The daily Nome industrial worker. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 19??-1918, 1913-08-18
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visitors that come occasionally TO
Nome, Governor Strong is no
stranger. He is probably more
Nomeite than two thirds OF the
Nomeites who greeted him on Sat
urday, and he has been identified
with the growth and development of
this camp in way that never be-
fore has distinguished any import
ant office holder in Alaska. More
than that, he is familiar not alone
with conditions in Seward Peninsula
but also throughout the Territory
which, if that is to be regarded as
supreme qualification should make
him very much as Governor should
be.
Governor Strong is, as Governor,
probably the most popular appointee
that ever received an Alaskan ofhce
through the government at Wash
ington, and this may in some quar-
ters be regarded as rather a draw
back than otherwise. There are
those who hold that it is fortunate
that men are born poor for it then
gives them an opportunity of cary
ing out their own future and de-
veloping their fortunes in a self res
ponsible sort of way, and arguing on
an analogy, it might with the same
sort of wisdom be urged that it
would be better for man to be I'M
popular when appointed to a i'm
portant position for thus would it
be up to him to make good.
We don't take any stock in falla-
cies of that kind. We think the
man who is born with silver spoon
in his mouth is much more FORUM
ate than he who enters this vale of
tears with wooden ladle, for he is
afforded privileges that are denied
me '~tter, and which privileges are
VI importance in after
life. So too with an v@.;al il is a
distinct advantage that s,.~-Iu De
popular when receiving the office,
for not only does it then show that
such an appointee would be the peo-
pies choice were it in the peoples
power to choose, but he has done
heretofore those things which es-
tablished him in the popular favor,
and We still believe that the voice
of the people on an average is fairly
well the voice of Truth.
Probably Governor Strong has
had occasion to read many datter-
ing things concerning himself since
he has received the governorship OF
Alaska. He will know very we'll that
these things were written for the
work which he performed as an
Alaskan and as newspaperman con-
nected with the press of Alaska as
no other man has been. The miners
here, and the other workers still re-
call his work as proprietor of the
Nugget with considerable satisfac-
ton, and beyond a doubt it is such
work throughout the various places
where his papers have circulated,
that has so established him in popu-
lar favor among Alaskans generally.
We don't think we coud express a
bett-r wish for Governor Strong than
that when his term of Office expires
he may still retain the high favor of
the people, and the warm apprecia-
ton of services to the country we'll
and ably rendered
The greeting to Governor Strong
upon his immediate arrival on these
shores, that is the presence of the
Alaska Pioneers in so large a body,
was typical to a large extent of the
situation. The greeting was just as
much, nay little more to Pioneer,
than to Governor Strong, by men
who had shared the same experiences
as have been his, and are glad that
one of their number is now in the
highest official position in the terri
tory. And just as the Pioneers
greeted pioneer, so the people of
Nome greeted a Nomeite of whom
they are proud now that he is COVER
nor, but of whom the most of them
would in any event be proud as a
man and friend.
In spite of the fact that Governor
Strong is a member of a political
party whose aims are entirely differ
emit from the socialist aims which
direct the policy of the Industrial
Worker. it has always been a pleas
ure to observe that socialism re-
ceived at least from the papers with
which he was connected intelligent
consideration, and socialists were
not denied the possibility Of being
even remotely unidentified with the
work of making this earth better