NOME INDUSTRIAL WORKER <;
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NOME, ALASKA SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 21, 1018.
THE CLOUD IN
THE FAR EAST
I
Any person who in the least under
stands world politics must be aware
that the security of tne peace signed
at the conclusion of the present war
will be dependent largely upon the ar
rangements made with respect to the
East generally and the Far East in
particular. By the East is implied,
especially, European Russia, the Bal
kans, and the Turkish Empire in Eu
rope and Asia; by the Far East, Si
beria, the Republic of China and the
Japanese Empire. It is because of
the obviousness of this that Mr Wil
son and Mr. Balfour have been so in
sistent in ther declarations that there
must be a return to the status quo
ainte bellutn In Russia. It is because
of thi3 that it is realized that the pas
sage of the Dardanelles will, in fu
ture, have to be neutralized, and that
protection of the mo3t adequate de
scription must be given to the Armen
ians and all other Christian peoples
of Asia Minor. But when all this has
been provided for. and it can be easily
enough provided for, there still re
mains the danger of the Far East, and
if the conditions in the Far East are
not grappled with, and put on a bas^s
of absolute justice, there will remain
an opportunity for future wars which
will be almost inexcusable owing to
the political cowardice with which it
has been provided.
The Republic of China and the
Empire of Japan are both allies of the
Allies. Tuan Chi-jui. the Prime Min
isted of China, is a typical statesman
of that country. He is perhaps some
what slow in judging, but he judges
with peculiar discernment, and in ad
diton to this he possesses a natural
ability for reading men and events,
as wrell as an innate sence of that in
tegrity in public and private dealing,
which is so characteristic of the
Chinese as a nation. When he de
termined to sever political relations
wth Berlin, he made one of the most
momentous decisions that China has
been forced to make in recent years, j
He made it, however, after weighing
every consideration, and there can be ^
no doubt that he was entirely right
In the conclusions he then came to. |
’China, which has been a neutral na
tion, became an ally of the western j
powers, and so by a single stroke of j
he pen was placed on an equality with j
Japan in the councils and the deter-j
ruinations of those powers. Now it J
is not too much to say that the rela
tions of China and Japan leave some-j
thing to be desired on the part of i
China. Little by little Japan has en
croached on the sovereign power of
the President. It has done this ter
ritorially in Manchuria, it has done;
it economically at Hankow, and it.
would of course be perfectly easy to
give numerous other examples.
It may be, it is no doubt, indeed,
perfectly true that Japan has not
treated China worse than the western
powers have treated those weaker
powers with whom they have been1
brought in contact. But the diffi-.
culty of Japan, in thiR respect, is the;
difficulty of Germany. Germany pro-'
po3ed to do in the Twentieth Century
what she herself and other countries j
did with impunity in the Seventeenth!
and the Eighteenth, and even in the
Nineteenth Century. But early in the
Twentieh Century there was mani
fested one of those extraordinary
changes which take place in the con
sciousness of the world. This does
not mean that the causes which pro
duced he manifestation only began
to operate then, but it does mean that
the change in human thought, which
had been slowly germinating, for ap
proaching half a century, suddenly
manifested itself in a very marked
form in the first decade of the Twen
tieth Century. This aroused political
morality made it impossible for Ger
many to do. in 1914. what she had
done with impunity in the winter of
18 70, and what she repeated in the
Seven Day's War, in the Seven
Weeks’ War, and in the Seven
Months’ War. In precisely the same
Way Japan might claim that she was
not doing anything mare in China
! than had been done by the powers
who forced opium on the. Chinese
. government, and insisted on the
| Treaty Ports. But as in the case of
| Germany, so in the case of Japan,
time is inexorably against them. The
political morality of 1914 was not
the political morality of 17 40 or even
of the Nineteenth Century in Europe
and China.
It is this f^ct. unfair perhaps as it
may seem to Japan, that is bound to
| Influence the settlement with respect
to the Far East when the peace con
ference meets, and it s because of this
it is no use for the Great Powers to
shut their eyes to facts. On the dic
tum of all he Allies, from Washing
ton to London, and from Paris to
Rome, provinces are no longer to be
treated as farms, or people as cattle
Therefore, the peaceable penetration
of Manchuria is a question, not for
Japanese generals to decide, but for
the people of that province, and there
can scarcely be any doubt that the
people of that provnce are in no hurry
to exchange the colored stripes of the
flag of the Republic for the Chrysan
I themum of Japan. That the question
here rises is no mere academic ssue
is made positive by the announce
ment that Japan has sent troops into!
Manchuria to proect the border i
against disturbances in Eastern Rus- j
sia. Now to begin with, the Man-1
churian frontier is in no danger what-'
ever, and to end with, if it were in j
any danger, after the landing of Al- |
lied troops at Vladivostok the Chinese
Army is perfectly competent to pro-1
tect it. But the fact is Japan is ex-,
ercising this right under the military |
convention concluded with China. |
which arranges for the interchange'
of mlitary information, of officers'of |
the navy and army, and of the move
ment of troops. None the loss any-'
body who knows anything about this
military convention, knows that is'
was no more desired by China than
was the now notorious “Group Five.”
The Chinese Government, after vain
ly turning its eyes towards the Great
Powers of the West, who were far too
preoccupied then to come to her as
sistance, accepted the demands of
Tokyo as something which could not
be avoided, in exactly the same spirit
of resignation with which it has ac
cepted those loans, which have only
got to be diplomatically forced on it
in sufficient, quantity to make the
country as economically subject to
Japan as she is. from a military point
of view, unable to quarrel with Japan.
The simple truth is that the China
man of today, who is not officially
muzzled, openly proclaims the f^ict
that, if the war goes on long enough,
the peaceable penetration of his coun
try by Japan will have been so effec
tual that it will be almost impossible
to escape from its consequences. This
would eventually mean the practical
establishment of mm onomoM mili
tary power in the r«rr Skst, and that
a power obtain**! by * complete dla
regard of tha Ideal, which the great
Western Power* hare pat forward,
of self-determination. Self- deter
mination, wit&IA limits, is the accept
ed national Ideal whicn is the out
growth of the political conscience of
today. Ths does not mean that every
dissatisfied section of a country it ta
be at liberty to break away and dis
rupt that country, the establishment
of such a theory would have justified
the Confederate States entirely in
their struggle with the North. But;
it does mean that the fate of an enor
moua-enpite of 421*000,004 of people
shall oat be seated by 6be superior
political homogeneity and military
force of a foreign country, with a pop
ulation of 75,000,008 Of people. The
question at issue, which the peace
conference will be called upon to de
cide, is not one to which it is possible
to do any more than touch the very
fringes of In an article in a newspa
per. But it is possible, in such an ar
ticle, to draw the attention of the
world to the conditons which exist,
and to demand that they shall be
fairly and squarely faced, and justly
and honorably decided on.—Christian
Science Monitor.
THE MINIMUM
WAGE SCALE
The conclusions, Mr Walsh of the
Federal War Labor Board has thru a
thorough investigation of present day
prices for commodities, arrived at Will
come as a great surprise to some of
our captains of industry who are
waiting for a lowering of the present
wage scale, and consequently the
standard of living among the Amer
ican workers.
Mr Walsh considers seventy two
and one half cents per hour the low
est wage an American worker can
live on, providing he lives like a de
cent human being, while fourty seven
and one half cents per hour is in his
opinion the irreducible minimum,
when no allowances for comfort or
emergencies are made. In other
words this means a oare subsistance
and nothing more than just enough
to keep body and soul together.
Mr Walsh does not entertain any
hopes of a reduction in the cost of
living which has outstripped even the
wage paid in some of the more high
ly skilled trades in the war industries.
What a howl will rise up to high
heaven in the ranks of the poor
downtrodden capitalists, who have
barely eked out a precarious exist
ence. when they persue this report,
which very likely will put the notion
of demanding nothing less than
seventy two and one half cents per
hour into the heads of the workers.
But what about the poor employers
who have mostly been engaged in
furnishing the U. S. government es
pecially since the latter entered the
war as an active participant, every
thing needed practically at cost price,
only charging a few million dollars
now and then for Knowing how. Will
they be willing to be satsified to re
sume business on the basis of their
enormous pre war profits. What a
wrench it must be to have their fat
contracts which some of them were
awarded under rather peculiar cir
cumstances such as agreements about
prices made and awarded by tele
phone cancelled. Will they not weep
for those good old days when some of
the Bureau officials in Washington as
Senator Johnson of California said,
spend the peoples money “like drunk
en sailors." And then a man like Mr
Walsh comes along and has the au
dacity to tell the workers what wages
they should receive if they want to
live in a manner all the word “live”
stands for in the vocabulary of a
worker and to refuse a wage that
only grants them an existence on the
borderland of starvation.
If the mortality among the popula
tion of Nome owing to the epidemic
had not been so great we would make
some suggestions about the wage
scale for the miners or this district,
but fearing that some of our prom
inent citizens would drop from heart
failure we refrain from doing so at
this time.
WHY! I JOINED THE
SOCIAUSN PAHTY
By H. S. Bigelow
The war has wrought in me, as in
many others, a new purpose, a pur
pose which flnnds more sympathy, at
the present time, in the Socialist
party than in any other.
Personal and trivial aims seem base
now. One’s heart goes with those
mighty armies. One feels the mystic
power of the cross around which
surge the regiments of death.
The old battle cries no longer rouse
us. The old issue no longer suffices.
One is ashamed to play the old games
of political expediency and party ad
vantage.
Henceforth I want my life to count
to the utmost in the great task that
lies before us. the task of destroying
the seeds of war and building a new
social order.
A handful of people own the bulk
of the nation's wealth. The great ma
jority live in poverty or on the verge
of it.
In the populous wards of every city
there are teeming thousands who pant
for breath on summer nights in quar
ters that would gag and turn the
stomach of a man used to decent sur
roundings.
Here is one Cincinnati picture: A
woman is standing over a cook stove
She has an ’infant in her arms and
I child crying at her feet. It is 100
iegrees in the shade. In the same
room with the stove is a bed and table
set for supper. This is the only room
ihey have. There are but two win
iows. They face the west. The walls
jf the building simmer with the heat,
rhe afternoon sun beats in relentless
ly. The father has just come home
from work in a nearby slaughter
douse. The air Is full of stench of
ttlood and offal, mingled with the j
nauseating ardors of clothes and bed-1
ding redolent with the fumes of vict
uals.
What of the sanctites of marriage?
What of the sacredness of home?
What of the holiness of motherhood?
What of the rights of children? How
can these flowers take root in such a
soil?
This young mother has been caught
in the trap of cruel circumstances.
Look at her and then remember that
another woman in Cincinnati paid
240,000 dollars for a$ picture to hang
on her wall.
The poverty of one woman and the
I opulence of the other flow from the
' some cause. It is robbery in the name
of law. It is injustice, avoidable in
excusable, damnable. While such in
justice lasts there will be hate and
social strife and war.
The present order has come to
judgment. This war is a witness
against it. In the course of human
events the hour ha3 come for a new
declaration of independence. Our
fathers, traitors to the Government
which claimed their obedience, boldly
asserted, and defended with their
lives, the principles of political equal
ity. We now assert the principle of
social democracy.
We are bound to admit that all
persons are equally entitled to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We are bound to acknowledge that
the present social order disturbes
these blessings grudgingly and with
grave inequalities. It is therefore
our right to alter or abolish this soc
ial order, and to institute another in
Its place, laying Its foundations on
such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form as to us shall
seem most likely to effect the safety
and happiness of all.
An Act has been passed by Con
gress amending the Homestead law in
its applicaton to Alaska. The Act
follows:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representaives of the Uni
ted State* at America la Congress
assembled, That the Act of Congress
entitled'*Ai» Act ot amend the United
States homestead law in Its applica
tion o Alaska, and for other pur
poses,' approved July eight, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
“Section 1, That every person who
is qualified under existing laws to
make homestead entry of the public
lands of the United States who has
settled upon or who shall hereafter
settle upon any of the public lands of
the United States situated in the Ter
ritory of Alaska, whether surveyed or
unsurveyed, with the intent of claim
ing the same under the homestead
laws, shall, subject to the provisions
and limitations of the Act approved
March third, nineteen hundred and
three chapter one thousand and two,
United States Statutes at Large, page
one thousand and twenty eight, be
entitled to enter one hundred and
sixty acres or less quantity of unap
propriated public land in saii District
of Alaska, and no more, and a former
homestead entry in any other State
or Territory shall not be a bar to a
homestead entry in Alaska: Provided,
That nothing herein contained shall
be construed to limit or curtail the
area of any homestead claim hereto
fore lawfully initiated.
Section 2. That if the system of
public surveys has not been extended
over the land included in a homestead
entry, the entryman may, after due
compliance with the terms of the
homestead law in the matter of resi
dence, cultivation, and improvement,
submit to the register and receiver a
showing, as to the compliance, duly
corroborated by two witnesses, and if
such evidence satisfactorily shows
that the homesteader is in a position
to submit acceptable final proof the
surveyor general of the Territory will
be so advis^H and will, not later than
the next succeeding surveying season,
issue proper instructions for the sur
vey of the land so entered, without
expense to the entryman, who may
thereafter submit final proof as in
similar entries of surveyed lands. So
far as practicable, such survey shall
follow the general feystem of public
land surveys, and the entryman shall
conform his boundries thereto: Pro
vided, That nothing herein shall pre
vent the homesteader from securing
earlier action on his entry by a special
survey at his own expense, if he so
elects.
“Section, 3. That there shall be
excepted from homestead settlement
and entry under this Act the lands
in Annette and Pribilof Islands, the
islands leased or occupied for the pro
pagation of foxes, and such other
lands as have been, or may be, re
served or withdrawn from settlement
or entry.
“Approved, June 28, 1918.”
The usual adult mind is like the
attic of a house in which one family
has resided for a long time. It is
cluttered with sacred old dogmas
from which the handles have long
since fallen off, with dust covered
platitudes sanding on three legs, with
the little phrases and mottoes which
do substitute for thought.
The childs mind is like a clean
sweet attic of a new house; not until
the proprietors of adult attics begin
to use it as a dumping place for their
own mental junk an operation known
by such terms as bringing-up and
education.
IMOVO $2.50 PER DOZEN AT LEH
MANN’S
Keep Posted, Read the WORKHR.
NOTH'K TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Precinct of Cape
Nome, Second Division, Territory
of Alaska. In probate.
In the matter of the estate of Christen
Anderson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Christen An
deron, deceased, by the above named
court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to present
them, with the proper vouchers, with
in six months from the date of this
notice, to the undersigned adminis
trator, at Nome, Alaska.
JOHN A. WILSON,
Administrator of the estate of Chris
ten Anderson, deceased.
PUB—Nov 30. Dec 7, 14, 21, 28.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
M. A. No. 0339
M. S. No. 1215
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OF
FICE AT NOME, ALASKA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
Archie McDonald, a citizen of the
United States, residing at Nome,
Alaska, and. whose post office address
is Nome,'Alaska, has made applica
tion before .the United States Land
Often at Nome, Alaska, for, a United
-——■—--7'*r
Stetea Pakeat fer tba WuVmiB AS
SOCIATION PW*R efctiu
situate o* the left Uptft o£ Dry Creek,
between the heads of Pelqk Creek and.
Fwwklln Gulch, abont 2 % miles H. X.
ot the Town, of Nqme. t* the Okf*
Nome Mining and Recording Diatrief,
Alaska, Second Division, being Min
r»l Survey No, 1818; said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat ot the olSclal sur
vey thereof now on file In said Land
Office, at Nome, Alaska, as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, Identical
with Cor. No. 3, Snr. No. 1809, Mead
ow Associaton Placer, a fir poet 4 ins.
sq., 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed M.-3-1209 and 1-1218
P. whence U. S. L. M. No. 19 bears
N. 78 deg. 34 min. E. 4822.4 ft;
thence S. 22 deg. 43 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 03 min. E.) 1473.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, a fir post 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.
in earth mound soribed 2-1215 P;
thence N. 63 deg. Q6 min. W. (Var.
18 deg. 10 min. E.) 1218.10 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with Cor. No. 2,
Sur. No. 1209, Osiris Placed; thence
N. 17 deg. 61 min. E. (Var. 13 deg.
03 min. E.) 1226.70 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 1, Sur. No.
1209, Osiris Placer; thence S. 74 deg.
16 min. E. (Var. 18 deg. 03 min. E.)
1329.30 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of
beginning; containing an area of 39.
253 acres. Total area applied for be
ing 38.401 acres.
That said claim is in conflict with
and overlapped by Survey No. 12*9.
Meadow Association Placer to the ex
tent of 0.589 acres, and by Survey No.
1209, Myrtle Claim Placer to the ex
tent of 0.263 acres, all as shown by
the official plat and field notes of sur
vey thereof, but that said areas so is
conflict with the Plutus Association
Placer are hereby excluded from this
application and patent for same is not
hereby or hereunder applied for.
That said claim is situated on un
surveyed ground on the left limit of
Dry Creek, between the heads of
Peluk Creek and Franklin Gulch,
about 2% miles N. E., of the Town
of Nome. U. S. L. M. No. 19, to which
this claim is tied, is a fir post, painted
white, 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground,
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 19. in earth
mound, situated on the right limit ot
Otter Creek, about 50 ft. from the
railroad and 2% miles North of Ber
ing Sea, in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Longitude 165 deg. 17 min. W.
That the original notice of location
of said claim is recorded in Volume
190, page 5 of the records of the
Cape Nome Recording District
Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North. Survey No. 1209, Mrytle Claim
Placer and Meadow Association
Placer, Eskimo Gold Dredging Co.,
Claimant; on the Bast 40 Acre Tract
Association, unsurveyed; on the
South claims unsurveyed and claim
ant unknown; on the West. Sur. No.
1209, OsfriR Placer, Eskimo Gold
Dredging Co,, claimant.
THOS McGANN
Register.
NOTH'10 OF FORFKITTRM
To J. N. Flack, Nome Kougarok Con
solidated Mines Company and Jacob
Zeman, your heirs, executors, admin
istrators and assigns:
You and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvement!
the sum of one hundred dollars dur
ing each of the years or 1914, 1915,
1916, and 1917, upon the following
described placer mining claim, situate,
lying and being in the Kougarok Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
to-wit: The upper one half ( ^) ef
Creek Claim Number Three on Dahl
Creek in the Kougarok Mining Dis
trict.
You are further notified that if
within ninety (90) days after the
publication of this notice you fail er
neglect to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure, your interest in
said mining claim if any, will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owner, under section 2324 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
AL CAREY
Co-owner.
Published—Nov. 23, 30. Dec. 7, 14,
21, 28. Jan. 4. 11, 18. 25. Feb.l, 8, 16.
FINAL NOTICK
In the U. S. Commissioner's Court
for the Cape Nome Precinct, Sec
ond Division, Territory of Alaska.
In probate.
In the matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that James
J. Stokes, Administrator of the Es
tate of William Schroeder, deceased,
has filed his final account as such
administrator and his petition for the
final distribution of said estate, and
that Friday, the 22nd day of Novem
ber, 1918, at 2 o'clock P. M. of said
day at the courtroom of the Probata
Court in Nome, Alaska, has been fix
ed as the time and place (or the hear
ing Of the said account and the ob
jections thereto, if any, and for the
dictribution of tbs residue of the
Mid. estate.
JAMBS J STOKSg,
AdJainastratpr. i