The Nome daily nugget., 1911-07-26
MILWAUKEE AND THE SOCIALISTS
To the Editor of the Nugget:

To the Editor of the Nugget:
 Dear Sir: In a recent article, a local Socialist organ affects unbounded ad- miration for the high and mighty deeds of Comrade Seidl in Milwaukee It| transpires that, first of all, Emil "es- tablished a maternity ward."-and not for females indiscriminately either, mind you, but "fOr mothers" only; a maternity ward wherein the mothers aforesaid "could give birth to their children" That is a function mothers accomplish, as a rule. Of course, one might suspect a maternity ward to have some sort of connection with childsbirth; no harm, however can re- suit at any time from a luminous statement of facts. Then came the purchase of a public park. "the finest of any city in the United States" we are told-at a price looked upon "even| by real estate sharks as simply phe- nomenal!" The park was to cost a cool million! Small wonder the real estate sharks were dumbfounded-| however expert they may happen to be in ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" And lest the park trans action should give rise to misgivings and unworthy suspicious in the minds of any. the chronicler hereinbefore al- luded to- explains, how in the bright lexicon of Seidl's vocabulary. there is no such word as graft" Neither was Emifs administration flat failure. as those there he who assert Expensive it was undoubtedly. yet all the same. worth every dollar 1t absorbed Indeed we are assured it was "the best busi- ness administration in the United States-by long odds"
 Alderman Frederic C. Bogg therefore vainiy vents his spite against Comrade Seidis government, under six months of which Milwaukee's combined pay rolls were increased by a mere trifie- just SIS. .593.0 %! The same favored metropolis now sports new garbage plant, which it takes an extra trife of $27, 900 year to operate Since last October. Seidrs model municipal gov ernment has borrowed Sl,130.O0Oi But it We want the best administration "by long odds" let us at least have the grace not to growl about the cost of it.
 But slack the day, Milwaukee is wanting in resignation. On April 18th. that benighted burg had an election for seven judges and seven school di- rectors. in selecting whom the sociali 7. candidates on the ticket were rejected. in point of fact, turned down good and hard" by a vote of two to on". Milwaukee has it's own way of giving an opinion about Socialism. The figures in F1tzpatrick's election are 23.9S1 to l2.26+: Judge Halsey was reelected hv a vote of 25.s66 against li,s04 given to John Kleist. a socialist. Judging by present indications. John must feel sore. Halsey had a majority of over A A.f N4.s sl e says the Review America, "even in ihe most one-sided campaign" It makes one think of the electoral landslide in Wlchita-another stronghold of tn. collectivist sect-in which every can didate on the Socialist ticlla. went down to defeat
 All these bewildering polit. t.cai phe- nomena. Saturdays article illumiDates brilliantly. The pure cussedness of Milwaukee in bilking Seidl and his col leagues. is explained away and elab- orately disposed of. In magnanimously advocating the cause of humanity socialism has to wrestle with princi- palities and powers: under various dis Euises, its enemies are no other than the three-fold concupiscence. the world. namely. and the flesh and the devil Socialism is trammeled in its action, is cramped by the limitations snd restrictions of its own virtue: il is the uncomplaining victim of its own incorruptibie righteousness.
 In the Milwaukee election. for ex- ample. what a combination the breth- ren had to cope with and struggle against! Gamblers. scallywags. up filters. moralists. pimps. preachers and bawdy-house keepers!-lined up in solid bsttle-array. before the white souled. humanitarian soeialistic pha, laRx!
 Labor in Alaska and elsewhere is represented by publications which in sistentiy blackguard the church and iti