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By Nome Mine Workers’ Union, No. 5240, International Union of Mir«o,
Mill and Sn elter Workers.
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nearly aa possible, la a worthy object of any cood nor era moat."—
stratum Lincoln
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/M drees all Communication* to Dally Nome I a dust rial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaaka. Phone, Black 114.
Entered ns second class matter March 1, 1211, at the post oBce at
Home, • Alaska, under the Act of March t, 1871.
ON SHOOTING ONE'S DAUGHTER
Down on Staten Island, on Suu-|
day, there was enacted a little
tragedy that should make men
think. A man tried to kill his child,
failed, and killed himself. He was
no maniac, just a victim of the eco
nomic system in which we live, a
system of "the devil take the hind
most." When sickness came upon
him, he was one of the hindmost.!
So the devil took him.
His name was Thomas Newhort
and his daughter Agnes was ten
years oldt He told her in the early
morning that if it wasn’t for leav
ing her alone in the world, he
would end it all. She was lighten
ed. So later, when she saw him
taking something gleaming from
his bureau drawer, she fled from -
the room. He fired two shots after
her, hut missed. He had decided
r.ot to leave her alone in the
world. When she came back with
a policeman, her father was dead.
The steers on the plain, the bees
in the hive, the ants in the hill, all
stand together. It is the wolves
in the pack who turn upon a fallen
comrade and rend him. Is modern
society much better than that?
Thomas Newnort had fallen a vic
tim to rcumatism, which had com
polled him to give up his business
A year ago he tried to commit sui
cide by ages. He gave the last warn
ing ol‘ distress, but the aid did not
come. Surrounded by demonstra
tions of the vast organized power
of society, he was left an unorga
nized individual to tight alone at
a time when his earning power was
gone, in the blackness of despair,
in the abyss of want, he was told
to struggle with disease alone.
Think of the mighty power to
fight disease which we posses to
day! Shall that power be avail
able only for the wealthy classes?
Baths and scientific treatment
would have restored Thomas New
hort to health. It would have given
him his courage hack, his earning
power. Agnes would have grown
up in a home, with a father to
guide her. The treatment which
Thomas Newl'.ort needed should
have been his and not. out of char
ity. It should have been his as a
rightful return for the contribu
tions which he, in his earning days,
made for a social insurance fund
designed to care for just such
things.
Not only Thomas Newliort has
failed. You and 1 and all who
ought to have been organized to
help him—we also have failed. TJte
social organization has failed.
It is not time for us to drop
this selfish la3oiez-faire policy of
‘the devil take the hindmost" and
substitute a policy of “all of us
help the hindmost"? If we have
no leadership capable of rising to
meet these problems, the leadership
we have will be repudiated like so
many leaders of the past.
The cruelty cf this social order
turned Thomas Newhort’s love for
his daughter into attempted murd
er. Because he loved her, lie chose
not to leave her alone in the world
he was voluntarily quitting. If we
are not careful, other natural senti
ments will be turned into their op
posites in men of Thomas New
hort's class. Love of country, be
lief in leadership, truts in religion
will be turned into a fierce and
active resentment against a system
which treats the worker like an
orange—to be sucked dry and
thrown aside.—New York Evening
Mail.
LAIlOlt AM) LOBSTKlt.
At a recent meeting of the Amer
ican Association for Labor Legis
lation, a speaker drew a remark
able parallel. In speaking of child
labor in the canneries, he said:
“In many of our states it is n
Ill-fill crime to molest the young
oyuter or lobster. Business de
mands that they be permitted to
prosper until they reach maturity.
But human beings are, through
lack of proper labor legislation and
improper enforcement of existing
laws, stunted, crippled, and incapa
citated.
You cannot get away from the
logic of that parallel. It is unim
peachable, as tiie lawyers say. If i
one kind of lobster can prosper and
grow to unstinted maturity under
the motherly protection of >he law,
why cannot another kind of lobster
do likewise? Lobsters is lobsters,
ain’t they? The only difference is
in the functions the lobster who
serves the lobster is as much en
titled to tlio protection of lobster
lawB as the lobster that tickles our
lobster palates. If you do not see
the logic of this line of reasoning
then you are a lobster.
Base the burden of the poor? Yes,
that is a worthy and a safe recrea
tion for the college men and their
comrades of , the pulpit, the law,
and the press. But make no hint
about removing it. Insult the toil
ers with lobster parallels: perhaps
they deserve no better comparison
For, like the lobsters, they are here
! to servo the delicate taste of the
, rich and powerful, whose lick
| spit tles these intellectuals are.
.IlST HUMBIiK QUESTION'S.
What is the right profit for a
dealer to make on goods
Did all the people starve before
the capitalist, was created
Why do people oppose a theory
j they knew nothing about?
If combination is good for the
l rich why is it not good for the
I poor?
What is "fair” wages for work
ingmen and where is the rule to be
found?
Why do railroad lawyers make
the best congressmen, senators and
judges?
If there were no money in the
world would people starve because
they could buy nothing?
If capitalists by combination can
reduce cost of manufacture why
should they raise the price?
If the nation made food who
! would profit by adulteration?
; Would it not go into the public
| treasury?
I If ten men raise ten bushels of
| wheat how many bushels Bhould
[they give the capitalist for the
1 privilege?
If bribery is a good thing why
not charter a few more corpora
tions to assist in producing a good
thing?
If a human being born on the
earth has a right to stay on it why
should he have to buy or rent a
place to stay on it? *
How much water should a corpo^
ration be permitted to draw inter
est on without complaint from
those who have lo pay it?
If labor creates capital why does
tot labor own it? What do the
capitalists create to trade to labor
for labor’s capital?
If the people have sense enough
lo elect their city and county offi
cers why have they not sense to
elect their postmasters?
If monopoly is a bad thing why
do capitalists continually strive for
it? If a good thing, why will it
not be good for all the people to
own?
I’d not give room for an Emperor,
I'd hold my road for a King; >
For a triple crown I’d not give wc^
But this is a different thing
I would not fight with pow’rs of air
Ser tries pass them tin
Draw bridge let fall ^
We're ahead of all
We “Dreamers” whose dreams
came true.
Graft is a hydra headed monster
—chop off one head and two ap;
pears in its place. ;
The Autocracy of money is the
only real absolutism. It is better
founded, better supported and bet
ter defended in free America than
any where in the world.
If you want to realize just how
far we are from real righteousness
get a copy of Mark Tw'ains story of
“The Man That Corrupted Hadle
burg.” Hadleyburg was an honest
town pretty much as Nome is.
If a man swindles you on the
start you get mad about it. Why
don’t you get mad when you realize
that when you buy anything to eat
or wear you virtually get held up?
Don’t you believe it? Fearless and
independent newspapers and journj
als all over the country are telling
you about it.
If there was ever a time when
people should read and study the
conditions under vrhich we live it
is now. Prepare to feel yourself
a unit in a great government and
realize, as you will, you must wake
up or be enslaved. We are really
only nominally free now. The rea
son we don’t see it is because our
masters are many. AH of us com
mon people work for somebody. We
have to do so to live and a scrmpy
sort of a living we get out of it.
There is an extraordinary echo in
the cathedral at Pisa. If you sing
two notes there is no reverberation
but if you sing three they are taken
up, swelled, and prolonged into a
beautiful harmony.
Nelson was thirty-nine when he
won the victory of the Nile. Well
ington was only forty when the
opened the Pennisular War. Crom
well was forty-six when he won at
Naseby.
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THIS SPACE IS VACATED BY THE
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3RD AND B STREET. PHONE BLACK 1G2.
Nome Bakery
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
BREAD 15c. A LOAF. 2 LOAVES FOR 25 CENTS.
The HOME of nil kinds of First Class Bread, Cake, Cookies and
Pastry. We will make it our Business to suit our Customers.
WE GUARANTEE THE BEST CUP OF COFFEE IN TOWN.
We recommend as a Speciality our VIENNA BREADj for family
use, Fresh from the oven. at 5 o’clock every evening.
We serve Hot Cake, Hum and Eggs etc. from 7 A. M. to 1 P. M.
Lunches from 12 Noon to 7 P. M. Every Day.
We are in business to satisfy our Customers.
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