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Saturday J une 27.
The Bridge.
IS'on tliat work lias started on
{lie bridge we may t x jccI soon
lo l e able to get limn one side
of the river to the other uitliou:
1 he annoyanee mi l expense of
.1 uving to patioirze the lorry,
M.d when it is completed, a sigh
of relief will go up, not only
from the town but the creeks as
veil. The people of this town
are accustomed to look upou the
Joss of the bridge as a loss to
tuemselves, when as a matter of
fuel un de i the method adopted
jins year for raising the neces
airy funds for rebuilding, the
greater loss re illy lulls on the
j eople from the creeks. \\ e do
jiol believe it ;s right.
The creeks support this town
:md it is asking entirely too
much w hen the town looks lo
llie creeks to provide the facili
ties for their doing so, especially
those within the coniines of the
town itself. We lmve never so
Jar asked the creek t eople to con
tribute to the building of our
fridewalks and streets, yet the
bridge should he as much a pub
lie allair of the town as the side
vatks and streets are. If the sub
seription method of raising'
lands is too burden ome to tne
tew who contribute and no
more equitable way can he de
vised, why isn’t the matter put
lip to the road commission.
J.ooked at in one way the gov- ,
«, rumeul ougnt to build that
bridge and maintain it, lor it 1
ii. necessary to the public high
way between the Coast and lliej
Yukon as any other on the I
jouie, and tiieie is little donotj
but the government w ould do it,
if the matter were gone at in !
the right way.
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Reducing i
Our Burden
Ja framing revenue laws, the!
jirst Alaska legislature, compos-'
ed exclusively of Jdemocrats and
itepublicans, most of them ■
“friends of tabor” of course, en
tirely overlooked the millions
of dollars worth of piivate pro
perty in the territory which
should have bet21 made the sub
ject of taxation for government
al purposes, as is such property
anywhere else, because it is just
and equitable, but they did not
overlook the'poll lux which falls
heaviest on the working man
Instead of abolishing it altoge
ther as vas demanded and as
iho more progressive stales out
side have done, they inacb a
b uff at ievising it, by reducing
it outside of incorporated towns
and doubling it on the men in
such towns.But along with their
other bungling, the legislature
forgot to provide means lor col
lecting the tax, so that other ad
mitted “friend of the working
man” James Wickerdi.un, in
11 oduced a hit! 1 nt > c mgress giv
lag authority to eel lam 1' cut-rai
olljg.als to make collect.on. ll
lh' bd lias ii o t id ready pas-eu,
it Viul pass, so iliat no man guii
iv el call! llig tl.e Liana ol lao^r
mill escape.
JUie either to ijfiioriu.ee or ma
lice ilifc Kansas l.'i.y fclur the o
thtt day interred lo A lexander
Leikman, the well known Lew
Y31 k Amuclusi; as * 'the ex-eon
\ id boe.t list h udeV.’" lie I klllilU
Js Ur mil ll Opposed tobociairsm
; s is lHe i aliens City blur and
Urea i-Lobt t>»f S..Ule UnderlainJ
metlioi S 111 lighting i. A] peal
io Keasuli.
noct Cf All Evil.
11is said that love of monev
i - the loot, of iill Evil. buppuse
that iiitisi t e the reason the cap
iialists are so generous minded
Lliiit they ham to see the woiking
men of the world tempted ol
the devil. Anyway tliey take
ail the responsibility u on them
selves. liOiV 11'ee of llielu! ivx.
'1 he greatest divide up system
is citj italism, which divides ths
people into employers who have
without producing and workers
who produce without having.
And so ilson can’t aid the
women to secure the ballot be
cause his party has not declaied
for woman suffrage. Ami lus par
ty will declare for it. the same
year that Hades >s made a skat
ing rink.
A drunken man angering!
down the bireet with wild ruv-j
ings and crazy antics is only do
is w hiskey drunk while ihe oth
er is dollar drunk.
Some one in the Unfed States
Depurituenl of Ag lciiKure is j.i
clu.iu to l/e funny, 'i hat depart,
lneut is out with a circulai ol in
siruciions to tanners on how to
c,yn m e their 1 com s ai d make
111» iiieir income mx sJhedu.es
correctly. Ux.
Miners l:or Socialism.
I’iiisburg, K in., '1 la- liiiccnth
con.-tculive loaven 'on of 1 js
trjet]4, Unit'd Mine Wo kers
ol America, coin nosed ot 1G j del
: egaleS, adopted aierO.Ulijll in fa
! Vor of the Sociali.-t Juilty as a j>(>
! Ijlical organization, declaring
!li at “the jmJi icaj party known
'as tnc Socialist jiar.y is of the
j workcis on the .industnal lieid,
land ins tenets both po.iucuby
'and iudnsinaily, aie what, wo
! are living toaitain on Ihe indns :
: trial hcl i ajone.
A te’egrnni just received from
j the Sunday Morning l’ost of.Ju
j liflau gives the information that
jJohn M- Urooks, Socialist camii
<1 te for de.egate <o congress
S .eft th it city on June Id for his
home on Jack Wade Creek.
ing individually what c *i»italisl
society ts doing collectively, One
Jack Wade
NOTICE,
To all members of the Western
Federation holding1 withdr >\val
card* from locds of the Western
Federation of Miners, on the oat
side, will please deposit them
with Daniel McCibe, Secretary
of Local FJ3 W. F. Al. at Vault
Creek or with Emil Pozza, Presi
dent, at Garden Island. Alaska.
Daniel McCabe.
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.Wholesale & Retail
Bread Cakes Pies
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Ice Cream Parlors In Connection
Creek Orders Prosaptlr Filled
2ndAv. Phone 186
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[modern Study Course^
No. 6.
Bourgeois Morals
By Marx ar.d Enpe>,
From Communist Manifesto,
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A boll i m of the family! Ev'm
the most n.'heal flare up at this
infamous proposal of the Comma
lusts.
Cm what foundation is the pre
feent family, the bourgeois family
based? On capital, on private
gain. In us completely developed
form this family exists only »
mong the bourgeoisie But this
state of things rinds its comple
ment in 'lie practical absence of
the family, among the proletari
an!. and m public prostitution.
'i he bourgeois family will van
ish as am ter of course .when
its complement vanishes*. »nd
both will v iiioii vvuii he v r.isn
ing of C"pit. *1.
11 o you charge us with wanting
.os opt e exploit ■ ion c, ill dr u
by their pur ucsV To this crime
vv t? jj i ccAu icuii ty.
But, you v. ,li say,, we destroy
the most iia luweo of i cm. ions,
when we leplace tome education
by social.
And your education! Is not hat
also social, and determined oy
die soci i* condi ions unuer v< r.icu
you educate, by trie intervention,
uii'cc. or inuuxcg oi society by
means oi schools, etc.? The Com.
inunists have i.ot invented me
intervention ox society .i.i educu
uou; tnry tio bat set-K to a.ter
the diameter cf thjt interven
tion, aou ex rescue education trom
tne influence oi me ruling class
The b-urgeois clap-trap ab u.
the f -mily ana education, about
the hallowed co-relation of parent
ana cm.a, becomes ail ttie more
disgus bag tne more, by the ae ion
of Modern Industry, all family
ties among tne proletarians are
torn asunder, and their children
transformed int1 si npie articles
of commerce and instruments of
£;bor. ,
P-at you Communist? would in
troduce community of vv men.
screams the whole bourgeoifia ^
in chorus- j'
The bourgeoisie sees in his wife
a mere instrument of production.
He heats that the instruments
of prod u diion are o be exploi ed
in common, and naturally, can
come to no other conclusion, that
the lot of being common to all
will likewise fail to the women.
He has rot even a suspicion
'hat the real point aimed at is to
do away with the s at us of wo
men as mere instrumen s of pro
duction.
For.the res', nothing is more
r diculous th« *j the virtuous indig
na i n of our bourgeois at the
community cf women which,they |
pretend, .is o b.e ope dy and o';i
ciady established by the commu
nists. The communists h-ve no
need t<'introduce community of
women; it has existed almost
from time immemorial.
Our bourgeois not content with
having the wives and daughters
of their proletarians at their dis
posal, not' to speak of common
pros ittues take the greatest plea
sure in s dating each o hers’
Vv'i ves.
Bourgeois marriage is in reali
ty a system of wives in common
and thus, at the mos , w’na the
C »mmunists might possibly Le
reproached with, is dint they de
sire'-o introduce, in subs button
for a hypocritically concealed f
an openly legalized community
of >vnvn. For the rest, if is
self-evident, that the > bolition cf
the community of women spring
ing from that system, i. e., of
prostitution bo h public and pri
vate.
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