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Nome, Alassa, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome. .Alaska, December llU.I.
Washington cities will soon be as
dry as far as saloons are concerned
as the desert of Sahara. This does
■not moan that no intoxicating liquor
will be sold in the state, or pro
cured from other points for the sa
tisfaction of such needs as those
people who still want their glass
can afford to satisfy. It means
simply that the saloon as a public
institution and as a private bus
iness is a thing of the past.
For this none can bo held res
ponsible but the saloons themselves,
it iB a fact that the saloons in Se
attle and in other larger cities have
done more to advance the cause of
the “Drys" than all the pamphlet
eering that has been copious enough
upon the part of the prohibitionists.
The methods of the dive, the
dump and the joint were bad in
themselves; but the general corrup
ting influence which these exerciseu
upon the body politic were even
worse. The saloon had no friends
even among those who supported it,
because those who opposed its aboli
tion had no very kindly remember
ance of it.
Now there were decent saloon
keepers in Washington as in other
places. There were men who con
ducted their places with some show
of order and gave a square deal t'>
all. But there were others wherein
the social habits of the people of a'.i
classes were made the excuse for
knock-out drops, for rotten polities,
for robbery, barefaced or stealthy
of those who patronized them.
Especially in Seattle one brewery
firm used to make it a specialty to
bunt up former pug'Hsts and place
them in charge of dumps, trusting
to tlie popularity of the manly ari
to attract the workers much as flies
are attracted to the sugar barrel.
And these haunts were also th
piacos where painted ladies whose
sex was a decoy and whose charms
were a thief’s cloak hung out to en
trap the unwary. Quite a number
of pimps were connected with cit'nei
the liar or the bossing of the sa
loons, and they ware veritable sinks
of dirty work where robbery and
abuse and outrage found full sway.
it is simply extraordinary that
the people so long tolerated this
condition. It is c'rta-nly a criti
cism of the poli' ; ;v r in those
cities that they so long existed; for
they were unquestionably existing
only because they exercised a cor
rupt and corrupting inuflencc nad
none, from the highest to tlie low
est, but came under the sway ot
these rotten parasites.
The disclosures that occurred
when the Wappenstein cleaning up
began in Seattle, the defense given
by one of the largest newspapers ir.
the west to the unscrupulous gang
that had Seattle by the throat and
whose long suit was robbing at the
bar. at the gambling table or in the
chamber of the prostitute, helped
more than any one thing to destroy
the saloon in the state of Washing
ton.
It will never be known liow many
unfortunates with large or small
stakes were the victims of the poi
son cup and the knock-out drops.
And the impossibility of bringing
any of these crooks to justice serv
ed in itself to cause a reaction
against the saloonery.
A good many states, are dry to
day. But any person that thinks
that this is because the people in
those states or a majority of then
want prohibition are greatly mis
taken.
Just as long as the agitation was
prohibitionist purely it made simplv
no headway. It was supported only
by some very sincere but very im
possible fanatics. But when the
Anti-Saloon movement was substi
tuted for prohibition and the peo
ple were called upon to put the
saloon out of business the dry
movement travelled with the speed
of a prairie fire.
The reason was simply the saloon.
No one could be found to support
it. Even workingmen who hated to
see fellow unionists out of a joo
could not overlook the fact that the
strikebreakers was recruited from
the dive and the dump; that there
in was the striking worker robbed
and cast an expense upon the rest
of his fellow strugglers; that the
saloon was often the agency
through which the b03s operated
against the demands of the men for
better conditions. They didn’t care
a whoop in hell for the prohibition
movement, and it is probable that
most of them resent the idea? of
dictating whether a man should or
should not drink as much as being
dictated to. But they observed the
saloonist with his diamonds the
price of outrage, and robbery, and
abuse, and they hated it as an insti
tution.
It is hard to tell which is the
more to blame for the condition
which obtained, the people them
selves who allowed a police power
to fatten upon the inquity of the
saloons or the saloons themselves.
Under capitalism men will go just
as far as they can with impunity
And they will go just as far in the
machinery of the law, prostituting
justice as in the saloon business.
We don't want to forget that at
all.
But the main fact is that when
all is said and done, the saloon is
abolished not because men want to
prohibit drinking, but rather to pro
hibit the saloon. It is recognized
as an evil and a much bigger evil
than mere drinking.
Although the saloon is abolished
in Washington state, we cannot ex
pect the millenium. The saloon i.;
after all only an eifect. If all the
booze foundries and booze empori
ums were abolished tomorrow,
there would still be misery, pover
ty and want in this old world. The
cause is not at the saloon bar, not
at the drinking habit, but is at the
point of production. Governor Pear
son of Colorado who appointed
Judge Hillyer a notorious tool of
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.
to try the strikers who had been in
I dieted in Colorado was elected on a
prohibition movement; itis notorious
that Billy Sunday is used by the
( worst exploiting companies to chloro
form the slaves with his brand of
religious and temperance dope. And
it is very easy to understand that
the labor movement could be side
tracked without much ado if we
were to adopt the capitalist brand
of morals as our light and guide.
Working class opposition to the
saloon is properly founded upon
those who are allies of the police
power; those wherein the gangster
furnishes the employing classes
their thugs and their strike break
ers.
Four-fifths of the strikebreakers
furnished in the zones where
trouble became acute were denizens
of the lowest sinks of iniquity
Murder to these was a pastime, and
robbery a fine art. Sex perverts, low
browed degenerates they spent tlieir
wages of sin in the dumps and dives
that have become in the cities a by
word of shame and scandal. Allied
with the bosses in politics, they
made use of the poverty they inten
sified to corrupt and brow beat the
voters into balloting their own
damnatios. But you never see the
higher ups. Many of those who fat
ten upon the profits of shame are
j in the church pews and in the social
organizations.
In capitalism you cannot separate
the sheep from the goatB; dont you
ever think it. The brush tars the
lot with the same brand, and it is
the brand of exploitation. Trace
the dollar to its source though it
came from the collection plate, and
you will ultimately reach the taint
It cannot be otherwise, and it will
not be otherwise until the worker?
themselves control the means where
by they live. Any other view is a
pipe dream. You can’t legislate
virtue when the system promote?
vice; you cannot disinfect society
when the churchmen rent rotter
tenements. The ramifications of |
this profit system are immense. It
is an endless chain rtrd the saloon
is only a link—a rusty rotten link
i but far from the worst.
Last year a number of Everybody's
had a notable article by a notable
writer. Creel told of the reform
movement in Colorado against the
beast. He wrote more in sorrow
than in anger. It was the story of
failure but of helpful failure, for
after reforming, and fighting for
reform, and winning for reform
they still found that conditions were
much the same. The beast had more j
lives than a cat; the reformers
ended by being creatures of the
boast and Creel and others who saw
j like him as cleariy realized at last
I that it was the system. Of course
it is. They had been getting after
effects and they found that one
after another they reformed, but
there came still as many as ever j
and they were as far from real im
provement as ever. Most of them
learned the lesson. They realized
that it was in the system. That it
was in profiteering where the
trouble lay, and that until the eco
nomic system had been nipped at
the roots, they were merely trying
to bail the ocean with a cup.
Washington wont lose anything
by the abolition of the saloon. In
that it will give some clearer heads
where heretofore they had been
muddled enough, they are likely to
gain a whole lot. But the trouble
is the wages system; exploitation,
and until that is laid away and the
workers labor in an industrial as
well as political democracy the end
is not yet of these evils.
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THE WORK Kit.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Ed Tomason, M. T. Olson, John
Olson, C. L. V. Detrlk and 0. P.
Thompson, your administrators
successors or assigns:
You, and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, co
owners have caused to be expended
in Labor and Improvements during
the years of 1912, 1913, 1914 as
the annual expenditure required by
law, the sum of four hundred
($400) dollars on the placer min
ing claim known as the Oro Granda
located on Basin Creek, a tributary
| of Melsing Creek, in the Oounci!
I City Recording Precinct, District of
Alaska.
You and each or you are further
notified that if you do not within
ninety days from the date of the
final publicaton of this Notice of
Forfeiture, pay or cause to be paid
to the undersigned co-owners at
Council, Alaska, your interest in
and to said described expenditures
as co-owners, your interst in and
to said described property will be
come the property of the under
signed under the provisions ol
Section 2324 of the Revised Sta
tutes of the United States of Am
erica.
JOHN RATHLER, A. S. CARTER
J. P. LARSEN.
Co-Owners.
Date of first publ., Oct. 2G, 1915.
Date of last publ., Jan. 25, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0146.
[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 28th,
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 Precinct, 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 of
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 ch3.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 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; thonce South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L».
W. on N. W. face; thonco West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. eor.,
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. 1*. W.,
on N. E. face, earth mound on N.
side of r-ame; thence North, Var.
22. deg.. 46. min.. H. 29.92 chs.
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in
ground, cross chiseled on top for
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. U
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 d''acribed, or de
siring to object for any reason for
the entry thereof by applicant,
should file their affidavits of pro
test in this office o. or before six
months after the expiration of the
period of publication of this notice.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register U. S. Land Office.
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. .
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOK
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 of 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 the Kathleen
Placer CJaim in the Cape Nome
Mining District, Alaska, being Min
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim
being more particularly described
in the field notes and plat of the
official survey thereof now on file
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
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.)
653.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
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.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, chiseled 3
1157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
4, a schist stone 24x12x0
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with crors (x) cut '-n tep for true
point with mound of earth 24 ins.
base 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87 deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E)
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, piece of
beginning, containing an area of
11.88 4 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, Alaaka.
Is in Latitude 6 4 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. higL, 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.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Lcng. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168
Page 28 2, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the Eas4', South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cl tims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nome, 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.
i WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Bulld
og, Denver, Colorado.
CHAS.' MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
President. Sec.-Treas
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., Is held
every 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
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local' Union 1769, Carpenters and
olnet-s of America, meets every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall,
at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 18881, American Federating
it Labor, meets every Monday at
Tt80 p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
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