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entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. Alaska, December 21), 1015.
The ending of the old Year is
approaching. With the New Year
men renew their hope. The poet
said it springs eternal in the human
breast. But at the passing of • any
allotted division of Father Time’s
estate it takes on renewed vitality.
It is for this reason that fev,
mark the passing Of an old year
with regret for their fancies are
filled with blossoming hopes for the
new. Yet they would wisely reflect
■that Memory deifies the past, and
swings before the dead years golden
censofs and perfumed incense.
There doubtless comes a time in
man’s life when he refusos to be
buoyed up any longer by hope. Life
for him has no longer any illusions.
The future has no mirage where an
oasislike paradise wells up before
the anticipating vision. For such
a one, his soul is wearied with the
life’s travail, and he has reached
the night when no man may work,
For him there is no day break when
shadows fleet away, for the shadow.
are with him in the long night ol
life and he is near the dissolution.
Nature’s process is most interest!
ing. It chases Fear with brighl
spears of hope, and renews vigoi
with resolution which is the mar.i
testation of hope within the mind
It encourages man to deceive him
self so that he may walk throng)
fire and struggle through misery: li
knows that if men understood wha
was before them and what was pre
uently about them they would for
swear the struggle, and insteal
therefore it conjures up before then
visions of that will never be rea
lized. Men penetrate hell unthink
ingly to reach heaven. Nature will:
it so. Life is an eternal struggh
<l’or better things because men re
■fuse to consider a present evil ever
lasting. That is the way of pro
gress—discontent with the present.
The New Year brings good reso
lutions. Mon swear off their habit
and customs ignoring the fact tlm
life itself is the slave of custou
and the creature of habit. Custom:
and habit are the manumitted slave:
that conquered their masters am
enslaved them in turn. Thai:
chains are the chains of rep^titior
and the links are links of experi
once.
■ To say that hell i paved with re
solutions and good intentions is ti
say that hell is paved with vaii
effort and futile struggle. But it';
a solid pavement and upon such ;
foundation men rear structures tha
rfach to the stars.
The evolution of man from tl.<
lowest to the highest is possib!.
only because despite repeated fail
■tires and constantly vain effort mat
persisted. The supreme virtue 1;
tenacity of purpose.
There’s no hope in the vision tha
sees only a vanity of vanities in hu
man effort. It's the dreamer ilia
ignores the present hell and see
the future paradise that lifts ui
men to the fulfilment. The despair
ing hug their chains. Their lot 1
hopeless. Discontent sees bette
things in the future, and determine
to struggle for them with undyin:
purpose.
Now the Army League comes righ
oat and declares for compulsory
conscription as the only right kirn
of national preparedness.
The Army League has the righ
dope. If the country is to get read
for war as a necessary act, then i
must go the limit in that prepa a
tion.
Half way measures are no use
•absolute compulsory and imperativ
conscription of all able bodie
adults is the only sensible prepara
lion.
There never has been so imporl
ant and so instructive a matter b«
fore the country as the prepart
tionist agitation. Never at any tim
in the history of the world ha
there been such a logical, roasot
able and intelligent agitation a
that the country prepare for wai
And because this ts so, preparednet
should be thorough and should ba
| the acme of efficiency. No nation
' should have a bigger army or a big
j ger navy; no nation should have its
social system modelled along more
' efficient military lines; not a single
social activity from the highest to
j the lowest but should be reduced to
terms of military efficiency. The
railroads, the telegraphs, the roads
the coast, the shipping all should
be made adjuncts of national pre
paration, and the people of the
country compelled to serve as mili
tary units and to subordinate their
activities in business or at work to
the supreme necessity of being
thoroughly competent to fight.
What’s the use of peddling about
this condition which the country
faces? What's the use of theoriz
ing on ideals, on sentimental mat
ters, on principles, on moralities
on ethics?
Given capitalism and given a sys
tem red in tooth and claw and
given, as said on a previous occa
sion, the jungle, then the methods
of the jungle must be adopted.
But granted the necessity for mi
litarism, to be reasonable let it be
also admitted that all the finer theo
ries of life are all humbug and cant
and superstition and bombastic
nonsense. Granted the necessity to
be prepared to destroy our enemies,
why should any person affect to
believe that the injunction to lovo
your enemies is a divine teaching"
Granted the necessity and the logic
in hating one’s ■ nemy, in being
ready to inflict death, ruin and
damnation upon neighboring na
tions, why should there be any pre
tense in believing the doctrine that
we should love our neighbor as our
selves and pray for those who in
jure us?
,Why shouldn’t the air be cleared
of all this sophistical rubbish if the
economic system makes the theories
of Christian life impossible? If the
choice is clear and distinct as to a
. life of service and justice and love,
i or capitalism, why should not the
people be rid as quickly as possible
of affectation and hypocrisy and re
alize conditions?
The Army League, the National
• Security League, all of these -people
are right that the country i3 in
danger when not prepared to fight,
• for the system involves the country
constantly in international antagon
i ism and international squabbles.
But since they are right, why not.
; pursue the logic of the situation,
and also admit that the moralists
with their theories of Christian
s humility and Christian forbearance
- and Christian charity and Christian
love and Christian forgiveness are
! j^st as empty and vain and useless
and impossible under capitalism as
; the Christian elevation of poverty
- to the supreme bench of virtues.
; Why should a people stultify it
i self by affecting to believe in the
i brotherhood of man in the father
- hood of God, and proceed to maim,
i slay and destroy mankind in fear
ful wars and industrial systems
i where some have all and the rest
; have nothing?
If militarism is sensible and ne
cessary because sensible; if prepar
t ednes3 is intelligent and imperative,
r why not brush aside the motheaten
i hypocrisy that is imposed upon the
people by a lot of archaic ideas as
t to human relations and their moral
r basis?
t Beyond any manner of dqubt this
• development of militaristic prepar
edness born from the exigencies o<
: the occasion is one of the fines;
s things has ever occurred. It clean
1 away the fog of superstition ami
- the mists of hypocrisy, and 3howi
us capitalism, tho System that de
- vours its own children in all itf
- grim reality. It reveals that thi
- teachings that have been held up tc
b mankind as those that should b<
a followed have not and can not b«
- the measure of men’s acts or th<
s guide of man’s steps. That th<
•. struggle for existence under capital
s ism is such that it places mat
against man, makes Christian vir
tues;, so-called, an impossibility, and
denies in this way the correctness
of Christ’s teachings.
Let all these things be clearly
understood then on to the rack with
militarism! Be prepared! Trust not
in fine words or scraps of paper,
in promises or declarations; in theo
ry or in doctrines. Let it be under
stood that might is right. Let the
suggestion of the Navy League be
taken to heart that tho United
States should have tho mightiest
navy, and the suggestion of the
Army League that conscription be
general be taken to heart also.
They are suggestions of wisdom,
for they are founded upon no the
oretical system of moth eaten ethics,
but upon the solid facts of interna
tional intercourse.
They are founded upon the fact
that the final arbiter of things is
the sword and the rifle and the
cannon. They are founded upon
the fact that the strong survive and
the weak go to the wall. They are
founded upon the fact that capital
ism is founded upon violence, and
he that lives by the sword must
perish by the sword unless his is the
stronger arm, the quicker eye, the
stea’thier, steadier brain.
Why should we ignore the lesson
of this preparationist propaganda
It’s not every day capitalism un
bears its heart and exposes its
truth. It’s not every day the so
called civilization that capitalism
provides casts aside its garments of
religious hypocrisy, its charities, its
mumbled incantations and stands
before us brandishing a sword in
one hand and fire btand in the
other as the only dependence fc
survival in the desperate struggle It
forces upon society?
Therefore we say that the prepa
rationists are right. To be unpre
pared is folly. To ignore the ne
cessity for a strong navy and a
i strong army in thlsv world of strug
gle is the supremacy of foolishness.
Efficiency in preparation therefore
dictates that society would be order
ed along militaristic lines. That it
should be ordered so that every
I thing else could be subordinate to
that militarism, then indeed the
country mighty to combat, to fight,
to destroy to kill to maim and to
compel suffering, will be safe from
molestation.
Militarism may be considered an
intolerable burden, but it is com
pelled by reason of capitalism. Mili
tarism is the logical method where
by the capitalist system will sustaio
itself; without militarism and viol
ence it would fall either a prey to
itself or to another capitalist coun
try.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE.
Public notice is hereby given,
that under and by virtue of a Writ
of Execution issued out of the Dis
trict Court for the District
of Alaska, Second Division,
upon a certain Judgment therein
rendered on the 13th day of Decem
ber, 1915, and entered in favor dt
John Osiund, Alfred Fryxell, L.
Stenmark and Peter O. Larson,
plaintiffs, and against the Nome
Montana-New Mexico Mining Com
pany, Con., a corporation, defend
ants, for the sum of Three Thou
sand two hundred ninety and 971100
($3,290.97) dollars, together with
costs taxed at Twenty-three and
75] 100 ($23.75) dollars. I will on
the 21st day of January, 1916, at
12 o’clock noon of said day at the
front door of the United States
Court House at Nome, Alaska, as
commanded in said Writ of Execu
tion, offer for sale and cell to the
highest and best bidder for ca3h all
of the right, title, and interest
which the defendants had on the
13th day of December, 1915, or at
any time since, In and to certain
placer mining claims known as.
Discovery Claim, ^4o. 1 Above
Discovery, No. A-l Fraction, No. 2
Above Discovery, Mining Claim ad
joining No. 2 Above Discovery,
Fraction Mining Claim between
Nos. 2 and 3 Above Discovery; all
of the above situate on Goose
Creek, and Discovery or Mouth
Claim on Quartz Creek, all In the
Council City Recording Precinct,
District of Alaska, Second Division.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 22n l
day of December, 1915.
E. R. JORDAN,
i United States Marshal, Second Divi
sion, District of Alaska.
Dec. 22. 29, Jan. 5, 12, 19.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To H. A. Lehfeldt, your heirs, |
executors, assigns or personal )
representatives.
You are hereby notified that the j
undersigned has caused to be ex- i
pended in labor and improvements j
the sum of one hundred dollars j
each year for the years 1912, 1913, i
1914, and 1915 on Bench claim No. ]
V adjoining No. 6 on the left limit j
of Osborne creek, a placer mining |
claim recorded and more fully de- i
scribed in the records of the Cape j
Nome Mining and Recording Dis- i
trict, in the Second Division of the I
Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex- j
pended under the provisions of the j
law concerning Annual Labor upon i
Mining Claims, being the amount ]
required to hold said claim.
And you are further notified |
that if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notico you
fail to contribute your proportion ,
of said expenditure, your interest in |
said claim will become the property j
of the undersigned your co-owner
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JULIAN DREDGING COMPANY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 10, 1915.
Date of last publ,, Feb. 9, 1916.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. BEAD
THE WORKER.
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 Nome, Alaska,
as successor in interest of E. L.
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 28th,
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 the Arctic Ocean; |
said corner being impracticable to i
maintain because of danger from Ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 ch3. j
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 rame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inchos, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L.
W. on N. face, with rtone 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 o.- 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, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ing, Denver, Colorado.
CHAS/MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
1 The regular meeting of the Nome
' [Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., Is held
• every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
! Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON, President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local‘Union 1789, Carpenters and
’ miners of America, meets every Frl
| day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
' al Labor Hall.
^ at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 126*1, American Federation
if Labor, meets every Monday at
i(t( p. m. In tbe F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JBN8 OLSEN, Seo’y.-Treae.
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