THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at N'enana, Alaska,
for enrry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.-...Editor and Manager
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ACTION!
It is not for lack of patriotism
that many men refuse to become
excited over stories of revolutions,
general strikes, and such manifesta
tions of a violent spirit in America.
It is, points out the editor of
Collier’s, rather because they go
behind the appearance to the under
lying principle, and, discovering that
the principle is false, they feel as
sured of its failure.
Take the appearance at its best
and worst. Bombs and sympathetic
strikes, soviets and socialism, trades
unions in Great Britain threatening
to hold up industry unless British
troops are withdrawn from Russia;
add to these in all fairness mobs
attacking unruly critics of the Gov
ernment, mobs parading for and
against articles in the treaty of
peace, a modified lynch law to meet
a modified outrage. And, to be
fair again, note that in North Da
kota the program of the Non-Par
tisan league, established in office,
was duly submitted to a referendum
and duly approved.
Now, except for this final in
stance, the principle is that of in
fluencing political action by indus
trial or social activity. The strike
was a particular industrial effort
intended to procure particular indus
trial ends. It was recognized as
a weapon, and the conscience of
the world accepted it while it sought
some means to make it unnecessary.
Now the strike changes in charac
ter: It is no longer particular: it
is even called the “general strike.'
And its ends are no longer in
dustrial. The union of workers,
without becoming a union of cit
izens, and as such entitled to po
litical activity, becomes a political
machine. In America the older la
bor unions, those affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, are
content with urging legislation. The
more radical groups follow the pol
icy of European unions and threat
en direct action. Only a few years
ago, the objects of such action
were still largely concerned with
labor, perhaps with some injustice
of the courts or some corruption
in legislatures. Today the objects
are, frankly, political and interna
tional.
This is the challenge direct to
the principle of democracy. The
challenge has not yet been taken
up, chiefly because in our country
the power of political action has
not yet been proved wanting. A
long period of legislative pettifog
ging, a period of corruption and
of indifference to the public wel
fare, has come to an end. It is no
longer possible for a state legisla
ture or a national Congress to meet
without considering the social laws
by which industry is governed. Our
governments have only begun to
be concerned with industry; they
are justified in asking for a fair
trial.
The theory of force is so old and
so outmoded that we have little to
fear from it except temporary in
convenience. In the application of
industrial power to political move
ments it seems fresh and startling
and new. It is none of those
things. It is precisely what thr
application of military power to in
ternational movements was for the
German empire. After five years
of war—itself a defiance of the
processes of law—the world is im
patient of its ancient machinery. It
has become accustomed to the ter
rible tyranny of action. It will
not take thought.
It will have to take thought in
the end, and the problem at this
moment is only how far the mad
ness for action will go. The mobs
which threaten free speech and a
free press are touched with the
same fever as those who abuse
speech and press in favor of vio
lence. The serenity of life is cor
rupted, but not irremediably. The
wrong principle will not so much
as achieve the granduer of being
tested in the fullness of its power.
For it is the blessing of violence
that it destroys itself before it can
pull down the pillars of the temple.
It is only when the pillars are
worm-eaten that the modern Sam
son can count upon their fall.
RUBY DISTRICT
15 VERY QUIET;
The Ruby district is very quiet
this season, according: to Abe Mc
Kinnon, who spent the greater part
of the summer in that locality,
fuperintending road repair work for
the Alaska Road commission. Mr.
McKinnon was a returning passen
ger on the steamer Yukon, enroute
to his home in Fairbanks.
There is very little mining going
on at present, he says, either on
Long creek or any of the other
streams in that locality which have
produced gold in past seasons. The
greatest activity noted was on Long
creek, but the work being done was
as nothing compared with past sea
sons.
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j The Ruby district was hard hit
by the Sophia disaster last fall,
many oldtimers of that camp hav
, ing gone down on the steamer. Of
• those who are left, few feel that
they are warranted in working their
claims, because of the excessive
cost of provisions and mining sup
plies. Little of the ground remain
ing in the district will pay to work
under present conditions.
Shortly before Mr. McKinnon
started up river, he heard of the
! discovery of good pay on Poorman.
Six-dollar dirt was reported to have
;been found in one hole, and in an
other hole the discoverers claimed
,to have uncovered three feet of
, 40-cent dirt.
j Bill Sargent, an oldtimer of the
Poorman district, it said to own six
claims close to the pay, and it is ex
pected that prospecting along the
creek will be very much revived as
a result of the discovery.
! Dan T. Hill, internal revenue man,
who came over from Brooks on the
steamer Carl White Wednesday
! night, left for Fairbanks this morn
ing.
FROST HOLDS UP
WORK ON CREEKS
! IN CIRCLE CAMP
Cold weather at the commence
ment of the season, scarcity of
'water since the start of mining op
erations and a shortage of Jabor
have combined to curtail the output
of the Circle placer diggings, ac
cording to arrivals from that camp
on the steamer Yukon.
. A number of hydraulic outfits on
,the several creeks are working
i short-handed and short of water
! much of the time, and will con
tinue operations until the end of
ithe season; but the Berry dredge
outfit has been compelled to close
down. A backward spring delayed
the dredge in starting, and cold
weather has prevented the ground
from thawing fast enough to keep
the dredge busy. An $11,000 clean
up was made a short time ago and
the work then suspended for the
season.
Men have been very much in
demand since early in the summer,
despite the fact that the wages are
80 cents an hour for as many hours
as the men care to work. Ten
hours constitute a day's work, but
many of those employed are put
ting in considerable overtime.
Jimmy Hamil, who is looking
after the Berry interests, has a
force of between twenty and thirty
men at work on Mastodon creek.
Jay Kelly has a hydraulic outfit
on Miller, employing five men most
of the time, and he is reported to
have had a good season thus far,
with an abundance of water during
much of the summer.
Jack Anderson is working on
Mastodon, also with a hydraulic out
fit, employing about a dozen men.
Michael has a small outfit on the
same creek.
The Berry operations on Eagle
are furnishing work for about a
dozen men, this also being a hy
draulic proposition.
Ed Bartlett has a long-term lease
on the lower end of Eagle creek
1 ancl has had six men employed dur
ling the greater part of the season,
'using scrapers.
Nels Rasmusson, as usual, is do
ling the freighting for most of the
outfits in the Circle district, deliv
ering supplies from Circle to the
'various creeks. He has a b’.g out
fit, but has been short of help dur
ing the greater part of the season.
John Joslin, who has a gang of
! men at work making road repairs
for the Alaska Road commission,
j also has had considerable difficulty
getting workers. His gang, early
! in the season, was composed partly
; of natives.
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PAYS NENANA VISIT
Among the out-of-town arrivals
in Nenana this week was Fred
Crewe, veteran publisher of the
North, who is now located in the
Tolovana district, mining and deal
ing in black sand as a side line.
Mr. Crewe came to Nenana with
The Nenana News plant and issued
the first paper that was published
here. He was compelled, later, to
abandon the printing business on
account of eye trouble.
In the early Fairbanks days the
cldtimer was associated with the
Fairbanks Times, and a score of
years ago he published papers on
the Alaska coast. Forty years ago
he wras one of the star compositors
and proofreaders on the New York
World staff.
Mr. Crewe has been in Alaska
over 30 years, and has worked at
the printing business in almost ev
ery section of the territory. He
left for Fairbanks on the launch
Peerless this morning and will re
turn to Brooks by way of the Olnes
trail.
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