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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, 18 ?9.
Address all Communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 134
One Year
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Nome, Alaska, August 19, 1913.
When you listen to a political
candidate orating, and when he
comes to that eloquent period when
he winds up his oratorical master
piece with something about the
country, and the flag, and the peo
ple, one begins to think, and be par
doned for the thinking, that there
is something holy and religious and
sacred and moral about politics, and
the stiffs yell their throats sore
while they think that the man who
seeks their votes is just the right
kind of man with the right kind of
sentiment to place in the position he
seeks. And the band has played
national airs between whiles, and
the boosters have waved flags and
there is a general feeling of heart
stirring emotion which is a splendid
and a noble thing.
Comes now one Governor Foss of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Foss was one of those who could
identify their politics with their re
ligion and their patriotism, with
much and fervent eloquence. When
he appeared on the platform and the
band after whirling away for a
breathing while at the Star Spangled
Banner, tromboned out See the Con
quering Hero Comes, he usually
wore a flag in the lapels of his
coat, and he rolled his eyes heaven
wards as he apostrophized Liberty
and the Flag and Love of Country.
And they elected him because he
was a patriot who had sunk every
thing sordid in the love of his coun
try and his state as a self-sacrificing
patriot to whom the nation and the
state was as the apple of his eye.
Comes now Governor Foss, we
say, but in an entirely different role.
He is now no longer the democratic
candidate seeking office. He is a
business man who has business in
terests. He is an industrial chief
interested in industrial concerns
which will be affected by the tariff
revision. Foss employs women in
the foundries wherein he is interest
ed, and they, semi-nude, by the
heated furnaces work for as many
hours as the law, not their health
or their strength, but as the law and
their poverty allow and compel. Foss
has been looking at things in a
different light as a business man to
that which he pretended to see
through when seeking the votes of
the people of Massachusetts. In
deed, yes. He is no longer solicitious
for the glory of the flag, even on
paper, nor for the honor of the na
tion, even in speech, nor for the
sac-redness of motherhood even in
theory nor the up-lifting of humanity
at all, at all, in fact. He is now
profit-ihonger and always was profit
monger as well as Governor Foss,
and he is concerned with the fact
that the democratic principles that
have landed him in office are about
to give his business a solar plexus
blow. He has not been without loud
voiced protest in his own fashion
against the pauper labor of Europe,
and demanding that they be pro
tected against it in the common
wealth wherein he presides, and yet
he is. the chief shareholder in some
of the commonwealth’s foundaries
wherein women, the sacred mother
hood of the nation, by the way, are
compelled to work before hot fu~n
aces in a state of semi-nudity and
with dishevelled and dust laden
hair, while the grimy sweat streams
down the almost unsexed persons of
his female employees, according to
official reports. He demanded pro
tection for those conditions of labor,
and he got them, took advantage of
them to the full, and now here he is
when there seems a probability of
like condtions of labor confronting
him in the market, he growls and
declares that he is no longer a
democrat—he is again a republican.
Thus it is that now Governor Foss
with one sweep of bis voice reveals
what actually this whole political
bag of tricks amounts to—what the
patriotism, what the love of coun
try, the honor to the flag and all
the rest of the political frills that
ornate a political speech in truth and
fact, amount to.
But Foss has done something
more. It is not sufficient that he has
declared that he Is now a republi
can; Foss says, and says it so that
he does not care who knows it,
when the tariff policies which his
! party is preparing to carry out are
part of the law of the land, he will
authorize the removal of his indus
trial plants to Canada where they
will be able to operate protected
by the “flag that braved a thousand
years the battle and the breeze,” to
wit: the Union Jack. Canada
looks better to Foss than the state
to free which the fathers of the re
volution fought and bled and died.
The capitalist himself knows that all
this bunk concerning patriotism
which he has peddled really
amounts to nothing when profits are
concerned, and it is merely excel
lent stuff to work the workers.
Canada is the place w'heVe they
think that the profit making will not
be subjected to restrictions, and
therefore it is a-case of “let’s go to
Canada” with the profit-monger. Nor
is he alone. Not by a long shot. Some
short time ago that glorious pearl
of the Pacific about,,, which orators
have themselves so much orated
under the inspiration of the sugar
planters whoare opposed to the
tariff on sugar being removed de
clared that they would prefer to be
unannexed from the United States
in the event of free sugar becoming
an accomplished fact in this coun
try. Yet the politicians of Hawaii,
the docile servants of the sugar peo
ple, have been second to none in
their eloquent apostrophes to the
p'lory of the nation to which they an
nexed themselves but a sort time
back.
Thus it is that events endorse
that politics purely and simply is a
matter of business, first, last, and
all the time determined by the
economic status of the politician and
whom the politician serves. There
is none of the poetry that stands
out so delightfully in the sentimental
outbursts of the candidates in it at
all. It is a cold-blooded monifesta
tion of the real government that sits
in the offices of the financial and in
dustrial magnates and which con
cerns itself with the accumulation
of profits. Governor Foss to use
the now famous and very popular
Rooseveltian aphorism is a practical
man. There is neither ethics nor
partiotism nor sentiment about his
political status. This is a business
proposition as such regarded first
last and all the time. If the demo
crats would serve his end, well and
good, he is a devoted and a loyal
I democrat, but when he thinks that
the republicans will do better by him
and his business, why, by the Rood,
he is a republican.
The material position of a man
in the economic world is the deter
mining factor of his beliefs. The
conduct of such a one as Foss shows
this conclusively, and while others
less compelled by the candor of cir
cumstances than is the Governor,
might blather out some balderdash
about ideals and principles and other
folderols, the fact is there that it
is the economic status that is the
determining factor just the same
There is no getting around it; and
when the workers get to such a state
by organization that they can become
control of industry, why they
will themselves assume a con
trol of the affairs of the country
which will be equivalent to the
manifestation of the capitalist con
trol is today called politics. And
I that is all there is to it, but it is
worth thinking over and getting it
clear what politics, with its brass
bands, and its eloquence, and its
flag-waving, and its patriotism,
amounts to any wray. Foss has done
some good in demonstrating what it
actually is, and the workers ought
to that extent to be grateful to Foss,
or if not Foss to the combination
of circumstances that made Foss an
expounder of a scientific social
truth.
The president of the Master
Butchers Association does not like
to observe the fact that the con
sumption of meat has fallen off for
the past few years.
There is some mistake somewhere.
It is only a short time since Secre
tary Wilson under President Taft’s
regime declared that the trouble was
that the people were living too well
—that they were wanting the best,
joints and the best cuts and that
there was no suiting them. Farmers,
said this head of the Department of
Agriculture, were too well off, and
as for the workers their prosperity
was limitless.
The idea was suggested that the
people adopt a lower standard, live
more economically and so forth and
that they make ends meet in-this
way. But it seems that this pros
perity is all a pipe dream, the people
have to cease eating meat and turn
to other articles of food as a sub
stitute.
The standard is being lowered in
response to the demana of capital,
and doubtless in time human beings
will acquire the faculty 0f living on
grass and chewing the cud of some
thing more substantial than bitter
reflections. With another century of
capitalism we may find a use for the
vermiform appendix. Who knows/
Anyhow the fact is that meat is get
ting beyond the means of whole lot
of people, and there’s a reason.
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past masters of the weather mans
art. Why go to the Shushana coun
try when prosperity is at your own
door. We need 1,000 good loyal
Nomeites to keep our demonstrator
busy. See the samples and be con
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Sewing Machines at Cost.
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those under 100 buckets, 12 for $1.00 Barrel Rate 60c. per.
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THE REXALL STORE PHONE, BLACK 55
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malt and hop beverage that reminds you of the old fashioned
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fine NOME BEER is to miss one of the keenest pleasures of
living.
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your door. j
NOME BREWERY
Main 200 Main 144