The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-26
astonished comment from the peo-
pie and press of the entire nation.

| pie and press OF the entire nation.
From the first to last we hear
much of the lawlessness of the
workers. We hear rightly or wrong
ly certain violent activities denounc-
ed in language which is neither tenn
perate nor sane at times-these peo-
pie overlook in their insane partial
ity for the interests the utterly I'M
justifable conduct of the industrial
chiefs who usurping the place of the
government bring all government
into contempt and more surprising
yet, when that usurpation is called
in question by the strikers, the
courts sustain the usurpation in
language that is unmistakabie.
Violence, it is a mater of positive
fact, begets violence. Not a single
violent activity the world over but
is in itself the resultant of previous
acts. There is no way in which this
can be gotten over. 1t is one of
those stern warnings that social
laws provide for us all no matter on
be lined up. Who sows the wind
shall inevitably reap the whirlwind
and who lives by the sword, it is
still emphaticaly true shall perish by
the sword.
What capitalism by such a usur-
patton of governmental functions,
shocking and degrading usurpa-
ton in land where is supposed to
be liberty, is doing is to invite re-
if such acts are persisted in and such
unmistakable subversions of the
common law of the land are permit
ted they will redden the land with
the blood of human beings.
Because the initial encroachments
upon the functions of the peoples
administration were permitted, pat
ronized and tolerated when the PRIV
ate detective agencies began their
first Isurpation of police power, con-
Tossing thereby the impotency of
government to police the state in
the interests of either capital or la
Dor, the greater usurpation when
the army, and these armed guards
with their guns and machine rifles
are truly small standing army,
passed from the hands of the state
TO the powers behind the state as
represented in the person of the in
dustrial chiefs, also must be recog-
nized and tolerated whether the peo-
pie will or no.
Possibly all these things have got
to be in the evolution of society.
That may or may not be the case. but
| this much is certain that it is full OF
omlnous portent for the future, in
no way less ominous when the de-
liant usurpation of the powers of
government pass not only without
objection from the people but with
the full and sustaining approval of
the courts.
Imagine what the consequences
would be were the labor organiza-
lions throughout the states to retain
an agency which would make
speciality of supplying armed guards
to the unions when they go out OF
strike. One can easily see what the
consequences would be were the la
Dor organizations of America to
rush into the scene of the conflict
in Michigan a rival standing army
to that which organized capital
is now placing in the field. No mar
no matter how blind he might be as
a partizan could pretend to think
that he believed that peaceful and
/ law abiding conditions would result
And yet in self defense sooner or
later organized labor will have to do
that which capitalism organized is
doing. Il is being forced upon the
workers that they will have to con-
i troll the armed forces of the nation
ii they are to be unmolested; if they
are to be free from detestable moles-
tation to which they have been sub
ject in West Virginia. and elsewhere
in recent years. They are facing
desperate facts, and they are being
compelled to face them with facts
no less desperate.
These things bode not well for the
peace of the land. but it cannot
be repeated too often violence as
surely as the sun shines. begets
violence. and as one sows that shall
he surely reap.
No pleasant harvest Is before the
country that tolerates the prepara-
tons for violence, that tolerates and
approves such preparations for
violence An II now hoin1 nrona rad IN