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FROM THE
RECORDS
FEBRUARY 17, 1908.
Proofs of Labor
No. 2 Holyoke creek, F. G. Row
botham.
Stowe fraction on East Bourbon
creek, F. G. Rowbotham.
Nettie bench and bench Mo. 2 off
Wonder oreek, between Wonder and
Holyoke creek, F. G. Rowbotham.
Elk bench and Bamboo bench, on
right limit of Holyoke creek, F. G.
Rowbotham.
Sunshine claim and Northern Queen
claims on right fork of Anvil creek,
O. M. Lambert.
Rainbow on left limit of Newton No.
2, High Channel claim on left limit of
Stewart river, Geo. D. Kennedy.
Ruth fraction on left limit of No. 4
Holyoke creek. Carl M. Johnson.
Lucky Dog fraction between No. 4
and 5 above on Mystery creek, Chas.
L. Milacek.
Lease
F. D. Vincent to John Carl et aL,
two years lease on No. 3 Holyoke,
Feb. 11, 1908.
The funeral of Tom Rolseth who
died in the Holy Cross hospital was
held Sunday at 2:00 p. in. from the
Pilgrim Congregational church. The
members of the Miners union assem
bled at the hall at 1:30 p. m. and
marched to Wentworth’s Undertaking
parlors whence they followed the
coffin to the church.
After the church services the cor
tege proceeded to the Masonic ceme
tery, where the service from the ritual
of the union was conducted. The
body was then placed in Wentworth
Brothers’ vault.
Despite the extremity of the weather
hundreds of the members of the
union and other friends of the de
ceased attended the funeral.
—
FEBRUARY 8, 1908
Location
Minnesota on Dog creek, Jan. 1,
i 1908, S. Gregory et al.
Proofs of Labor
Call claim on American creek, Jas.
Prolapeyas.
Beviugton association on right limit
of Snake river, E. W. Graham.
Humboldt association on left limit
of Snake river, Bernhard Benson.
Neal bench No. 0 on Glacier creek,
| A. L. Guinan.
! Scanton on left limit of Dry creek,
' E. W. Graham.
j Mental Dynamite j
I Or LITTLE LESSONS TO LEARN
I
By Geo. R. Kirkpatrick
I
LESSON SEVENTEEN, - Why Socialist
Party Members Pay Monthly Dues.
1. —Twelve million workingmen must
be taught—
a.—What their industrial wrongs
are—see lessons three and four—and
b.—How to right those wrongs, see
lesson eleven.
2. —This teaching must go on ALL
the time, before and after elections,
till millions of workers unite in a
political party of their own class for
the defense of their own class.
3. —This CONSTANT campaign of
education involves a CONSTANT EX
PENSE.
4. —The CAPITALIST class will not
pay these expenses; and it would be
dangerous to have the capitalist class
pay the expenses of the working class
party—lest tl|e capitalists get control
of the party.
5. —Thus the workers must pay the
expenses of the workers party.
6. —But the workers can’t pay. in
big sums. They can pay in small
sums. If they do pay regularly in
small sums the party ean go ahead
with a steady campaign of education.
Study lesson thirteen.
PANIC MAKES
LABOR CHEAP
Special to the Nome Industrial Worker.
Beaumont, Texas, Feb. 17.—Senator
Kellie says that he is glad that the
financial and industrial depression
came. He can now get farm laborers
for fifty cents per day whereas before
he was compelled to pay two dollars
per day. He further says that panic
has brought laborers down a notch
and that it will be useful to them in
teaching them thrift and economy.
This statement of the Texas senator
was made in a hotel in Beaumont in
the presence of a number of people,
and his remarks brought forth a storm
of hisses from those near him.
“I’d Rather Two-Step Than Waltz,
Bill,” “Not B«3ause Your Hair Is
Curly,” “Gee! it’s Great to be a
Soldier Man,” the great song hits by
John Heber Pry at the Dobbs Alaska
Moving Picture show Saturday night.
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Industrial Worker. l-3tf
ARTHUR JONES’ DRAMA
IS NUT TRUE TO LIFE
A Preachment of the Power of Religion to Redeem the Individual and
Society—Theme Does Not Fit Things as They Are in
the Practical Affairs of Life.
THE EVANGELIST.-A drama in
four acts, by Henry Arthur Jones.
Produced at the Knickerbocker the
atre, New York.
Mr. Jones new play is a preachment
for the power of religion as a means
of individual redemption aud social
amity. It is a brave attempt to show
that only by the popularization of
religious methods can religion become
a spiritual force in the modern world
and cleanse the souls of those in high
as well a* in low places. Failing in
this, scepticism will nourish among
the few aud Socialism run rife among
the masses.
It is not Mr. Jones’ fault if this
attempt of his fails; it is the fault of
his thesis. Few other dramatists are
as skillful in the use of his material
as Mr. Jones, and he has sincerity as
well. He is not content, because he
has the skill, to merely write plays
for the money that is in it. He has
been successful, but his sincerity of
purpose has cost him the popular
favor before now. Even tho nut
agreeing with his views, one can
therefore regard his work with re
spect.
The trouble with this new play of
his is that, however skillfully it is
constructed, aud however brilliut the
dialog is at times, its theme does not
fit in with things as we know them.
We are impressed by the stage effects
but tho hard facts of life are against
them. We should like to feel that
the human race can be regenerated by
diieet and simple appeals to the ele
mental faith in a recreative spitritual
force, but we kuow that just outside
the theatre things do not adjust them
selves that way. Here and there may
be a case of individual salvation but
the great mass of humanity, we know,
moves on indifferent and unredeemed.
“The Evangelist,” therefore asks
ue to believe too much that common
knowledge forbids us from accepting.
This is not an uncommon error. The
Bowery melodrama does the same
thing—but even the devotee of Bowery
melodrama knows where to draw the
line. From dramatists like Mr. Jones
we expect that verity which illum
inates life without exaggerating it.
Let his play itself explain what I
mean.
Sylvanus Bebbings is the evangelist,
following the brass band and hallelujah
methods of the Salvation Army, and
garbed accordingly. He has met with
great success thruout Great Britain,
being especially intiueutial in settling
labor difficulties. Sir James Nune
ham, a wealthy factory owner, is
threatened with a strike of his em
ployes. He sends for Rebbiugs to try
aud avert the strike.
When Rebbings (arrives he recog
nizes in the wife of Philip Nuueham,
son of Sir James, a woman whom he
assisted in an accident at Brighton.
It develops that Mrs. Philip Nuneham
has a secret affair with a Dr. Rex
Alleu and Rebbings is the one who
can either save the woman from ex
posure and disgrace or blast her for
ever. When the time comes for him
to decide he lies for the sake of the
woman’s child.
In the meanwhile Rebbings has been
holding revival meetings among Nune
hain's workmen and succeeds in bring
ing them around to the happy frame
of mind where they will arbitrate
with their employer. The climax to
this effort of Rebbings’ is reached by
Mrs. Nuueham immediately after Reb
bings has lied to save her. Carried
away by the fervor of Rebbings’ ex
hortations she goes to her husband
and confesses her sin.
In the last act Mrs. Nuneham ac
cepts her cross by renouncing Dr.
Allen, the man she loves, her husband
goes away from England to pursue his
scientific studies and she retains her
child and will live with her father
hereafter. We are left to believe that
her redemption is so secure that sbe
is to live repentant ever afterwards.
Rebbings, «e suppose, continues in
his evangelizing work making repara
tion for the lie he told to save Mrs.
Nuneham.
The development of this story is
absorbingly interesting even tho cer
tain features are exaggerated and the
dialog lacks terseness. There are
some tense dramatic moments but
none of them equal to the close of
the third act of “The Hypocrites, ”
Mr. Jones’ success of last season.
That is simply because none of them
have the same human appeal that that
scene had.
It is pretty hard to believe that a
woman of Mrs. Nuueham’s tempera
ment, loving and longing for love,
neglected by her scientific matter of
fact husband, would be susceptible to
the influence of such an evangelist as
Rebbings. It is more credible that
concern for her child would prompt
her to seek a way by which she could
retain the child; it is less credible
that she would renounce her lover so
lightly were she as passionate as she
is depicted to us. Else why did she
not think of her child in the first
place?
Of course, tho least credible part of
all is that relating to Rebbings’ influ
ence in averting the strike. Consider
ing the existing industrial situation
in England the proposition that a re
liigous evangelist, however eloquent
he might be, could exercise such an
influence comes nearly being ridic
ulous. Unionism and Socialism are
too firmly planted in England for that.
Strikes are not matters that religious
enthusiasm can adjust; they are cold
sober propositions of wage scales and
every day factory conditions. Then
also we’d like to know where the trade
union leaders were all the time that
Rebbings was pursuing his propa
ganda. We are not permitted to »ee
them but we can’t help thinking they
were a sorry lot and unlike the kind
of trade union leaders to the forefront
in England today. Also, we know
that as soon as Rebbiugs mores on and
the workers are confronted again by
the same old conditions there will be
a swift return to aggressive opposition
to those conditions.
This is what I mean when I say Mr.
Jones’ play fails to carry conviction.
He makes the same mistake that
Charles Klein made in “The Daugh
ters of Men,’’ only represents religion
as the solution to the labor problem
while Mr. Klein presented brotherly
love. Neither one of these proposi
tions can solve existing conditions and
it is the knowledge of this that pre
vents the audience from being con
vinced and satisfied.
Notwithstanding all this, there are
some things in the play that give sat
isfaction to the unorthodox thinker.
In the first act there is a scene in
which some hard shell preachers dis
cuss with Sir James Nuneham the
advisability of their not recognizing
the free lance agitator Rebbiugs. Here
j Richard Fyson,Mrs.Nuneham’s father,
I a physiologist, shocks the preachers
I by expressing some plain truths about
churchianity and its attitude toward
the masses. Hero, loo, Sir Janies
Nuneham declares that he doesn’t
care what denomination the evangelist
belongs to “if he can only stopi the
growth of Socialism among my work
men. ” The canting hypocrisy of the
churchly followers of Christ is shown
with excellent effect, providing the
j comedy element in the play.
The acting could hardly be im
i proved upon. Howard Kyle was a
truthful Rebbings, but Charles Fulton
as Fyson, the agnostic took first
honors among the men, for a sin
gularly fine characterization. Fred
Thorne, Jr., gave a clever character
sketch as a cunning representative of
the slum proletarie, lieu Possiter. The
preachers were thoroly well conceived
by Cecil Rose, Ivan F. Simpson.
W. J. Constantine and Charles W.
Butler. Miss Dorothy Thomas might
have been more powerful as Mrs.
Nuneham and Edith Taliferro was
very good as her child, lone. The
remainder of the company were fully
capable.
“The Evangelist” is interesting, it
is worth seeing as an example of the
drama which aims to deal with actual
conditions, but it presents a remedy
which does not fit in with those con
ditions and it therefore fails to satisfy
as well as entertain. Mr. Jones has
I apparently forgotten that it is not
| necessary for a dramatist to present
any remedy for a given situation. The
situation should be so faithfully re
flected that the auditor can draw his
own conclusions and use his imagina
tion in arriving at the solution.-—
William Mailly.
The Seattle Spirit.
The city of Seattle has evolved a
unique plan for getting rid of its un
employed. The Queen city proposes
to dump her surplus population en
masse on these Alaskan shores next
summer and so rid herself of the bur
den of its support. This plan is in
deed characteristic of the famous
psychological monstrosity called the
Seattle spirit, for that city has come
to look upon Alaska and things Alas
kan in muoh the same light as Presi
dent Baer looks upon his coal mines
placed here by|a benignant Providence
for the benefit of the Puget Sound
metropolis.
No city has ever so selfishly ex
ploited a country as Seattle would ex
ploit Alaska. Nay, Seattle people
imagine that they should elect or at
least nominate the delegate to be
selected for congress; they would and
indeed have endeavored to frame min
ing laws to suit Seattle conditions of
mine ownership for this unfortunate
country; they propose to advertise
Seattle in an Alaskan-Yukon Exposi
tion and one finally begins to wonder
an all-wise Providence could have so
far forgotten what was due Seattle in
placing this country so distant there
from upon the map of the world.
No city on the Pacific coast ever
even threatened the possibility of
rivalry in the Alaskan trade which
was not maligned into defeat by the
more unscrupulous Seattle.
And flow the Seattle Spirit arises
once more to face the problem of its
unemployed citizens by this proposi
tion of sending North all those mem
bers of its community who are not
needed to fill the vacancies on its
disgraceful chain-gang.
There seems to be no possibility of
combating in an effective manner this
proposal but Alaskans will do well to
remember this latest development of
the spirit of a city desires to shirk its
responsibilities and thrust them upon
us. Workers at least can remember
It to Seattle’s disadvantage in the
! year of Exposition grace 1909.
A WORKER.
SUFFRAGETTES
STILL GLAMORING
Special to the Nome Industrial Worker.
London, Feb. ,7. -Forty-eight oat of
fifty of the women who were arrested
for creating the demonstration in the
house of commons went to jail rather
than pay the fine assesed against them
for their act.
The suffragettes are more clamorous
than ever in their determination to
secure recognition. The question is
by no means settled and parliament
will be forced to seriously consider
the demands of the women for a wider
sphere of opportunities in the affairs
of state, which the women claim is
their right.
IS RECOVERING
FROM OPERATION
Mrs. Ashton's little daughter, who
has beeu in the hospital for seme time
and whose condition was considered
very dangerous for awhile, is now
doing well under the care of Dr.
Weyerhorst and the Sisters at the
Holy Cross hospital.
The patient now sits up in the bed
much of the time. She can take prac
tically any nourishment she desires.
Every day shows an improvement in
the rebuilding of her health and
strength.
She will not be able to leave the
oare of the doctor and sisters for
awhile yet, as her illness was of such
a nature that she must have consider
able time in which to recuperate. The
danger period has passed however in
her case, and her parents and friends
are now assured of her speedy return
to health and strength.
Notice!
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town from the creeks please call at
the office and give us your change of
address at once. Your paper will be
sent to the regular creek address un
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LETTERS AT
UNION HALL
The following list of letters are
awaiting their owners at Miners
Union ball:
Anderson, Wilhelm
Brady, W. Lawerance—3
Boberg, Marelius
Christensen, C.— 3
Cailson, A.
Dunn, J. J.
Hausen, Bradley
Johanson, M.—2
Johusou, Alfred—2
Johnson, W. C.
Johnsoy Gustaf Hjalmra
Johnson, C. E. —2
Jacobson, Courath.
Keeborosky. Franz
Lftdribuovvsci, Basil
Laaily, Gustaf
Langreu, Atta
Larsen, C. H.
Matisen, Matias
Gregor, N. C. Mae.
Morthensen, M. J.
Millmore, William
Langan, M.
Muller, Henry—2
Morteusen, M. G.
Mac Gregor, Neil.—2
Maloney, Daniel
Narrstram, Frans Oscar
Olsen, Peder Olaf
Overgaard, C. P
Olsen, B.
Sirnila, Fred
Traude, Henry—2
Winkler, Thomas—2
Waldheim, G. J.
Wilson, J. A.
Notice.
The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers Union, Local No.' 240,
of the W. F. of M., is helcLevery Sat
urday evening at 8 p. m. at Miners
Hall. Secretary's office hours: 7 a. m.
to 12 m.; 1 p. m. to <i p. in.; 7 p. m. to
10 p. m. Phone Main 99. Postoffice
box No. 60.
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