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Entered as second class matter March 1, 1911, at the post office at
Keme, Alaska, under the Act of March 9, 1879.
Address all Communications to Daily Nome Industrial Worker.
Bos 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone. Black 134
It would be premature to express
an opinion as to the guilt or in
nocence of the shingle mill owner
who has been arrested for c >n
spiracy in connection with a dyna
mite explosion which occurred in
his mill yard while the shingle
weavers were out on strike, but it
is not premature to say that guilty
or not he will never seriously be
punished. That opinion was ven
tured in connection with the
Lawrence dynamite planting, by
many labor papers, and that opinion
proved to be absolutely correct as
far as the capitalist dynamiters were
concerned.
To explain the why of this is not
at all necessary any more th n it is
essentially necessary to explain why
it is the capitalist papers grow hys
terical when any violence is recorded
on the part of the labor unionn. The
dynamite explosion in Ballard re
ceived very careful and prominent
headings in all theca pitalist papers
at the time, and it is safe to say this
later development will be just as
carefully ignored.
We see this kind of misrepresen
tation occurring every day. It is
part of the business. During the
Potlatch riots the struggle was re
ported in all the capitalist papers as
having been started by the socialists
and the industrialists. Sworn state
ments prove that it began when
some drunken coward in uniform as
saulted a woman who was discussing
the suffrage. That action was re
sented by a man who was not an in
dustrialist unless men wearing dia
mond rings are found frequently in
the ranks of the socialists and in
dustrialists. He asked if the sailor
would disgrace his uniform by strik
ing a woman, and when another as
saulted the man who thus protested
a riot became general. Further
more the Times reported that a
soldier who was injured in the
melee, a sergeant, died as a result
of his injuries, while the emphatic
contradiction of that report by the
officers of the fort where he was.
was never published. This dis
patch reached Nome through some
such mental cripple and was publish
ed in due course, the editor of the
Nugget wrote an elaborate screed
upon the subject, but no publication
was made of the definite and official
contradiction which occupied the
front page of one Seattle paper.
The indignation of the caiptalist
papers when the dynamite was dis
covered in the house of a striker at
Lawrence knew positively no bounds
It was almost noble in its virtuous
wrath. But when the real facts
came out, the same papers had never
a word to say good, bad or indiffer
ent. and they let the poison of mis
representation sink in to the minds
of the readers to do its deadly work
in perverting opinion, and inducing
the worst possible notion of the
strikers.
Now that sort of thing can always
be expected. There is no way in
which it is possible to hope that a
fair impartial rendering of both
sides will be given, and that the pub
lic will be allowed to develop its
own views concerning matters be
twixt capital and labor.
'U'ith the immense resources
which are at the disposal of the capi
talists. the interests and so forth, it
cannot be otherwise than that the
misrepresentation will flourish.
Many of the papers which might be
expected to give a fair rendition of
the news cannot hope to do so. The
powers that support them do not j
w ant certain facts aired, and they'
die in the embryo. They are killed i
in the offices of the papers. That is i
w hat is meant by the expression "the •
kept press," and there can be no !
doubt that the expression is literally !
as well as figuratively true.
All matters which might place
capital in a bad Light are carefully
suppressed. That is what the liter
atw prostitutes are hired for, and
that is their specific work. It is
not nice work. It is not nice work
to have to pervert one’s ability,
great or small, to the views that will
be accepted by a master. It is the
dreadful price for a softer existence,
but it is degrading beyond words.
However, like most degraded call
ings use and the reward make it
scoeptable, and the degradation is
unnoticed by those who become
hardened to the pursuit. This in
itself is an infallible sign of the de
generacy which follows, and it often
happens that the mental prostitute
takes even a pride in his ability to
misrepresent in the interests of
those who pay his hire. It often
happens that the demi-mondaine,
similarly, takes a pride in her pur
suit, and as queen of her calling is
honored by all others. Naturally
that is one of the most complete
sings that the very calling is exercis
ing a paralyzing influence upon the
nature of the person, and that the
reasoning faculties as far a^ the
most elementary ethical principles
are concerned have become benumb
ed. After a while the mental pros
titute develops in accordance with
his profession an additional hypo
crisy which still further betokens
the degeneracy of his manhood, the
degradation of his will, and the
abasement of his personality,
We know nothing more pitiable
than all this, but we blame not the
individual who perverts and misrep
resents everything concerning labor
in the interests of his master and
boosts capitalists of any degree
whatever to the skies, but the sys
tem that compels such wretched
prostitution to exist. It is once
more the influence of the dollar and
the slime of the profit system, which
will be always with us just as long
as the profit system exists. They
are effects, not causes, however
much they may contribute towards
a renewal of the causes of which
they are such lamentable manifesta
tions. They are creatures of capi
talistic circumstances, and have
been noted in other epochs pander
ing to those in power although they
wg~ in earlier and
■ ages known by a Tar grosser but
’ perhaps a far more correct name
than mental prostitutes. They were
called what they actually were.
ORDINANCE NO. 282.
An Ordinance Vacating the Easterly
Sixty-Five Feet of Second Avenue
West and Donating the Same to
the United States as a Site for a
Hospital for the Detention of the
Insane of the District of Alaska.
Be it Ordained and Enacted by the
Common Council of the City of
Nome:
Sec. 1. That the easterly sixty
five feet of Second avenue west,
being that portion of said avenue ex
, tending westerly a distance of sixty
five feet from the west side line of
lot 65, in block 30, in the Town of
Nome according to the official plat
thereof, adopted by Ordinance Xo.
162, passed April 24th 1905, be and
the same is hereby vacated and said
portion of said avenue shall not be
hereafter a public street of said
Town of Xome.
Sec. 2. That the aforesaid por
tion of Second Avenue West hereby
vacated, being a tract 35 ft. x 65 ft.
in size be am. the same is hereby
donated to tLr United States of
America for the public use of a de
tention hospital for the insane of the
Second Judicial Division of the Dis- I
; trict of Alaska, authorized to be !
constructed under the provisions of ]
an act of congress of the United j
States, approved June 25th. 1910, j
and the mayor and clerk are hereby j
authorized and directed to execute a j
deed conveying the aforesaid por
j t’-on of said avenue to the United
, States for the purpose aforesaid.
Sec. 3. That all ordinances, or
j parts of ordinances in conflict here
I with be and the same are hereby re
i pealed.
j Passed by the Common Council of
: the Town of Xome. on this 25th day
of August, 1912.
GEO. A. JOXES,
President of the Common
Council and Ex - Officio
Mayor of Xome.
i Attest
PHILLIP CORRIGAN,
City Clerk.
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and Alcohol. Seward Commercial
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SUMMONS FOB PUBLICATION
Cause No. 3439.
In the District Court for the District
of Alaska, Second. Dirision.
J. W. Downing, plaintiff, vs. Julia
A. Downing, defendant.
The President of the United Statea
of America to Julia A. Downing,
defendant. Greeting:
You are hereby summoned and
required to appear and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff filed in
the office of the clerk of court, of
the District of Alaska, Second Divis
ion, at Nome, within thirty (30>
days after the completion of the
period of publication hereof, as
herein specified, or judgment for
want thereof will be taken against
you, and that If you fail to .answer
the said complaint, the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief de
manded therein.
This action is brought to dis
solve the bonds of matrimony exist
ing between the above named parties
to this action, as more fully appears
in the complaint on file herein.
This summons is served by pub
lication, puruant Jo law, the order
for pubUcation being made July
12 th 1913, and theperiod of said
publication as ordered, being for a
period of not less than six consecu
tive weeks, the date of the first pub
lication hereof being July 16th,
1913.
Witness the Honorable Cornelius
D. Murane. judge of the said court,
and the seal of said court, hereto
affixed this 14th day of July, A. D„
1913.
(Seal) J. SUNDBACK,
I Clerk of the District Court, of Alas
ka. Second Division.
Geo. D. Campbell, attorney for
plaintiff. Nome, Alaska.
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411 FRONT ST.
NOME BAKERY
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COFFEE HOUSE
OPEN DAY AND XIGHT.
Best Bread, Pies, Cakes and all kinds
of Dainty Cooking
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Friday, Aug. 29
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Agents at Dock
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Victoria .Aug. 28th
Victoria .Sept. 17th
Northwestern.Oct. 1st
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Oct. 18th
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Company reserves the right to change sailing date without
notice.
FRONT STREET AND STEADMAN AVENUE.
R. A. CARROLL, AGEVr XOME
|The Kracower Bros. |
i Have just returned to Nome and they have brought with them
I one of the finest selected stocks of
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*rw came to this city. Call and examine all the latest styles
and patterns that money could buy. Always remember there Is
only
One Cheap John’s Store in Alaska
and they are still located at the same old stand on Front street
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