp
ed existence, and they cried “Vive la
Guerre,” and believed that war would
itr.ng them adventure and romance.
Tonight, with the same thoughtless
optinfsm, they are celebrating re
lease from war, and crying, "Viv" la
I’aix." There is the same furious
bustle, the same wild cheering, the
same disorganized parading, there
nre the slme snatches of the same old
•songs, even a new crop of the same
half-drunk boys orating from the
same cafe tables.
The Place de la Concorde was one
mass of waving flags and wriggling
arms and legs this afternoon. Huge
tracks pled high with soldiers and
.'girls nosed their honking way inch
by inch thru the mobs. Swarms of
small boys rnd girls swarmed over
the captured cannon. Some of the
more adventurous tugged at the
smaller field-pieces until they budged
and wore hauled off in triumph. In
■one corner a trumhpter tooted while
Impromptu couples jiggled about in
* an Improvised dancing-circle. Hat
1,'ss American doughboys snake
vlaiK-ed thru the crowds to that grand
old national anthem, "Hail, hail, the
3'cng’s all here." while puzzled
TT'fr. hmen looked on and applauded,
j jubilant, gray-bearded American
It d Cross officer perilously perched
tyit. bee ornice of the Red Cross head
qw?.2vers, waved French and Ameri
can flags over the heads of the crowds
with precarious fervor. On the Boul
evards, in th? Rue de Rlvoli, all thru
the newer business part of Paris—
cheering, bustling crowds; and the
roar of their cheering. Just one
group of people stood unmoved and
silent—the line waiting their turn
• ’iCiOTv' the office of permits for the
liberated regions. A big sign over
• the door read, “(Return to) Lille and
TRoubaix still forbidden.” That was
one Paris. But I noticed that it was
Mio Americans who were twisting
JiC.vlers and howling like schoolboys
«on election night or after a football i
lame; that more than half the,
French people on the boulevards
were quietly parading and watching
the foreigners celebrate. And I no
ticed that the workingmen’s quart
vis were modestly beflagged, but
Hark and silent—as in August, 1914.
In Trade Union Hall, at the end
of an alley in the dirty workingmen’s
quarter where everyone of France’s
four revolutions had its birth, there
bad be-'n a Socialist and labor meet
ing on Sunday afternoon, November
10. It was open only to those who
could show a Socialist card or a
I'nion card, hut three thousand work
ing men and women squeezed into
the hall, and the court behind was
packed with more of them, straining
to catch the speakers’ words. The
idols of French labor were there—
Jean Longuet, leader of the French
Socialist Party, grandson of Karl
Marx, the personification of the In
ternationale; Marcel Cachin, the
sturdy editor of “L’Humanite”; Lor
iot. ot the extreme left wing of the
party; Jouhaux, the burly leader of
the General Federation of Labor—
the Gompers of France-—but working
hand in hand with the Socialists;
Merrheim, the tense little leader of
the Maial Workers, who is not an
inch over five feet high, and Frossard
the lankey school-teacher from Bel
fort who is the new secretary of the
Socialist Party, a man whose raucous
voice reached everyone of the strain
ing mob outside the hall. Longuet
came in late, with a paper in h s
pocket. It contained the first com
munique of the German Revolution.
Frossard read it out. They made
Frossard repeat the good news and
then they settled down to the dis
cussion of the “General Situation”—
that was the uninviting top c an
nounced—and to the speakers de
manding that the proletariat of
France insist upon the restoration of
civil liberties, that France guard the
spirit as well as the letter of Wilson's
fourteen points, and that tho counter
revolutionary movement in govern
mental circles be resisted . Once the
name of Clemenceau was mentioned
and the hall burst Into boos and hiss
es and catcalls. For the proletariat
of France does not love the grand old
man who has so often broken his
pledges.
They poured cut at duck .nd
streamed thru the ineffective cordon
of policemen in the street outside,
howling the Internationale at. the
top of their lungs. “To the Palace
de la Repubiique,” someone shouted;
and the thousands started towards
the scene of many past labor demon
strations. “Clen-men-ceau, Boo!
Hoo! Clen-men-ceau, Boo! lloo!”
they shouted to mark time—and to
win breath for mere choruses of tho
Internationale. "Vive la revolution
ailemande,” ‘.hey cried to the throngs
on the si dewalks and in the windows
looking down. “Long I've the Ger
man Revolution,” the rcy echoed
back-—and hundred ; more joined tho
parade. Three little black-shawlod
widows scurrying in the opposite di
rection did not stop their hurry homo
but threw back their heads and joined
in the Internationale as thoy pushed
their way thru the fringe of the
crowd. Not one voice n opposition
Three times the police tried to
stop the crowd, but it filtered on;
and all the police could do was to
stop the singling for half a block. Be
hind the police and in front of them
the swelling strains of the song surged
on. The crowd emerged Into the
lighted boulevards where taxis were
worrying io and fro and trolley cars
clanking back and forth. It hesitated
lor a moment then pushed on toward
the Palace de la Repubiique. Police
reserves came bycicling dn. dismount
ed and dashed into tho crowd. They
cuffed everyone; they cuffed me;
they cuffed the American girl with
me—tho she was more indignant
than bruised. The crowd had hesi
tated and was lost. It broke before
the blows of the policemen, and sllp^
ped back Into its own dark byways.
Two Parises. Which .is the real
Paris? I do not know. But this I
do know—that he who would know
the future of France will read it, not
on the boulevards of Paris, but in the
smoke and grime of the belching
chimneys of Lyons and St Etienne,
in the sordid waste of the industrial
suburbs of Paris, and in the dark by
ways to which that crowd retired.
Lewis S. Gannet.
THE PEOPLES
FIVE DEMANDS
There are five demands according
to Max Eastman, that the American
people wiill make of their govern
ment, until satisfied by their grant
ing:
1. The Right to Speak: They de
mand that the right of free speech
free press and assemblage be re
stored, a3 they existed in the days
of Thomas Jefferson—-and without ]
delay. “No excuse remains for pa- j
iriotic societies exercising tj^ powers
of policemen, for the postoffice to
deny mailing privileges to maga
zines, for indiscriminate arrests,'
jailings and persecutions against men
who wish to bring the United States
forward into her true place in the
march of the nations toward liber
ty.”
2. The Right to Know: They de
mand that they have direct access to
the sources of information. They
do not want their knowledge strain
ed thru the brain of George Creel or
anybody else.
3. Liberation of Prisoners: They
demand the liberation of “all political
: and industrial prisoners, who are
! held in this country under sentence
| that reminds us of the beginnings of
| the terror of Nero and the Spanish
Inquisition.’’England is moving rap
idly to this end.
4. Hands off Russia: They de
I mand thr t our soldiers and sailors
be immediately withdrawn from the
sovereign territories of the Russian
republic. They demand, under the
United States Constitution, that
“United States troops shall not be
used in the policing of foreign coun
tries.” They want no wars conduct
ed without a declaration of war by
the representatives of the people.
5. An End to Organized Libel:
They demand that “the official sup
pression of truth, and the semi-official
manufacture of lies about the Soviet
Government and its elected loaders,
by which it is attempted to justify
counter-revolutionary war, shall
cease.
"In the United States a capitalis
tic government,” continues Mr East
man, “is making the working-class
behave, and we call that ‘Maintain
ing Law and Order,’ In Russia a
working-class government is making
the capitalists behave, and we call
that a ‘Reign of Terror.’ That i
the truth for those who have the
will to know it. In America. Tom
Mooney has been sent to jail for life
after a commission of impartial in
vestigations appointed by the Preri
dent declared that he was unjustly
condemned. And on almost the same
day the murderers and kidnappers of
the copper trust, who shot up and
deported 1,500 workingmen from
Bisbee. Arizona, and dumped them
into the desert, have been set free
I for life, after an impartial commis
! sion appointd by the President prac
tically declared that they were
guilty.”
During the past four years the
world has ben in process of being
made safe for democracy. The world
as a whole, and each country as a
part, has taken stock. Naturally
while the main purpose was to defeat
the great enemy first of all, there was
little attention to details. Now that
the chief object has been attained,
examination of important details is
not only in order, it is the logical
next step. In such a spirit a few
leading organs in thi3 country have
of late been turning their attention
to one of our Allies, Japan. There is
no doubt that there is room for im
provement in that monarchy. There
is equally no doubt that no nation
has a desire to interfere with Japan’s
internal affairs. On the other hand
it is truer now than ever before that
nations no longer can live unto them
selves alone. We are upon the eve
of a sort of world federation. Let us
know each other in peace, even as we
have known and supported each
other in war.
Much nonsense has been uttered
about Japan and possibly unfriediy
relations with this country. But the
two questions that we bring up in
this editorial are of serious import
to the stability of world peace, and
as such should be met frankly. Our
purpose here is to indicate a condition
not to impose a remedy. The latter
is the business of the Japanese peo
ple.
Perhaps chief credit for bringing
the matter to general attention in
this country should be given to the
Christian Science Monitor, an inter
national daily whose news columns
SEATTLE, June 4—Hulott Wells
who was convicted for violating the
Espionage act was banquetted by
three hundred friends including
president Lane of the city council,
on the eve of his departure to the
Federal prison at McNeil’s to serve
his sentence.
Mr Wells while addressing his
Iiionds charged that law and justice
are but a mockery, for the roaon that
iho Courts arc controlled by the cap
italists.
Referring to the conviction of the
other radicals, Wells stated that ho
was proud of the company he was in
and that he did not regret the fight
for freedom of speech which he had
made even though he was compelled
to wear a felons garb.
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ure as reliable as orvice and principle
can make them. In a recent discus
sion ol' the question the Monitoi
brought out clearly, and indusput
ably, two chief points: (ll That the
Japanese constitution, being model
led upon that of Germany, is hardly
suited to a people who have helped
in their small but important way, tc
defeat Germany. (2)That the Jap
anese press is autocratically sup
pressed, even in times of peace. In
deed. so much suppressed that witli
the coming of war few if any changes
in the press laws were found neces
sary to maintain an effective censor
ship.
“This is time for plain speaking.’
says tiie Monitor, “and to take only
the question of press censorship, it
needs to be impressed upon Japan
that the free peoples of the world
with which she would consort, can
not look with favor on . a system
which cuts off her people from Ih,
rights of free speech and free ex
change of thought and renders im
possible for her neighbors to know
with whom they are dealing." The
matter is aggravated by the fact that
oil the outside the press laws pre
serve an appearance of liberality,
while in reality the press “is at the
mercy of a single individual, who
can, at will, prohibit the sale and dis
tribution of papers, or seize all cop
ies, if he regards any article cont.
ed in the issue as objectionable."
There is undoubtedly room for
much more democracy in Japan.
And we, for one, will be glad to see
it, because the more democracy in
one country, the more in another.
—r-IP
EXPLOSION KILLS MAXV
WILKESBARRE, Pa. June 5—
Approximately eighty coal minors
were killed and forty injured wrhen a
roaload of black powder exploded
near the entrance of tunnel No. 2 of
one of the mines owned by the Dele
wars and Hudson Railroad co.
Tiie car of explosives was attach d
lo an electric train of mine cars
which was conveying miners to their
work underground.
The explosion is said to have been
caused by an electric spark due to
defective wiring. *
AQPlTTEf)
SEATTLE, June 5—James Bruce
one of the leaders of the late ship
workers strike, who' was charged with
ittempting to overthrow the present
s. government vPas found not
guilty in the Federal District Court
today. I
The jury brot in their verdict after(
deliberating ten hours.
REARKESTEB
SEATTLE, June 5—Logan Bill
ingsley the notorious bootlegger, fol
lowing his release from the Federal
Prison at McNeils was rearrested by
.the sheriff of King’s county on an old
charge and confined in the city Jail.
The sheriff intends to send Bill
ingsley to the city stockade to serve
a sentence of three months for vio
lating the liquor law imposed two
years ago.
REFUSED PERMIT
SEATTLE, June 5—The applica
tion of the local Central Labor Coun
cil for a permit to sell Mooney tags
thruout the city was refused by
Mayor Hansen.
The Hon Ole based his refusal on
the reason that according to his
judgment the Central Labor Counci
which is to handle the affair, is com
pletely dominated by the radical and
I. \V. W. element in the different
unions composing the Council.
CALL TURKS
PARIS, June 5—The Council ot
the Big Four haw decided to call in
the Turkish Peace Delegation.
The negotiations for peace be
tween th - Allied powers and Turkey
will begin as soon as the Austrian
Peace negotiations have boon con
cluded.
RIOTERS KILLED
TOLEDO, June 4—Severe rioting
followed an attempt of the police
force to break up a demonstration
of striking employees of the Willys
Overland Automobile plant in this
city. The police used their guns
freely, when the strikers refused ti
disperse, killing three and severely
injuring eleven of the rioters.
The WMlys-Overland plant a
which ten thousand men have been
on strike for nearly a month closet
its doors following the trouble las
night.
The local authorities are waiting
what action the governor will tak<
on Mayor Sehrieber's appeal tha
troops be sent to Toledo to preservs
order, before appealing to the Feder
al authorities.
GO OX STRIKE
PARIS, June 4—Fully a quartei
of a million of workers have gone or
strike here today and it is reportei
that this number will be at leas
doubled by nightfall thruout th<
Parrs district.
The unions affected by the presen
walkout include the subway, motor
bus and tramway operators, meta
workers, painters, printers, milliner!
and store clerks.
A general strike of all local unior
workers is in prospect unless theii
demands for .increased wages t<
| equalize the higher cost of living h
granted immediately. The walkou
was accomplished in a quiet and or
f’brly manner.
a ill most sirs risers
CHICAGO, June 1—Half a dozet
persona suspected to be connectet
with the recent bomb outrages hav<
been taken in custory by local Fed
eral officials.
A considerable quantity of explo
sives was descovered in one of th<
I raids which have been instituted it
| the homes' of persons of known anar
I chistic tendencies.
A confession is reported to hav(
been obtained by Secret Service met
of one Daniel Colzin, which indicate!
| that Chicago radicals are. connecter
| with others thruoirt the Hasten
states in a bomb plot of nation w.dr
ramifications.
CHICAGO, June 4—Local Federa
authorities state that they have con
vincing proof that the Attorney Gen
eral Palmer bomb outrage was con
ducted from the Anarchist head
quarters in Chicago.
DEPART CO It HOME
ARCHANGEL, June 5—Sixteet
hundred members of the 339th In
fantr.y, American Expeditionary
Forces who have seen strenous ser
: vice against the Bolsheviks on the
I Archangel-Murmansk front, embark
| ed here today for home via Brest.
, The returning veterans passed in
review before Goueral W. P. Rich
ardson, commander of the Amoiean
forces, General Ironside, the British
commander and the Russian Govern
or General of the province of Aieli
I nngel, who complimented the depart
ing warriors on their efficient s
against the Bolsheviks.
General Richardson expects to es
tablish his headquarters in this city
and may remain for a considerable
time.
I
KISH HELP Tl NATIVES
SAN FRANCISCO. June f>—In re
--'eqsn to a cable for assistance by
the Alaska Commercial Co. for the
influenza ravaged native population
'in the Unalaska district around Bris
tol Bay, the Cruiser Marblehead de
parted today carrying several med
ical units on board to combat the
dreaded disease.
The Marblehead will call at the
Bremerton Navy Yard and at Port
Townsend on its way north to pick
up more doctors and nurses and suffi
cient medical supplies to be equipped
for any and all emergencies.
SLIGHT EARTHQUAKES
SEATTLE. June 6—This city ex
perienced a slight earthquake at
10:30 last night.
The shock was so light that very
few people became aware of its oc
curence.
RADICALS EXECUTED
BERLIN, June 6—Dispatches re
ceived from Munich, Bavaria, state
that Herr Leilins, editor of the com
munist publication The Red Flag,
one of til,' leaders in the communist
upnia'.ng ni Bavaria, was executed at
midnight last Wednesday.
Levine was taken prisoner by the
Bavarian Socialist government dnr
ng the fighting in and around Mun
ich and was considered the intellect
: ual leader of the group of radicals
| which nearly succeeded in overthrow
! ing the Bavarian Socialist govern
ment.
GUARD THE MAYOR
SEATTLE, June 6—A double row
of guards is now being maintained
around the home of Mayor Hansen.
The bomb outrages thruout the
East have caused the Seattle author
ities to take this action as it is well
known that mayor Hansen has in
| curred the bitter enmity of the rad
j ical element of the city by his actions
| during the general strike last Feb
j ruary and his suppression of public
meetings of Union Labor in this city.
STEAL EVIDENCE
SEATTLE, June 6—Following the
| theft of 764 quarts of whiskey from
: the Federal Court House where this
] booze was held as evidence in the
! bootlegging cases of members of the
1! Seattle Police Department, thieves
j early this morning entered Superior
11 Judge Clay Allen’s chambers by the
means of pass keys and purloined
seventy additional quarts of whiskey,
j It is an open secret here that those
j members of Seattle’s finest which are
j under indictment for bootlegging
: could easily explain the disappear
: ance of this evidence if they choose to
| , •
do so.
NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE
SEATTLE, June 6—Physicians
who are attending Governor Lister
state that the later is failing fast and
that he cannot live another week.
BUSINESS TIED UP
VANCOUVER, June 6—All busi
ness in this anti other cities tliruout
I British Columbia is completely para
lyzed owing to the general sympa
thetic strike which has been called
to assist the strikers at Winnipeg.
All coastwise and overseas shipp
ing from British Columbia ports has
been completfly tied up with the ex
ception of one boat carrying passen
gers between Vancouver and Victoria
All railway traffic has also been
suspend, d and general business thru
out this province is at a standstill.
MAY ( ABB STRIKE
SEATTLE, June 7—The local
telegraphers union was notified by
their National officials this morning
that a strike of the telegraphers
would be called on the Pacific Coast
on June 11th unless their demands
for an increase in pay and improved
working conditions were met before
that date.
Subsetibe now for the WORKER
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Cape
Nome Precinct, Second Division,
Territory of Alaska: Before the
Honorable Hugh O'Neill U. S.
Commissioner and Ex Olliclo
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of
FRED S-EGEK, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned that ho has been duly ap
pointed Administrator of the estate
of Fred Seger deceased and all
persons having claims against the
said estate must exhibit the same,
with the necessary vouchers within
six months after the first publication
of this notice to the said Administra
tor at the office of Frecf Harrison,
Attorney for said Administrator,
Rooms 9 and 10 Wild Goose Build
ing, Nome, Alaska, the same being
the place fpr the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
above Precinct and Territory.
Dated May, tith, 1019.
CHAS. H. MILOT,
Administrator.
First publication May 10. 1919.
Pub. May 10, 17, 24, 31. June 7th.