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Such details as have come through
as to the Presidential Message will
convey different ideas to different
men.
That preparedness should be the
keynote was expected: political ef
fect as well as national policy de
manded such an extension of the
Defense Plans.
That the hyphenated Americans
who have already registered during
elections their positive disapproval
of the Wilson policies should be de
nounced was also anticipated, and
that too was political.
Entwined with the preparedness
plans also is the necessary fiscal
policy for carrying them out, and
the judicious consideration of
such taxation as will not interfere
with big business.
The suggestion that the standard
exempt from income tax should be
lowered is reasonable enough. The
lower the incomo the easier it is to
collect: and experience has proved
that although the most unpopular ot
all taxes, because collected from
workingmen directly, the poll taxes
are the easiest of all to gather.
Placing a tax on gasoline and
naptha means the higher price ol
these commodities, or where there
is no higher price, a decrease in the
wages paid, both very simply col
lected.
One is not surprised considering
the scathing nature of the criticism
to which the administration poicies
have been subjected by certain pro
dorman papers, the President him
self should retort in kind; and al
though as yet the Courts of law
have so far brought home to not a
singlo Germs n-Aniericau citizen
the reported explosions, bomoi3i ac
tivities and other acts which have
which have filled the papers, de
mand further legislation to curb
those alleged activities. All that Is
very human, but it is to be hoped
that no one will be fooled into con
sidering as statomanship. It is fol
lowing the line of least resistance
cither from a personal, political or
national point of view: very natural
sure enough, but oftener than not
just the wrong thing to do.
Surely every man must allow that
in a democracy, criticism of public |
men and public polio!': however ex- j
age rated is a pi . lts|
right is the very foundation of free
thinking and the expression of the j
thoughts of free and independent |
minds. And that every man is en ■ j
titled to form his own opinion for :
himself and express that opinion is j
surely the most elementary prln- j
ciple of social freedom and social
fairness.
To fall a prey to the journaistlc j
activities of frankly pro-Aliy writers
who see a Germanist in every littie j
domestic disaster, or the much deep
er duplicity of that terror of Amsr :
ican social, industrial and political
life, the unspeakable private deice
tive, is very far from being states- j
manlike, and to demand upon such
uncertain warranty special laws to j
visit inquisitorial punishment upon |
upon a class of citizens who are ^
bping tried with fire in these daru ,
days is hardly noble. And beyond
, . . t
doubt there is a certain ignominy j
in a policy which affects to be j
alarmed at international militarism,
and flies for refuge in the very evil i
that it affects to dread!
Now President Wilson has all,
along based his policies upon a .
higher order of things than mere |
politics, hut when a man is politi |
cally placed, we can expect absolu
tely nothing but tactics, policies.
and measures which are essentially
political.
Moreover one notos the entire ah-!
sence of reference to the Industrial
Relations Commission reports
Therein was a material for many
messages. Its Importance to the
various questions at issue must
surely be realized. They establish
certain facts beyond peradventure.
They are facts which are of su
preme significance. They deal not
with how the othr half lives, but
how the other three fourths exist
They reveal conditions in populous
and industrial centers, in the hives
of industries that may well occasion
misgiving. They display a stage ot
exploitation that cannot he main
tained without the utter destruction
of democracy. They are not rant;
nor political rhodomontade; they
are the judicial conclusions from
classified facts that are undeniab'e.
In relation to the matter of pre
paredness they are of enormous im
portance; in the matter of the con
tinued of existence of American de
mocracy they are of supreme im
portance. They were not collected
by socialists or even radicals, bur
by men skilled in the collection
of facts, men trained to in vestige re,
and they were placed before men
who are accustomed to draw conclu
sions with the mathematical exact
ness that two and two an. four.
Preparedness may be necessary.
Taxation may be necessary to en
force preparedness. Penal legisla
tion to curb the aetiv'ties of alleged
hyphenates may be necessary. But
to make the people prepared first ot
all must be established an economic
coatentment where is now discon
tent; a more equitable distribution
of the product of labor; a more just
consideration for the rights of the
workingmen: fairer opportunity and
fairer education for the youth of
the land; an ideal not that dogt
shoud be obeyed in office, but that
no dogs should be in office, and tha:
a whole raft of Elizabethan meas
ures, made to enslave free workers
that have been the heritage of a
less enlightened age should be re
moved.
These are things that are vital to
national preparedness. They are
the foundation stone of n.U.onal
stability and such preparedness as
is founded upon the shifting sands
of industrial instability, is bound to
collapse under trial.
It is mighty easy tc denounce the
Germanist or Pro-German activities
in the United States, but as yet no
German-American citizen has been
convicted of any crime in connec
tion with the war that can just
now be recalled to mind. Yet they
are subjected almost daily to
series of petty insult or degrading
sneers in editorials, in cartoon, In
news article, in false reports that
would test the loyalty, the faith,
the confidence of the most loyal.
It is a monstrous idea that may
possibly be generated by such r
generalized denunciation of hyphen
ates that the citizens of this coun
try whatever their nationality, are
not wholeheartedly loyal in this
war. No native born American ;.j
subjected or can be subjected to
the refinement of test, the
torture of the present struggle
really is for the vast ma
jority of naturalized citizens. That
this refinement of torture is due to
national traits which represent a
perverted method of thinking, cuts
no manner of figure. The fact re
mains that it is there, and that it is
cutting them to the quick when
they see their native land and their
people subjected to such wholesale
and wholly senseless denunciation
as men who ought to know better,
and who do know better, subject
them to.
The industrial Worker is not pro
German. Nor is it attempting to
! defend any race or nationality which
j drags with it to this country racial
l ideas and racial favoritism and ra
cial antipathies which have no
. place in the American Common
| wealth. Those who came here left
j thoir native land, to use Bernard
Shaw's excellent expression, to stew
in its own grease, and further with
it they have nought to do beyond
pleasant memories to and pleasant
duties towards the old home and
kinsfolk.
But who will find tho perfect man
among the naturalized citizens who
can by swearing allegiance to the
country become, as it were, new
born not only as to citizenship but
ad to his mental equipment; his
reelings, emotions, passions, senti
ments, as well?
The best that they can expect is
that despite the older sentiments
that still persist, the old emotions
which are always latent, the older
feelings that were imbibed with
their mother’s milk—those shall not
sway them in unswerving recogni
tion that their first duty is to their
adopted country which means their
adopted people.
A larger grasp of the situation will
one would expect, allow for all
these older sentiments and concede
that they will to a certain extent
still inspire men, and that a man’s
thought and a man’s beliefs are not I
things that can be worn like a gar
ment and doffed in a day, and it
would be an erratic world if they
were.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Oalif Nelson, your heirs,
executive, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars each year during the
years of 1912, 1913, 1911
and 1915 on the first tier
bench claim No. 2 adjoining N) 2
above on the right limit of El Do
rado creek a placer mining claim
’■ecorded and more fully described
iu volume 194 at page 88 in the
xecords of the Cape Nome Mining
and recording district, in the
.Second Division of the Territory of
Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim
under the provision of the Law, con
cerning annual assessment wo?k
upon 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 notice, you fail
to contribute your proportion of
said expenditure, your interest in
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned your Co-owner
undvr section 2324 Reviced Statutes
! of the United States.
MARTIN MARUM.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Nov. 24, 1915.
Date of last publ., Feb. 23, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
, NO. 0146.
I 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 2 8 th,
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 Rrecinct, 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 ot
bluff on shore of the Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 chs.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 dog. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, 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. srj. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thence West, Var.
2 2 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 came; thence North, Var
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 2Sxl2x4 inches, 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 c. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Laud Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Peb. 5, 1916.
NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOB
PATENT NO. 0264.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United
States, over the age crt 21 years,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application be
fore the United States Land Office
at Nome, Alaska, for a United
States Patent for thb Kathleen
Placer Cfaim in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
in the Held notes and plat of the
official survey thereof now on Hie
in said Land Office at Nome, Alas
ka, as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with N. E. Cor. of location,
with Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 478, Bella
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No.
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in
mound of earth, scribed 2 478 B
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No.
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc.
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears j
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5 j
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
663.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.6 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in |
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with 5
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16 |
ins. high around same; thence S. §
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg. £
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No. g
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set 8
LCLririricLOMnrLir^icirLi:
12 ins. in tne grouna, cniuweu o j
1157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur- I
face for true point, with mound .
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; then'-o N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg. ^
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist rtone 24x12x0 J
ins. sat 12 ins. in the C
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K, i
with crors (x) cut *.n top for true e
point with mound of earth 2 4 ins. J
base 16 ins. high, north side of ;
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min. £
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E) i
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of i
beginning, containing an area of
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
veyed ground on the divide between
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim is tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. high, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
6 4 deg. 35 min. N. and Lcng. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Ncme Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyfcd, cn the Eas*, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are horeby required to
file their adverse cltims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Noma, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date of last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local Union 1789, Carpenten and
olnera of America, meeta every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s Bhop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
>f Labor, meeta every Monday at
7130 p. m. in the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Ruilroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
’HAS.''MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Noma
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., is held
svery 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
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