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NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, AUGUST, 3, 1018.
SOCIALISTS A\l) THU \Y \i
Before the war began opponents
t>f soclialism used to enjoy pointing
out the fact that there were about
fifty-seven varieties of the cult. It
was about as profound as any argu
ment used to bolster up capitalism.
But the war has changed all that
Nowadays socialists in every nation
may be divided into two classes,
those who support the national war
poliicy and those who do not.
Needless to say whatever may be
the pacificist aims of socialists, as
things now stand everywhere they
are entirely helpless and they are
not the less helpless because cf
the fact that even those who as
Bume ue garo oi paemsisi anu
mititarism, do so in reality to con
ceal the tact that it is their true
national feeling that inspires their
actions. Regardless of whether or
not they support or oppose the war
In their respective countries there
are mighty few who come in the
luebknecht class, and who oppose
war as the symbol of militaristic
imperialism materialising in all the
r«on day hideousness of capitalism’s
lf»M growth.
The majority party in Germany, a
majority party by the way simply
because the minority is denied ex
pression, supports the government
vliile from time to time uttering
pacificist platitudes that in no way
hurt the cause of Prussian imperial
ism. In this strangly enough they
'srene aided in their arguments by the
tact that the aims of the Entente
as revealed by the secret treaties
made public by the Bolsheviki, were
not entirely free from imperialist
lust of conquest and. they are now
finding comfort in the fact that
enormous profits are being made in
the bloody crisis by those already
rich and enjoying large contracts.
They ask with some sarcasm if the
purity of the Allied aims are not
wome what affected by the enormous
dividends that are being paid and
which are wrung from the govern
ment devoted to pure democracy.
Even the Kaiser had his sneer at
thie Mammon worship which "was
the ideal of the Anglo-Saxon race.”
The British socialists are frankly
pacificist: they are pacificist to the
extent of restoring the status quo
ante with the possible restoration of
lost provinces of Alsace-Lorraine,
In order to settle the score of France.
At the Inter-Allied conference
■•flieso policies were somewhat indef
initely outlined, and were in turn
.sabjeeted to criticism by Vorwaerts,
il>'e somewhat emasculated organ
tat Oie German majority socialists.
Vorwaerts says that there are two
way's of approaching the pence prob
lem: one in outlining a completely
just settlement to bo effected by a
future peace treaty, the other mere
ly seeks ways and moans of emerg
ing from the slaughter cf war. They
refuse to assent to the program of
she Intcr-AIlied socialists and. say
wiith some heat that the influence
of socialism on Franco, England and
Italy is not greater but less than
vi Germany “and there can he nr
doubt but that were victory to fall
10 western imperialism it would gc
ts way ruthlessly over the heads ol
i ho inter-allied socialists.” Tin
tinman paper insists that a tendency
make terms in any way involvinf
concessions on the part of Gor
it:any” simply does .not exist. Tin
{-sj.tkt waxes again sarcastic #n iti
.-..-pr-csion of pity for the peoples o
Europe and America "if they have t<
go on fighting untij a solution i
found for the domestic troubles o
the inhabitants of the dual empire.’
way the German rulers, but it is ap
parently not the slightest degree
able to impress its influence upon
Austria, Turkey or Bulgaria.
Only the other day M Radoslavoff
the Bulgarian Premier, spoke with
the self satisfied conviction of an
imperialist conquerer. The cynical
Bulgar discarded with complete non
chalance any possible affectation for
the higher spheres of democracy
that attract so much, loss unrogene
rate peoples. Gloating over the re
sults of the war in the Balkans he
^ sneered ‘the Serbian government is
at Corfu and Pashitch is roaming
the world over and going on with
the foundation of a Great Serbian
stale on paper ne snouici not jjc de
prived of that amusement—we do
not need to bother ourselves about
these fantasts. for us simply Servia
does not any longer exist.”
Radoslavoff declared that the
peace d.iscussion was becoming calm
er was already almost academic, but
the enemy’s conditions were still
1 unacceptable.
The Bulgar any more than the
Kaiser nor the King-Emperor is
under possible illusions as to the
vanity of the socialist influence and
with the rape of Finland and its con
version into a Prussian satrapy,
with the disintegration of Russia and
the compulsory enslavement of
many of its people, the contention
of Vorwaerts becomes grotesque,
possibly as grotesque as the propo
sition of certain socialists in this
country that the war be called off
anyhow, regardless of the ultimate
consequences or whether or not an
other and a greater will later have
to be faced. The trust of some
I American socialists in the benefi
cience of German ascendancy is pos
j sibly only equalled by the ingenuous
j confidence of the majority socialists
| in that country in their own in
fluence over the government.
The text of a memorandum is
sued by Dr Michaelis, Count von
Hertling's predecessor reveals to
what sinister extent this influence
of the German junkers extends over
the Prussian rulers. ‘‘We shall only
take a portion of France, he wrote,
in order to defend the empire against
future aggression by the republic.
France will lose Bricy for economic
and military reasons due to the fact
that it possesses sixteen million tons
of iron ore—France will be com
pensated by a part of Hainault,
Brabant and Luxemburg.” Belgium
and Luxemburg having to pay the
price of peace.
On the eve of a separate peace
with Russia, some Swiss socialists
wrote a solemn warning: “a separate
peace can only be a subj- ct. of re
I joicing to those who do not think,
1 or allow themselves to be deceived
hv the in re word peace: that is
i for a complete German victory. We
: however who are not the votaries
| of a word hut of a cause: wo do not
i favor merely peace a German peace,
'but a goner”! pof.ee.”
They concluded, siting snugly It
I is true in Berne and aloof from the
ruck of the br.ttlofi Ids, ‘‘the pres
! ent. war Is not a confused blind
struggle before which humanity
and the will to freedom have brok
I r.n down and capitulated, but a
| mighty contest between great ideals
j of world wide historic importance—
I tho overthrow of tho German mtlitr.r
■ ism because, it is bound up in the
' i most unique manner with philosophy
II ethics and religion is the main con
’ jditlon for the liberation of tin
i' world.”
i From these things it will bo seer
I that the most significant fact con
’ j cernlng socialists that i« at the pros
t; ent time, is the absolutely antagonisir
ligerent nations, but the socialists
themselves v*4thin each nation. i
From the socialism that repud- (
iat: 3 for ever the possibility of malt-!!
ing peace on any other but the j i
German terms as again and again ; 1
has been insisted upon by the ma-1 i
ojrity socialists in Germany and the <
minority party there wi‘hin which
concludes its phillipic against Prus
sianism in 0:10 of the programs ]
there is a wide gulf.
“The German government holds fast
even yet to its war aims of conquest
and thereby constitutes the chief ob- i
stacle to peace arrangements upon :
the fundamental principle of the re
nunciation of annexations and of all
sorts of oppressions. It stifles thru >;
the maintenance, in itself illegal ,
of martial law. socialist criticism ,
of its procedure. Tho German gov
ernment thereby discloses its sys- ,
tem of genuine hostility to the peo
ple and of a guilty conscience as re- ,
garda the masses.”
Stifling criticism, especially of .
radicals, is however not by any ,
means a monopoly of the German
government, although the followers
of Ldebknecht may deem it so, but
as many times that stifling of crit
icism is declared part of a defeatist
propaganda as in France and Italy
and elsewhere, it assumes as it does
in Germany for the masses a justi
fiable complexion. The exigencies
of the war seem to warrant the sus
pension of some old time liberties
in the estimation of very many, even
very many socialists.
The general result of this lack of
harmony among the socialists is due
primarily to the fact that much
that was called socialist was not
socialist at all, but the general re
sult will be that the power of soc
ialist and the influence they m'ght
otherwise exert when peace negotia
tions generally do come about some
time, will really amount to nil.
The great extent to which soc
ialistic discussions had become
merely academic discussions, long
ago might have demonstrated the
utter futility of their later day
propaganda as far as influencing
the worker is concerned. Almost
unconsciously the movement has as
sumed an economic as contras .ed
wi'h a pol'Fcal asno:\ and the
.labor organizations has e.ppocred in
every country except possibly in!
Germany, all sufficient to the work-|
|ei3 for the accomplish men* of their j
a’tr.s. That this r.uti. r is con-i
provodsir.l may of course be granted; J
but how otherwise may be explained
the absolute powerlessness of the i
socialists in not one country but in I
all countries to affect the war situa-l
tion as far as they have tried, and'
these efforts in variably end^d in j
dividing them into those who were i
and those who were not behind the j
government?
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NEWS NOTES
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TAKE PASSENGERS
On authority from Seattle, Mr
Wolfe the agent of the Admiral
Line makes the announcement that |
the steamer Admiral Watson which j
will sail about Wednesday, will |
take 75 third class passengers. No j
first class passengers will be car-:
ried on the trip.
Bishop Rowe will deliver a sermon
at the services in the Federated
church on Sunday night. The Bish
ot) waives all obstacles in the way
of a difference of religion that
; might otherwise deter less liberally
minded men from addressing a con
gregaition in any other than his
own Episcopal fold.
—
A number of Eskimos who had
been employed in a local camp as
an anti-eight hour day experiment
wearied of the labor and returned
to their igloos. Plenty salmon,
Eskimo him fool to waste time
working for some one else, said |
one of these sophisticated aborigines
Thus civilization with all its ex
quisite ideals fails again.
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Results are promised, it is re
torted, as'a consequence of recent
■fforts to bring about the rapproch
nent in. certain political circles. The
eport has set many of those anxious
o witness these, eager to learn de
ails. They are promised to be
[Uite interesting. Nuff Sed.
A communication received from
trthur Nagorruk, teacher at Cape
jrince of Wales, replying to a news
tern relative to conditions in the
T.omedes has been received and
vill bo published in the next issue
>f the Worker. Owing to lack of
ipaco, it is regretfully holdover.
The Victoria brot to our shores
hroe important members of the
•hurch in the person of Dr Crimont,
latholic Bishop of Alaska, Dr Rowe
Episcopal Bishop of the same dioesce
ind Dr Baldwin in charge of the
Methodist Native Mission in this
lection. All are welcome and all,
>pen confession is good for the soul,
10 doubt sadly needed to reform
his bunch of sinners in this neck of
;he woods. The newspapers can
lot do that work all alone, much
>s they struggle to function in
:his respect.
Tonight there will be another
lance for the benefit of the Red
Cross in the Eagle Hall. The dance
begins at nine o’clock and the string
band from the Coast Guard cutter
will furnish the music. The last
lance of the kind given a short
time ago was one of the most en
joyable- ever given in Nome, and
everything was lovely from the
first to the last dance. The music
furnished by the accomplished ar
tists of the cutter is not the least
attractive feature of the affair, and
is worth attending to hear even
by those who do not revel in the
light fantastic. The entire pro
ceeds go to the benefit of the Red
Cross Society.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court, Fairhaven
Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
Second Judicial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
William Heider, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
undersigned, has been duly ap
pointed administrator of the estate
of William Heider, deceased, and all
persons having claims againts said
estate of the said deceased, are
hereby notified to present them
wiht the necessary vouchers, within
six months from the date of the
first publication of this notice; to
Aimer Rydeen the Administrator, at
Candle Alaska.
Date of first publication Aug. 3,
1918
ALMER RYDEEN
Administrator of the estate of Will
iam Heider, deceased.
NOTICE OP FORFEITURE
To J. N. Fiack, Nome Kougarok
Consolidated Mines Company and
Jacob Zeman, your heirs, execu
tors, administrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has
expended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars
during each of the years of 1914,
1915, 1916 and 1917, upon the fol
lowing described placer mining
claim, situate, lying and being in
the Kougarok Recording District,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit: The up
per one half (14) of Creek Claim
Number Three on Dahl Creek in the
Kougarok Mining District.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail
or neglect to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, your,
interest in said mining claim if any,
will become the property of the un
dersigned, your co-owner, under
section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
Al. Carey
Co-owncr.
Date of first publication, May 25,
1918.
Date of last publication August 17th.
1918.
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