THE SOCIALIST PRESS
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ne# and Clearv Locals, So
cialist Party.
VV. J. Nicley, Manager.
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Saturday July 25.
Wickersham s LJuplicity.
A creek correspondent
writes the socialist press
as follows— “I wish to call
your attention to plank 2 of
the Wickersham Platform,as
published in the Fairbanks
Daily Times of June 30th,
wherein he pledges himself
to work to secure the appro
priation of funds for the aid
of a government owned and
operated railroad in Alaska.
It is strange that Mr. Wick
ersham advocated in three
lines of his platform, what
he failed to advocate in his
136 page speech before Con
gress. It shows clearly the
duplicity of the man.
His motive to me is clear.
He dare not appear on the
stump before his constitu
ents and ignore government
operation of Alaska railroads
as he has done before Con
gress. To do so, would ruin
hi 3 chances of election, there
fore he incorporates in his
platform plank 2, for cam
paign purposes only, to de
ceive the voters of this terri
tory. Government operation
of the Alaska Railroad in the
interest of Alaskan people is
of vital importance as Mr.
Wickersham is well aware,
consequently he is obliged to j
incorporate it in his platform |
to secure his election, but hej
was not obliged to so declare;
it before Congress Mr. Wickj
ersham has long been “run
ning with the hare and hunt
ing with the hounds,” but
this is the best manifestation
of it he has yet given. Gov
ernment operation of the
railroad after it has been con
structed is the only salvation
for the people of Alaska from
the transportation monopoly
that exists here. Mr, Wicker
sham intends to use it as a
campaign slogan only.”
All of which is absolutely
true, but there is nothing
strange about it. James Wick
ersham does not believe in ei
ther Government built or
Government operated rail
roads, as he stated before the
Senate committee on territo
ries, unless such became ne
cessary as “war measures.”
Owing to years of agitation
HENRY JOKI,
BARBER.
Front Street, Next to the
Mammoth Clothing Store.
and numberless petitions from
almost every state legislature
and civic body west of the
Rocky Mountains, the Dem
ocratic administration went
into power practically pledg
ed to build the Alaska rail
road and to do everything
possible to open up the coun
try. The railroad was forced
on to Wickersham as Home
Rule was forced on to him.
He simply had to fall into
line or never show his face
in Alaska again; and since
the railroad has been secur-.
ed, he magnanimously steps
in and claims most of tne
credit, as he did in the case
of Home Rule.
When it became necessary;
for him to act in the railroad
matter he introduced into the
House the Chamberlain bill
permitting the President to
lease the road in preference
to the Poindexter Pill which;
carried no such permission, j
The Chamberlain Bid Mr. j
Wickersham lovingly refers
to as “my bill,’’and he select
ted that hill in preference to
the other because he isopp>>s
ed to government ownership!
of any sort‘011 principle,’and j
would prefer to see the road:
leased to some corporation, j
Wickersham knows that sen;
timent in Alaska is practical
ly unanimous in favor of Gov
ernment operation of the road
and in order to make any
sort of campaign he had to
advocate it in his platform.
The editor of the once-in-a
while joke-sheet which hej
calls the “Alaska Socialist”,
gives notice in his last issue!
to his couple of dozen r ead- [
ers that sundry persons a- j
round Fairbanks including!
Louis Klopsch, are not asso- j
ciated with him in any way. j
Lord! such a notice is altoge1
ther unnecessary. The space
would better have been used
for more phoney advertise
ments—a few more than he
is already carrying wouldn’t
hurt. The words treachery
and traitor have an ugly
sound especially in the labor
movement and everybody
knows there is not one of the
persons named, even Klopsch
himself, who has just been re
leased from a six months
term in the local bridewell
and otherwise bears an unsa
vory reputation, but would
feel ashamed and degraded
if found associated in any
way with a man resting un
der the stigma oi those op
probrious terms.
Socialists Gaining
la Argentine.
Seven Socialists have been e
leeted to the Argentine Chamber
of Deputies. '1 he total Socialist
vote in Buenos Aires is said to ex
coed 100,000. In 1S93 only 52 So
cialist votes were cast in the en
tire country. Among- those elect
ed are itnnqufc Dic’.man, Editor
of La Vanpaiardia, the Socialist
daily, and Antonia De Tom;.so;
national secretary of the party,
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Notice, of Forfeiture.
To Eiija Ciehkovich his heirs, exeeu
tors, admii.strators and assigns.
You are hereby notified that you are
indebted to me, the undersigned, for
your share of the assessment work
performed upon the Miners’ associa
tion on Steel creek, a tributary to
Little Chena, in Fairbanks recording
district, Territory of Alaska.
In order to hold your interest ir
said claim under the provisions of
section 2321 of the revised statutes of
tlie United States said expenditure be
ing for your share of the annual as
sessment work and if within ninety
lays after the last publication of this
notice you fail to pay to the undersign
cu as co-owner your said proportion of
the expenditure aforesaid and the
cost of this advertisement your interest
ia said claim will become the property
of tlie undersigned as co owner under
said section 2324 R. S,
Lars Westenvik.
First publication Juiy 11, 1914.
Last publication Oct. 10, 1914.
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“You Filipinos don’t know
what you aro missing by not
wanting to become citizens' of
tliis grand country of ours.
There isn’t anything like it un
der the sun. You ought to send
a delegation over to see u.-—the
laud of the free—land of tine
churches and ISO,000 licenced
saloons; Iliblcs, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution; million
aires and paupers; theologians
and thievesjlibertiues and liars;
politicians and poverty; Christ
tians and chain gangs; schools
>nd scalawags; trusts and tramps
money and misery; homes and
hunger, virtue and vice, a land
where you can get a good bihle
for 15 cents and a had drink
Whiskey for 5 cents; where we
have a man in Congress with
three wives and a lot in the pen
iteutiary fur having two wives,
where some men make sausage
nit of their wives and some
want to eat. them raw, where we
make bologna out of dogs, can
ned beef out of horses and sick
ows, and corpses out of the peo
pie who eat it; where we put a
nan in jail for not having the
means of support, and on the
rock pile for asking for a job ol
work; where we licence bawdy
houses and fine men for preach
ing Christ on the street corners;
Where we have a congress of
10U men who make laws and a
supreme court of nine men who
set them aside; where good wliis
key makes bad men and had
men m ;ke good whiskey; where
newspapers aie paid for suppres
sing the truth and made rich
lor telling a lie; where profes
sors draw their convictions from
,the same place tliey do their
salaries; where preachers are
paid $'25,000 a year to dodge the
devil and tickle the ears of the
wealthy; where business consists
of getting hold of property in
any way that wont land you in
the penitentiary; where trusts
‘hold up and poverty ‘holds
down’; where men vote for what
they do not want for fear they
will get what they do w'ant by
I vo ing for it. Where thieves 091
vote and women can’t; where a
girl who goes wrong is made an
outcast and her male partner
flourishes «s a gentleman jwhero
women wear false hair and men
‘dock’ their horses tails; where
the political wire-puller has dis
placed the patriotic statesman;
where men vote for a thing ono
day and cuss it 364 days; where
we have prayers on the floor of
our u itional capitol and whis
key in the cellar; where we spend
$500 to bury a statesman who is
rich and $141.00 to put away a
working man who is poor; where
to be vii tuous is to bo lonesome
and to be honest is to bu a crankf
where we sit on the safety-valvu
of energy and pull wide open
the throttle of conscience; where
gold is substance— the one tiling
sought for; where we pay $15,
000 for a dog and 15c. a dozen
to a poor woman for making
skirts; where we teach the'untu
tored’ Indian eternal life from
the Bible and kill him olF with
bad whiskey; where we put a
man in jail for stealing a loaf of
bread and in congress for steal
ing a railroad; where the check
book talks, sin walks in broad
daylight, justice is asleep, crime
runs amuck, corruption per
meats our whole social and poli.
tical fabric, and the devil laughs
from e-’ery street .corner. Coma
to us Fillies. We’ve got the great
est agregation of good things
and bad things, hot things and
cc'hl things, all sizes, varieties
and colors, ever (exhibited
under one tent.” By \V. S. Mar
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