Nome Industrial Worker
Published Every Friday.
By Nome Mine Workers Union, No. 240
Western Federation of Miners.
PAUL TURNER
Editor and General Manager.
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NOTHING NEW.
MR. Hardapple,reading,—By lieck,
Mandy, it says that in Russa they
even shoe the geese.
Mrs. Hardapple—Thats uothug, Hi
ram. Don’t we shoo the hens?
“1 know a young man, ” Artemus
Ward used to say,j who “started in
business without a cent of capital,
and just by taking people into his
confidence, he left the place owing
over two hundred thousand dollars.
“Confidence is the corner stone of all
business operations,’’,says the Even
ing Mail. Enough said.
Colored Men off Wrong.
The New York “Age” an organ of
colored men, makes a serious bluu
dei in referring to the conduct
ors in Jim Crow cars of the South as
“uncivil and un-American foreign
ers”. Very much like that sounded
the complaint of the Southern slave
holders, during the war, of the con
duct of German soldiers who served
under Grant. So long as the Negro
workingman does not recognize a fel
low wage slave in the workingman
of all nationalities; so long as he can
think, and therefore, talk and write
of “Un-American foreigners” just so
long will the Negro be echoing the
labor dividing sentiments of his ex
ploiters of colors, creeds and nation
alities, to his own undoing.
Roosevelt Versatility.
Roosevelt has added one more de
partment to the universality of his
knowledge. Historian, warrior, en
gineer, canal digger, etoker, critic of
nature fakirs, economist., orator,
properity producer, lawyer, jiu—jit
suer, 'diplomat, ! boxer, artcritic,
“Censor morum,’’.expert on rowing,
etc., etc , —Now he is a theologian
besides. Ho pronounce sacrilege the
words “In God we trust” on the coiu
of the land. Worn out Faust, with
study and learning worn out, exclaim
ed despondently that ue had studied
philosophy, philology, and this and
that, and the other, “and, alas, also
theology”! Theology broke the back
of Faust’s vitality,. ’Tis to be hoped
that it will not break the back of
Roosevelts’ vitality also. The Social
question needs just such a poultice as
Teddy to bring the boil to a head,
ready for lancing.
“Five! Five! Five more years of
Teddy!”
O’Neill Answers Critics.
For nineteen hundred years temples
have been reared to honor and glorify
God, and for nineteen hundred years
pulpits have rung with the eloquence
of priest and preacher in denunci
ation of sin, and yet, now in the
morning of the Twentieth century,
crimes run rampant, and man has been
uuable to love his neighbor as himself.
The church has been tried since the
dawn of Christianity—since Christ
yielded up his soul on Calvary, and
yet, the Adams and fives of our raoe
are at dagger points in the great com
petative struggle for the right and
liberty to live. The world is an ocean
of misery whose waves are dashing
human wrecks upon the rocks of des
pair and yet, this temple that has
been cousecrated to God, has failed
to plant a light house upon the earth
to give hope and courage to the faint
and sinking heart.
To the victims of oppression, to
the homeless outcast, to the innocent
babe and hapless mother, whose vitals
are clutched by the iron grip of want,
the Church In its majestic snbiimty
points its finger to the golden deeked
palace beyond the sparking planets,
where the“weary and heavy laden”
are supposed to lay down their bur
dens and listen to the music of angelic
cboires.
The church has put a premium upon
poverty, but the reward is not paid,
until poor miserable man shuffles off
this mortal coil, to be robed in the
glistening sheen of immortalty. The
Church preaches contentment to the
pauper, while dazzling wealth rises
in arrogant magnificence to mock
him in his hungry misery. According
to the church the Lazaus must hug the
Dives and caress in joy the shackles of
his slavey. Labor has chanted a requ
iem of despair that should dim the eyes
of tyrants with tears, and yet, the
great commanding voice of the. church
has been mute in the presence of the
MONSTER OF PROFIT coining gold
from human life.
The Church has beheld poverty
burning is letters of shame upon the
brow of virtue, and has seen pitiless
hunger snatching the soul from the
starved aud famishd body of the babe.
The Church has witnessed tho ex
ploiter minting millions from the
sweat aud blood of victims who live in
hovels but no moau or wail breaking
from despondent heart of labor, has
aroused the prelates of the Churoh to
unite iu the advancement of doc
trines that would tear from the roots
the Upas tree of profit and piracy,
that is, vitiating and dishonoring
man, “the noblest work of God.”
The Church has taught the people,
whose labor has planted upon the bo
som of the eath every comfort and
luxury that would make life a pleas
ant dream, for all that property is so
sacred and hallowed, that humanity
must freeze and starve, aud that this
self sacrifice or voluntary suicide,
would wiu a crown and a harp from
him, whose only Sou died for man.
I have seen woman, the refining in
fluence of the world, sell her honor
for bread on the auction block of lust.
I have seen some of the fairest
daughters of our land becoming cour
tesans, through the starvation wages
of department stores aud factories, op
erated by members of churches, who
worship God iu high priced pews. I
have read cf an international syndi
cate of debauchery, purchasing aud
selling virginity for profit.
1 have seen countless dens of shame
standing like festering sores breeding
pollution, and yet, for brothels of
prostiutiou, the spawn of a rotten
civilizaiou, for the sales gill and the
factory slave, whose scanty income
bids for dishonor, for the flesh and
blood of iuuoceut childhood sacri
ficed iu factory and sweatshop, what
remedy prescribed by the Church
is potent in halting the carnival
of crime Simply because the Cnurch
is dealing with effects, instead of
striking a blow at the cause, that
covers the earth with pestilence.
The Church must cease prescribing
palliatives to ease the pain of human
misery, but must use the scapel iu
cuttug out the cancer that is gnawing
aud consuming the vitalty of physical
and moral manhood.
The Church must raise its voice so
loud that it can be heard above the
exultant shouts of “frenzied finan
ciers,”,in denunciation of an indus
trial system that spawns masters and
slaves, aud for a civilization, iu which
will be born men aud women, and
then, this “renegade Catholic ” will
go back to the regenerated temple to
aid in the battle for economic liberty
of humanity, even though yon, Sir,
stigmatize me as a “contemptabie
liar ” and a “shirkkiug squirter of
mephitic mendacity.”
JOHN M. O’NEILL.
Miners Magazne.
Fifty Year Parallels.
Fifty years ago Wendell Phillip*,ad
dressing the Woman’s Rights Con
vention in New York City, said: “If
this experiment of self government is
to succeed, it is to succeed by some
saving element introduced into the
politics of the present day. You
know this: Your Websters, your Cla
ys, your Calhouns, your Douglasses,
however intellectually able they may
have been, have never dared, or cared
to touch that moral element of our
national life. Either the shallow and
heartless trade of politics had eaten
out their own moral being, or they
feared to enter the unknown of lofty
right and wrong.
“Neither of these great names has
linked its fame with one great moral
question of the day. They deal with
money questions, with tariff, with par
ties, with state law; and if, by any
chance, they touch the slave question,
it is only like Jewish hucksters trad
ing in the relics of saints. The re
formers—the fanatics, as we are cal
led—are the only ones who have laun
ched social aud moral questions. I
risk nothing when I say that the anti
slavery discussion of the last twenty
years has been the salt of this nation ;
it has actually kept alive and whole
some. W ithout it our politics would
have sunk beyond even contempt.
So with this question. It stirs the
deepest sympathy ; It appeals to the
highest moral sense; it enwraps with
in itself the greatest moral issues.”
At the time Phillips spoke these
words, now universally oonceded to
have been true, he was hooted and
jeered, ridiculed and threatened,
and the meeting, packed by pro-slave
ry hirelings, came near ending in a
riot. The whole country, North and
South, was dominated by the slave |
owner.
In the slave states this powei was
insolent, brutal and defiant., It ruled
with the lash. Its code of ethics
could be read in the tracks of its
blood-hounds In the so-called free
states it ruled by threat and intim
idation. Northern tradesmen weie
infinitely cowardly. “In its pres
ence," again quoting Philipps, “the
North knelt and whispered.”
The whole country was in the grasp
of this heartless and corrupt power—
Chattel Slavery. •
The President was its tool, the
Supreme Court its vessels, and Sen
ators and Representatives its lackeys,
politicians, editors and preachers its
retainers and mercenaries, the work
ing class and the country at large its
private estate.
The Pierces, Buchanans, Websters,
Clays,Calhouns , and Douglasses were
the political chattels of the slave own
ers. They were of exalted rank in
the slave administration, known as
statesmen, and honored above all
others by the cowardice and venality
of that degenerate age. When history
is rightly written and men and events
are juslty judged they will be relegat
ed to oblivion while Phillips, Garri
son, Parker and other disreputable
agitators and “undesirable citizens”
will replace them as the sturdy pion
eers and.ideal heroes of an enlightened
age.
With but the change of names the
indictment of the chattel slave power
and its political tool3 by Phillips
above quoted applies perfectly to the
wage—slave power which rules the
country today. For Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, and Douglas, the leading
statesmen and politicians under the
regime of wage slavey, and its most
eminent and ignoble mercenaries.sub
stitute the name of Tuft Root, Ilearst,
and Bryan,and the analogy is complete
Of the four first named three were
presidential aspirants and basely sur
rendered to the slave owners to secure
their suport. They all died of dis
appointed and humiliated, Webster
most of all.
Of the four last named all are presi
dential candidates and they will very
likely share a similar fate, Bryan mcst
certainly and most completely of all.
The position of Bryan is strikingly
analogous to that of Webster half a
century ago. The great “expounder”
was nominally opposed to chattel sla
very and posed as the champion of
popular freedom—but he wanted to
be president and, this low ambition
for personal aggrandizement cost him
his honor, his self respect and his life.
The great “commoner” of today is
nominally opposed to wage slavery
and poses as the friend of the com
mon people—but he also wants to
become president, and he will as in
evitably fail for the same reason and
with the same result.
The great strusggle hair a century
age was between the abolitionists
and the slave holders. Those who at
temptd to occupy a neutral position
were forced to the one side or the
other, or sank into oblivion. The
struggle today is between the wage
slaves who are figting for freedom and
there capitalist masters who are fight
ing to keep them in subjection.
There is no half way ground.
Liucoln said fifty years ago tkta
the country could not exist half slave
and half free, that it must become
wholly slave or wholly free ;aud the
same iucoutrovertable fact [confronts
the nation today. The Socialist move
ment, expressing the material inter
ests, the intellectual convictions and
moral aspirations of the working class,
is the abolition movement of the
present day, infinitely greater than
its prototype of two score aud a half
years ago.
The capitalist administration of
Theodore Rooseelt is mortgaged body
and soul to the industrial slave mas
ters, as was that of Franklin Pierec to
the Chattel slave owners in the middle
of the last century.
The agitators and revolutionists.,
Phillips called them ,were hated and
hounded then as they are now, and
as they will be until slavery in every
form is free.
The despotism reared by capital
must grapple with and overthrow
by means of industrial and political
agitation and organization. In the
coming battle we will have the oppor
tunity to strike the enemy the first
decisive blow. The past has been pre
liminary; it has furnished the pres
ent with the equipment with which
to conqur the future.
Revolution is in the air!
Pity the poor wretch who does not
feel it throb in his in his heart, burn
in his bosom, grow in his eyes and
leap in his veins!
His is a dead soul in living fetters.
Pity the human vassel who is proud
of his master and boasts his own de
generacy but smite without mercy the
system that so debases him.
How glorious to hear the trumpet
call of the Social ^Revolution! with
To ears attuned its notes are vibrant
enthusiasm and |is a message fresh
frem the fountain of inspiration.
Every liberty loing being should wel
come the issue, eager for the fray.
Eager to strike the blow at capitalist
misrule and wage slavery.
(Continued on Page 3)
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who shall strive to get this
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the propaganda of progres
sive uuionism, until the cit
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and the working class is
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