“The Agitator.”
Standing in the forefront of the
conflict, it is upon the head of the
Socialist agitator that the storm
beats ever the fleroest. Just because
he is standing in front, because he
must be ever pressing forward into
new and untried paths,' he is pecul
iarly liable to error. Because he must
be ever ready to defend his opinions
he grows dogmatic. Since it is only
through intensity that progress is
i made, he bcomes narrower that he
may strike the keener blows. The
old breadth of view, unbiased judg
ment and broad culture that he once
cherished as his dearest mental equip
ment falls away from the constant
hammering at one point. Old books
and old friends alike drop out of his
life, and the tragedy of vicarious
sacrifice is enacted once more in the
human heart.
How gladlyvhe would know more oi
the worlds of art and literature and
music only one who has loved and
» lost these things can tell. But if he
looks toward these pleasant pastures
with longing eyes there ever rises be
tween him and them the ghost of the
immediate routine demanding instant
attention. Worse still, the old friends
that he wished so much to draw still
closer to himself must be discarded
even if, as is all too frequently the
case, they have not already taken the
initiative and cut him out of theii
< lives.
Because the world of capitalism
measures success only with the dollai
mark, he is soon looked upon witt
pity by the friendly few, who do not
understand that he had hoped to find
his reward in the work itself, and
with scorn by the many, who look
upon him simply as a “failure.’'
, Over and over again this hydra-headed
financial problem rises athwart his
path. The synthesis of capitalism,
thie question beats in upon him on
every side from out the environment
that gave it birth. Hurled back intc
that environment. Antaeus like, it
gains strength with each rebound,
and oomes back with ever sharpei
darts and heavier blows.
You thought perhaps the Socialist
agitator was impervious to the “slingt
and arrows of fortune.” Y’ou fancied
because you had seen him standing
on some street corner smiling with
quiet scorn into the face of the mot
that hurled into his face all the vile
vocabulary of the gutter and the slum,
that nothing would cause him tc
wince. Ah, but that opposition wat
all but a part of the great and serious
game upon which he entered when he
took up the cause of Socialism. He
had reckoned with and overthrown
that mob months and years before he
stood upon the street corner plat
form. O:,perhaps you saw him coolly
smiling over some bit of flying abuse
bestowed upon him by a capitalist
daily, and you felt sure that aftei
this no criticism would ever be felt
deeply. Y’ou forgot that this form oi
abuse is but the signal that his shot
wont home, that his blows had found
their mark.
But shots from within the ranks,
knife blows that come from the hands
of those with whom he is trying to
fight, these find exposed spots in his
armor, spots which he left exposed
because he never dreamed of attack
from those directions.
At the beginning he thaught also tc
have clothed himself in an impen
etrable armor against the blows of
want. He propared himself to suffer
physical discomfort, even to hunger
and cold, and thought that nothing
could ever break through the protec
tion of his self-renunciation. Sud
denly the blow falls, not upon his
own shoulders, but upon those of
wife aud children, and the iron creeps
down into the very heart depths.
Slowly the wound sears over, but ever
bleeds beueatb the scar, because by
some frightful coutradiction he feels
as if the kuife that laid him low re
ceived its impulse from his own hand.
Suddenly the mode of attack
changes. Instead of deep thrusts and
„ stunning blows that drain the life
blood and stagger mind and body,
there cpmes a shower of stinging
poisoned darts. He hears it hinted
that the shabbiness with which neces
sity has forced him to dress is dema
gogic affectation. Before the hurt of
this sting has passed away, one of
those with whom he is linked in com
rade ties of common aims and labor
bints that he is "living on the move
ment. ” The retort that it would be
more truthful to say that he is ‘ ‘dy
ing on the movement,” may send the
shaft back with added force, but the
rankling wound is not the quicker
healed thereby.
Those former friends who retain
the closest sympathy often deal un
wittingly the most smarting blows of
all the stinging cats that come from
the financial scourge. Over and over
again the demands of Socialism for
the things that money can so readily
supply presses in upon the Socialist
worker, and he goes ‘to these friends
for the help which they are some
times ever ready to give. Right at
this point the capitalist and Socialist
world of thought and motive meet in
the very heart of mau, and here
where this conflict is centered the
pain is keenest. Try as he will tc
avoid it, all true ground of friendship
Is destroyed or weakened. Gloss it
over as they may, there can but lingei
iu the minds of his friends the feeling
that they are being exploited for the
cause of Socialism. Then suddeuly
oause and advocate become iuextric
ably mixed, until at times all the
damning relations of beggar and givei
crowd upon the scenes, crushing and
destroying all genuine friendly rela
tions. As these things rise iu exag
gerated form in the mind of the So
cialist, he sees himself at one moment
but a parasite, and then as the de
mands of a proletariat enslaved press
once mcjre upon his vision he feels
himself the representative of the
cause, authorizing him to demand at
earth has in store as its rightful por
tion. But all this does not take out
the irritating, stinging element thal
cuts him off from all frank, open
communion with those whose com
panionship he needs most of all.
Ever and again from within the
ranks of the comrades there come
showers of those poison-tipped ar
rows, often without a shadow oi
reason, sometimes inspired by euvj
and jealousy, and again but a result
of the suspiciousness which naturally
arises when one has learned how
great a sham is our present society.
More often still it is only because he
has failed to make himself under
stood to those whom he thought com
prehended him best.
He who speaks of new things, neve
movements and new ideas, must per
force use new terms, phrases and ex
pressions to explain them. But all
this makes him peculiarly liable tc
misunderstanding. Often, too, he
has not yet wholly and clearly thought
out what he would say, and so con
fusion in his own mind is twice con
founded ere it finds lodgment in
other minds, and mere indefiniteness
becomes deliberate deception.
Cut off by the friends who oppose
him, distrusted by those who sym
pathize with him, attacker] by those
with whom he would toil, his own life
narrowed, crushed and distorted, his
loved ones deprived of the comforts
of the present, and the future far
away, the life of a Socialist agitator
offers little to be envied.
There are other sides—times of en
couragement, of victories gained, oi
hopes realized. Of these I may speak
again. Now I would only raise a hand
to ask that when next you would hurl
a word or blow or suspicion against
the man who is giving his life to So
cialism, that you pause and consider
if his load may not be heavy enough
without the additional burden.
The Reincarnated
Pin Maker.
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> Back in the time of Queen Eliza
beth lived a maker of pins, John
Woodbury, who because of his own
proficiency and the high standing cf
his patrons, believed that in his
humble way lie was contributing
something to that illustrious age.
He had many good qualities to re
commend him besides his nimble skill
in making pins, and as good qualities
are generally a business asset, John
was prosperous in his modest way,
and his customers came from among
the finest ladies of the realm. He
was even hopeful that he might live
to enjoy the honor of supplying
“Good Queen Bess’’ herself. It must
be admitted this was his consuming
ambition, the highest earthly goal,
and conscientious as he was, he would
no doubt have performed almost any
mental contortion to win the title of
Pin maker to Her Majesty, so easy is
it to justify oursevles tin seeking our
own most desiratle ends.
Did not the army of priests in
John’s day swing to the Protestant
faith in order to win the royal favor
and hold their jobs when Elizabeth
took the throne? When interest and
conscience come into conflict poor
conscience generally gets the worst of
it. If not, then a hero rises from the
struggle, and we do him homage—a
long time afterward.
John dropped many a judicious
word among his fair customers, hop
ing one at least might fall on good
ground and bear the coveted fruit.
But be realized what was as essential
then as now, that it took good work
as well as a “pull” of some sort, to
win success, and so the pins he made
were perfect. The heads, made of
fine wire, were annealed so skill
fully that they never became loos
ened, and the points never turned
into aggravating little hooks so ruin
ous to fine fabrics. True, one or two
were sometimes returned with this
CQjnplaint, and though John knew
well enough they had been pushed
against some metallic substance, most
probably a buckle, he was discreet
enough to take them back and give
new ones, repairing the damaged ones
and selling them again.
He generally turned out 30 flniahei
pine in a day, and thus hie skil
brought him nearly half as mud
again as the average worker. He wa
fortunate aleo in having for customer
mostly ladies who had a regular allow
auce of “pin money,” which gav<
him business of a steady and reliabl
character. Owning his simple tools
he was quite independent, and as con
tented and happy as the aforemeu
tioned ambition would allow.
Reaching a good old age he wen
the way of all men and as some wouh
have us believe, following still in thi
way, was in duo time born again inti
this world of care and trouble. I
was very sudden, only a little mor
than 300 years, and it would seen
that he was entitled to a longer rest
but with human perversity he mad
no protest until it was too late t<
do any good. And fate decreed tha
he should be born in New Eaglam
and almost under the shadow of a pii
factory; but perhaps fate was influ
enced in this by his acquired prede
liction for pins.
As soon as he was old enough h
was destined to enter the factor;
because he could not now own th
tools and work for himself. He earl;
learned that those who owned th
tools did not use them, and those wb
used the tools did not own them. Th
tool had grown during these years t
a great machine, linked into a vas
system of production and distribu
tion, made up of machines equall;
expensive, and all John could do wa
to apply for a job as a “hand” t
tend a machine.
These pin machines worked with ai
“intelligence” that seemed to borde
on the miraculous and left no need o
skill in the operative and no chanc
for the development of a broai
capacity, simply an alertness in feed
ing a machine. John as a boy coul<
do it perhaps better than a man, am
the way he turned out pins was
marvel—as many as seven millions ii
a single day. When once the machin
was ready to run, the latter Johi
could turn out some 200,000 times a
many pins as the former, hut whil
the first pin maker could make
first class living and lay by a llttl
for the time when he could not work
and all the time feel like a man o
some human importance, with some
thing to hope for and aspire to, th
later reincarnation was only an ob
scure factory band whose marvelous);
improved production yielded bin
only a meager and uncertain exist
euce. Everybody used pins but m
one ever heard of the pin maker. Hii
glory had been given to another—tin
one who owned the machine but die
no make pins—and John was burlei
out of sight *n the flood of his owl
production.
He is getting older now an! is noi
sure whether he can remember his
former self, or whether his impres
sion comes from reading or bearing
something of the early life of the in
dustry. But many have testifbd that
they can remember of the builliug of
the pyramids and it would be an
insult to John’s memory to assime it
incapable of so slight a perforaance.
He hopes, however, that wbm he
takes his next sleep he may rst in
peace until such time as the man
shall come into his own as maser of
the machine and not its obscur< and
unknown slave with no right to start
it and no voice in its use.
It never seems to occur to himthat
as a wage worker he has any presing
duty in the matter of bringing Bout
better conditions for himself anC his
class. He would, of course, lie a
better chance to live, and to get fore
out of life, but he plods along s if
he was just waiting for the impove
ment to come of itself or was eject
ing someone to bring better con
ditions to him while he sleeps.
If he can be made to realize that
they will only come through hisown
intelligent action, joined with that
of his class, then the day of hit de
liverance will be near.—Chicago aily
Socialist.
LETTERS AT
UNION HA L
The following list of lettersare
awaiting their owners at Mere
Union hall:
Adams, John A
Anderson, Austin
Anderson, John A.
Brady, W. Lawerance—3
Cailson, A.
Carlson, B. E.—3
Johanson, M.—2
Johnson, Alfred—2
Johnson, C. E. —2
Gregor, N. C. Mae.
Morthensen, M. J.
Mac Gregor, Neil.—2
Maloney, Daniel
Millmore, William
Matisen, Mattis
Olsen, Peder Olaf
Orergaard, C. P
Norsteu, T.
Ottosen, Andrew
Hekdal, Carl
Steiner, Martin
Winkler, Thomas—2
Wilson, J. A. •
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I LITTLE ACTS OF KINDNESS.
' Walter’s mother had made a poin
1 of teachin.g him to be very kind t
i animals. One day he came runnin
* in to his mother, exclaiming eagerly
“Oh, mother., I’m sure you will lik
the little girl who’s moved in nex
5 door, phe’s such a nice little girJ
1 mother, and so kiud to animals!”
“She looks like a nice little girl,’
said Walter s mother, “and 1 thin
I shall like her. Hut how is she*kirn
^ to animals?”
3 “Well,” explained Walter, “we bai
j some chestnuts just now, and sh
j. found a worm in one, and She—didn’
} — eat— it!”—Lippincott’s.
1 Granite Mining Candles are the bes
FORFEITURE NOTICE
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To Miss Agnes Bauer (now Mrs Ttaos White]
Frank Bauer. Charles Barr. M A Bauer an
>mi Rosberg, your heirs, successors or as
Signs:
You arc; hereby notilied that the undersigne
has expended in labor and improvements th
sum of one hundred dollars for the year 190'
upon the following claim, to wit : C.C. Grouj
first and second tier benches, situated on th
left limit of Banner creek, a tributary of Norn
river, in the Cape Nome Mining District, Dis
trict of Alaska, and recorded in Volume 111». o
page 202. with the recorder of said district.
And you are further notified that if you d
not, within ninety days from the date of linn
publication hereof, cause to be paid to the; ur
dersigned your proportionate share of said es
penditure. as co-owner, your interest in sai
group will become the property of the undei
signed, under Section 232-1. revised Statutes c
the United States.
3 GUS. E. JONES. Co-owner.
l Date of first publication January 24. 1908
1 Date of last publication April 17. 1908
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forfeiture: notice
To \V. N. Stanton, C. C. outer and Jeray Calla
han. their heirs, successors or assigns:
You are hereby notified that the undersignei
I has expended in labor and improvement
the sum of one hundred dollars for the yea
r 190? upon the following claim, to-wit: Sophi;
p claim, situated on the left limit of Seattl
creek, a tributary of the Flambeau river, in th
3 Cape Nome Mining District, District of Alaska
And you are further notified that if you d<
l noi. within ninety days from the date of lina
publication hereof, cause to be paid to the un
dersigned your proportionate share of said ex
| penditure, as co-owner, your interest in sail
claim will become the property of the under
l signed, under Section 2324. Revised Statutes o
the United States.
HOWARD WHAITE. Co-owner
I Date of first publication January 24. 1908
Date of last publication April 24. 1908
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forfeiture notice
J To ('. A. Diedrich, his heirs, successors o
^ assigns.
You, and each of you, are hereby noli tied
i that the undersigned has expended the sum o
one hundred dollars in labor and improvement:
i upon that certain placer mining claim knowi
p as and being the *‘C. A. D.” Claim, situateil oi
Oregon creek, a tributary of Hungry creek
being the second claim below the mouth o
Nugget Gulch, in the Cape Nome Mining a»n
* Recording District, District of Alaska, as wil
appear by Proof of Labor tiled and recorded or
the 30th day of December, A. D. 1907, in th<
’ office of the Recorder of the aforesaid Minins
and Recording District, in order to hold saic
i claim and premises under the provisions o
section 2324, Revised Statutes of the Unitei
States, being the amount required to hold th<
i same for the year ending December 31st. A. D.
1907.
And you. and each of you. are hereby furthei
i notified, that if you do not, within ninety (90;
days from the date of the final publication o:
this notice, pay or cause to be paid to the un
' dcrstgneu, your proportionate share of th<
above mentioned i»-&wner. you
interest in said claim and premises will become
the property of the undersigned, your co-owner
under the provisions of said section 2324 of th(
Revised Statutes of the United States.
r CHRIS ANDERSEN
Date of first publication January 3rd, A D 190*
Date of Anal publication March 27th, A D 190*
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To James A Littell, Mike Powers, Jos Blabon,
Joe Mason, A C Craig and G M Hoffman, their
heirs, successors or assigns:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
I. the undersigned, have expended the sum of
one hundred dollars in labor and improve
ments for the years of 1905, 1900 and 1907
upon the following claim to-wit: U. S.
Association Claim, left limit of Arizona creek,
tributary of Kougarok river, Kougarok Mining
District, District of Alaska, and that if you do
not within ninety (90) days after the date of
final publication of this notice contribute your
proportionate share of such expenditure your
interest will become the property of your co
owner, the undersigned, in accordance with
Section 2324. Revised Statutes of the United
States. B. D. LLOYD
Date of first publication, March 13. 1908
Date of last publication, June 5, 1908
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To Frank J. Wilson, Henry Berrar, C. C. Watz,
E. R. Grant, your heirs, successors or assigns:
You are hereby notified that the undersigned
has expended in labor and improvements the
sum of one hundred dollars for the year 1907
upon the following claim, to wit: Weston As
sociationplacermining claim, situate on West
creek, a tributary of Shovel creek, in the Cape
Nome Mining District, District of Alaska, and
recorded in book No. 135, page 17.
And you are further notified that if you do
not, within ninety days from the date of final
publication hereof, cause to be paid to the un
dersigned your proportionate share of said ex
penditure, as co-owner, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the under
signed, under Section 2324. Revised Statutes of
the United States. W. H. MILLEMAN
Date of first publication February 14. 1908
Date of last publication May 8. 1908
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Ed Tomlingson, E J Fisher, Kay, Laura
Macquarrae, B Gibney. Sam Engburg. Kitty
Cordon. B. D. Blake your heirs, successors
or assigns.
You and each of you are hereby notified that
the undersigned have expended one hundred
dollars in labor and improvements upon each
of the following claims to wit: The Cordon As
sociation claims Nos. 1, 2. 3 and 4 situated on
the left limit on Sinook river, about three miles
below American creek and one and one half
mile below Derby creek, as recorded in Volume
148,pages 352 and 343 in the office of the recorder
of Nome Mining and Recording District, Dis
trict of Alaska, in order to hold said premises
under the provisions of section 2324, Revised
Statutes of the United States, and being the
amount required to hold the same for the year
snding December Slst, A D, 1907.
And if within ninety days from the service of
this publication, you fail or refuse to contribute
Four proportion of such expenditure as co-own
jr. your interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned under Section 2324.
JULIUS TOLLEFSEN,
CHRIS ANDERSON,
O. T. COLLINS.
Date of first publication January 10, A D, 1908
Date of final publication April 3, A D, 1908
FORFEITURE NOTICE
ro Jafet Lindeberg, Josephine Lindeberg, E
O Lindblom, Magnus Kjelsberg, D Steyeson,
T W Campbell. Chas D Johnson and Theo
dore Hansen, their heirs or assigns.
You and each of you are hereby notified that
., the undersigned, have expended the sum of
me hundred dollars in labor and improvements
lpon each of the following claims, to-wit: Em
>ire, July and P. M. C. claims, situate and being
n the Nome Miuing District, District of Alaska,
ind that if you do not with n ninety (90) days
■ftev the date of final publication of this notice
ontribute your proportionate share of such
xpenditure your interest will become the pro
perty of your co-owner the undersigned, in ac
ordance with Section 2324 Revised Statutes of
he United States. CHAS RUSSELL
Date of first publication Jan. 3, A D 1908.
Date of lost publication March 27, A D 1908
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