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Hy Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 240, International Union of Mine,
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nearly as possible Is a worthy object of any good government"—Abra
Mxm Lincoln.
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Entered as second class matter August 6, 1918, at the Post Office
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NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 22, 1618.
BELGIUM
Out of the depth of agony in their
V»earts, the war torn Belgians behold
j»t last the Allied troops moving to
victory.
For years that seemed like cen
turies, suffering and agony have piled
iMrrors thick upon horrors in blood
stained heaps of human anguish.
The hapless nation whose more
than hapless lot was cast by an un
toward Fate in the cock pit of Europe,
toas stood wild with grief and distract
«I with woe while the ruthless Furies
wreaked their worst upon her.
Homes that a few years ago were
synonimous with happiness—lives
that were the incarnation of love,
tiojie and teeming joyousness, were, in
a twinkling, plunged into the nether
inbst depths of the abyss of misery.
No suffering known to body or soul
was denied to this stricken people,
no agony which could prostrate a hu
man being but became their daily por
tion.
With these, too, come horrors here
tofore undreamed of, terrors hereto
toe unheard of, wrongs which it is
impossible to redress, woes that no
Unman skill might assuage.
Fire and sword, rapine and ravish
4*ent, torture and inhuman cruelty
■ftrnck terror into the hearts and fes
tered in the souls of these agonizing
peoples. For four long years sor
rows supped with sorrows in their
Tom hearts until the pian reached tor
.nent beyond tears and the intensity
*>I agony made the voice of protest
•dumb. Death that had been dreaded
t ame welcome at their doors for de
spairing souls and broken bodies.
And now in the darkest hour of
that long horrible night that has al
lowed every creeping Fear, every
■vrawling Horror, every slimy Misery
to infest the land, the future bright
ens with the first glimmering of Hope.
Over in the Heavens, eyes, that
Year to trust their vision, behold the
first rising of those fiery plumes of an
avenging Victory begin to sweep back
with its spread of light the darkness
of defeat and to compel the black
Terrors that moved so ruthlessly in
rhe shadows to flee to their lairs. The
roar of cannon and the flash of hay
■wnets that now strangly stir these
.souls accustomed to such dread man
ifestations of War, are no longer the
paralyzing tokens of an intensified
misery, of a deeper concentration of
malignant torture.
The march of these men at arms,
Slushed with the triumph on the west
ern battlefields, and who stride with
no uncertain steps across the blood
stained fields of Flanders, is the
anarch of. their brethren.
It is their brethren marching with a
message of triumph and deliverance.
It is their brethren each armed with a
Thor’s hammer to sunder the bonds
that bound their beloved nation in
■the servitude of a tyrant.
This they see in the flashing eyes,
'bright with the determination of he
roes. heroes who have suffered but
rmrver lost hope.
The triumph of these soldiers now
'rises above the clouds of despair, and
f.b«lr glorious energy galvanizes to
Sife and hearts of a stricken people.
In the villages and towns the mes
sage spreads with the certain but mys
terious speed of Hope that the mo
■ment of delivery is at hand; Faith
vises in the Future and the avenging
form of Victory dawns blood red but
.Slowing to an awe inspired world.
Th e night of bondage is passing,
the clay of freedom is dawning and the
shadows fleet away.
Sooner than most people reckon
the time is arriving when the horrors;
•of this bloody epoch will be a thing of
past. * * r "’••I
The historian with stolid academic
philosophy will indifferently analyze
tJw cause of the war and the reason
Cor Germany’s defeat.
The scientific economist will meas
ure the efficiency of the nations, the
statistical facts that are submit
ted to him,\ and the personal factoi
will receive its share of attention from
those who ate wise after the event
But thru it all, we may see it plain
ly, there stands alone one supreme
cause for the defeat of Germany.
There stands atone one supreme
reason for the crushing of its ambi
tion for a place in the Sun.
That cause, that reason is—Bel
gium.
When the forces of the Kaisei
marched pridefully to war and his
imperial legions invaded the soil oi
Belgium singing songs of the Father
land, they really sang the nations
requiem.
When the German poets celebratec
that triumphant invasion then, the)
little knew that what they composes:
were threnodies upon the hopes of £
nation that was about to die: theii
own.
And this stricken Belgium, scourg
ed and crowned with thorns and suf
fering agonies in its terrible Geth
semane, bleeding a bloody sweat
small in territory and in people com
pared with those that ravished it, ii
the very nation that sealed the doon
of Germany and the Teuton Alliance
When that German general c*m
mitted suicide before the Forts o
Liege he symbolized unwittingly the
fate of his own Empire.
Surely here is the great lesson o
the war. It is certainly the most in
spiring. It emphasizes the fact tha
Retribution still halts the hand o
Powsr and Nemesis still insists tha
Justice shall prevail tho' Might b<
ever so confident and ambition ever s(
cruel and so overweening.
THE ELECTIONS
Only a few short days remain be
fore the fate of the candidates wh(
are seeking positions at the hands o
the voters will be by them decided
For some there will be the elatioi
of success, for others the disappoint
ment of defeat.
Few candidates offer themselves
that do not have a belief more or less
firm in their own success. But tru<
it is that many are called but few art
chosen. For us the really importan
matter in this election Is that men bt
selected who will be prepared to re
spond to the demand of their consti
tuents for the proper enforcement o
the laws and such law3 as they de
sire.
Not the least of this legislation h
the eight hour day.
Already the electors have signiflei
that this eight hour law Is the prin
dual thing upon which they stanc
united. Without any sort of waver
ing and demand for the eight hour daj
as signified in the plebiscite taker
some time ago was one that coulc
not be cavilled at or questioned. Thert
was no doubt left in the minds ol
any who read the returns what th<
people waited and it is a poor day 11
people do not insist upon having whai
they want.
At the polls this demand will bt
uppermost in the minds of the voters
Do not place a cross against anj
man's name whose candidacy indi
cates wavering or uncertainty, quib
bling or equivocation on this issue.
KAHL GETS BUSY
COPENHAGEN,—Emperor Carl
has begun to dismember his dominion
ft is announced in dispatches wired
from Vienna that he will proclaim
Hungary an independent state undeT
the crown. There is no apparent dis
position to allow the House of Haps
Ourg to relinquish this family position
is king of Hungary.
PAtb ADVURfKteftiT
HON. CHAS. A. SULZER
(DEMOCRAT)
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 5, 1918
FOTS REPRESENTATIVE
JAMES J. BOGAN
(DEMOCRAT)
X r )
ELECTION NOVEMBER, 5th 1918.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
ALMER (Slim) RYDEEN
(DEMOCRAT) of Candle.
ELECTION NOV! 5th, 1918.
FOR TERRITORIAL ROAD COMMISSIONER
AL WINKLER
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
■LECTION NOVEMBER 5, 101*.
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PAIS IN
■*— 1 1 1
FOR RE-ELECTION TO THIS THRiWORIALi
HOUSE OF KKPRK8HTT.VTITH8.
JAMES P. DALY
•(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5th, 1918.
FOR RE-ELECTION
A. A. -SCOTTY- ALLAN
(REPUBLICAN)
SCHOOLS—ROADS—8 HOUR DAT
—EQUITABLE FREIGHT RATES—
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
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FOR SENATOR
JAMES FRAWLEY
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
E. B. -Duffy- O’CONNOR
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FAVORS EIGHT HOUR LAW, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM;
OPPOSES INDUSTRIAL MONOPOLY
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5, 1918.
FOK REPRESENEATIVK
RUSSELL J. DOWNING
(DEMOCRAT)
ELECTION, NOVEMBER, Stli, 1#18.
WASHINGTON STATE
" FEDERATION OF LABOR
EXECUTIVE ANI) LEGLSLATIVK COMMITTEE
EVERETTE, WASH. Sept, 9th, 1916.
To Trade Unionists of Alaska,
Greeting.
Ordinarily we would not think of making any sugges
tions to you concerning political candidacies in your Territory
but in the present situation we feel justified in doing so. The
interests of labor in the entire northwestern group of states
and particularly Washington, is closely allied with the interest
of labor in Alaska. We have watched with growing concern
the efforts of large corporate aggregations to tighten their
hold upon the wealth of your country and have watched the
splendid fight waged in Congress by your Delegate Mr Wick
ersham.
It is because we believe Mr Wickershaip is fighting in
Congress against tho exploitation of labor and the great nat
ural wealth of Alaska by powerful private interests, that we
are taking the liebrty of urging our fellow unionists in Alaska
to rally to his support in his campaign for re-eleotion.
Knowing that you will accept this communication in the
spirit in which it is written and assuring you the continued co
operation and good will of your fellow trade unionists, we beg
leave to remain,
Fraternally Yours,
E. P. MARSH
President Washington State Federation of Labor.
CHAS, R. CASK
Chairman Legislative Committee, Seattle Central Labor Council.
* J. G BROWN
President International Shingle Weavers’ Union of America.
WILLIAM SHORT
Sec.-Treas. Dist. No. 10, United Mine Workers of America.