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SOCIALIST
Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Working-Class,
NO. 39
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, Jan. 23, %9W,
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Transportation
By Dan MpCabe.
The transportation ques
tion as an immediate de
mand of the Socialist party
of interior Alaska overshad
acws all others, a* the cost
cf living here is regulated
by freight rates:
Tho cost of living here is the
prime determining factor in
tie whole consideration of
cur well being here as it af
fects every man woman and
child. None can escape its
burden.
The only industry here, is
and will be mining.
The greater part of what
we use and consume must
be brought fr#m the outside,
and its cost depends largely
on the cost of .transportation
This is by no means the on
ly reason for the high cost ot
living in interior Alaska. ,but
other;- are of lesser im.,or
3 < p
tance.
Falcon Joslyn tells us we
are going through a transi
tion period. That transition
is everlasting, but it appears
to me 'hat there is a clear
sky just beyond the cause.
Stop Paying Rent.
By Wa'ter Lanfersjek
The Socialist party has at last shown
that it considers itself a permanent
institution. Socialists have always
considered that to he a fact but they
have never shown in any concrete way
that they thought so.
Now the party has definitely decided
to build a headquarters, a permanent
The Final Struggle.
“Windmill fighting,’’says a mesaage
from (deleted) Belgium, has been a
frequent feature of the last two days’
struggle here.”
Page Mr. Cervantes!
home, which shall be tbe source and
center of ail national activities.
Every member will desire to have
some share in that building, even if it
be only a small share. The party is
ask ing every member to subscribe the
small sum or ten ccata to begin the
headquarters fund. This is about the
smallest sum that could be asked from
anyone. No doubt there will be some
who will subscribe much larger
amounts. Quite a few have offered to
subscribe ten dollars and upwards.
Headquarters stamps have been issu
ed and sent out to all locals with the
slogan “Stop paying rent.” TheNa-,
tionaj Office has paid out min^ thou
sands of dollars in rent since its or
ganization. If we owned our own
headquarters this could be avoided.
There may be those who will s e
this article that may not be party
members, but who may be willing to
assist in building a headquarters; such
persons may send tlieir remittances to
Walter Lanfarsiek, Executive secre
tary. Socialist Party, 803 W. Madison
Street, Chicago. Acknowledgement
will be made of all amounts received.
Prohibition
By Dan McCabe
Yes, I am a prphibitiopist. So
cialists are -all prohibitionists.
Uat it i s a sweepingly different
form of prohibition to what has
heretofore been advocated.
I believe in prohibiting the
rich from robbing the poor. I am
am in favflr of prohibiting the o
verworking snd the underpaying
of the workingclass by employ
ers.
Our legislative halls are Hooded
with corporation attorneys and
capitalistic lackeys. Our courts
are presided over and filled with
the same element. Our colleges
schools and universities and a'!
higher branches of education dis
seminate capitalistic instructions
to the rising generations. Our
aristocratic pulpits are filled
with mammon woishiping clergy
who have long since abandoned
the teaehings and practice of the
lowly Nararene.
Our leading newspapers, mag
azin.es and other periodicals mis
inform our people by suppressing
,the trujh and publishing false
hood. These are the conditions
that gave birth to Socialism,
From Guppies*
Way To Peace”
'.'AH parasites, being ignorant
and he'p’ess, owing to the de
gradipg and useless nature o£
their previous lives, shall have in
telligent workingmen to teach,
them how to work and how to
enjoy it.
All parasites, army officers etc.
who oppose with violence the
peecefu1 carrying out of this pro
gram shall be shot and put to
“Rest in Peace,” and they shall
never again have a place in the
Sun. Bqhold the kings shedding
croco,di'e t#ars over the war they
made because they wished to sun
therpso’ves in the pa'aces of
their neighbor kings.,”
South Americans
are Nervous
South American countries are ex
pressing considerable alarm over Am-'
f 1-assador Bernstoflio promise that Ger
liiany vi 1 j not violate the Mlonroe
^fcpoctriue and run a vacurn cleaner ever
tboir continent. Optimistic Latins say
that Germany hij§ not as yet lecorded
this promise upon a scrap of paper.
To The N, Y,
School Board
In his anxiety to defend the New
York school board far its poiioy of dis
charging teachers who becomo moth
ers, a member of the board. Wiliam
G. Wilcox, urges that a distinction
should be made between voluntary and
involuntary indispositions.
This implies that motherhood is a
preventable indisposition. That is true,
but it is trusr also that many women,
married and exposed to it, do not
know how to prevent it.
& We suggest that the Board institute
a course of instruction in the matter
of voluntary and involuntaay mother
hood, and place Margiret Sanger, who
is now under a criminal indictment
for mentioning the subject, in charge
bf the course.
The Purpose Of Socialism
Written for The Socialist Press by C&rl D. Thompapn
(Socialist Party Press Service.)
WHAT IT WOULD MEAN
ARTICLE XII.
Let us consider what the chan
ges proposed by Socialism ^ou|d
mean.
(1) It would mean that all the
wages of the workers would be
progressively increased until
they received, as nearlv as possi
ble, the full products of their
toil..
(2) It would reduce the cost of
living for everyone. The trusts
being publicly owned apd opera
ted without profit- the cost of
the necessities of life vvould bo
reduced.
(3) Exploitation or the power
of man or set of men to live off
the labor of another man or set
of men, would be at an end.
(4) No one being able to live
off the labor of another, all
would be compelled to work—to
render some useful service. All
who were able to work and re
fused to do so, if there should be
k
such under Socialism, would re-1
ceive what they produced, noth- j
in? if they produced no'hing.
The biblesays: “If a man will
not work, neither shall he eat.”
(5) There would be no unem
ployed,'no hungry, weary, hope
less. dishear enec} men tramping
the city streets and country
roads begging for work and una
ble to find it. The state, control
ing all natural resources and pub
lie utilities, would find work for
all.
(6) Every young man and wo
man being able easily to earn a
living, marriage would be promo,
; ted, the home saved, and prosti
tution and vice at an end.
(7) Every adult, father or mo
ther, receiving the full product
of their toil, there would be no
need of child labor, which forth
with would ceace.
(8) The fear of want and pov
erty woald be removed; all chil
dren would be given an equal op
portunity for an education; and
the aged and disabled would be
pensioned and protected.
(9) The workers, receiving
their just dues, strikes and lock
outs would end- Hencefqrth in
dustrial peace would prevail.
(10) Socialism wpuld establish
peace upon earth. There would
be no need to fight for foreign
markets. The economic reason
for wars would be removed,
And finally, many of the de
voted believers in the golden
rule, the brotherhood of man and
the spiritual ideals of religion,
have discovered that Socialism is
the program by which their
hopes may be realized.
To some, these claims may
seem too big to be possible of re
alization. And the question natu
rally arises: By what means does
Socialism propose to accomplish
these things?
That question we shall answer
n subsequent articles, as fully
and as satisfactorily as space
will permit.
They All Worked
After the election there was m good
deal of friendly rivalry among the
new rpapers pf the pqlitical Triple En
!£ite, the Republigressocrats, as to
which had the first and most accurate
election returns. It would be an inter
esting historical atudy which was the
first to stop lying about the result in
the Twelfth Naw York Congressional
District.
Hand Him
A Blue Ticket
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Professor GpOrge Burton Adams of
Yale has Gome hack from abroad
convinced that, rather than see Gert
many win, the United States should
loin the Allies. Itaty will aurely d« it,
he says. 1'In‘.fact there seem to be
only two kinds of Italians, those who
want to remain neutral nnd those who
want to fight against Germany and
Austria."
We have the 9tme two kinds of Am
’ erieans; those who want to remain
noutral and Professor Adams.
Shooting what looks like an enemy
and thon finding out it is somebody's
^father—ThU would be a pitiful thing,
except that it is necessary—in order to *
maintain tha digr it/ of various slices
of earth.