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The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05

arried to practice prostition or. who any prostitute, shall be deemed a pimp or macque, and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the federal jail not less than 30 days nor more than one year.
 Sec. 2. In all prosecution under this act common fame or reputation shall be competent evidence in support of n y indictment. complaint or information i; and in prosecutions of this act the wife shall be a competent witness against her husband, and may be compelled to test ify on behalf of the government against her husband i'll any proceeding wherein he may be party defendant under this act
 Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflicts.
 This last one, we are informed, is a useless measure as there are no macques here. When John Corson was here he told us that we were the smartest, most intelligent people of any, and smart intelligent people would not become macques or have them in their midst, so there can't be any macques or pin1ps in Fairbanks.
 It makes no difference to the Socialist how much lawyers and capitalist 1egis- lators wrangle amongst themselves as to the meaning of this s that or the next clause, he knows that home rule bills passed by capitalist congresses are, as far as the working class is concerned, nothing less than gold bricks.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05

lature or shall hold any office under the government of said Territory" Did the bright intellects who passed tn law making the U. s. Commissioners, who are holding appointments under tn e United States, Territorial tax collectors, ill direct violation of the organic law of the Territory, understand
 There were a few lawyers in the first legislature and they probably reasoned as follows ''Perchance some poor fellow who is unacquainted with our bar assass nations and the ethics of our noble pro- fession will refuse to pay the tax and as we have closed shop our fees are of the union scale and besides We need to make business for our profession.
 Here is another reputed law, passed by the Legislature and effective July 27,
 An Act to provide punishment for Pimps and Macques,
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
 Sec. l. That any male person who may be found lettering around houses of i'll fame; or who solicits, induces, en- courages, persuades, or prevails p on any other male person to patronize any house of i'll fame, or any woman comm only reputed to be a prostitute or who shall be an inmate of any house of i'll fame; or who is commonly known o consort with any prostitute or who will fully permits a woman to whom he is married to practice prostitution; or who wilfully permits a woman to whom heis
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05

Last week before Judge Fnller Frank Eckert received sixty days in the Feeder al jail for using direct action on John Patton. It seems thatsthere was some misunderstanding about wages due Eek ert, and as lie was hungry, and hungry man is an angry man, he went ont to Patton's farm and brought him to town with a shotgun. The igut sentence i'm posed, as compared with the sentence of others, was, it is supposed, on account of extenuating circumstances and the great provocation which he underwent
 There are those who will probably in-
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05
THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF
 THE WORLD
(Continued from last issue)

After nearly three years of successful organizing on the industrial field e1- ements that were anarchistic, and oppos- ed to political action, succeeded III cap turing the I. W. w. at the convention in 1908. They immediately cut out the political clause from the constitution and Init the ballot box with II axe'' as their slogan, they started in bands through the country singing at the top of their voice "Ha11elujah on the Bum, ?
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05
DIRECT VS. POLITICAL ACTION

sist that he should have gone to law, but we haven't got the name of the lawyer who can collect matter of twenty bucks for nothing and that is the amocn! that Eckert had. Eckert is not crazy. He will De good material for the Socialist propagandist to work on, and teach him the use of the ballot. Eckert with a ballot will be far more dangerous to the labor seiners of Alaska than Eckert with
 shotgun.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05
(. W. PENNINGTON
 GIVES AN ADDRESS

spoke to crowded house, consisting of Christians, Jews, Socialists, Freethinkers and Atheists, giving an address that was we'll worth listening to. H. arraigned capitalist society. paved his respects to the leaders in superstition, and hung Christianity up to dry.
 MT. Pennington is a fine speaker and a follower of the great Agnostic, Robert Ingersol who expected to banish care misery, sorrow, poverty, and all the ills that confront the human race from the world by appealing to sentiment.
 MT. Pennington made no pretense to being familiar with the Socialist position that the ills which he enumerated have their roots in the economic question, be- fore man becomes free he must own the tools of production. And when man owns collectively the tools of production there will be uo need for vices of any kind. Mir. Pennington quoted Arsstotle. We have not the works of Aristotle at hand but we have the famous passage from that great philosopher which Marx cites and which Aristotle imagined if it could someway or other be done would free the human family iron, toll. The passage is: Tiff every tool, when summoned, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befts it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved of themselves, or the tripods of Hephaestos went of their own accord to their sacred work, if the weav- er's shuttles were to weave of themselves
 
 apprentices for the master workers, or of slaves for the lords"
 A writer comments on the above pass age as follows ''The Aristotle school grasped the sociologic law that decreed intellectual progress. Pardonably unable to project itself into the future so far a. head as the time when mechanical con- ditions would be so radically revolution ized that the 'weavers' shuttles would weave of themselves, this school con- sidered slavery, which nnennt labor and poverty, to be unavoidable. By so doing the Aristotle school planted itself upon material conditions as the prime factor to determine social institutions and n1or- ality. The fruitfulness of their posture is inestimable.''
 The abolition of poverty, prostitution, and all the other vices that af11ict cap- italist society is an economic question and not sentimental one. When the Socialists were elected to the government of the city of Paris, under election laws that the capitalist class themselves had made, did the capitalist class abide by the will of the majority as expressed at the ballot box ? Not by any means they didn't. They at once prepared to capture the government, not with the ballot but, with armed force. Here was a chance for the capitalist class to show its law-adiding spirit and all the good that is in man spoken so much of by sentimental reformers. The history of the Paris Commune is the best lesson in all history, ancient or modern, for the Socialist to study, and it shows the law less character of the capitalist class.
The Alaska socialist., 1913-12-05
COMMUNICATION

Alaska Socialist you propounded a very simple but pertinent question for your readers that so far none have attempted to answer. It seems staange that you have not received many replies. 1t appears to me, judging of the condition of the workers since that Legislature ad- journed, the query might De answered with one word, and that word should be nothing, and it capitalized. The Skag- way Alaskan tells us that it costs !" 'steen' dollars to find out just what they did do. Their enactments are now published in a beautiful volume that costs q 'steen' dollars, and that price will keep many of the Alaska workingmen from finding out the full particulars.
 However the same old conditions pre- vail, the usual amount of laborers beat out of their wages. The usual amount of litigation and the usual amount of bunco. handed out by the capitalist press, pros perity enveloped ill hope. That Legis- lature did just what it was elected to do and what the Socialists said it would do, and that was that they would run the legislature in the interest of their mas ters. It was not the Alaska workers that engineered the fusion deal in the Fourth Division or pulled the political strings during the campaign, it was the bosses. That Alaska legislature was in TO way answerable to the Alaska workingmen. It is true that considerable number of benighted dupes joined hands with the gang, the pimps and the gamblers, to elect the gangs lackies. But if they ex- pected to have any laws passed that i'm proved their condition they were doomed to disappointment. No man or set of men can serve two masters. But in that case there were no two masters. Only the master and his dupe. Therefore MT. Ed itor you will ask in vain for an answer to your question other than the one given above.
 Such laws as we have got in Alaska are those that have been handed out to us by Congress, body of men un- with everything except the interests of the capitalist class. What
 
 workers?" They did all that any capital st legislature could do and that is notlI- ing. Tn their estimation the worker IS equal to the cube root of nothing.
 The working class must know that re- presentatives that are acceptable to the master class are poor ones for the work CTS to have anything to do with. No matter under what mask lie may appear. There is no affection between master and slave. The opu1ence of the former breeds the misery of the latter.
 The riddles and conandrums that the first legislature did enact at Juneau, we are told, provides no funds for their en- forcement. The federal government dis owns them. Have those jaws yet receiv- ed the royal sanction at Washington in with Sec. 20 of the Wicker sham Home Rule Bill that reads as fol ows: "All laws passed by the legislature of the Territory of Alaska shall be sub-
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The emancipation of the working class must be the -class-conscious work of the working class V KARL MARK
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
Ebetroit--A Million in 1920 Yet City With Soul
STORE
sl)FFERS BARGAINS

A. Burns store. No. 2SO
Woo1ward-ave.. has added an import
emit line of goods to its already ex'
tepsive selection in the form OF Wool
tex tailored suits. This department,
which II located on the second floor
has been arranged attractively for the
display of these suits. Woolrex suits
ere we'll known for their snappy de-
signs and fine wearing qualities and
they At In very auspiciously with the
other up-to-date lines that are car
ried hy the Burns store.
STRIKING bargains are being onered
In Women's hats in the millinery de-
parsnnent on the third floor for Thurs
day only. There are only 80 hats in
this group of offerings. which are
pronounced among the best ever put
on In the store.
Another special bargain opportun'
ity Is offered In SO black Jap silk
dresses at IS each. They are spien-
did grade Of washable goods, made up
in absolutely new styles, and were
originally marked $3.50.
Full announcement of these bar
gains will be found in another Sec
ton Of The Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
rl'sfsSst For Qualify
Hickey's stand fol

Hickey's stand for
Honest advertising is well
recognized in this COM
munity. 1t is of long
standing. The avoidance
OF exaggerated claims-the con-
servativeness Of all statements,
public or private, emanatins
from this house, has been its
publicity practice from the very
start. Dealing only in merchan-
disc of acknowledgements
ton was unnecessary-the truth
alone could be helpful. We found
it not only the polite, but the prof
Habas course to pursue. It was a
~ of business, as well as
[mdfat perspicaciousness foi
Whieh we solicit no special credit.
TO do right "in print" as we'll as
|in person, should be the govern
Ing principle of every store-oi
every transaction. That is the
condition under which you trade
here.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
nRO STABBED IN
FIGHT OVER WOMAN

Y6hn Nitehell . Negro, rooming at
~ oocond-st-, was stabbed near
H bart probably fatally, when he
lnoo IN argument over woman,
n yoseph p. Smith, his roommate
o nan came here recently from
o@t. o.
{Zn a antemortem statement to A.
mnt Prosecutor Jasnowski, Mitch.
eoe1arod that he and Smith had
a QuaSTeled over q woman, until
salCAir had grown into . regular
M 1hsy battled In their room,
n1oy night. battering each other
~ = watsr pitcher.
G1o6oy night. they met ct Jeffer-
&4o and second-st.. and resumed
0ght, Smith drawing q knife and
1G1ng 4 into Mitchelrs breast.
40 escaped. Mitchell was taken
0k Mars hospital
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
lI]E ABSENT
DLWEDEL CASE
- Connects Woman
nying Mystery-Far-
IN II Released

"a that Paul FArwell had nc
<SlS fho shooting Of Patrolman
Ho1wodel the police released
ia inventor OF an air cra1'
iSo6ay evening, and are now
a. sort OF endless cnain
1116o. 70 get hold Of the man
cav the man who said ne
- know the way to police
nxkorp. 20 that he could give
{nn Tor shooting q policeman.
81 a<73no Reid and School found
they sought, the man VINO
H1 = car at Grand River ana
Z S7f5nraves.. and made the remark
|6Iput the fellow who wanted to give
EnnSo1f up.
nnt this man said he had heard
fSkout the episode from . patrolman;
vp6tfaaman SAID that he lad aeafa
w i6fm another man, and that party
~ 8nW being sought. How far the
\ ea11Sy chase will lead, the detectives
4 o ut know.
N " detectives are not strongly I'M
$3.50 with the injection OF wo-
Into the case. though they are
& ne the matter up.
4 7; Goo&ip mentions q woman In
+ 11E It il the usual gossip about
~ irritation. with gun shots a.
I ga " ~ my real. definite cue. the
- con3ess that they are Tar from
~ Mon of the slaying.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
LION ADVOCATES
CONVENTION HERE

4 convention gathering Of
~ q cremation ever held IN
6 &a1o1 states, II In session. Wed-
~. = The Detroit Crematorium.
86os ~ N attendance from the
lnWjng cities which have crema-
rnns: New York. Boston, Bunaio'
1ntroal Cleveland CINCINNATI. In
1polis, Fort Wayne. st. LOUIS
nkh Los Angeles. Oakland. Sac
ITO, Denver and Portland. The
SVontion program. to continue
Uroday, will include discussion OF
cruunat1on propaganda. systems OF
S1noraticn. Improvement In the
>o6nt laws governing the issuance
Go1&lI certificates and various other
I163S. " local committee. OF which
Nn6p Erichsen II chairman. has
~ ~ the convention and OF the
of(n imminent u the visitors-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
COIN COLLECTORS
HONOR H. r. NEWCOMB

Tho American Numismatic associa-
ton, which has been In convention In
the Wnoeum Of Art the last three days.
noufnAteA the following ofhcers Tues
dagSS16bo elected by referendum vote,
in 6br: For president, Frank G.
Du Baltimore. and Carl Wurtz-
bad ~. Mass; FIRST vice-president
R w. NacI4achlan. Montreal; second
vice-president. Charles n. Shinkle
Pittsburgh: secretary. Waldo C.
Moore, Lewisburg. O.: board of gov
ernors. H. o. Granberg, Oshkosh
Wis, chairman: Howard r. Newcomb
Detroit: BENJAMIN c. Green, Chicago;
Juds0n Bremen. DeKalb. Ill; Fred E
Merrill. Rochester. N. Y.
Over 1000 Detroiters visited the
numismatic exhibition Tuesday, the
museum being open from to
o'clock in the evening. also, to give
those unable to visit the building dur
Ing the day hours. an opportunity Il
view the collections Of rare coins be
icnging to the members Of the ssso
ctation. The convention closed Wed
nesday noon and the collections vii
b removed following the closing o.
the museum at 6 O'Clock.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

,relephone & Telegraph company, not
including either the associated or
connected companies. increased from
n 900 to about $4,000. About $1,000
shareholders hold lesa than 100
shares each; $500 shareholders hold
from 100 to 1000 shares each; 347
shareholders hold from 1000 to 5000
shares each, while there are only IL
ehareholdsrs Of 5000 shares or over
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

Bsnaeuser ~and CnrmoAy, ~.
ter N tsvestigatles 81 the Are Which
broke out In the Chene-st. yard of
the Detroit Lumber Co. late Monday
niGht believe the blass was Of In.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
10 Yds. Shaker
Flannel. 75c

B1eached Shaker Flannel, the
soft, Aeecy kind; sold regularly
at l0c per yard; from 9 TO II
Thursday morning at 10 yards
for 75c.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

in their own right. A majority OF the
shareholders are women.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
THEO. N. VAIL. President.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
Children's Stockings
NJ 18c

Misses fine ribbed seamless
School Stockings, mercerized
fast black, sizes 5 to ga; regular
2sc quality. two-hour sale price
l8c per pair.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

Apron Cinghams at SC
Full standard quality Apron
Ginghams. fast colors. III blut
and white staple and fancy
checks; regular price &c. at. per
ward, SC.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

Joe Printing Done Raght. TIE,
Printing Co, Is John R-st
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

cendiary origin. The officers found
one OF the piles OF lumber sprinkIed
with kerosene and a large bottle OF
oil lying short distance from IL
This makes the fourth nfe OF myc-
FERROUS origin that local lumber deal.
ers have asked the police to inveoe1.
gate In the last few months. *
Dusiness-11ke prfna1nA. No fuse ana
40 feathers. The plain. neat Kind tina
looks right T1oee pyanteaa c., e
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
From 9 to II
Thursday Morning

Special two-hour bargains.
Will not be sold before 9 or
after IL o'clock. No mail or
felephone orders filled.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
Lace Curtains, Csc Pair

Full size Nottingham Cur
tains in a variety of good pat
terms. Regular $l.0O value;,two-
hour sale price, 69c per pair.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
Heavy Table Damask
at SIC

Extra heavy weight Barnsley
Cream Table Damask. "a inches
wide; 8Oc value, two-hour sale
price. SIC per yard.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28
Women's Ribbed
Vests, Sc

Low neck, sleeveless Vests,
ribbed; our l5c kind, two-hour
sale price, &c each.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

Women's Stockings
at 1Oc
Black mercerized Gauze Isle
Stockings with double heel and
toe. Have lace boot. Good
value at zoe. two-hour sale price
l0c per pair.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

Dress Percales at 6Hzc
Regular l0c quality. 81 inches
wide, gray only, with figures
and stripes.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-28

10 Yds. of Cotton
for 69c
Soft finish Bleached Cotton.
free from starch; yard wide;
l2Kc quality. From 9 TO ii
Thursday at 10 yards for S9c,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-18
It WILL HAVE
To Be AMENDED
Legislature Cannot. on Account of
the Constitution. Pass an
Alien Land Law

Tallahassee. Oct 1S.-Governor
Trammell states that after giving
the matter some thought. he is of
the opinion that regardless of the
question as 10 whether or not, as a
matter of policy, it would be wise to
convene the legislature in special
session TO consider the passage OF an
alien land law, that until the consti-
tuition of this state is amended the
legislature could not cOnStitutionally
enact such law. He makes refer
ence TO section - OF the "Declara-
tion OF Rights" Of the constitution
of the state of Florida, which pro-
Nides as follows:
Foreigners shall have the same
right as to the ownership. inheri-
tance and disposition Of property in
this state as citizens Of the state.
The governor calls attention to
the fact that the present constitu-
tion in this provision goes further
in the matter of giving TO foreigners
the right of the ownership of prop
erty than was true OF section Il of
the Declaration Of Rights OF the
old constitution of 1868. The old
constitution proviled that "Foreign-
ers who are. or may hereafter be-
come bona fiie residents of the
tot ho hn COW Or h
respect to the possession. enjoyment
and inheritance of property as ma
tive born citizens
In view of the above provisions of
the present constitution and also in
view OF the fact that an amendment
to the constitution can only be Offer
e1 AMI submitted at a regular ses-
sion of the legislature, the governor
seems to be Of the opinion that a
special session of the legislature to
deal with the Japanese problem
would be futile. ii being his opinion
that an anti-alien land law would be
in violation of the constitution.
The governor says, while Califor-
MIA passed such law, the constitution
OF that state contains no such pro-
vision as that found in the Florida
constitution. but to the contrary
section Il of the Bill of Rights of
the constitution OF California as
amended November 6, 1894, specifi-
cally authorizes the legislature of
that state to enact such law.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-18
CFFICERS DOUBTED ELLIS


Chicago. Oct. 17.-Mrs William
Ellis was found dead in her bed
room in a local hotel here Yesterday.
Her throat had been cut and she had
been shot twice under the left arm.
William Ellis. a wealthy leather
merchant of Cincinnati. was stag
gering about the room. his throat
and wrist gashed and suffering from
three bullet wounds, when hotel en-
ployes burst into the room.
He was taken to a hospital where
he declared his wife had killed her
self and he had attempted TO kill
himself in carrying out suicide
pact.
Evidence gathered by the police
however. caused them to doubt Ellis
story and he was removed to the
Bridwell hospital, where he will be
kept under police guard until full
information is received. His wounds
are not serious. He confessed he
kille1 his wife while drunk.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-18
FATE OF \ FILIBU USTER
An Everyday Hero Who Lived for
Others and Died Alone

Orlando Sentinel: Capt. John
Dunn. who was with Napoleon B,
Broward during his filibustering ex-
petitions 10 Cuba when the revolu-
ton was on in that island. was
found dead Sunday in an abandon
Ell hut near Jacksonville. Captain
Dunn won place III history by his
daring during the filibustering eXpe-
ditons of the BroWard tug, The
Three Friends" He was a ready
raconteur of those thrilling trips
when among his friends. and pos
seSsei the spirit of adventure that
has brought fame and fortune to
others But Capt Dunn was not a
fortune hunter. nor did he seek no.
torety. He was one of the plain he
roes OF everyday life. He had lived
much to himself and died as he had
lived.