The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-05-12
THE OK KNOWETH ITS OWNER.

From the Alaska Times of Cor dova, dated March 25, and under the caption Inside History of Juneau Primary" a writer among other things has this racy description of the part played by the Gastineau company:
 "The Gastineau company threw itself into the local fight with all it's customary vigor. The men were herded in squads from the mine and mill and ushered into automobiles, given a ticket, rushed to the voting place in Juneau where they were herded up to the ballot box, voted. and herded back to the auto ana back to the mill and mine again. About twenty autos were engaged in this work and there was continual string of them coming and going be- tween Thane and Juneau all after noon at top speed. Not one in ten of the men had ever heard that there was going to be any kind of an election; not one in twenty knew what the election was about; not one in twenty saw more than one ticket and would know what either was it they did see it. Neither of the locai papers dare say word about -he affeir, but the public nerve is atingie with excitement over what has oc- cured, because they realize that the result. of the performance is hke'y to have a far-reaching and last et- fetc." ....
 Now that's a story that has been written before with the staging place in a different locality. It Is the cor poration with the big "C", bulldozins its employees into voting as the corporation thinks they should vote and not as the employees may think they ought to vote. -,..
 Even Nome had its delightful ex- perience in other days in the colored ballot, which was handed the wage slave to vote by the foreman who conducted the election in tha' pre- cinct at his own sweet will.
 But the most interesting portion of that article is the reference to 'he Juneau papers which dare not men, tion a word about it.
 About the highest minded bunch of journalism printed and published in Alaska with tone almost as scholarly and mincing as the leader of the party it supports, is the Juneau Empire. And surely one would imagine that it would have thought fit in the interest of tha. pure and highminded political idca' which it receives direct from on High at Washington to have de- nounced this very outrageous proce- dure.
 But, the OK knowth its owner and the ass its masters crib, and the Empire likely enough knows upon which side and by whom its bread is huttered.
 But when facts such as these have to meander outside the circulation of a paper to discover some sort of hearing, it unquestionably shows that there must be something rotten and very putrid indeed in the news papers which have such fine out ward seeming and which pronounce such elevated conceptions as t. men and institutions here below.
 We don't mean to insinuate that the organs in Juneau are the sole journalistic instruments which pipe that lonely anthem of corporation dominance. No, by the Gods, eheir name is legion. We believe that It ia the chiefest characteristic of the capitalist press throughout the world, and quite a few which affect an independence of expression have within their editorial and managerial Holy of Holies list of men and in- stitutions and influences which they dare not criticize.
 The capital of Alaska is so situas- ed that all who reside there come d. rectly under the influence of the big mining corporations. They are the companies which keep up the town. They may fattcn off the labor power which is employed in the mines, but ! they control that labor power And l they also directly and indirectly