THE SOCIALIST
Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Workingdoos.
No. 52.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. May 22, 1910
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According to the allega
tions set forth in the com
plaint of F. G. Noyes, recei
ver of the Fairbanks Bank
ing Company, ashing the
court for the privelege of
instituting suit against the
former stockholders of the
Washington-Alaska Bmk to
recover the money deposited
by the depositors in the
\\ 'ashing t on- AI a ska B a n k _
and aftervards sold to the
Fairbanks Banking Compa
ny; some new revelations are
coming to light, concerning
the financial condition of the
three banks of Fairbanks du
ring the period of labor trou
bles in the Tariaua Valley.
A conspiracy was mitered
into by the mercantile inter
ests of Fairbanks in conjunc
tion with the bank?; having
for its purpose, the starving
of the striking miners back
into the mines by refusing to
supply any provisions to the
miners dn credit, and there
by force them to submit to
the dictates of the employers
who were mortgaged and
owned body and soul by the
banks: But it appears that
the scheme did not work out
just as it was intended to do
by its promoters. Instead of
starving the miners back td
work: the schemers busted
: the three banks, for acccrd
; ing to latd reVelations they
! were insolvent in 19)3.
| The stool-pigeons of the
1 great sachem, the N. C. Co.
! who joined in the starvation
' league have long since closed
: their doors and departed
from the valley. There are
I very few of the signers of
i that starvation eompact who
are now doing business in
Fairbanks. Their principle
Capitalism is des'roying civili-,
Zation. It has exploited the pop
ulations of the various capitalist
ic. countries themselves until
these populations are reduced to
a state of misery that is breeding
reLeliici) that cannot hut end hi
revolution. It has exploited the
tion capitalistic countries until
thepeop'e of those count das are
adopting the capitalistic system
in self defense. The markets
are already glutted, the means1
of production have possibilities
(Almost unlimited, investments
have absorbed nearly all the pay i
ing propositions that are in's’ght
ar.d the surplus both in goods
and money, of capitalism is pil
ing up on every hand
Every statesman today, every
publicist, >s beginning to awaken
to the fact that, if society is to
b* sa\Ted. exploitation must be
arrested.
It :s against this Exploitation j
that the great working class'j
movement is directed. lhis move
mpnt asserts that such cxpioita j
tio:i i? nio?.i‘iy vvrong am' scmal
|
ly disastrous, If it goes on. it j
will destroy the labor force bj !
impoverishment; it will enervate !
the directing forte through repie j
tir.n: and the whole system will |
fail to pieces cf it? own rotten
ness.
Thi? terrific power of exploit
tion, therefore must be destroyed
And that can be done only by
destroying the power by which
the exploitation is accomplished.
And that power lies in the owner
ship of the means of life and la
bor.
Unlimited private ownership
ri the sources ol weaitn anu un
limited private ownership in the
rrmuns of transportation enable a
little handful of men to exploit
the labor of multitudes.
But to lin it capitalism in its j
power of exploitation is to kill1
capitalism. Capitalism demands
an ever-increasing power of ex
pansion. It must continually tcin
vest its profits. It must go on
exploiting as long as it can find
material for exploitation. When j
it comes to the end of the pot Si-.
bilities of exploitation, then it,
comes to the end of its own ca-1
reer.
And therefore- the struggle of1
the working class can oniy end j
in the destruction of the capital
istic system and the inauguration ;
of a socialized method of produc
tior and distribution.
By J. Stitt Wilson.
Preachers of the gospel fre
quently urge individual sa' ration
as an answer to the soeial prob
lem. Let us state with the ut
most emphasis that no individua
I’utic spiritual experience can
lift yo'u' out of the social and ec
onomic relations of the social sys
tem in which you live. There is
rio religious experience, no spiri
tual vision of God, us proposed
bv mystics, or methodises, or
Christian scientists, or Salvation
ists of any sort, which can re
'ease you from the gi asp of eco
nomic relations.
I impeach capitalism as the su
preme anti Christ of modern
times. 1 take my stand on' the
life and spirit and teaching of Je
sus and declare that capitahsnf ;3
spokesman John L. Timm iv
is now manufacturing show
ing glim in San Franckx
The great Front Street me
chant is no more, he suffer t
himself to be used by tl.
gang until they got through
with him, then be walk
the plank, like many of f l
others. Fbus eyed Parse:
made a get-away vcith a go
bunch of the people’s mono
and Bdrnette followed wi .!
the balance. Query, can D
Jouriiell bring it back? Mar,}
of the depositors ate ver.
anxious to know; The min
ers have not yet bsen starv
ed out, although they have
been compelled to tighten up
their belts quite a few holes;
They will be found in this
country long after the bunco
steerers have gone.
a menace to every purpose ; 1
programme of the man Chris;.
Any man or church, which >
fesse'j to offer the word of Go.: -
the souls of men and yet lea -
the American plutocracy in t -e
saddle on the backs of the pe-.;
is deluding the people. /.
church in this city, or any c
which at this late date is sti
peace with capitalism is a mere
ahd spiritual tomb. The social .
ation of industry—temoerrey i i
fundamental equipment of sonj
ty—in short socialism is the logic
of Christianity. And here I too
my stand long years ago.
A. it. other
Plot against Labor Exposed
After seven years patient waiting,;
S'£1TH and PRF1ST0N are proven in-'
l Jccnl.
Joseph W. Smith and Morrie Ft. Pro-'
ton were falsely accused and convicted*
Smith of manslaughter and Preston of
second degree murder at Goldfield, Nev
ad a in May, 1907.
Smith was paroled attar he had
served four and a half years of a ten
year sentence, which has now expired.
P.nston served seven years of a twenty j
five year sentence and was paroled in
April 1914. v I
1'reston is now seel i rig a couiple'.e
pardon and has gathered a large mass
of evidence which proves conclusively
that he, Smith and the Union which
was the real object of ateack were
made the victims of as foi.l a conspira
cy as was ever ‘ framed up."
The true facts of this ease, which
have boon suppressed and garbled by j
the press, and the story of the unjust
conviction and incarceration are being
published in complete pamphlet form
for the first time, at ten cents each by
Morrie It. Preston at Carson City Nev,
the proceeds to be used to defray the
expenses of proceedings before the
board for Preston’s pat don.
The material was gathered by Pres
ton and edited by A.Grant Atiller hocial
ist candidal9 for I . S. Senator from
Nevada at the last state elec.,ou, d.
Miller represented Prism before the
Beard of Pardons nr.d has included in
the pamphlet the main part of h s ar
gument before the B arch
Every union man a id every socialist,
who wants to know the facts of a typi
ical conspiracy against labor and every
citizen who wants to be fair in judging
men on trial, should have and should
study this pamphlet.
Although this •'frame up" was corcr
j HJ and executed in great part slice : ,
I fully, tight years : go, the same tLi...
J may happen today and you or.anyothe;(
j unprotected citizen may be the yid r,
this time. The possibility may seem ? w
mote, but fer him who is attive in : n
fairs it is imminent and every man wi..^
takes an interest in labor affairs oug 1 (
to acquaint himself with tho methof.
.used to' “railroad’* thcae two victims.