This article is addressed to the
voters of this camp so they may see
the advantage in electing a full So-|
cialist ticket in the November elec
tion.
In the first place I want it under
stood that the Socialists are the
workingman’s friend and represent
them only. The regular politicians
are heard only a short time before
election. They come out. make
great promises, are elected, and no
more is heard from them, as far as
the workers are concerned, until
election times return again. Not so
with the Socialists. They are work
ing. educating and striving at all
times to convince the wage earners
of their past mistakes, and are point
ing the way to remedy them. It has
often been said, “What have the So
cialists done? It is true they have
not got credit for doing anything,
but have they? That’s the point.
All things that are for the better
ment of society are credited to social
reform. That mav be, but did you
ever hear of anything being called
social reform until the Democrats, i
Republicans and other kindred par
ties adopted it? The abolishing of
child labor, the election of senators
by popular< vote, the recall of public
officers including judges, and many
other things I could mention are
caled social reforms, and why? They
were called Socialism until the
Democrats and Republicans adopted
them, then they are called social re
form; but no matter so long as the
Socialists are the foster piother oT
social reform. Don’t you think they
should have the hearty support of
those that social reform benefits?
In every election the Socialists go
down to defeat, but come back to the
field and with more followers.
Many times have they had a chance
to fuse, but did they do it? No. and
why? They are fighting for a prin
ciple. and as soon as that is adopted,
be it by the Democrats. Republicans
of the Bull, Socialism will vanish in
name, but the work of the party
will stand the test of time and be a
monument to the tireless workers
of Socialism. What has become of
the Greenbackers, the Wigs, Popu
lists and Independents? What hap
pened to them will happen to the
Bull so beware. All parties without
a principle are sooner or later doom
ed to defeat, and defeat they de
serve. One year, ten years or a cen
tury is nothing to an international
movement like Socialism.
Bryan can keep the Democrats to
gether. Roosevelt can split the Re
publicans., but Socialism is blending
the two parties.
In this coming election the ma
jority are going to vote for Social
ism on principle and for the men
that compose the ticket.
Now I wish to speak of the fusion
ticket, but what’s the use? It is a
Democrat, a Republican and a Bull.
The Democrats stand for free trade,
Republicans for tariff and anything
for the Bull so he gets the votes
Think of it. the “blend.”
Now just a word about its candi
dates. Roden, an attorney for the
Guggs.. Will he help the wage
earner?
Sutherland is impossible because
he stands up for a man who did not
give up a lien law that would
protect.
Burns. What is the matter with
his eight hour principle?
Driscoll, a man that signs an ordi
nance then accepts the resignation
of one that trys to enforce it.
But why go any farther. Only in
passing it will be well to note that
Stub Erwin. Fred Martin and -Clhas,
Davidson were at the convention
where the “blend” was mixed.
The Socialist party recognizes no
one but its members, and they must
be in good standing, unless sickness
prevents.
This winter when the legislators
take their seats, any party that has
a bill to introduce that is for the
benefit of the country at large, and
the wage earner especially, may give
it to any member of the Socialist
party. That member will introduce
it to the local of which he is a
member. It will be put to a vote,
and if accepted will be sent to the
other locals of the Fourth Division,
and with their approval being ob
tained it goes to Juneau. After
being adopted by the legislators,
which would be the case if the So
cialists were in the majority, the
bill would be voted on by the entire
territory, and if approved by the
people it would be given to our dele
sate with instructions to have it
presented in Congress.
Then the wheels of Socialism
would begin to move. Every local
in the States would be instructed
to have each member send a letter
*o each Senator asking his support
for the measure presented by our
delegate. In the States they have
two million Socialists. Now
that many letters to each Sena
tor will make him sit up and take
notice of Alaska and what she asks
for. When they take notice they will
think. Thinking will do them good,
and us also, for we will get what we
ask for without any amendments,
because the Socialists never compro
mise for the betterment of conditions
under which the laborer works. I
ask the middle class to vote Social
ism to better their condition and
help build the government railroad.
1 ask them to vote Socialism. I ask
the laborer of the Tanar''. to vote
Socialism because it is his friend.
I ask him to vote Socialism because
it will do away v(:t. ihe time check,
give him eight hours, give him a
mine inspector and safetv in his
yocation. In the name of liberty,
justice and equality. I ask votes for
Socialism.
J. S. BURLEY.
THE CRISIS.
The political world today is in
the state of eruption, and at present
it is a hard matter to tell which of
the two great parties is doomed to
iass away, only to be remembered
in the pages of historical record.
The cause of this great political
strife has been brought about by the
consistent and persistent teaching
by men and women of that great or
ganization known as the Socialist
party. Whenever two forces dia
metrically opposed to one another’s
interests come in contact, then there
is bound to be a clash. This is what
has happened between the two great
political machines today. Both
Democratic and Republican parties
today are fighting with one common
object in view—the destruction of
that terrible monster and menace to
capitalistic interests—Socialism, but
the day of reckoning is near at
hand. Workingmen are fast awak
ening to the realization of their
misused power. The God of Silence
has at last been freed from its pris
on house of Ignorance. The torch
light of Humanity has at last begun
to spread its rays and reveal to us
the rotteness of our present political
system. The working clases today
have begun to throw off the bonds
of capitalistic tyranny, and thus the
cause of this impending political
crisis. But Right, and Truth, and
eventually the outcome of this great
struggle will mean, not the posses
sion of political power, in the hands
of the private few. but a grand, unit
ed Commonwealth founded on Ix>ve
and Humanity.
HENRY GREGSON.
Daniel Guggenheim, the operator
of Alaska, complains because of the
antagonism to capital in the United
States. He claims that this country
is developed to only a limited ex
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tent and much greater improvements j
can be made than are in existence
today if the people will only turn
the raiders loose. It is quite like
ly. but the people purposes to de
velop the country themselves, in
stead of turning it over to a lot of
looters whose only purpose it is to
feather their own nest at the ex
pense of millions.—Col. Phifer.
IRRESISTIBLE POWER.
“Bad men." says the typical Amer- j
ican troglodyte, reading of these
matters. “Bad men. This man Arch
bold is evidently a bad man. He
ought to be put into jail.” So say
ing he shakes his poor old head and
sighs deeply over the decline of
public virtue.
Bad fiddlesticks. The character
of these men has nothing to do with
the matter. But look here for a
moment. You put sixteen million
dollars into the control of one group
of capitalists and nine billion dol
lars into the control of another, and
these two aggregations of wealth are
going to control any government
on the earth that is organized on
the principles of the prevailing sys
tem of society. And that would
be true if the men in charge of this
vast wealth were saints and angels
with wings sticking out of their
backs.
. Back of all these things, domin
ating all and producing always
identical conditions no matter
whether any administration is Re
publican. Democratic or Bull Moose,
is the inevitable system.
So long as we keep the cause we
shall have the result—a fact so ap
parent to all persons more than
nine years old that it needs no com
ment.
ONE HALF NAS NOT BEEN TOLD
In our next issue we will print
'communications from Ben Estby and
Charlie Dittmer. two comrades whose
material was necessarily held over
for the want of space in this, our
first edition.Wait for it. Every issue
is full of real. live., red-blooded So
cialism.
We do not blame a workingman
for voting against Socialist candi
dates if he doesn’t know any better;
but we blame him for not knowing
better, with Socialist literature so
readily available.
A wise man may be the unwilling
victim of poverty, but only a fool
votes for it.
George Crowell and James Ether
by of Muncie got into an argument,
and Brown called Etherby a “Bull
Mooser.” Etherby said: “I don’t al
low any man to call me such names.”
and he had Crowell arrested on the
charge of “provoke.”
“When a man has a rip in his
coat and only three buttons on his
vest,” writes a Western sage, “he
should do one of two things: either
get married or get divorced.”
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SOME HISTORIC COURT DE
CISIONS
Charles Sumner, one of the brav
est champions of human liberty ever
heard in the United States Senate,
in a speech against the Fugitive
Slave Law. just prior to the Civil
war. among other things said:
“I hold judges and especially
the Supreme Court of the country
in much respect.” but added that
he did not regard them “with any
superstitious reverence.” He de
clared that they were “but men. and
in all ages have shown a full share
of frailty.” that “the worst crimes
of history” had been “perpetrated
under” their sanction, and “that the
blood of martyrs and of patriots
crying from the ground summons
them to judgment.”
“A judicial tribunal condemned
Socrates to drink the fatal hemlock,
and pushed the Saviour barefoot over
the pavements of Jerusalem, bending
beneath the cross.
It was a judicial tribunal which,
against the entreaties of her father,
surrendered the fair Virginia as a
slave—which arrested the teach
ings of the great Apostle to ihe
Gentiles and sent him in bonds from
Judea to Rome; which, in the narnp
of the old religion, adjured th?
saints and fathers of the Christian
church to death, in all its most
dreadful forms; and which after
wards. in the name of the new
religion, enforced the tortures of
the Inquisition, amidst the shrieks
and agonies of its victims, while u
compelled Galileo to declare in sol
emn denial for the great truth he
had disclosed, that the earth did
not move around the sun.
“It was a judicial tribunal which
in France, during the long reign of
her monarchs. lent itself to be the in
strument of every tyranny, as dur
ing the brief reign of terror it did
not hesitate to stand forth the un
pitving accessory of the unpityirg
guillotine.
“It was a judicial tribunal in Eng
land. surrounded by all the forms of
law. which sanctioned every desootm
caprice of Henry VIII. from the un
just divorce of his queen to the be
heading of Sir Thomas Moore, which
lighted the fire of persecution that
glowed at Oxford and Smithfield.
over the cinders of Latimer. Ridlev
and John Rogers, which after elab
orate argument, upheld the fata’
tyranny of ship money against the
patriotic resistance of Hampden:
which in defiance of justice and hu
manity sent Sydne and Russell to
the block: whirh persistently enforc
ed the laws of conformity that our
Puritan fathers persistently refuse
to obey, and which afterward, with
Jeffries on the bench, crimsoned the
pages of English history with mas
sacre and murder, even with the
blood of innocent women.
“And it was a judicial tribunal
in our country, surrounded by all
the forms of law. which hung witch
es in Salem, which affirmed the un
constitutionality of the Stamp Act.
while it admonished ‘jurors and the
people’ to obey, and which now. in
our day. has lent its sanction to the
Fugitive Slave Law.
DON’T WORRY.
Don’t worry because some people
are “near” Socialists and do not come
over the line fast enough to suit you.
It takes time, after some men are
convinced, to enable them to break
away from old associations.
Don’t worry because now and then
a Socialist says or does something
foolish. We are making Socialists
out of Democrats and Republicans,
and we can’t expect them to get rid
of their foolishness all at once—Ap
peal to Reason.
Voting a Socialist ticket may not
at once bring on the millennium
but voting the masters will retard
its coming.