Nome Industrial Worker!
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By Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240
Western Federation of Miners
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FOR PRESIDENT
EUGENE V. DEBS
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
BEN. J. HANFORD
CITY SHOULD GET BUSY.
Tho city council points with
pride to the fact that the city is
out of debt. They claim that a
policy of retrenchment all along
the line has accomplished this
desirable result.
A policy of retrenchment as a
general rule is a very good poli
cy, but at the same time it is
necessary for the members of the
city council to look ahead, and
figure if a policy of retrenchment
at present is to the best interests
of the city.
We refer to the fact that many
persons now in Nome are in des
titute circumstances, and that if
they remain in the city during
the winter the city will have to
look after them and see that they
do not starve.
We believe that it would be
much better for the city authori
ties to look up these cases imme
diately, and provide transporta
tion for them to the outside. As
we have pointed out many times
little work wm be tione' during
the coming winter, it would be
a money-saving policy for the
city to look up the destitute ones
and send them to the outside be
fore the last boats leave.
When the Victoria was here on
her last trip, over 150 of these
destitutes applied to the captain,
purser, steward and all the other
officers of the ship, asking to be
allowed to work their passages
to the outside. They are willing
1o go, but are unable to go un
less the city or federal govern
ment comes to their aid. As it
is the city that will have to sup
port these destitutes through the
long winter if some other dispo
sition is not made of them, it will
be to the advantage of the city
to take this matter up at once.
It is very likely that the two
steamships yet to sail will make
a special rate on these cases, as
it the last trip of the season.
The coming winter will be
hard enough for those who are
assured of steady employment,
and those workers who figure
that they have enough to keep
them going through the winter
without work. As it is there
will be two men for every job
froth now till navigation opens
again, and anyone who is in hard
circumstances now will have to
call on the city for support in a
very short time.
The city’s policy of retrench
ment can oest be carried out by
using a little foresightedness and
endeavoring to send to the out
side all who are at present in
destitute circumstances.
EXPOSING A HYPOCRITE)
If Governor Haskell, of Okla
homa, can prove the accusations
he made against President Roose
velt, he will have aided to a great
extent in exposing to the coun
try the trickery and hypocrisy of
the man who has been mistaken
ly classed as the great champion
of the people.
I^astyear the Appeal to Reason
created a great sensation by ex
losing Roosevelt’s participation
with E. H. Harriman in the Alton
leal, which enabled Harriman
ind his associates to make a steal
af $Gt),000,000. In order to have
the public bite at the Alton se
curities it was necessary to have
these securities listed by the New
York state legislature, in order
to permit of their acceptance by
the New York state savings
banks. By a cunning method
frequently resorted to by the law
makers who represent the cor
porate interests of the country,
this was railroaded through the
legislature by being embodied in
another bill, and was sent up to
Roosevelt, who was at that time
governor of the state, forliis sig
nature. To say that Roosevelt
signed the bill not knowing that
it would enable Harriman to make
this gigantic steal, would be de
nying that the man was possess
ed of any degree of intelligence.
The only sane conclusion is that
lie was a party to the fraud.
Now comes Governor Haskell
with the statement that Roose
velt leased oil lands on the reser
vation set aside for the use of
the Osage Indians, to the Stand
aid Oil company. It is not like
ly that Haskell would make such
a statement if he were not sure
of his grounds. As it is common
rumor that he himself was mixed
up in frauds perpetrated upon
the people for the benefit of this
company, ho is probably able to
provide data proving the accura
cy of this statement.
Roosevelt, the “ trust buster,”
stripped of the mask of his hy
pocrisy, stands before the people
as one of the lowest types of
manhood America has yet pro
duced. He plays to the galler
ies, expounding “my policies”
and at the same time aids Harri
man to make a cleanup among
the people whose interests he
claim's lo be protecting. In his
messages to congress he de
nounces the trusts and with a
fierce showing of teeth flays un
mercifully the men at the head of
Stuneti'me', through his minions,
he extorts from these same men
the funds necessary to conduct
the “biggest debauchery cam
paign ever known in the politi
cal history of America.” He de
clares that the Standard Oil com
pany must be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law, and here
we have a Standard Oil governor
accusing him of receiving mil
lions from that company for the
lease of oil lands located on a
government reservation.
The lowest trait of human
character is hypocrisy. It de
notes a total lack of those vir
tues which must necessarily be
the ruling motive of the individ
ual if we are to advance to a
higher stage of civilization. The
highway robber is of more value
as a citizen than is the hypocrite.
There are numbers of destitute
now in the city of Nome. Of
these unfortunates the majority
were allured here by false state
ments published in the interest
of the transportation companies
by the press on the outside.
At the time these statements
appeared we drew attention to
them in these columns, and point
ed out that this would inevitably
result iu flooding the country
with destitute men deceived by
the glowing stories referred to.
We felt sure then, and we are
sure now, that these transporta
tion companies owed it to this
community that steps should be
taken to undo the harm that was
done by such false statements.
We felt equally sure that this
duty would be neglected by the
transportation companies, and
up to this time no action on the
part of these money shams can
tie said to lead one to think that
they will assist in any way in re
pairing the injury that has been
lone to the unfortunate men who
were so misled by the fake re
ports circulated in the outside
papers as to the lack of men in
Reward Peninsula.
Next spring, we suppose, the
lame old methods, with the same
old results; any old way to in
crease their profits seems to be
the motto of modern shipping
companies.
Think it over again before you
decide to stay in for the winter.
Are .you assured that you will
have steady employment ? The
last boats of the season are in,
and if you have 1 otliing in sight
for the winter you will bo much
better off on the outside. Bet
ter go.
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
You can't make a lasting im
pression on a soft man.
There wiil probably be repub
lican soup houses this winter.
If we had socialism you would
not be facing the soup house this
winter.
If prices keep on soaring it
will soon take a $10 bill to get a
15-cent dinner.
To restore the full dinner pail:
Take a democ-R\T and put it
into a rcpubli CAN.
• The old parties have certainly
done a great deal to elevate the
negro, but it has generally been
by the neck.
It has rained every day since
the republican “Sunshine So
ciety ’’ was organized to shine
away the gloom.
Of all the good things in this
world labor has its pick. And
labor with its pick is certainly a
good thing for the capitalist.
There is not much interest in
the capitalist campaign, but the
masters hope to be able to collect
interest after it is over.
If we had socialism there would
be no raise in the price of fuel as
the weather gets colder.
Somebody take out an injunc
tion preventing capitalists from
closing their plants and starving
the jobless employes.
Don’t cough, sneeze, talk or
make a noise while at work. If
you keep cptiot the boss may
overlook vou when he lav«rvfT his
When the busy season is over
the mule is turned out on the
pasture, and the worker is turned
out on the street and told to keep
off the grass.
A press dispatch from Reno, Nev.,
telling of tho capture of Mrs. Irene
Hawley, the ‘'Queen of pickpockets,”
says that her former husband, James
II. Hawley, defended Moyer, Haywood
and Pcttibone In the Idaho trials of
last year. On tho contrary, James II.
Hawley, once husband of the queen of
pickpockets, was asociated with Borah,
McPartland, Gooding and other agents
of the mine owners* association in the
kidnapping of those three Innocent
workingnom, and in the conspiracy to
murder them acording to the forms of
law. -Hawley was the chief spieler of
the prosecution, and got so much
Idaho state money for his dirty work
that he had to go abroad to spend It.
No wonder his clever wife prefers to
go it alone and practice her profession
as she can. While being “queen of
the pickockets" may havel ts disad
vantages, especially when overtaken
by the police, It is more womanly If
not more manly than asoeiation with
the king of kidnappers and the dirty
dozen who disgraced decency with him
from Denver to Boise.—Appeal to
Reason.
DREAMING OF HOME.
I’ve been away from home for years,
I’ll prob'ly not get back;
I've fixed to go a dozen times,
But got stered off the track.
I've been away for years an’ years,
Yet ev’ry now an’ then
I find I’m dreamin’ of the time.
When I’ll go home again.
I left there promisin’ the folks
That I’d be back right soon,
'Twas Christmas time; says I, ‘I’ll
come
An’ visit you next June.”
But you know how things shape them
selves;
I really meant It the*—
Years have sllped by, but still I dream
Of £oin’ home again.
I didn’t suppose the farm’s the same,
I hear a part’s been sold;
Both dad an' ma are still alive.
But gettin’ mighty old,
I left them when but seventeen;
I've got boy* almost men.
But still each day I’m dreamin’ of
When ril go home again.
—Bide Budley, |n Denver Pos.t I
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DOCTORS
J. H. Mustard, A. B., M.D.
Office and residence:
Front Street, over Kelly A Co’s drug store
Hours:
1 to 4 and 7:30 to 9. Telephone Main 93.
Dr. W. D’Arcy Chace
Office : Nome Bank and Trust Bldg.
hocks: phonis:
1 to 3 p. m. Office, Main 3
7 to 9 p. tn. House, Red 3
Dr. O. F. Searl
224 Front St.
Office Hours : 1 to 3, 7 to 8
Telephone: Main 178 „
DENTISTS
Dr. L. W. Fromm
DENTIST
Offle nnd Residence over Kelly’s Drug Store
Phone : Blaclc 1
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Trained Nurse
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Bath House
and
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BOURDON & MOSES, Proprietors.
Next U. S. Mercantile Co., Front St.
;i CHAS. W. REED ij
Machinery
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r a Good Meal
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Capital $100,000.00
Workingmen’s Accounts Solicited.
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Nome Bank & Trust Company
Capital Fully Paid $135,000.00
F. H. THATCHER
Cashier
EUGENE E. AILES
Vice-President
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Established June 3900.
Consolidated with Bank Cape Nome Sept. 1905.
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of Teas and Delicatessen specialties in the city.
J. CHILBERQ, Cor. B and First Ave.
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The Workingman
Can get more for bis. money here
than anywhere else.
The Epicure f
Can get the choicest and most
palatable dishes the market affords.
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' Eastero Cornfed Poultry.
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